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A photovoltaic new energy power generation enterprise owns a considerable scale of centralized and distributed photovoltaic power plants. Under the new industry situation, photovoltaic power generation subsidies are decreasing year by year, and policies are forcing companies to pay more attention to LCOE (Levelized Cost of Energy). The importance of power plant operation and maintenance is increasingly prominent. Through equipment efficiency analysis, it helps the company achieve equipment selection in the early project stage and efficiency analysis during the operation period, which greatly assists in cost control and benefit improvement during project construction and operation, while also helping the company expand its business direction.

Before the implementation of this project, the company's power plants faced the following pain points and needs:

1. The company adopted traditional operation and maintenance methods, lacking a unified management platform, making it impossible to achieve overall visibility. Operation managers also found it difficult to quickly understand the business status, and information was lagging.

2. Business analysis was tracked offline, resulting in high communication costs and low efficiency.

3. The company hoped to achieve efficiency analysis of photovoltaic modules under the same environmental conditions through online equipment analysis, thereby providing data support for equipment selection in other new projects.

4. While focusing on power plant construction and operation and maintenance, there was an urgent need to expand business channels and increase revenue.

5. Fixed asset management was done offline, and the management could not fully understand the status of production equipment and spare parts.

6. Statistical reports relied on manual compilation, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it was difficult to provide timely feedback to management decision-makers.

To address the needs and pain points of the power plants, Getech deployed a photovoltaic intelligent monitoring and operation analysis platform, providing comprehensive services such as data collection, monitoring, operation and maintenance, statistics, analysis, settlement management, and data prediction, transforming the company's power plants into intelligent, digital, and tradable energy assets.

On one hand, the smart operation and maintenance monitoring platform provides a one-stop photovoltaic IoT solution integrating data collection, rule engine, data visualization, and inspection services, significantly enhancing the power plant's large-scale monitoring and production operation capabilities, and providing safe and reliable communication connectivity for photovoltaic equipment. At the same time, through intelligent AI fault diagnosis, it accurately locates abnormalities and conducts predictive maintenance in a timely manner, freeing maintenance personnel from tedious and inefficient manual inspections, reducing labor costs, and increasing overall revenue.

On the other hand, the platform enables online analysis of the efficiency of component equipment from different manufacturers and models, providing effective data support for equipment selection during the power plant construction phase and equipment analysis during the operation phase. Additionally, the platform helps customers expand business channels by collaborating with component manufacturers based on data prediction results to continuously improve component production technology and efficiency:

1. Integrated IoT device connectivity capabilities, collecting data from various power generation devices and correlating data relationships between devices.

2. Through visualization, helping users multi-dimensionally control business data such as power generation production, operation, and maintenance management.

3. Using platform algorithms to analyze data such as reduced dust, CO2, and SO2 emissions and saved standard coal, intuitively displaying tradable energy assets including carbon trading, green certificate trading, and power generation.

4. Achieving digital management of equipment assets, providing detailed asset reports, and conducting regular asset evaluations.

5. Analyzing low-efficiency power generation units, enabling quick location and handling of faulty or abnormal equipment, improving equipment stability.

6. The platform uses big data, AI, and other technologies to fit weather, irradiation, and basic equipment parameters, enabling online analysis of the efficiency of photovoltaic components from different manufacturers and models.

7. Quickly and automatically generating comprehensive reports, providing core business data such as power generation, electricity costs, operation and maintenance costs, assessments, and subsidies, assisting decision-making analysis.

With the support of the intelligent monitoring and operation platform, the photovoltaic power plant has achieved significant results in intelligent operation:

1. Supporting independent team operation and maintenance within the region, saving labor costs by 30% to 50%.

2. While achieving labor savings, fault response time has been significantly reduced, improving work efficiency by 5% to 10%.

3. Achieving company-level and regional-level operation and maintenance business management, spare parts management, and personnel management, greatly improving operation and maintenance efficiency while reducing labor costs.

4. Providing basis for component equipment selection and investment return analysis for new power plants, reducing construction costs compared to the same period.

5. Providing data analysis tools to formulate technical improvement directions and enhance the company's industry competitiveness.

6. Accumulating technical analysis data, expanding business channels, and increasing potential operating revenue.