SolarSAT: solar radiation analysis, photovoltaic plant design, cost estimation, control and management in a single website

SolarSAT is a new fully customizable integrated system for companies dealing with photovoltaic plant design, installation and selling, for companies and bodies in charge of their maintenance, for inverter and photovoltaic module manufacturers and distributors, and for agencies and bodies involved in renewable energy system promotions.

By accessing both archive and real time satellite data, the SolarSAT system offers two types of services that can be distributed either as independent or as combined services: PVPlanner and PV-Controller

SolarSAT PVPlanner

SolarSAT PVPlanner is a web service that allows to evaluate the feasibility and convenience of a new plant and to get the related cost/profit estimation at the same time. PVPlanner is addressed to every potential customer wishing to consider the opportunity of setting up a photovoltaic plant. The service first provides the expected hypothetic plant productivity, taking into account the typical solar radiation energy values for the chosen plant locality. Such evaluation is based on solar irradiance historical satellite data, collected during the last 10 or 20 years.

The potential customer, or the designer himself, will then be able to start the plant’s design, according to the required energy needs or to the desired nominal power. The plant components (modules, inverters, …) can be combined in the optimal way.

PVPlanner then takes into account the selected component features and prices, together with the fiscal parameters imposed by the current law, the maintenance costs, the tax incentives and the savings related to the estimated energy productivity.

PVPlanner finally provides a set of economic parameters allowing for the investment convenience evaluation (e.g. Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, breakeven point, etc.).

PVPlanner can be completely customizable (also in terms of available plant components) for those companies or agencies wishing to offer the service to their customers through the web. The service can indeed be integrated in existing web portals as an outsourcing solution.

SolarSAT PVController

SolarSAT PVController is an hardware-software integrated system for the remote control of photovoltaic plants (regardless of the size) via web.

PVController allows for the plant efficiency control by comparing the effective hourly energy production with the expected one, which is computed basing on the effective solar irradiance on the plant, either derived from real time satellite data, or measured by in situ sensors. In case of significant difference between the effective energy production and the expected one, the person who’s responsible for the plant maintenance is alerted via e-mail or SMS, so that he can decide for a possible maintenance.

A set of dataloggers and sensors of the SolarSAT series is associated to PVController service: these can be adapted to any kind and size of plants and interfaced to any inverter.

A whole PV park can be managed through a single simple and effective web interface thanks to PVController. Installing the dataloggers is simple and it doesn’t usually require any configuration by the operator, as this is done via web-GPRS. Moreover, thanks to the GPRS data link, there is no need for a fixed phone line at the plant. All the proposed dataloggers can be used for the plant monitoring by satellite and by in situ sensors, which measure the plant’s physical parameters.

Thanks to its background in the field of environmental monitoring and of spectroradiometers manufacturing for solar radiation measurements, Flyby has selected reliable, high performances and easy-to-install components, all at the same time.

The SolarSAT integrated system is available in several configurations and it is fully customizable for every company or agency wishing to distribute it to its customers.

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