Audit the KPIs your money depends on. Yourself.
And make every asset from every monitoring provider comparable.
One base row for every plant, whichever monitoring portal it runs on. Recomputed from your raw readings, with the method written next to the number.
Send one plant, one monthOne plant, three numbers.
Guaranteed in the operations contract: 98 %
Source A
Availability
99.5 %
- 24 hours a day
- inverters counted, not weighted
- data gaps count as available
- grid outages excluded
Source B
Availability
97.5 %
- daylight hours only
- weighted by capacity
- data gaps count as down
- nothing excluded
Source C
Availability
99.2 %
- daylight hours only
- contract exclusions applied
- maintenance within quota excluded
- data gaps left out
All three are called availability. None of them is wrong. Against the 98 % guaranteed in the operations contract, two pass and one fails, and a fail can mean damages. Only the contract’s own definition decides which one counts. Recomputed under this contract, it passes at 99.2 %. Over all daylight hours, the plant was available only 97.7 % of the time: the contract leaves out the grid outage and planned maintenance.
Synthetic example. The numbers are made up, the mechanics are not.
Nobody is wrong. Nobody wrote it next to the number.
Same plant, same month, same three sources. Now performance ratio.
| Layer | Source A | Source B | Source C |
|---|---|---|---|
| one set of rules | 79.0 % | 79.0 % | 79.0 % |
| Energy out | +0.8 | −0.4 | ±0.0 |
| Sunlight | +1.6 | −2.0 | −0.4 |
| Size | ±0.0 | −0.3 | ±0.0 |
| Hours | +0.5 | −0.2 | −0.2 |
| reported | 81.9 % | 76.1 % | 78.4 % |
Almost six percentage points between the three, on a KPI that decides bonuses and sales. None of it stands next to the number.
Synthetic example. The numbers are made up, the mechanics are not.
Two numbers. Both right.
Technical availability
Could the equipment run?
97.7 %
Contractual availability
Did the contractor deliver what was signed?
99.2 %
Same plant, same month, same raw data. Each number says what it is. The argument is over before it starts.
Synthetic example. The numbers are made up, the mechanics are not.
Let the portals monitor. They are good at it.
Audit
The KPIs your money depends on, recomputed by you from the raw readings. Each portal's difference is measured, and what can be explained gets a name.
Compare
One base row for every plant, whichever portal it runs on. One number that means the same thing everywhere.
Keep
Raw data stays as it arrived, in your own storage. The history stays yours when a portal goes.
We deliver the evidence. You make the call. We recommend no portal, no operator and no strategy, and we take no commission from anyone.
See it once. Then keep it running.
Step 1: the report
We do it once, on one plant.
You send one plant and one month. We recompute the KPIs and show you what we find, so you can judge the work before deciding anything else.
- One plant, one month
- Nothing to install
- Nothing changes in your monitoring
Step 2: every plant, continuously
Then it runs all the time.
The same definitions on every plant, new data as it arrives, checks every night. We run it for you:
One machine, just for you
It runs on a machine in Germany that you share with no one else. We operate it.
Your data, in your storage
Raw data and analytics stay in your own highly available storage. You can revoke our access at any time.
Your plant changes, in your project
Your team can edit master data and see who changed what.
If the machine fails, nothing is lost. It is rebuilt from your storage and your project.
Running it continuously costs one yearly subscription, machine included. You pay your storage provider directly.
Send one plant, one month.
You send
- Portal access or a CSV export for one plant and one month
- The master data: capacity, inverters, sensors
- Anything that changed in the month
You get
- Performance ratio and availability as a base row, with the rules written down
- The difference against each reported number, with what explains it and what stays open
- A method card next to every number
- A 30-minute walkthrough
Nothing changes in your monitoring. No migration.
Send one plant, one monthYou talk to the founder.
Philipp Wegner, fifteen years in solar monitoring and data engineering, previously on systems taking care of over 50,000 plants, currently monitoring over 500 MW. You speak directly with the person who built the platform and knows these numbers from the inside.
The KPI definition sheet.
Seven KPIs, one question each, and the five things each one has to fix. A PDF to keep next to your contracts.