The company is buying energy-monitoring technology from a firm called Noveda Technologies. Noveda's system includes both monitors and an operations portal that will enable PSE&G officials to track solar output across the state.
Operators, Noveda says, can "easily manage hundreds of [solar] installations" from their operating center.
The company's CEO, Govi Rao, called PSE&G's decision to use real-time monitoring "an example of [its] proactive strategy to build a robust renewable energy portfolio." And the utility's vice president for renewables, Al Matos, said Noveda's system would let PSE&G "proactively provide operational and maintenance support, thus increasing the reliability of this clean distributed generation resource."
The utility's adoption of a monitoring system makes sense. New Jersey has one of the most robust solar markets in the country, thanks to generous state incentives and a market for solar-production credits; solar power is so popular in the Garden State that the most recent application round for homeowner solar subsidies was subscribed almost as soon as it opened. Now, as PSE&G goes solar, it will be able to track the performance of its solar assets closely.
