SMA SB 240-US-10 User Manual

Monitoring and Visualization of Plant Data

Micro Inverters in SUNNY PORTAL

User Manual

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Table of Contents

1 Information on this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2 Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.1 Intended Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.2 Sunny Multigate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3 System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.1 Registering Sunny WebBox in Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2 Logging In and Out of Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.3 Setting the Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

4 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.1 Overview of the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.2 Overview of Menus and Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.3 Page "My Micro Inverter Plant" > Plant Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3.1 Plant Data Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3.1.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3.1.2 Plant Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.3.1.3 Inverter Comparison Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

4.3.2 System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4.4 Information in the Plant Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5 Page Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.1 Configuring Settings for Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.1.1 Setting the Display Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.1.2 Saving Diagram Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.1.3 Printing Diagram Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.1.4 Enlarging the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.2 Sorting the Plant List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.3 Setting Options on the Inverter Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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5.4 Publishing Sunny Portal Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.4.1 Pages to Be Published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.4.2 Releasing Pages for Viewing in Sunny Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.4.3 Presenting Pages on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

6 Plant Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6.1 Plant Monitoring Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6.2 Plant Log Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6.2.1 Calling up and Filtering Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6.2.2 Confirming Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.1 Report Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.2 Creating Info Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

6.3.3 Creating Event Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6.3.4 Retroactively Generating a Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

6.4 Overview of the Plant Monitoring Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

6.5 Setting Communication Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

6.6 Setting Inverter Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

7 Plant Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7.1 Configuring Module Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7.2 Layout Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7.2.1 User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

7.2.2 Creating a Plant Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

7.3 Changing Plant Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

7.4 Changing the Plant Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

7.5 Changing the Plant Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.6 Changing Operator Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.7 Changing/Deleting the Plant Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.8 Entering the Feed-In Tariff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7.9 Entering the Value of CO

7.10 Calculating the Predicted Annual Yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7.11 Setting the Monthly Distribution of the Predicted Annual Yield . . . . . 53

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7.12 Editing the Data Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

8 Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.1 Filtering the Device Overview Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.2 Calling up the Device Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.3 Calling up the Device Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

8.4 Entering Line Conductors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

8.5 Changing the Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

8.6 Changing a Device Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

9 Plant Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

9.1 Adding a Sunny Multigate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

9.2 Adding an Inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

9.3 Replacing the Sunny Multigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

9.4 Replacing an Inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

9.5 Deactivating/Activating a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.6 Deleting a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.7 Deleting a Sunny Portal Plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

10 User Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

10.1 User Roles and User Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

10.2 Creating a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

10.3 Deleting a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

10.4 Changing User Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

10.5 Changing User Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

11 Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

11.1 Selecting Secure Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

11.2 Required Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

11.2.1 Sunny Portal Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

11.2.2 Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

11.3 Changing Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

11.3.1 Changing the Sunny Portal Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

11.3.2 Changing the Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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11.4 Forgotten Sunny Portal Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

11.5 Forgotten Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

12 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

13 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Validity

This document applies to plants in Sunny Portal that consist of micro inverters and the Sunny Multigate.

Target Group

This document is intended for end users.

Additional Information

Links to additional information can be found at www.SMA-Solar.com:

Document title Document type

factor Technical Information

Icons

Icon Explanation

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in death or serious injury

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in minor or moderate injury

Indicates a situation which, if not avoided, could result in property damage

Information that is important for a specific topic or goal, but is not safety-relevant

☐ Indicates a requirement for meeting a specific goal

☑ Desired result

✖ A problem that could occur

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Typographies

Typography Usage Example

bold •Display texts

• Elements on a user interface

•Connections

• Elements to be selected

• Elements to be entered

> • Connects several elements to

• The value can be found in the Energy field.

•Select Settings.

•Enter value 10 in the Minutes field.

•Select Settings > Date.

be selected

[Button/Key] • The button or key to be

•Select [Next].

selected or pressed

Nomenclature

Complete designation Designation in this document

SMA America Production, LLC SMA

SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc. SMA

Micro inverter Inverter

PV plant Plant

The designation "My micro inverter plant" is used as a placeholder for the name that you have given your micro inverter plant in Sunny Portal.

Abbreviations

Abbreviation Designation Explanation

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol

IP Internet Protocol ‒

PIC Product Identification Code Identification key for registration in

PV Photovoltaics ‒

RID Registration Identifier Registration key for registration in

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Sunny Portal

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2 Sunny Portal

2.1 Intended Use

Sunny Portal is an Internet portal for the monitoring of plants as well as the visualization and presentation of plant data.

In order to use Sunny Portal, you will need an SMA product that can record your plant data and send it to Sunny Portal (see Section 2.3 "System Requirements", page 13). Depending on the product that sends the data, various functions are available in Sunny Portal.

