Locus Energy is a solar monitoring and data analytics platform provider for the distributed PV market — spanning the residential, commercial and utility sectors. Locus Energy’s cloud-based software aggregates and organizes large amounts of performance data from multiple sources, making it easier to access, manage and analyze, while its powerful PVIQ suite has the unique ability to identify the causes of a solar system’s failure to meet performance expectations. By providing “actionable” operations and management data that optimizes performance yields, Locus Energy’s PVIQ helps project stakeholders increase profitability, and also helps investors assess the value of solar PV assets. Founded in 2007, Locus Energy has offices in Hoboken, N.J., and San Francisco.

Solution

As the distributed solar PV sector continues to grow, project managers are often overseeing a large number of residential, commercial or utility PV systems, creating a need to better collect, monitor and analyze system performance data. Smarter solar data means greater operating efficiencies, lower costs and streamlined integration with third parties. Locus Energy’s services include three key areas. Locus Energy is the only company in the industry providing services in all of these areas, reflecting its depth of knowledge of the industry and its understanding of the tools required to decrease risk and thus pave the way for the wide-scale adoption of distributed solar energy generation.

Cost Effective and Reliable Hardware

Since 2007, Locus Energy has deployed more than 40,000 monitoring systems across the world. With a proven track record of results, many of our customers have chosen to standardize on solely Locus Energy’s monitoring solutions. Check out some of our projects.

Enterprise-class Software Platform

As the level of solar penetration grows, fleet operators managing large blocks of assets will require more sophisticated software to track performance across distributed solar installations. The industry’s largest capital providers, equipment manufacturers and asset managers have selected Locus Energy as their monitoring provider because of the scalability and flexibility of our software platform. Take a look at some of the work we’ve done with key partners in the Case Studies section.

Proprietary Analytics

Locus Energy has the deepest intellectual property portfolio in the industry. Our goal is to drive wide-scale adoption of distributed PV by providing fleet operators with the real-time intelligence that allows them to optimize production at the point of use. Locus Energy’s patented analytics capabilities also help increase access to capital by reducing performance risks, thus allowing investors to feel confident that the solar PV systems in which they invest will perform according to expectations.

Industry-leading Support

Locus Energy has the largest support team in the industry with technicians split between our east and west coast offices available for phone and field support. We strive to provide unparalleled customer service

While one of the smaller costs of a PV system, solar monitoring solutions can be one of the most difficult components to design, install and commission. Locus Energy offers data acquisition systems (DAS) hardware that supports a wide range of metering options and leverages cellular communications, allowing integrators and EPCs to drive down the overall cost and complexity of system installations. Combined with full-featured and easy to use web-based software, Locus Energy’s monitoring solutions vastly simplify the process of gathering, organizing and visualizing solar performance data.