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Against the backdrop of global energy tension and the national dual-carbon goals, the healthy development of green energy is attracting attention. Photovoltaics, as a key driver of green transformation, is trending towards intelligent development.

Recently, Getech Eastwisdom officially launched the Photovoltaic Intelligent Monitoring and Operation Platform to help the photovoltaic industry further integrate with new-generation information technology, entering the intelligent era in a smart, efficient, safe, and reliable manner.

01 Building an Intelligent Photovoltaic Industry Ecosystem Becomes a National Goal

On January 5, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the 'Intelligent Photovoltaic Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan (2021-2025)'.

The Action Plan proposes that during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, with the goal of building an intelligent photovoltaic industry ecosystem, it adheres to market dominance and government support, innovation-driven and industry-finance integration, coordinated policies and step-by-step advancement, grasps the trends and laws of digital economy development, promotes the integration and innovation of new-generation information technology with the photovoltaic industry, accelerates the improvement of the intelligent level of the entire industry chain, enhances the supply capacity of intelligent products and system solutions, encourages the application of intelligent photovoltaics, and promotes China's photovoltaic industry to continuously move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain.

By the end of 2021, China's grid-connected photovoltaic power generation installed capacity reached 306 million kilowatts, ranking first in the world for seven consecutive years; the newly added grid-connected photovoltaic power generation installed capacity was about 53 million kilowatts, ranking first in the world for nine consecutive years. In the first year of the '14th Five-Year Plan', photovoltaic power generation construction achieved new breakthroughs and presented new characteristics.

Building an intelligent power generation operation management system, developing towards 'intelligent, modular, and integrated', and constructing a smart grid that adapts to large-scale new energy integration and meets the 'plug-and-play' requirements of distributed energy has become a trend in the intelligent photovoltaic era.

02 Traditional Power Station Operation and Maintenance VS Intelligent Power Station Operation and Maintenance

Distributed photovoltaic power stations have characteristics such as large quantity, small capacity, and high complexity. Under traditional operation and maintenance methods, there is no unified management platform for various types of power stations, management is extensive, overall visibility cannot be achieved, fault locations cannot be accurately located, leading to difficulties in later-stage operation and maintenance; using manual operation and maintenance methods is inefficient and affects the overall benefits of the power station.

In the intelligent photovoltaic era, power station operation and maintenance methods also need to shift towards integration, digitalization, and intelligence: through an integrated high-integration platform, extensive management is transformed into refined management, passive operation and maintenance into predictive active operation and maintenance, on-site operation and maintenance into mobile/remote operation and maintenance, ultimately achieving intelligent photovoltaic operation and maintenance.

03 Getech Eastwisdom Photovoltaic Intelligent Monitoring and Operation Platform

Getech Eastwisdom has always kept pace with national development, vigorously promoting the sustainable development of green energy and clean energy. Now, after modularizing the industrial knowledge and experience accumulated over many years in the high-end manufacturing industry, it has launched an IoT product for photovoltaic enterprises—the Getech Eastwisdom Photovoltaic Intelligent Monitoring and Operation Platform (hereinafter referred to as the platform), helping the photovoltaic industry develop towards 'intelligent, modular, and integrated'.

*Screenshot of Getech Eastwisdom Photovoltaic Intelligent Monitoring and Operation Platform

The platform provides safe and reliable communication connection capabilities for photovoltaic devices, offering a one-stop photovoltaic IoT solution with functions such as data collection, rule engine, data visualization, and operation inspection services. Through comprehensive analysis of power generation output curves and electricity load curves, it achieves optimal generation and storage, maximizing project benefits. With intelligent AI fault diagnosis, it frees maintenance personnel from tedious and inefficient manual inspections, accurately locates anomalies, enables timely predictive maintenance, and achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Specifically, compared with traditional photovoltaic power stations, the platform can achieve for intelligent power stations:

 1. Personalized for Each User 

In the power station operation and maintenance process, users of different roles have different focuses and needs, and the required functional modules are inconsistent. The platform can flexibly adjust user functional modules based on user roles, maximizing the satisfaction of personalized user needs and improving work efficiency.

 2. Global Control 

Photovoltaic power station information is diverse and complex. The platform supports displaying and analyzing information such as equipment, operation inspection, faults, spare parts, attributes, topology, and configuration from the power station dimension, enabling comprehensive control of various information.

 3. Fault Inspection on the Go 

The platform supports global fault pop-ups, alarm sound broadcasts, email & mobile message notifications, ensuring equipment faults are reported immediately, and notifications are closed based on personnel confirmation status.

 4. Later Tracking 

The platform supports creating related work orders based on faults. Details of fault work orders can be queried to check the handling of previous fault work orders, improving efficiency.

 5. Personnel Management 

When power station maintenance personnel change, the platform supports users in maintaining fixed team members and flexibly configuring temporary teams, enhancing team collaboration efficiency.

 6. Safety and Compliance 

Through continuous operation monitoring and support such as two-tickets three-systems, it ensures operations are standard, compliant, and safe.

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Benchmark Case

Taking a certain photovoltaic power station as an example, which has a considerable scale of distributed photovoltaic power stations, how to do a good job in the standardized management of the power station, improve the quality of power generation, and enhance the ability to call resources is an urgent pain point that the power station needs to solve.

GETECH has deployed a photovoltaic intelligent monitoring and operation platform for it, providing comprehensive services such as collection, monitoring, operation and maintenance, statistics, analysis, settlement, etc., comprehensively improving the scale monitoring and production operation and maintenance capabilities of the power station, reducing labor costs, improving overall revenue, and transforming the power station into an intelligent, digital, and tradable energy asset:

1. Support independent team operation and maintenance within the designated area, saving 30% to 50% of manpower;

2. On the basis of saving manpower, the abnormal response time is significantly reduced;

3. Implemented center level and regional level operation and maintenance personnel scheduling and emergency command;

4. To provide ROI calculation basis for enterprises to invest and build power stations in the same region, taking into account labor costs and power generation efficiency.

With the same frequency resonance with the national development, and to help the healthy development of green energy, GETECH will continue to play the "cornerstone power", through the industry-leading industrial Internet platform, products, and technology, to plug in "smart wings" for more industry enterprises and embark on the road of intelligence.