Project dashboard (EMS)
When you open a project, the default page is the EMS dashboard. It gives a real-time, at-a-glance view of the whole installation: how power is flowing right now, how the batteries and PV are being controlled, and the key performance figures for the site.
Energy flow diagram
At the top, a live diagram shows how power moves through the installation, with the current power (in kW) on each link. It is updated continuously, so you can see at a glance whether the site is importing or injecting, and whether the batteries are charging or discharging. Typical nodes are:
Main grid connection: power exchanged with the grid (import / injection) at the connection point.
PV: current solar production.
Wind turbine: current wind production, when the site has a wind turbine.
Batteries: aggregate battery power (charging or discharging).
Residual consumption: the remaining site consumption not covered locally.
Key metric cards
A row of cards summarises the live state of the site:
Control mode: the active control strategy (for example local optimization / self-supply, or cost optimization) with a short description of what it does. See Control algorithms for the underlying logic.
Battery power: the current aggregate battery power, with a recent history chart.
Energy prices: injection and consumption prices (€/MWh) over time. These drive cost-optimized control.
Self-sufficiency & self-consumption: two percentages, namely how much of your consumption is covered by your own generation (self-sufficiency), and how much of your generation you use yourself instead of injecting (self-consumption).
Weather forecast: today's and tomorrow's outlook, to anticipate solar generation. When the site has a wind turbine, the card also shows the expected wind speed.
Site status: whether there are open incidents on the site (green = none). See Incident Management.
Battery SOC: a gauge with the aggregate state of charge of the batteries (%).
Battery plan
On projects that run the cost optimization strategy, the dashboard shows the battery plan: what the EMS intends to do with the battery in each quarter-hour of the selected day. The plan is drawn as a coloured band directly above the Prices and grid power chart, so you can read the plan against the prices that produced it.
Each block is one quarter-hour, coloured by the strategy planned for it: Standby, Fixed power, Max charging, Cover deficit and Use PV surplus. Quarters you have set yourself are marked Manually planned.
The part of the day that has already passed is shown as a solid, read-only band: it records what was executed. Only quarter-hours in the future can still be changed.
Hover a block to see its period, the planned strategy and the reason the planner chose it.
Use the date navigation and the day/week/month selector of the chart to move to another day.
See Battery schedule for the logic behind the plan: how the EMS weighs prices, PV and consumption forecasts against the battery and grid limits.
Overriding a quarter-hour
You can override the planned behaviour of one or more quarter-hours yourself. Click Plan above the band to open the Plan strategy dialog.
Set the From and To moment. The dialog shows how many quarter-hours the range covers and how long it lasts. Then choose the strategy that must apply during that range:
Automatic
The cost-optimization algorithm decides, as it normally would.
Battery standby
The battery neither charges nor discharges.
Hold fixed power
The battery follows the power you enter. Enter a positive value to charge and a negative value to discharge.
Charge at maximum power
The battery charges as fast as the grid connection, the current consumption and the battery limits allow, and does not discharge during the period.
Cover production deficit
The battery discharges to cover the site's consumption that local production does not cover.
Charge on production surplus, otherwise self-supply
The battery stores the PV surplus, and falls back to self-supply when there is no surplus.
Click Save. The affected quarter-hours turn into Manually planned blocks.
To hand a quarter-hour back to the planner, set it to Automatic again. Overrides apply only to the selected range; the EMS keeps optimizing every other quarter-hour.
A manual strategy overrules the economic plan for that period. Take your import and export limits into account, especially with Hold fixed power and Charge at maximum power.
Charge-level projection
Next to Plan sits the Charge level button. It asks the controller for the state of charge it projects for the coming period and shows that curve in a dialog, together with the time range the projection covers and the minimum and maximum charge band of the battery. Use it to check whether the plan keeps the battery within its limits and whether enough energy is reserved for the periods that need it.
Latest control decisions
At the bottom, the dashboard lists the most recent decisions the EMS made, grouped per asset, so you can verify the controller is doing what you expect and troubleshoot when it is not:
Batteries: per battery / ESS, the commanded power and its status.
PV inverters: per inverter, the applied setpoint or limit and its status (for example no limitations or target reached).
Expand a row to see the detail and the reason behind that decision.
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