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  • Customer feedback - there are many ways we listen for your feedback:
    formal customer interviews and other research activities
    events like conferences and trade shows
    comments and votes on issues here in Greenbyte & BluePoint Influence
  • CSM team insights - our CSM team knows which issues are the most challenging and most common for customers.
  • Product analytics - we track how users move through the system, which helps us understand how existing features are being used.
  • Product strategy - our long-term strategic vision for the products.
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Sometimes you need functionality that is specific to your needs and not necessarily useful for other customers or in line with Power Factors strategic goals. These special requests are addressed through custom applications, which can be developed by you, using the Greenbyte API, by third-party partners, or by Power Factors for an additional fee. If you are interested in having a custom application built, contact your CSM.
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  1. YTD Widget

    We have a situation where we track our KPIs using a custom dashboard and widget to display such figures as Production and Budget YTD.

    When an asset is taken over in the middle of a production year, and the data gets backfilled, the widget no longer accurately reflects the YTD production for the time the asset has been under our ownership.

    E g if we take over an asset in May, but data is available since January, the YTD widget currently displays the production for the asset from January.
    In the scenario above we would want the widget to only…

    2 votes

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  2. HSE incident status option in the HSE table widget

    We need the possibility to list only HSE cases of a certain status (resolved - unresolved) in the report HSE table widget. Currently it is not possible to have a table in the reports listing only the open = "unresolved" HSE cases.

    2 votes

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  3. Show number of files for a task

    Get the document symbol for the number of files/documents uploaded in a task, so you can get a good overview of what tasks have documents uploaded (i.e Boroscopy reports) without having a separate tracker.

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  4. Create a specific degradation factor for the first year

    The solar panels manufacturers commonly warranty a different degradation factor for the first year than for the following ones (see example attached: a 3% degradation is expected for the first year, then a 0.706% factor for year 2 to 25).
    Could you create a separate degradation factor for the first year of operations?

    2 votes

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  5. Order by device number not Power

    Have the option to when hovering over a data table the data displayed is in the device number order, not highest value (power, current)

    e.g. when looking power produced by each Inverter module for inverter 1 be ordered 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 etc not in the order in which they are producing the most power

    2 votes

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  6. Make Analyse URL links include the filtering

    Make the Analyse links include the filtering. For example if I select the time period to be 2021 I'd like the link shared to also be filtered for 2021

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  7. Make the URL links human readable

    Make the URL links human readable, so that I can alter them to adjust the outputs, e.g. for example if I wanted to create a link outside of Greenbyte to refer to show something within Greenbyte

    2 votes

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  8. See Service Contract on Status events in Task

    It would bee really great to be able to see what Service Contract different Status events have in a task. Could it be added as a column under Status events?
    And also the possibility to change the category if needed directly in the task.

    2 votes

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  9. Clickable header in monitor/analyze to allow moving up and down the device hierarchy

    When showing a dashboard in Analyze for a site, I can click on a device on the site and get to the dashboard for that device. For that dashboard I would like to see the "path" I moved, i.e. Portfolio/Site/Device as the header, and I would like to be able to click on e.g. "Site" to get back to the site dashboard.

    2 votes

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  10. o Service hours/allowed scheduled maintenance cannot be count into the contractual availability.

    Each contract is different and a common detail in a service contract like a maximum allowed number of maintenance hours (not taken into account for the unavailability) is not possible in Greenbyte.
    Therefore the numbers in the greenbyte report must be recalculated by the number of scheduled maintenance in order to calculate the contractual availability.

    2 votes

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  11. Overlapping curtailment schemes: lost production calculations

    Calculate lost productions per category (commercial, grid, owner, etc) taking into account simultaneous curtailment signals and setpoints. A dynamic calculation would provide more accurate results.

    2 votes

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Giorgio responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  12. Add "exclude data" functionality in Dashboards and Data Studio

    When I am in a dashboard or Data Studio, and I select a custom time span (e.g. 19/03/2020 to 19/03/2021) with an aggregation per month, the platform will still return the full value for the months of March 2020 and 2021.

    The Reports have a feature to "exclude data" that does exactly what I would need here - excluding the data from 01-18/03/2020 and from 20-31/03/2021.
    Currently there is no way around but aggregating per week/day, but that still doesn't allow me to see March as 1 figure.

    2 votes

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Eliane responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  13. Next asset filtering option would help a lot

    In general the UI requires too many mouse clicks when working repetitive tasks.

    For instance, we have a task like "Perform status categorization for every wind turbine for previous month". Each time, through the filter settings, we have to unselect the current turbine, and select another one. Meanwhile some of the filter settings will be erased.

    Especially some of the windfarms have a clutter of the same statuses. Wind farm A will be curtailed so often, that we want to review them with two filter settings:
    1. Do not show Curtailed statuses (to see what is really happening with the…

    2 votes

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Eliane responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  14. Loss of Production Site Grid Export Limit

    Some wind farms have grid export limits that are less than the installed capacity of the wind farm. When the farm output is at its export capacity, for any turbines that are stopped I would like the loss of production to be zero as the wind farm is not actually losing this potential production.

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Eliane responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  15. Display comment for tasks in report section

    When generating a report and including a custom section regarding "Tasks", one can add a column named "Comments". Currently that only adds a small symbol in that column (see attached image) but would it instead be possible for the text to be displayed in the column?

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Eliane responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  16. Show windpark/wind turbine/device name in website title

    In our operations we often have multiple Greenbyte tabs open in Chrome. It would be very beneficial if the name of page would contain the name of the item you have opened so you can go to the page you want directly instead of checking them one by one.

    For example;

    Greenbyte - Wind Farms >>> Greenbyte - WindparkName
    Greenbyte - Devices >>> Greenbyte - Device
    Name
    etc. etc.

    2 votes

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    Accepting Votes  ·  Eliane responded

    Thanks for your feedback, this is a great request. It’s open for voting from other users.

  17. 2 votes

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  18. OPC UA keeps holding data with communicatoin loss

    Dear,

    We noticed that due to the switch from OPC DA to OPC UA for Vestas turbines, the latest data is been visualized when there is no communication.
    This is most likely because of the OPC UA interface that doesn't change its data.
    Because of this we can't see if there is a communication loss with a turbine.
    To tackle this there should be a timeout implemented when there is no change in the data on the OPC UA interface of that turbine for more than 30 minutes the turbine should be indicated as offline.

    kr,
    Hans

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  19. Adding the "team on site marker" from the list to the Monitor/Portfolio view

    The possibility to add the "team on site marker" on a widged.
    Best would be to see the "end time" as well.

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  20. Get notification for an overdue in the Plan section

    In the Plan section suggest to get a notification if someone goes beyond the working end time.

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