Solar and Photovoltaic Operations and Maintenance (SPOM)

Scope / Goals

The joint OPC SPOM Working Group supported by CESMII, VDMA, and the OPC Foundation will develop an OPC UA Information Model for EMS (Energy Management Systems) to create an interface standard for integrating Solar and PV systems into EMS.
The working group will initially focus on Solar Panels, Solar Arrays and Solar Inverters.

Main purpose is being able

• to compose Solar Systems for Operations and Management by an EMS
• expose statistical data of Solar Systems such as individual panel productivity data
• and exposing Solar and PV systems to OPC UA applications, for example for integration purposes into EMS and other management systems for operations and maintenance of such systems