SolarLink
The irradiance engine for your solar asset.
SolarLink watches every inverter against what it should be producing — that's the alert. Here's what happens next.
Producing vs. performing
Your system is producing. Is it producing what it should?
Most monitoring shows bars going up and down. That tells you the panels work. It doesn't tell you whether they're working at rate. Turn on the expected line to see what SolarLink sees.
This is what most owners see: production every month. Looks fine, right?
Inverter B · 113 kWp · Jan–Oct. Real readings from two commercial inverters, names removed. Expected production is calculated from satellite irradiance, connected capacity, tilt and orientation, so a cloudy month lowers the line too. April–October values for Inverter B are read from the chart and are approximate.
What happens next
The alert is only step one.
Monitoring gets one line: SolarLink watches every inverter against what it should be producing. Everything below is what SolarCare does about it.
What it costs
Dollars per day, from the hour the problem starts — run the clock on your own site.
Run the clockWhether to fix it now
Your dispatch trigger says dispatch, wait, or bundle — before a truck ever rolls.
Set your triggerWho fixes it
A qualified local crew in days — not weeks of finding someone.
See the servicesWho pays
Your inverter history becomes warranty-claim evidence — documented losses, documented fault.
See the historyHow to stop it happening again
Free Plan Review with SolarLink, plus a lifecycle scope that plans repairs before they find you.
See the Plan ReviewInspections
Get ahead of the curve — don't ride it.
36% better
Sites inspected quarterly showed a 36% improvement over sites inspected once a year.
Source: Raptor Maps Global Solar Report 2026 (2025 data)
79% missed
Thermal imaging alone misses most risky connector and fuse problems: 79% of high-risk connector and fuse issues show no detectable heat signature.
Source: kWh Analytics Solar Risk Assessment 2026
50–70%
Inverters cause roughly half to 70% of O&M failure events and are typically budgeted for replacement around years 10–12.
Source: NREL; Kiwa; E3 (2025)
~48% of losses
In 2025, string and combiner faults caused about 48% of lost production across U.S. sites (average loss 5.08%, about $5,070 per MW).
Source: Raptor Maps 2026
How we inspect
Review your SolarLink data first — trends, faults, string and combiner currents, your site's risk factors.
Thermal scan under load — strong sun (600 W/m² or more), low wind, right angle, reflections checked.
Hands-on checks thermal can't see — connector brand-match audit, pull tests, torque checks at combiners, fuses and inverters, insulation-resistance testing, I-V curve tracing on suspect strings.
Inverter health — fault and derate history, fans and filters, temperatures, firmware, and whether the maker still supports it.
Site and civil — drainage, erosion, vegetation shading, racking and roof.
A report with payback on every item — fix now, fix soon, wait and watch, or replace.
Quarterly or annual? Your site's performance decides.
Quarterly if any apply
- Production 3%+ below expected last quarter or repeated inverter faults
- Inverters older than 8 years or from a maker that no longer supports them
- Mixed-brand connectors or ground-fault history
- Built in 2020 or no commissioning records
- Ballasted rooftop; hail or heavy-snow exposure
- A safety finding in the last 12 months
Annual if
- The site is healthy and well documented, with none of the above
- SolarLink keeps watching in between
Four clean quarters and you move to annual. A new warning sign and you move to quarterly.
How SolarLink works
Not a fixed estimate. A live benchmark.
Most monitoring tells you what your system produced last month. SolarLink tells you what it should be producing this hour — then measures the gap. Toggle the conditions below and watch the Delta calculate itself.
Live irradiance
Real-time solar irradiance data benchmarked against your system's rated capacity and orientation.
Delta calculation
The gap between theoretical and actual output, condition-adjusted so weather never reads as a fault.
Action, not alerts
Underperformance triggers dispatch. Overperformance is confirmed. You get the SolarLink Report, not a dashboard to babysit.
SolarLink Performance Report
Sample Commercial Solar Site · Monthly summary · 1,000 kW DC
Output tracking theoretical within tolerance — the benchmark every other condition is judged against.
Click any tracker row to chart it — or an inverter chip to light up its strings across the site.
What to do — Nothing to do — this is the baseline. SolarLink keeps watching every inverter against live irradiance.
What SolarLink flagged — and what it means
Alerts & issues
| Area | What we found | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combiner zones A1–A6 | Output tracking theoretical within tolerance | None | Monitoring |
| Inverters INV-01 – INV-06 | All within spec — no faults logged | None | Monitoring |
Dispatched, completed, verified
Work performed
| Work | Detail | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| — | No work performed this period — every zone within spec | — |
What we advise before the next report
Recommendations
- Schedule the next drone IR thermography scan before peak summer irradiance.
- Review inverter warranty end dates now — replacements are cheapest before failures, not after.
- Keep the dispatch trigger armed at your chosen threshold — no dispatch happens without it paying back.
Where this goes from here
Next steps
Every SolarLink site gets this report monthly, plus an annual summary. When the numbers say a truck roll pays for itself, we dispatch — and you approve the fix and the amount first. Want one for your site?
Apply for a QuoteSample — the inverter wall in your portal
Sample Inverter Readings
Exactly the inverter wall and detailed readings a customer sees in the SolarLink portal — same cards, status chips, % of expected and peer comparison, sparklines, and labels. Pick a condition to see how a healthy site reads versus soiling or a fault.
