HIT Energy Guard continues to monitor solar PV, helping us understand how a commerial asset is performing using generation data
alongside years of historic half-hourly solar and weather data.
For an existing PV owner, that’s where we start.
If the system is underperforming, we can investigate why. It may simply need repairing, or an ageing installation may benefit from repowering. Where existing inverters and infrastructure are still suitable, we can retain them. Modern, higher-efficiency modules may also free up existing framework, creating an opportunity for additional PV and battery storage.
If the existing solar is performing exactly as it should, we leave it alone and install our monitoring system. Instead, we can look at surplus electricity being exported and whether battery storage could capture it for use later.
But HIT Energy Guard doesn’t stop monitoring once the battery arrives.
We’re now using AI to analyse more than a decade of historic half-hourly solar and weather data alongside live generation, site demand, electricity tariffs and weather forecasts. This gives HIT Energy Guard the intelligence needed to manage battery storage and send commands determining when batteries should charge from solar, lower-cost grid electricity, or both.
“We’ve spent more than ten years learning how solar behave. HIT Energy Guard was originally built to tell us whether a PV system was performing properly. We’re now using that same data and experience to make decisions about battery storage – predicting what the solar is likely to do and telling the battery when it should charge, hold or discharge. For us, that’s the natural next step.”
— Simon Hopkins, HIT Energy Services
What started as solar monitoring is now developing into complete energy management that can work for the farm or any commerical demand.
HIT Energy Guard – Monitor. Understand. Manage. Optimis