2.2 Sunny Multigate

The Sunny Multigate is a communication box and the electrical termination point of a plant with up to twelve micro inverters to the utility grid. Sunny Portal requests the inverter data via the Sunny Multigate.

2.3 System Requirements

☐ A computer with Internet access must be available. ☐ An Internet browser must be installed on the computer. ☐ JavaScript must be activated in the Internet browser.

Required SMA products:

In order to use Sunny Portal for plants with micro inverters, you need the following SMA products:

• Inverter of the type Sunny Boy (SB): – SB 240-US-10

• Multigate-US-10

Supported Internet browsers:

You can find a list of supported Internet browsers in the technical data on the Sunny Portal product page www. sma-america.com/sunny-portal

Recommended screen resolution:

• Minimum 1,024 pixels x 768 pixels

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3 Getting Started

3.1 Registering Sunny WebBox in Sunny Portal

Requirements:

☐ The PV plant must be commissioned. ☐ The PIC and RID o f the Sunny Multigate must be available (see type label or label supplied with

the Sunny Multigate).

Procedure:

• Starting the Plant Setup Assistant in Sunny Portal

• Registering as a new user in Sunny Portal

Registering as an existing user in Sunny Portal

• Identifying devices in Sunny Portal

• Configuring module groups

Starting the Plant Setup Assistant in Sunny Portal

The Plant Setup Assistant guides you step-by-step through user registrati on and the registrat ion of your plant in Sunny Portal.

1. Go to www.SunnyPortal.com.

2. Select [Plant Setup Assistant]. ☑ The Plant Setup Assistant opens.

3. Select [Next]. ☑The User Registration page opens.

Registering as a New User in Sunny Portal

1. Activate the I am not yet registered option and select [Next].

2. Enter the necessary data for registration.

3. Select [Next]. ☑ You will receive an e-mail containing a hyperlink and your access data to Sunny Portal after

a few minutes.

✖ You did not receive an e-mail from Sunny Portal?

Possibly, the e-mail was automatically redirected to your spam mail folder.

• Check whether the e-mail was redirected to the spam mail folder. You may have stated a different e-mail address.

• Check whether the e-mail was sent to another e-mail address.

• If the other e-mail address is an unknown address, restart the Plant Setup Assistant and register as a new user again.

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4. Follow the hyperlink in the confirmation e-mail within 24 hours. ☑ Sunny Portal opens a separate window and confirms successful registration.

5. Select [Next]. ☑The Select Plant page opens.

Registering as an Existing User in Sunny Portal

An additional plant is added to your plant in Sunny Portal: your micro inverter plant.

Requirement:

☐ You must already be registered in Sunny Portal.

Procedure:

1. Activate the I am already registered in the Sunny Portal option.

2. Enter the e-mail address and the Sunny Portal password in the E-mail address and Password fields.

3. Select [Next]. ☑The Select Plant page opens.

Identifying Devices in Sunny Portal

1. Select the option Create new plant and enter a plant name (e.g. My micro inverter plant) in the Plant Name field.

2. Enter the plant password for the user role Installer of your plant in the Plant Password field. If you have not yet changed the plant password for the user role Installer, the standard plant password 1111 is set. In such cases, you must now assign a new plant password.

3. Enter the plant password again in the Repeat password field.

4. Select [Next]. ☑The Select devices page opens.

5. Enter the PIC and RID of the Sunny Multigate in the PIC and RID fields.

6. Select [Identify]. ☑ The Plant Setup Assistant adopts the data entered and compiles it into a list.

7. To select up to three additional Sunny Multigates, enter the PIC and RID of another Sunny Multigate and select [Identify]. A maximum of four Sunny Multigates form a micro inverter plant. If you would like to register more Sunny Multigates, you have to create another micro inverter plant after having completed the registration.

8. Select [Next]. ☑The page Micro Inverter Detection opens and the number of the micro inverters foun d will

be displayed below the Sunny Multigate.

9. In order to display the serial numbers of the micro inverters found, click onto the number of the micro inverters found.

10. Select [Next]. ☑The Configure Module Groups page opens.

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Configuring Module Groups

If dif fer ent mod ule typ es are ins tal led in y our pla nt, or t he P V modules are from different manufacturers or have different azimuth or tilt angles, you must combine PV modules with the same properties into groups. The groups are referred to as "module groups" in Sunny Portal. If all the PV modules of your plant have the same properties, you can combine the PV modules into one group. Your plant then consists of one module group.

Requirement:

☐ The serial number of the inverters must be available as well as the following data of the

connected PV module: manufacturer, type, tilt and azimuth angle.

Procedure:

1. Enter a name in the Name field for the module group (e.g. "garage" or "south roof").

2. Select the manufacturer of your PV module in the drop-down list Manufacturer and select the module type in the drop-down list PV module. If the manufacturer of your PV module is not listed, select [Unknown PV module] and enter the PV module power in the Module Power field.

