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Why We Use Solar Power?
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Advantages of solar power are many. Although solar power is an
energy source that we have only recently tapped into, it may become
the most important energy source of the future.
• Solar power is a renewable and natural resource.
• It’s a way to reduce greenhouse gases or carcinogens emission and
protect the earth.
• Light and energy from the sun costs nothing. Once you purchase the
equipment to collect and convert energy from the sun, it costs you
nothing to run. • Solar cells require little maintenance. • Solar
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Why We Need a
Solar SCADA?
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A Solar SCADA system is necessary for a
commercial solar system. It has following functions:
• Tracks the your solar system work in best
performance. Guarantees the continuity and optimal
efficiency of the plant over time.
• Reduces the risk of revenue loss due to system
malfunction.
• Prevents service failures, anticipate the need for
technical assistance and reduce restoration time of
the plant in the event of failure or malfunction.
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Why We Need a
Demonstration System?
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For a commercial solar plant owner like
enterprises, governments, or schools, the
main purpose of installing a solar plant is
not only for generating power, but also a
demonstration system for following purposes.
• Display solar system or other energy
sources information.
• Display weather or energy consumption
information.
• Deliver messages or concepts by text,
photos, or videos.
• Demonstrate enterprise green images.
• Quantify people or students efforts on
energy saving.
• Combine with energy education or energy
competition.
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The Benefits of using GS
Series SCADA Product
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GEOPROTEK tried to
create a SCADA product that is suitable for
commercial solar plant usage and could be popular in
different applications. It should include
traditional utility scale SCADA function, but need
to be more cost effective, flexible, modular
designed, and the most important is a stable
standardized platform. It can bring benefits for
both system integrators and users as below:
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What are the Differences between Utility and
Commercial Solar SCADA?
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For a System Integrator: |
Remote Monitoring and Central
Management - Before, a system integrator or a system installer
may have multiple solar plants in different location with
different systems, it was hard to manage all plants in one
platform. GS product provides necessary function for system
managers to remote monitoring and be able to connect to remote
cloud server that allow them to manage all solar plants at the
same time by using a single portal website. |
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Plug and Play Installation - Different brand PV inverters have
different communication protocols, GS product embedded with
multiple brand inverter protocol that allow system installers
can setup up only by selecting inverter brand and model, adding
monitoring environment sensors or meters. All the hardware and
software configuration can be quickly and easily setup by
installers.
Cutting Cost by Modularize and Standardize
- As a traditional
utility scale SCADA takes more effort on customized software, it
takes more cost and future maintenance. GS product modularize
these function and standardize the software in order to maximize
the stability and flexibility within lower cost.
Future Expansion Ability
– For a traditional SCADA, when you are
trying to add an additional monitoring device in system, you
need to look for original programmer for adding new monitor
point. GS product provide expansion ability that allows you to
add monitoring devices by simple clicking and setting.
Maximize Customer Satisfaction on Demonstration - Unlike
traditional SCADA system only focuses on data collecting and HMI
function, GS product also provide powerful display function that
can be quickly implement customers display requirements and
allows system installer to design the demonstrate contents to
provide maximum satisfaction.
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For a Commercial User: |
Tracking Performance and Maximize
Return
- As a commercial user invest huge amount of capital in solar plant.
Continuously tracking becomes an important issue because it gives
feedback information on how the system works, how much the system
production and how about performance. GS SCADA system is used to
maximize your return on investment.
Prevent Loss in Early Stage -
As a solar plant installed, various kinds of interference prevent
your plant from performing optimally. For example, an alarm or
broken down of inverter can prevent the plant from yielding power.
With the GS product, system installers can effectively initiate the
appropriate maintenance actions at a early stage. In this way, users
can prevent the issue from becoming an irreversible and costly
problem
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Demonstrate for Enterprise Image or Educational Purpose - In many
cases, how much power the solar plant generating is not the most
important thing for commercial users. They concern more about how to
apply the solar plant to demonstrate green images or how to educate
for people and students. GS product provides a more flexible way for
a solar information display TV that users can create their own
personal display contents combine with photos, videos, graphs, solar
information or energy saving information on it.
Remote Cloud Database and Local Archiving Data Center - GS product
is the most cost effective way to achieve remote cloud database and
archiving local database in central PC. The SCADA system will
collect data into database, uses can use it for future analysis and
performance tracking. System could be monitoring on cloud server via
web browser or mobile devices.
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