Continuous education is a high priority in our corporate culture.  We realize the importance behind building a strong support team dedicated to learning about the Solar Industry.  This ensures our customers are able to benefit immediately as our staff is able to utilize their industry knowledge to provide excellent support no matter what monitoring phase of the project they find themselves in.  Throughout our 40 years of industry experience we have found the advantages of having a continuous mix of educational offerings to be self-evident ensuring our customers are able to use our products efficiently, saving them both time and money.  This is equally important to our long-term success here in North America.

This is why we are pleased to announce our newest customer focused Partner Training initiative.  Starting this November we are launching our first-ever complimentary North America based two day Partner Training Workshop.   These workshops will continue to be offered on a quarterly basis and held in different regions of the country to ensure all of our Partners have the chance to attend at least one throughout the year.  Along with the Quarterly workshops, we are preparing to offer monthly webinars on various topics so be sure to stay tuned!  

Our first-ever Quarterly Partner Training session will be held at our Chicagoland headquarters in November. 
• November 7, 2016: Training on monitoring hardware
• November 8, 2016: Training on monitoring in the portal

The benefits to each of our Partners attending will be realized rather quickly as they gain specific training on our monitoring hardware and our VCOM portal.  The training provides the necessary information for independent investment scheme within the portal and the efficient use of the extensive analysis-, evaluation- and reporting- functions for professional monitoring with VCOM.  The workshop environment serves as a great networking tool as you will be joined by your fellow industry peers and have the opportunity to learn from one another. 

The session will be held in our headquarters located at 1110 W. Lake Cook Rd. Buffalo Grove, IL 60089.  Since the sessions will be taking place while the Chicago Blackhawks are in town, there is a possibility for our guests attending the Partner Training to also attend the November 6th game against the Dallas Stars in the meteocontrol Luxury Penthouse Suite.  Please take note that space is limited for the workshop and seats will fill up fast!  

For additional information or to sign up free of charge, please contact us at sales-na@meteocontrol.com

We look forward to your participation!

By continuously improving and developing our product offerings, we are able to meet the ever-changing needs of the North America market.  With that said, the introduction of new products leads to the discontinuation of existing ones. Our goal is to offer a lean but comprehensive solution, continually providing innovative yet flexible products which compliment our Quality Services Offerings.

Newly redesigned Monitoring Stations:

• Monitoring Station Basic- Measurement control cabinet manufactured right here for centrally recording and processing all system data in your Commericial PV power plant up to 1MW.
• Monitoring Station Professional-Measurement control cabinet for centrally recording and processing all system data in your large Commericial or Utility Scale PV power plant.
• Power Control Station- measurement control cabinet meeting all of your SCADA requirements and used for the implementation of grid feed-in management in your PV power plant.

Speak with us - we will be happy to inform you about our products and services as well as design an optimal solution for you. While restructuring our product portfolio, we also updated our price lists (products / repairs) - effective August 1, 2016.

Please contact us with any questions:

Email: sales-na@meteocontrol.com

Phone: (224) 310-5700

Inline graphics in the operations overview: Key performance indicators at a glance

In the operations overview, you can easily check the key performance indicators of your entire PV portfolio.
With the August VCOM innovation, you can see more quickly which systems are operating according to plan and which systems need to be examined more closely.

The yield and irradiance levels are shown in mini charts in the table. The hourly measurements enable you to spot trends in the operations overview. Additionally, the Performance Ratio and data availability are displayed in the form of data bars.

Generic Modbus driver – Modml

We are always working to improve the compatibility of the blue’Log. In light of your international aspirations, we offer the generic Modbus driver for even greater flexibility in your chosen target market. Also Modbus devices via common providers furthermore can be connected without modifying the blue’Log firmware such as inverter meters, string measuring systems and sensor systems. If you wish, you can create your own Modbus profiles for the generic driver.

Improved blue’Log alarm functions

A new function is the Power Control alarm: If Power Control encounters a fault, it informs the system immediately in the following events:

• No communication is taking place between the Slave and the Master blue‘Log.
• Target values for active and reactive power cannot be determined, for example should there be a fault in the utility control signal or PLC
• Regulating the active and reactive power is not possible due to a lack of measurement parameters.

The following alarm groups continue to be available:
• Communication alarm
• Status alarm
• Device alarm

Power Control Modbus interface for grid feed-in management

The new interface makes it easier to implement grid feed-in management because the specified target values are transferred directly to the blue’Log over Modbus TCP. Depending on the application, complex cabling that carry analog and digital signals for transferring control values can be avoided. You can enable this function at any time with a license for new or previously acquired blue’Logs:

Power Control Modbus interface X series license: Item number 557.003

Repeated sending of historical data

A permanent Internet connection to the system is required in order to regularly transfer measurement data to meteocontrol's VCOM portal. Interruptions cannot however always be avoided.  For instance, if Internet routers don't function or there is weak, unstable network coverage at the system site. In such cases the system automatically sends historical data to the portal. There may, for example, be gaps in the data if the portal is set up at a later point or if the internet connection is interrupted during data transmission. To help prevent such gaps in the data, you can now export historical data on the blue’Log again – both for exporting the data to the meteocontrol portal or using FTP push.

New drivers

• Kostal driver
• Fronius Datamanager driver
• SMA Sunspec driver

meteocontrol North America will be giving away a trip for two to Chicago, Illinois.  Make sure to stop by our booth #243 for a chance to win at the SOLAR POWER INTERNATIONAL, LAS VEGAS, SEPTEMBER 13-15.