Energy management for solar plants with batteries
Every day, as soon as tomorrow's electricity prices are published, Remote Solar checks them against the weather forecast and plans the next day hour by hour. Your plant then follows that plan. The battery charges when power is cheap and discharges when the price is highest.
Example day
Electricity price, by hour
How full the battery is
Earned that day
€490.70
From solar
€262.96
From the battery
+€227.74
How it works
A normal day with Remote Solar, in four steps.
As soon as tomorrow's electricity prices are published, Remote Solar picks them up together with the weather forecast. It then works out what you'd actually earn in each hour, after fees.
Remote Solar works out when to charge the battery and when to discharge it, so the day earns as much as possible. If we run your plant, we check every plan and fix it before it goes out when needed. If you run it yourself, the plan can go to the plant on its own, or you look it over and change it in the app first.
When power is cheap or the price drops below zero, the battery stores your solar power instead of selling it for next to nothing. While the price is below zero, the plant sends nothing to the grid. You can also choose to charge from the grid at night.
The battery discharges in the hours that pay the most, usually in the evening. If charging and discharging wouldn't pay off that day, the battery rests.
The product
The dashboard shows what the plant is producing right now, how full the battery is and what goes to the grid, next to the day's prices and plan. Put several plants in a group and you get the same view for all of them, plus what the group will deliver every 15 minutes.
The data shown is made up, but realistic.
Power Plants/Solar Park North/Dashboard
Utilization
Active 920 / Installed 1000 kW
PV output
+920kW
13:00 · 1000 kW installed
Grid output
0kW
+ export / − import
Battery
+240kW
SOC 74 %
+ charge / − discharge
Energy Overview
kW
SOC %
EUR/MWh
The plan shows when the battery charges and when it discharges, across the whole day. Every version is saved, with who sent it and when the plant got it.
The data shown is made up, but realistic.
Power Plants/Solar Park North/Plan
Forecast
kW
EUR/MWh
Plan
Estimated earnings 490.70 EUR battery adds 227.74 EUR · at Net price
Discharge 19:00–22:00
See each day's earnings in euros: what the solar panels made, how much the battery added on top, and the total. Reports for any period and monthly statements for Excel are a click away.
The data shown is made up, but realistic.
Power Plants/Solar Park North/Earnings
Total Earnings
490.70 EUR
PV Earnings
262.96 EUR
Battery Added Earnings
227.74 EUR
Battery Earnings Increase
1.87x
Earnings during the day
EUR, cumulative · at Net price
Every plant is checked every 15 minutes. Alerts show in the app, and can also go out by email or SMS. While a plant is being serviced, its alerts can be paused.
The data shown is made up, but realistic.
Alerts
Every plant alert, open and resolved, newest first
| Alert | Status | Started |
|---|---|---|
Solar Park East No plan for tomorrow yet: autoplan hasn't published one, so the default plan would run | Warning | 12m so far |
Solar Park North Battery discharging 120 of 400 kW planned | Resolved | lasted 35m |
Solar Park West Exporting 42 kW in a zero-export hour | Resolved | lasted 15m |
Solar Park South RTU-South not reachable | Resolved | lasted 1h 05m |
Solar Park East Battery charging 180 of 300 kW planned | Resolved | lasted 20m |
Solar Park North RTU-North not reachable | Resolved | lasted 25m |
Who it's for
More income from the plant you already have.
Your equipment works as it is.
Know what your plants will deliver.
Features
01Plan
Tomorrow's plan is made and sent to the plant on its own, as soon as prices are published.
When the price drops below zero, the plant stops sending power to the grid and the battery stores it instead.
02Control
The controller checks what the battery really delivers and flags it if it falls short.
The controller keeps today's and tomorrow's plans, so a lost connection doesn't stop it.
03Report
What the solar panels and the battery earned, each shown on its own, in euros.
Problems flagged in the app, by email or by SMS.
Questions
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Whichever suits you. We can run it for you: we check every plan and, if it isn't right, fix it and send it to the plant, follow how the plan plays out and get to the bottom of any problem. You then don't have to do anything. If you prefer, you can also run the plant yourself, in the app.
No. If we run your plant, the daily work is ours. If you run it yourself, with automatic planning on the plan is made and sent on its own. You can still open it, change it and send your own version at any time, and your version always comes first.
It works with common inverters and batteries, and new equipment can usually be added quickly. Tell us what you have and we'll check.
The plant keeps working. Its controller keeps today's and tomorrow's plans, plus a backup plan, and follows them on its own. The system reports the lost connection within about 10 minutes, and everything catches up when the connection is back.
No. Without a battery, Remote Solar still forecasts your production, shows your earnings and stops sending power to the grid when the price drops below zero. A battery adds the most, because it saves solar power for the hours that pay best.
Send us a few details about your plant and equipment. We check that your equipment is supported and add your plant to the app. To begin with, the plant can be connected in read-only mode: the system changes nothing at the plant, but it makes the plans and works out what the plant would earn under its control. We then compare that with what the plant actually produced and earned, so you decide on real numbers.
On our servers, with continuous encrypted backups. Every plan, instruction and alert stays on record.
Access is by invitation only. Each person gets a role that decides what they can see and change, from full access to view only.
No. We run Remote Solar for you on our servers, keep it up to date and make sure it works. At the plant you only need a controller connected to your equipment.
Tell us about your plant and equipment. We can connect it in read-only mode first, so you see what it would earn before the system takes over. We're also open to partnerships.