Inverter monitors
6 inverters · 6 normal
INV-01
100 kW% of expected
98%
Running normally — 98% of expected this week.
Today 466 kWh · Lost $1.20
INV-02
100 kW% of expected
98%
Running normally — 98% of expected this week.
Today 470 kWh · Lost $1.44
INV-03
100 kW% of expected
98%
Running normally — 98% of expected this week.
Today 478 kWh · Lost $1.20
INV-04
100 kW% of expected
97%
Running normally — 97% of expected this week.
Today 480 kWh · Lost $1.68
INV-05
100 kW% of expected
99%
Running normally — 98% of expected this week.
Today 493 kWh · Lost $0.84
INV-06
100 kW% of expected
98%
Running normally — 97% of expected this week.
Today 495 kWh · Lost $1.32
Detailed readings — INV-01
Producing14,582 kWh produced of 14,838 expected· 98%
INV-01 — last 30 days (kWh)
Running normally — 98% of expected this week.
Illustrative data for a sample six-inverter site — no login required and no live monitoring data is read. In your portal, these same cards show your own inverters.
Customer portal preview
What you'll see in your SolarLink portal
The customer-side view — site overview, alerts, what it's costing you per day, dispatch approvals and your report archive. Sample data, styled exactly as a SolarLink customer sees it.
Action needed
Something is costing you production — review the findings below.
91%
Energy vs expected this month
86,400 of 94,900 kWh
89%
Performance ratio
last 30 days
96%
Availability
last 30 days
6,930 kWh
Uncaptured production this month
about $832 at $0.12/kWh
712,450 kWh
Year-to-date
vs 760,000 expected · 94%
Alerts & findings
What SolarLink flagged, in plain language — with what it's costing you.
Inverter INV-05 tripping offline mid-day
INV-05 trips at ~11 am on hot days and resets by afternoon. Every trip day loses about 340 kWh — $41 at your $0.12/kWh rate.
Vegetation shading the western strings
The west-edge tree shades ST-01 after 2 pm and grows through the season — a trim lifts the dip.
What it's costing you right now
$41 per day
$41/day from the INV-05 trips, plus $12/day from the western tree shading. SolarLink totals this live from your readings — you never have to guess.
Dispatch approval
You approve the fix and the amount — we never dispatch above your cap without asking again.
INV-05 — AC contactor replacement
Approved up to
$1,850
Pays back in
~45 days
Scheduled visit: Thu, Oct 15 · Morning (8–12)
Report archive
Daily summaries, monthly SolarLink Reports and the annual review land here automatically — every report stays in the archive.
SolarLink pricing
$4.95 per kW DC per year — billed monthly.
One published price for the whole site's monitoring. Everything else is on call, à la carte — and here's what capturing more production looks like on your site.
- Irradiance-based expected vs. actual monitoring
- Live underperformance and overperformance alerts
- Inverter- and string-level readings
- Monthly SolarLink Report with dollar impact
- Your first SolarLink Report is a Lifetime Performance Review of your site — every year since it was switched on, what it made, what it should have made, and what that gap cost
What 5% more production looks like
For $4.95 per kW DC per year, here's what capturing 5% more production looks like.
At 5%, you gain $1.45 for every $1.
Change your site details
You pay
SolarLink, per year
$4,950
You gain
Added production value, per year
$7,200
Difference
Per year, after SolarLink's fee
+$2,250
$1.45 back for every $1
Per year, on a 1 MW site.
Example, not a guarantee — your Plan Review shows your real number.
Repairs are quoted per job and paid with or without SolarLink. Learn more
Included: Plan Review — free with your SolarLink signup
A full-scope review of your site — documents, build, red lines, AHJ and local regulations, depreciation and repair timing — ending in a maintenance plan that tells you what to fix and when. Every SolarLink site gets a full Plan Review at no extra cost — the plan is built from your inverter data.
Warranty claim evidence
Years of records showing inverter faults or panel degradation beyond the warranty allowance — documented proof, not estimates.
Better repair decisions
Recurring problems get a permanent fix; one-time events get a targeted repair. The history tells you which is which.
Due diligence ready
A year-by-year performance record of the asset — exactly what a buyer or lender asks for when selling or refinancing the site.
The clock is ticking on your profit
A problem you sit on bills you every single day.
Owners get a problem, sit on it, and try to figure out who's going to fix it and who's going to pay for it — while the meter keeps running. Per-day figures below use the sample site: 1 MW, $0.12/kWh, 1,200 kWh/kW/yr, 100 kW inverters.
One inverter down
$39.45
per day
Two inverters down
$78.90
per day
Site at 75%
$98.63
per day
Running at 75% for six months before anyone finds out = $18,000 gone.
On the sample 1 MW site — more than three years of SolarLink.
Set your dispatch trigger
You decide when it's worth a truck roll.
Example: two inverters down cost $78.90 a day — a $750 fix pays for itself in 9.5 days, so a 30-day trigger sends the crew. Safety issues always dispatch immediately.
Know exactly what your system is doing.
SolarLink is $4.95 per kW DC per year, billed monthly — with on-call services when you need hands on the array.
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