Are Your Commercial Solar Panels Under Performing ?

How Do I Know If My Solar Panels Are Working Correctly ?

Check your generation meter once a week and keep a record of the readings. Your meter should record the energy generated each day, even in dull weather. Over a period of time you should see an average days generation and have a feel for what your system should be producing.

Install A Realtime Monitor Based System

Monitoring your PV system with a realtime monitor to record your production and check for faults. SolarEdge monitor will record and provide you with realtime statistics and any faults that may arise.

The SolarEdge PV Monitoring Portal is a web-based application that provides module-level, string-level and system-wide monitoring. The solar monitoring software provides enhanced maintenance of PV systems and yield assurance. The portal automatically provides alerts for accurate and immediate fault detection, localized on a virtual site map for on-site and remote troubleshooting at the module level. Module performance is communicated across existing power lines, so no extra wiring is required.

Professional Maintenance & Cleaning

Regularly maintaining your solar system will increase your energy production. Our professional teams perform full electrical testing as well as cleaning the panels. With regular visits, we will ensure your system is performing to 100% of its capability and maximising returns for our clients. Should an issue arise, we can react quickly to resolving the problem and provide you with continued energy savings. Our expert teams can install replacement parts under warranty and even provide upgraded products with greater benefits to you.

Single String Inverter

A typical problem we see regularly are older systems that have been installed with string inverters that lower the output of all the panels to match the level of the lowest performing panel.
Simple shading, damage or soiling to one of the panels can cause a domino effect to all the other panels.

How Can We Boost Our Solar Panels Performance ?

SolarEdge Inverters And Power Optimisation

One of the biggest limitations with a standard inverter is they linked in series. If one panel fails or is partially shaded this has the effect of reducing the power output across the whole row or string. SolarEdge inverters prevent this issue from occurring by using a power optimiser on each solar panel so each panel is separate from each other. Solaredge Power Optimiser





Monitor Your System Direct From Your Tablet, Phone Or PC

SolarEdge cloud monitoring provides enhanced PV performance monitoring and yield assurance through immediate fault detection and alerts at module level, string level and system level.

No hardware or wiring is required to transmit data from the power optimisers to the inverter. The monitoring sensors and transmitters are built into the SolarEdge power optimiser and solar inverter, and measurement data is transmitted over regular power lines.



SolarEdge Safe DC

Probably the biggest benefit to SolarEdge is their fire safety capability, The SafeDC feature is a fail-safe mechanism ensuring voltage automatically drops to a safe 1 volt level as soon as the inverter and / or grid is shut down.

The SolarEdge system depends on the inverter constantly telling the power optimiser behind each module to let the power through and send it down to the inverter. If the inverter is turned off the optimisers stop receiving the signal and cut the majority of the power on the roof down to 1 volt.

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    Retrofit Case Studies

    New Life Church

    New Life Church
    Empower Energy was commissioned by New Life Church to investigate why their system was under-performing. A retrofit solution was recommended, this included appropriate electrical testing and the SolarEdge SafeDC System.

    Key Facts

    Installed August 2017
    Size 50 KWp
    Inverter SolarEdge SE25KW inverter
    Optimiser SolarEdge P600 optimisers

    Ashburton

    Ashburton
    After a few inverter failures, often at the highest yielding times of year, this client decided to upgrade to solarEdge with optimisers. The PV system was installed with a SolarEdge SE10KW inverter and 39 power optimisers.

    Key Facts

    Installed July 2016
    Size 4 KWp
    Installation Capacity 1 string = 16 modules using one solar edge SE4KW inverter and 16 P300 optimisers.

    Multi Directional Facets

    Winchester
    The system was designed without true shade analysis. Empower installed the system coordinating with the busy charity operation in the building in question. Working together with our scaffolders, we completed the project in 4 days.

    Key Facts

    Installed March 2017
    Size 51.2 KWp
    Installation Capacity 2 x SolarEdge SE25KW inverter
    Optimisers 105 x P600

    St Ledgers Road

    St Ledgers
    In 2016, Mr Monkhouse decided to retrofit his PV system with Empower Energy Ltd, using SolarEdge inverter SE4KW and 18 power optimisers. The power optimisers were included with 25 year warranty and an inverter warranty of 20 years to last of the end of the FIT period.

    Key Facts

    Installed February 2016
    Size 4.14 KWp
    Installation Capacity 1 string = 18 modules using one
    Inverters SE4KW
    Optimisers Solaredge SE4W