Skytron energy announced partnership with Strata Solar to equip 700MWp of Strata Solar power plants with its latest monitoring and supervision systems.
Strata Solar will entrust more than 1.4 GWp to the German company by mid 2016. The almost 200 projects include retrofits as well as newly built plants, ranging from 1MWp to 80MWp.
An existing fleet of Strata Solar plants with a capacity of 535MWp has already been outfitted with SCADA software PVGuard, the heart of skytron energy’s system solution, the company said.
While the interface PVGuard Com allows Strata Solar to integrate third party data from the PV system into the supervision platform PVGuard, the data server PVGuard ComBox automatically fetches the information stored on the plant’s data logger.
The advantage of this system is that large amounts of data can be stored locally, a must-have capability for plant owners in the U.S. All of the installed components have been especially designed for retrofits, so all PV power plants can be operated on a single platform, resulting in large efficiency gains for operations management.
Strata Solar has also commissioned skytron energy to install the PVGuard supervision platform in new PV plants with a total capacity of 165MWp. The plants were also equipped with the skylog Data Logger System, which can read and save data from a variety of terminal devices, irrespective of their make.