The electric vehicles will be charged with solar energy coming from monitored photovoltaic system while minimizing the energy supplied by the network.
Wattabit has just started to monitor the self-consumption PV system installed by our partner Enertika in Mas Vinyoles Venture Factory. This space is an innovation hub located in a rural area to promote entrepreneurship of CleanTech and SmartTech companies.
The innovation hub uses both electric and thermal power to meet the needs of the facility and its users.
On the one hand, the facility has a photovoltaic plant with batteries plus a generator set as a back-up system. In addition, four parking spots with EV charging stations have been recently installed.
The goal of the system is to reduce CO2 emissions
The aim of this hybrid system connected the power network is to minimize the energy supplied by the network and the generator set and maximize the solar coverage. This way, the system reduces CO2 emissions.
At the same time, the heating system and hot water system is powered by a biomass boiler and the comfort of the users is guaranteed with renewable energy sources.
The whole system is monitored with our energy management system W-Manager
Our energy monitoring platform, W-Manager, allows the user to know the state of the hybrid system anytime: whether the state of the PV facility or the operating conditions of the batteries and generator set. Furthermore, the power network supply and the consumption of the charging stations are also monitored by W-Manager.
The platform allows the energy manager or the facility maintenance company to view the energy balance of all the managed facilities (consumption of all areas vs. solar generation), KPIs such as solar coverage or performance ration and to automatically get notifications when an anomaly occurs. For instance: low performance of the photovoltaic system, excess operating hours of the generator set, low battery state-of-charge or excessive energy consumption of the climate system. All the data is summarized in weekly and monthly reports.
Since the data collection and processing is automatized with W-Manager, the energy manager focuses on making decisions to minimize the operating cost of the hybrid system, whether maintenance costs or energetic costs, and can guarantee the investment return.
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