3. Enter the tilt angle of the PV modules in the Tilt field.

4. Enter the alignment (azimuth angle) of the PV modules in the Alignment field.

5. In the Select Inverter area, select all inverters to which PV modules with the same properties are connected.

6. Select [<<]. ☑ The selected inverters are being moved to the area Assigned Inverters.

The selected inverters form a module group and are no longer available in the area Available Inverters.

7. In order to move inverters from the area Assigned Inverters back to the Available Inverters area, select the desired inverters and then [>>].

8. Select [Submit]. ☑ The module group is created with the selected inverters.

9. To change a created module group, select [Edit] and change the desired settings.

10. To delete a created module group, select [Delete].

11. Select [+ Add] in order to set up other module groups and repeat steps 1 to 8 until all inverters have been assigned.

12. Select [Next]. ☑The Extended Plant Properties page opens.

13. Enter the plant properties and select [Next]. ☑ Sunny Portal displays a summary of the data you entered.

14. Select [Finish]. ☑ Sunny Portal sets up your plant and then confirms that your plant registration was successful.

15. To call up your plant, select [Go to plant].

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3.2 Logging In and Out of Sunny Portal

Logging into Sunny Portal

Requirement:

☐ You must already be registered in Sunny Portal.

Procedure:

1. Go to www.SunnyPortal.com.

2. Enter your e-mail address in the E-mail field in the Login area.

3. Enter the Sunny Portal password in the Password field.

4. Activate the SSL checkbox to transmit the encrypted login data.

5. Activate the Remain logged in checkbox to stay logged in for your next Sunny Portal visits. This means you remain logged into Sunny Portal until you actively log out.

6. Select [Login].

Logging Out of Sunny Portal

When you log out of the Sunny Portal user interface, you protect your plant against unauthorized access.

•Select [Logout] in the header.

•Select User Info/Logout > Logout in the page and drop-down menu.

3.3 Setting the Language

1. In the user interface header, move the mouse pointer onto . ☑ A drop-down menu opens.

2. Select the desired language.

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4.1 Overview of the User Interface

Figure 1: User interface of Sunny Portal (example)

Item Designation Explanation

A Header Contains the language selection and logout option of

Sunny Portal

B Contents area Contents of the selected page

C Page and drop-down

Access to the pages and menu items Released pages of the "My micro inverter plant" menu are

marked with the icon (see Section 5.4.2 "Releasing Pages for Viewing in Sunny Portal", page 33).

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4.2 Overview of Menus and Pages

Plant Selection Menu

Requirement for displaying the menu:

☐ Your e-mail address must be assigned to at least two plants in Sunny Portal.

In this menu you can select the requested plant by selecting the menu item with the name of the requested plant in Menu Selection. The name of the currently selected plant is used as the name of the second menu. All pages always refer to the currently selected plant.

Page Explanation

Plant List The page includes an overview of plants that are assigned to your

e-mail address. By default, the plant list is always sorted in ascending order according to the specific plant yield. You can also sort the plant list by other values and in descending order (see Section 5 "Page Settings", page 30).

The "My Micro Inverter Plant" Menu

This menu contains all pages with information, plant data, and visualizations for your plant.

Page Explanation

Plant Overview This page provides you with an overview of the most important

information about your plant. The display and range of functions of the page depend on your user role (see Section 10.1 "User Roles and User Rights", page 64).

Plant Data area

This area provides you with an overview of the most important information about your plant.

System Overview area

This area contains a graphical representation of the PV modules. The power and possible errors of each individual inverter are displayed (see Section 4.3.2 "System Overview", page 25).

Plant Description Sunny Portal compiles the plant profile from information that you

can enter in different Sunny Portal pages (see Section 4.4 "Information in the Plant Profile", page 29).

Energy and Power This page provides you with an overview of the ene rgy an d powe r

curve of your plant.

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Page Explanation

Annual Comparison This page provides you with an overview of the total yie ld and the

specific plant yield per month in a yearly overview. The average expected yield is also displayed if the checkbox

Display the monthly distribution in the yearly comparison, as well as energy and power is activated (see Section 7.11

"Setting the Monthly Distribution of the Predicted Annual Yield", page 53).

Plant Monitoring On this page the following plant monitoring functions are

available:

• Communication monitoring: monitoring of the communication between Sunny Portal and Sunny Multigate

• Inverter comparison: plant monitoring via comparison of the inverter yields

If the communication monitoring or the inverter comparison show an error or warning, the page and menu selection displays the icon next to the menu Plant Monitoring. The icon will be shown as long as the error persists.

