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  • Customer feedback - there are many ways we listen for your feedback:
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    comments and votes on issues here in Greenbyte & BluePoint Influence
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  • 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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  1. Middle voltage loss calculation (Energy Export vs. Energy Meter) in MWh or %

    When metering systems are connected to the Scada one standardized tech. KPI is to understand the middle voltage losses between WTGs and official energy metering.
    Ideally such should be calculated on kWh/MWh basis as simple delta between Sum of Energy Export (WTGs) and official Metering. Additionally the % deviation should be calculated, too.

    Further benefits:
    As Greenbyte introduced the Loss Waterfall also this calculation would benefit from the above as additional losses (depending the size of the wind farm typically 0.5 - 2.x %) could be highlighted. Additional precision for the Loss Waterfall Diagram!

    3 votes

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  2. 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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  3. Tracker availability from statuses

    Today, the tracker availability is only calculated via the deviation of angles. We would need to also have it calculated following (stop) statuses.

    1 vote

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  4. PR at meter level based on IEC

    In solar, calculate the performance ratio at meter level based on the IEC standard definition.

    1 vote

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  5. "Service this year" signal to count contractual year an not calendar year

    The signal "service this year", coming from the "maintenance" toggle on availability contracts, currently considers a calendar year. To make it coherent with the availability contract, it should consider the "contractual year" instead.

    3 votes

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  6. Allow Taxonomy to do analytics with the data

    Taxonomy is an add-on that give you data from the WTG to the RDS-PP category. There would be a lot of value allowing the user to do the navigation the other way around as well. This is from the RDSPP category down to the turbine.

    6 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Show Equivalent Full Load Hours in "hours"

    Equivalent Full Load Hours is sometimes shown in "hours" in the platform, but sometimes is shown in "seconds" (like Share->Export Data, or Reports->Time series table (widget)).

    This indicator is useful in hours, can this be resolved?

    1 vote

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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.

  9. Sun Elevation and Azimuth Data Channels based on Site Location Metadata

    Add data channels in Bright for sun elevation and sun azimuth based on site coordinates that are set in metadata, and allow these channels to be queried through the API.

    These data channels could be used to correlate the actual irradiance to the sun's position, or performance metrics against the sun's position to help identify if areas of underperformance are due to a specific location of the sun.

    1 vote

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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.

  10. Power bars and maximum installed effect or maximum effect according to power curve

    It would be nice if the app and the web page could use the maximum power curve value instead of installed capacity in the power bars.

    This would improve our visual knowledge if the machine is running accordingly to the current PC.

    3 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.

  11. 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.

    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.

  12. Calculate Energy Theoretical from different sources of Potential Power

    Today, Energy Theoretical is only calculated from the first source of Potential Power in the assigned Potential Power Order. It would be good to have, such as we have different Potential Power signals, to get the Energy Theoretical from all of these sources.

    1 vote

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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. Make it possible to use the Manufacturer Potential Power signal in the potential power cascade

    In some cases (e.g. grid curtailment where the site has an export constraint) the existing potential power methods in Greenbyte provided significantly over-estimated figures for Lost Production.

    The manufacturer potential power signal often provides accurate potential power readings during periods of curtailment. If it were possible to make this part of the potential power cascade, users would be able to get more accurate lost production to curtailment figures.

    6 votes

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  14. In specific cases warning triggers losses calculation and impact availability. We need an option to turn OFF this logic.

    Currently if there is a warning status code and the turbine shows no production during wind high enough to be operational, the turbine is automaticaly seen as faulty and availability is set to 0 for that period. The warnings status code will get losses calculated and attached.

    We'd like an option to turn OFF this feature. We consider that, by definition, a warning status code should never trigger any losses calculation and never have any impact on availability figures.

    6 votes

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  15. Make it possible to use MERRA-2 wind data in Greenbyte

    It could be used to perform resource-adjusted budget calculations.

    4 votes

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  16. Add new modifiable Production-based System Availability signal

    Add a new, additional availability signal called “Corrected Production-based System Availability Estimate”, that we could modify so that we could fully exclude from the availability calculation certain days for certain turbines (related to e.g. insurance cases, grid outages etc). Otherwise the availability should be an identical copy of the standard Production-based System Availability. We would need to have the possibility to later adjust the lengths of those excluded historical time periods several times, as our estimates get more accurate in time, and the availability calculation should be instantly updated accordingly. We would like to have the possibility to use the…

    4 votes

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  17. calculate icing loss

    Calculation of the realised production loss (MWh) due to icing, per turbine. Calculation with the IEA standard methodology: https://community.ieawind.org/task19/t19icelossmethod

    7 votes

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  18. Lost production : manual recording possibility

    In case of grid loss -for example- - the lost production of a status log can be calculated with the Estimated Potential Power. But this considers only a short period of time (mean between one hour before and one hour after the shutdown). When the shutdown is for a long time period (several hours or days) - it would be useful that the users could add a lost production manually.

    6 votes

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  19. Electrical Losses/ Electrical Performance Index

    Can you please add a calculated Index to the Data Studio to calculate the percentage of loss energy from the internal cable network on the site. It needs to be (Meter Export Energy divided by Virtual Production) – 1 and presented as a percentage? It would fit in the PERFORMANCE group with Performance Index.

    8 votes

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  20. Data availability for devices

    The Data Availability KPI is only available for power generating units. It should be available as a variable in Data Studio / Dashboards / Reports and also available in the alarm rules.

    6 votes

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