Fleet Management Tool for Solar Inverters

Developed under project “Harnessing Sensor Data for Degradation Analytics and Operations & Maintenance Optimization in PV Systems: A Prognostic Approach”, funded by the Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO), U.S. Department of Energy.

Benefits to Industry

Significant reduction of maintenance cost, see below for the example maintenance cost reduction over simulation for 60 years.

Tool Architecture and Details

Input

• User-defined maintenance cost

Output: (skip viz)

• Summary of maintenance metrics
• Location of inverter fleets

Output: (full viz)

• Real-time inverter status demonstration at fleet-level
• Zoom to critical inverters: failure time distribution and dynamic maintenance function
• Map: geographical + status
• Metrics: real-time updates

Authors

• Shijia Zhao (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Murat Yildirim (Wayne State University)
• Liming Liu (Iowa State University)

Acknowledgments

• This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number 38458.
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