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Why use Monitoring Tools? Residential and commercial installers, and owners of systems of any size can now benefit from system monitoring and display tools. These products provide knowledge and control over energy system generation and demand. Residential and commercial system owners can monitor their PV installations and see the impact of changes in consumption as well as actual system impacts such as tree shading or equipment degradation over time. Residential and commercial installers can check system performance, diagnose system issues, and take corrective actions quickly and cost-effectively. Monitoring and display products help you see the condition and performance of your residential and commercial energy system in real-time. Over time your solar energy generation and demand fluctuates. Periodic meter readings provide only a vague glimpse at the long-term changes, while telling you nothing about short-term performance issues. Good monitoring and display tools can help reveal trends, transient issues, cost savings opportunities, and emerging issues. Advanced monitoring tools are remotely accessible via the Internet. They feature real-time graphics, and historical system performance data. Get the knowledge and control you need to obtain maximum performance and cost savings over the lifetime of your system. Monitoring systems typically consist of hardware that connects to the energy system, and software that collects, stores, and displays the data. Older systems required proprietary data acquisition products and dedicated hardware for data storage and display. Such systems usually entailed substantial training, high costs, and inflexible features requiring consulting and custom programming. |
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Finally, a monitoring and display product with residential and commercial installers and system owners in mind! Fat Spaniel Technologies’ simple, powerful, and field proven PV2Web™ monitoring and visualization solution works with your residential or commercial PV or wind system to provide visually engaging, real-time displays. PV2Web™ allows you to manage and view your solar energy system or whole-building energy picture in a single view.
There is no software to install or maintain and you can view the system information from any Internet-enabled device. View your system anytime, anywhere using a web browser, mobile phone, or PDA. With PV2Web™, residential and commercial installers can assure customers that the system specified is delivered and operating properly. PV2Web™ provides views for post-installation support and can alert you to emerging system issues.
Fat Spaniel’s Residential Monitoring Service gives the residential system owner the monitoring and visualization tools to understand their solar energy system. The residential solution allows you to improve your net metering results and reduce your electricity bill by managing your energy use.
The image to the right is a typical simple view showing
real-time and historical data about energy generation, the
building's energy usage, and environmental information. Energy
information can be selected to show daily, weekly, monthly and
yearly comparisons.
Fat Spaniel offers inverter-direct monitoring for most
grid-tie
inverters as well as revenue grade, inverter-independent monitoring that can
be used for power purchase agreements, performance incentives and renewable
energy credit trading. Residential monitoring systems can be used for
systems under 20 kW.
Inverter-direct monitoring meets the California PUC < 10kW EPBB
metering requirement, and is not designed to meet the PUC PBI metering
requirement. SMA and Fronius inverters require optional equipment from the
inverter manufacturer. See information on the table below. Xantrex inverters
do not require extra equipment. Inverter-direct monitoring comes with a
simple web-based view. Detail view and alerts are an extra-cost option.
Weather data and building load are options that can be added to the monitoring package. All packages include hardware, 5 years of hosted monitoring services and 5 years of warranty coverage. Broadband Internet access is required for standard systems.
Cellular and dialup modems are optional.
Residential Solution Features
• View real-time and historical energy production and usage
• Improve net-metering results
• Access your system information anytime, anywhere
• Show off the environmental benefits of your installation
• Automated alerts reduce service calls
• View one or many systems, from a single inverter to large commercial
installations.
• CEC approved as an eligible system performance meter
With Fat Spaniel Technologies Commercial Solution, you get an accurate and real-time view of your savings and production, whenever and wherever you need it. PV2Web™ allows you to view your whole-building energy picture by monitoring one or many building systems in a single view.
The image at right is a typical commercial simple view showing
real-time and historical data. Custom commercial views are available to view
selected aspects of your whole-building energy picture. Monitor one or many
building systems in a single view.
A Fat Spaniel monitoring system is custom designed to meet your needs
from a variety of options through an eleven-step checklist. The table below
has a summery of the choices to be made. The first 5 items are required.
Step 6 through 10 are optional. The prices are for the minimum in each
category and there may be premium products that have a higher cost.
Commercial Solution Features
• View one or many building systems, from a single
inverter to
multi-inverter installations
• Reduce your energy bill through tighter management of energy production
and usage.
• Improve net-metering results by maximizing export and load-shifting
• View real-time and historical energy production and usage
• Access your system information anytime, anywhere
• Show off the environmental benefits of your installation
• Automated alerts reduce service calls
• CEC approved as an eligible system performance meter
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| Step 1 | Revenue-grade monitoring - meets metering and reporting requirements of California EPBB & PBI programs and of all states requiring revenue grade meters | $2,899 |
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| Inverter-direct monitoring - Provides access to detailed inverter information such as fault events | $650 |
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| Step 2 | Monitoring capacity - one-time cost based on maximum of 10 kW DC system capacity rating | $0 |
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| Monitoring capacity - one-time cost based on maximum of 20 kW DC system capacity rating | $125 |
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| Monitoring capacity - one-time cost based on maximum of 30 kW DC system capacity rating | $240 |
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| Step 3 | Monitoring service - 5 years cost based on maximum of 10 kW DC system capacity rating | $249 | CALL |
| Monitoring service - 5 years cost based on maximum of 20 kW DC system capacity rating | $539 | CALL | |
| Monitoring service - 5 years cost based on maximum of 30 kW DC system capacity rating | $1,025 | CALL | |
| Step 4 | Web views option - Standard Web Views hosted on Fat Spaniel site, HTML, for public or private access | $0 | CALL |
| Web views option - Flash-based implementation includes “How it Works” module explaining operation of a solar electric system. Can be viewed from either lobby kiosk display or online with a web browser. | $4,995 | CALL | |
| Step 5 | Internet access - Provides an Ethernet port - Internet access must be supplied by a third party | $0 | CALL |
| Cellular modem - Provides Internet access for Fat Spaniel gateway - requires purchase of cellular service from a 3rd party | $999 | CALL | |
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| Step 6 | Basic weather station - monitors irradiance, module temperature and ambient air temperature | $1,999 | CALL |
| Full weather station - monitors irradiance, module temperature, ambient air temperature, wind speed and wind direction | $3,299 | CALL | |
| Step 7 | Building demand with gateway - used with Inverter Direct Base System or as a standalone unit | $2,950 | CALL |
| Building demand without gateway - used with a Revenue Grade Base System (which already has meter and gateway) | $2,300 | CALL | |
| Step 8 | String monitoring - Includes gateway, one required for every 120 strings monitored, setup and service five years | $1,500 | CALL |
| Subarray monitoring service only, for a SatCon inverter for five years | $608 | CALL | |
| Step 9 | Data feed for five years - five years, for
one site used for non-billing purposes such as graphing -
average power (kW), incremental energy (kWh) and incremental irradiance (Wh/m2) in 15-minute increments - delivered on an hourly basis · CSV and / or XML format |
$1,294 | CALL |
| Building demand without gateway - used with a Revenue Grade Base System (which already has meter and gateway) | $1,725 | CALL | |
| Step 10 | String monitoring - Includes gateway, one required for every 120 strings monitored, setup and service five years | $862 | CALL |
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