What is on the General and Technical tabs?
General and Technical are the forms with a site's data: name, customer and location, and capacity, dates and calculation values. When the site has a park configuration, the configurator opens on Park details instead.
Why it matters
Alpha calculates with what is here: the DC capacity for the specific yield, the start date for the periods and the reference PR for the loss. A wrong location or time zone shifts the sun and so the daily figures.
What you see
Which page you get
| The site | What General and Technical do |
|---|---|
| Solar park with a park configuration | You go straight to the configurator, step Park details. There are no General and Technical tabs then |
| Battery from the configurator | You go to the battery configurator, on Overview |
| Site without a park configuration | The forms below, as the first two steps under Configure asset: General, Technical, Devices, Inverters |
Site without a park configuration: at the top
| Part | What it shows or does |
|---|---|
| Park configuration | Opens the site's configurator |
| Configuration | The bar with the site's name, capacity and location |
| Tabs | General, Technical, Devices, Inverters. A finished step gets a ✓ after its name |
| Step bar | The same four steps, as long as one is still open |
| Adjust with the agent | Only for an Admin or Operator: describe a change or add a datasheet, and the agent proposes a value per field |
General
| Part | What it shows or does |
|---|---|
| Identity and location | Asset name, Customer, EPC, Location name, Address, Postal code, City, Country, Time zone, Latitude, Longitude and External asset ID |
| Subtitle | "Asset name, customer and address details", with Confirmed or Needs review for the location |
| Save and continue | Saves and goes to Technical. Below it reads "Next step: Technical" |
| Cancel | Puts the fields back |
| Installation | Only when the site hangs on an installation in Operations: Installation number, Customer, Address, On-site contact, Documents, Open tasks and Latest notes, with Open in Operations |
| Asset photo | The photo of the Asset photo dashboard widget. Click to choose a photo or drag it there; Remove photo. JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 2 MB |
| Archive asset | Only for an Admin. Archive takes the site off the asset list and stops monitoring. Once archived it reads This asset is archived with Restore |
| Delete asset | Only for an Admin. Asks you to type the name and then Delete permanently. When that is not possible it offers Archive instead |
Technical
| Part | What it shows or does |
|---|---|
| Technical details | DC capacity (MWp), AC capacity (MVA), Installation type (Ground-mounted, Rooftop or Floating), Monitoring start date, Contract start date, Annual degradation, Currency (EUR, USD or GBP) and Irradiation profile |
| Save and continue | Saves and goes to Devices. Below it reads "Next step: Devices" |
| Cancel | Puts the fields back |
| Guarantees | Year, Guaranteed PR, Availability and Planned production in GWh. Read-only |
| Reference PR | PR, Source, Healthy days, Period and Updated. Source is Default (90,0 %) or Learnt |
| Grid connections | Name, EAN and Contracted export in kW. Empty: "No grid connections known." |
Solar park with a park configuration: Park details
At the top the configurator has the steps Overview, Park details, Topology, Data connections, Validation, Capacity, Go-live and Versions, and the buttons Start over and Next: Topology. Park details holds the data another site keeps on General and Technical:
| Block | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Park | Customer, Park name, Installer (EPC), Address, Country (ISO), Time zone, Coordinates and minimum temperature |
| Contract & yield | Among others Contract start, Monitoring start, Degradation per year (%), Guaranteed PR (%), Planned production (MWh/year), Currency, Irradiation profile and Reference PR |
| Planes | Tilt, azimuth and mounting per plane |
| Grid connections | Name, contracted export in kW and EAN |
| Groups | Per group its type, grid connection, irradiance source and number of inverters |
| Sensors | The irradiance sensors and for which group they are the source |
| Models in this park | The inverter and panel models, with the count and whether they are in the databank |
| Where the drawings disagree | Contradictions from the drawings that were read in |
| Archive asset, Delete asset | As on General |
At the bottom: Reason for this change, Undo and Save as new version. A Missing label is required to go live; Recommended works without.
Who sees what
- General and Technical are for Admin, Operator and Viewer. A customer does not see them.
- An Admin or Operator can change them. A Viewer sees the fields without buttons, with "read-only for role …" after the subtitle.
- Only Admin and Operator see Configure asset.
How to do it
- Open Assets and choose the site. Open in Alpha
- Choose Configure asset. A site with a park configuration opens in the configurator; see Connecting a site.
- A site without a park configuration opens on General. Fill in the fields and choose Save and continue.
- On Technical, fill in the capacity, installation type, start dates, degradation, currency and irradiation profile. Choose Save and continue; you move on to Devices.
- Rather use the agent? Choose Adjust with the agent, describe the change and choose Make proposal. Take proposals over with Apply. Nothing is saved until you save yourself.
- A photo for the dashboard? Choose a file under Asset photo on General.
- Must the site go out of use? As an Admin, choose Archive. Restore undoes it.
How it works
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