Plant Log Book This page shows messages regarding the plant status,

e.g. disturbances of your plant. The number after the colon shows the number of unread messages.

Inverters On this page you can view power and yield values for individual

inverters (see Section 5). The Details area contains a table with values of the inverters for the time frame selected in the diagram.

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Configuration Menu

This menu contains pages on which you can carry out configurations. The menu is only displayed if you have the user role Installer or Plant administrator.

Page Explanation

Plant Properties On this page you can configure your Sunny Portal plant.

System Presentation On this page you have the following options:

• Send third parties a hyperlink to one of your released pages (see Section 5.4.2 "Releasing Pages for Viewing in Sunny Portal", page 33).

•Incorporate the Plant Profile page into other websites.

Layout Assistant

Module Group Configuration On this page you can adjust the module group configuration

Device Overview Device Overview tab

Report Configuration On this page you can select a setting so that Sunny Portal informs

User Management This page displays a list of all users to whom you have given

On this page you can draw your micro inverter plant (see Section 7.2.2 "Creating a Plant Layout", page 45).

If you expanded your plant by other inverters, the icon will be displayed in the page and menu selection next to the menu Configuration > Layout Assistant. The icon is shown until you have aligned the PV modules of the new inverters in the plant layout and have assigned the inverter serial numbers to the PV modules (see Section 7.2.2).

(see Section 7.1 "Configuring Module Groups", page 43).

All the devices of your plant are listed on this tab. You can call up device properties, parameters, and messages.

Overview of New Devices tab

Us ing thi s tab, you can lo ok f or n ew d evice s in you r plan t an d add them to your Sunny Portal plant or replace devices.

you of events and other information such as yield by e-mail (see Section 6.3 "Reports", page 37).

access to the plant (see Section 10.2 "Creating a New User", page 66).

User Info/Logout Menu

Via this menu, you can call up a list of all users to whom you have given access to the plant.

Page Explanation

User Information This page shows your user information.

Logout Ends your session in Sunny Portal

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4.3 Page "My Micro Inverter Plant" > Plant Overview

4.3.1 Plant Data Area

4.3.1.1 Overview

Information Icon Explanation

Current power * The value states the current power of the plant. If the

value cannot be updated due to a temporary connection problem with your plant, the time at which this value was retrieved by Sunny Portal will be displayed.

The icon shows how high the current power is compared to the installed plant power (peak power). The cursor moves between the yellow area (low current power) and the red area (high current power).

You can activate the page Ene rgy and Pow er u sin g th e hyperlink Energy and Power.

Current plant status * The icon displays the current plant status (for explanation

refer to section 4.3.1.2). You can activate the page Plant Log Book using the

hyperlink Plant Log Book.

Inverter comparison status * The icon will only be displayed if there are at least two

inverters in your Sunny Portal plant. The icon displays the status of the inverter comparison (for explanation see section 4.3.1.3).

You can activate the page Plant Monitoring by using the hyperlink Plant Monitoring.

Energy Today: the value states the energy produced so far by

the plant for the current day. Total: the value states the total energy produced so far

based on the combined meter readings of the inverters.

Revenue The icon is only displayed if the feed-in tariff has been set

up (see Section 7.8). Today: the value states the feed-in tariff calculated so far

for the current day.** Total: the value states the total feed-in tariff calculated

so far.**

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Information Icon Explanation

avoided Today: the value states the CO2 emission avoided by the

plant so far for the current day. Total: the value states the CO2 emission avoided so far

since commissioning the plant.

Plant information The value states the installed plant power (peak power)

of the plant. The date is the commissioning day of the plant.

You can activate the page Plant Profile by using the hyperlink Plant Profile.

Weather The current weather for the plant location is displayed.

You can scroll to the weather forecast for the next day at noon using the hyperlink Tomorrow.

Location Displays the plant location on a map extract.

A larger view of the map can be called up by using the hyperlink Enlarge map.

* This icon is an example. The icon adjusts to the current information.

** The data is not suitable for billing purposes. The data may deviate from the data provided by the electricity meter.

4.3.1.2 Plant Status

The text below the icon is a hyperlink that can be used to call up the plant log book.

Icon Text below the icon Explanation

Plant log book Device/s with warnings

Device/s cannot be reached All existing status information for the devices is OK;

however, this information is not available for all devices.

The text below the icon shows the number of devices that cannot be reached. Thus, the status of these devices could not be captured.

Device/s with warnings A warning has occurred.

The text below the icon shows the number of devices that are affected by the warning.

Device/s with errors An error has occurred.

The text below the icon shows the number of devices that are affected by the error.

Plant log book The status of all devices is unknown.

Further information can be accessed by using the hyperlink Plant Log Book below the icon.

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