HELIOFLASH AUDIT

Evaluate the performance of your solar installation

Assess the energy output of your solar installation to detect anomalies, quantify their impact and correct them.

REMOTE ANALYSIS

FEW DAY INTERVAL

USE AVAILABLE DATA

WITHOUT WEATHER SENSOR

How to detect an underperformance of your solar power plant?

According to a 2015 European study of nearly 30,000 power plants, more than half of the solar installations on buildings show degraded performance. This leads to a loss of income for their owners or operators, which is often undetected because it is difficult to detect.

Indeed, how to diagnose an underperformance of one’s installation when the output fluctuates so strongly every day?

The output of a solar installation depends on the local weather and environmental conditions and its operating condition. Without accurate meteorological stations on each site, the irradiation and temperature of the panels are unknown and the complexity of the environment makes the direct use of satellite data wholly inaccurate.

How to identify the losses linked to each cause?

It is also difficult to distinguish between “normal” losses such as thermal losses due to coupling with the building, shading (near or far) or the natural rate of degradation of the panels and losses resulting from anomalies or defects in design, materials or fouling.

When underperformance is suspected, however, it is necessary to identify and quantify the effects of each cause separately in order to be able to define an optimized action plan.

Evaluate and quantify to correct

The Helioflash Audit service remotely evaluates the performance of your installation without additional instrumentation and gives a quantification of losses broken down by cause.

Thus, the Helioflash Audit service establishes an “a priori” diagnosis and allows you to judge the technical and economic relevance of a possible corrective intervention on site.

The analysis of plant data can also help to identify signals that could indicate a failure.

Reduce your O&M costs

Correct production losses

Quantify your losses by origin

Capitalize the warranty period

Prioritize your O&M actions

Determine characteristics for follow-up

Our Helioflash Audit service

Helioflash Audit is a service offered for solar power plants in any environment with installed capacities exceeding 35kWp. It is aimed at installations older than two years.

Helioflash Audit exploits the available data collected by any production monitoring system (OEM portal, SCADA, Monitoring System…) thanks to the advanced algorithmic core “Ab Initio” and gives you a precise diagnosis of the performance of your installation online.

A true virtual checkup, this service can be part of preventive maintenance and help optimize corrective interventions on site to secure revenues and reduce maintenance costs.

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Déroulement et durée

Le service Helioflash se déroule généralement comme suit :

Eléments d’entrée

Eléments relatifs à l’installation solaire pour définir les paramètres physiques de l’installation et de son environnement 

Eléments permettant la collecte des données de production :

  • Tension et Courant DC et AC, facteur de puissance
  • Pas de temps d’échantillonnage le plus court possible (<15mins)

Livrables

Code d’accès à la plateforme SaaS (dont rapport) permettant d’explorer les résultats de l’analyse

  • catégorisation et quantification des pertes : arrêt, chaînes déconnectées, encrassement, performance des modules, ombrage, plages onduleurs, rendement de conversion, neige, …
  • Impact annuel, estimation perte de revenu associé (€) par cause identifiée

HELIOFLASH AUDIT LAUNCH

Process and duration

The Helioflash service generally takes place as follows:

input elements

Parameters relating to the solar installation to define the physical properties of the installation and its environment. 

  • site address (or GPS datapoint)
  • Installation type (ground, carport, rooftop, facade, greenhouse…) and integration (BIPV, …)
  • Layout (sring number and lenght, orientation and inclination)
  • Inverter and module models

Deliverables

Access code to Helioflash cloud platform (including report) allowing to explore audit results

  • Actions recommendations (ex: Cleaning sheduling…)
  • PR estimate and Performance Index by points of measurement
  • Losses breakdown and quantification: outage, string disconnection, soiling, modules performance, shading, inverter efficiency, inverter range, snow,…
  • Access to >15 expert modules to deepdive and understand anomalies rootcauses
  • Under-performance history by measurement points
  • Yearly impact, loss estimate (€) by root cause