Consumption Monitoring
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Consumption Monitoring - Application Note (for North America)
The SolarEdge cloud-based monitoring platform allows monitoring of the house electricity consumption and self-
consumption in addition to the monitoring PV production. Consumption monitoring allows you to adapt your electricity
consumption according to the PV production, thus increasing self-consumption and minimizing electricity bills. To monitor
consumption using the monitoring platform, a SolarEdge Electricity Meter should be connected to the inverter.
The SolarEdge Electricity Meter enables measuring the power consumption or the import/ export power of a site; the
SolarEdge inverter uses these measurements for the following applications:
l Consumption monitoring
l SolarEdge on-grid applications
l Import/ export monitoring for export limitation
The meters can be defined according to their point of connection:
l Export/ Import meter - A meter that is installed at the grid connection point and reads the energy/ power exported/
imported to/ from the grid.
l Consumption meter - A meter that is installed at the load consumption point and reads the energy/ power consumed
by the site.
In addition, production monitoring is available for all inverters connected to the monitoring platform using the
inverter energy measurements. For revenue grade production monitoring, you can use a revenue grade inverter (a
SolarEdge inverter with a built-in meter).r
This document describes the information displayed in the monitoring platform when a consumption meter is installed: PV
production, house energy consumption and self-consumption throughout the day.
Figure 1: Typical installation with consumption meter
For details about meter installation and configuration refer to http://www.solaredge.com/sites/default/files/electricity_
meter_installation_guide_na.pdf.
Make sure the meter is configured correctly for consumption monitoring (using the Communication è RS485-X Conf.
inverter LCDmenu):
l Device Type: Revenue Meter
l Protocol: WattNode
l Meter Func.: Consumption
A meter configured as above is referred to as a consumption meter throughout this document.
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