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Project Summary The Renewable Energy Asset Management Solution Three Layers, Three Jobs Why It's Hard to Build With Us Results Related work in energy FAQ
Skyfri
ASSET MANAGEMENT
EMS

Skyfri - Solar & Battery Asset Management Platform

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Energy Hub

Solar asset management software - EMS and monitoring for battery portfolios

Project Summary

Order Group built the architecture and implementation of the EMS behind Skyfri's solar and battery asset management platform. Skyfri Intelligence handles monitoring and data, Skyfri SolarSCADA handles site-level hardware control. A Technical Feasibility Study in November 2023 - market analysis, feasibility study, technical specification - opened the engagement before either team committed to a build. The two teams have worked as one continuous unit since January 2024, with no handoff after launch. The EMS Order Group built has been running in production since June 2024, across four streams: EMS, Monitoring and Asset Management, Data and Onboarding, and Industrial Design.

The solar sector lost an average of 5.77% of expected production to underperformance in 2024, up from 5.00% in 2023 - about $5,720 per MWdc (megawatt of DC-rated capacity) a year (Raptor Maps 2025 Global Solar Report). Monitoring only shows that loss after it has happened. Catching it before it compounds takes software that acts on the data, which is what the EMS layer Order Group built does. See our Energy Hub for the wider range of monitoring, trading and storage platforms we've built for the energy sector.

The Renewable Energy Asset Management Solution

An EMS that runs without the internet

The EMS stream is the control layer for a site's batteries and inverters. It decides when they charge and discharge, runs peak shaving and energy trading, responds to requests from the local distribution system operator (DSO), and enforces a site load limiter so exports never exceed the grid connection limit. It also owns data acquisition, processing and display for the sites it controls. Order Group built it to run fully offline, because a control decision on a live battery cannot wait on a dropped connection.
 

Asset management software built for someone else's hardware

A real solar and battery portfolio rarely runs on one inverter or battery brand. So the platform managing it has to be OEM-agnostic: it reads and controls hardware it did not design. Skyfri describes both Skyfri Intelligence and Skyfri SolarSCADA this way. The stack is a React frontend and a Python asyncIO backend, with a Databricks data pipeline, connected through Azure IoT Edge and Azure IoT Hub, hosted on Azure.
 

Solar monitoring software built for a distributed portfolio

Skyfri Intelligence is the monitoring side of the platform. It rolls up production figures, faults and site status across every plant in one dashboard, instead of checking each site's interface separately. Skyfri operates from locations including Oslo, London, Denver, Bangalore/Hyderabad and Singapore - for enterprise clients it names on its own site, including Hydro Rein, Dominion Energy and Madison Energy Infrastructure. No single site's quirks can be allowed to break the model that runs the rest.
 

Three Layers, Three Jobs

Skyfri's platform and Order Group's EMS split the work into three layers, each with one job:

  • Skyfri Intelligence (monitoring): rolls up production figures, faults and site status across the whole portfolio - shows what happened.
  • Skyfri SolarSCADA (hardware control): the site-level layer that talks to inverters and batteries directly.
  • EMS, built by Order Group (control logic): decides when to charge, discharge, peak-shave, trade energy and cap exports, running fully offline - acts on what's happening.

Why It's Hard to Build With Us

An EMS that runs offline cannot fall back on a cloud service to catch its mistakes. It has to make correct, safety-relevant decisions about batteries and grid connections on its own. Doing that across several inverter and battery brands at once turns every integration into a negotiation with someone else's firmware. The same control logic also has to hold for every site's own limits, whether a site's battery is a fraction of a megawatt or more than 2 MW. Four work streams ran in parallel on one team: EMS, Monitoring and Asset Management, Data and Onboarding, and Industrial Design. Onboarding a device in one stream changes what the EMS can control in another, so the team has to hold the whole system in view.

That kind of coordination is hard to sustain through a typical build-and-leave engagement. Order Group and Skyfri didn't run it that way: the engineers who shipped the EMS in June 2024 are still working alongside Skyfri's own team, in the same arrangement that started in January 2024.

Results

Order Group's EMS architecture is running in production across Skyfri's live portfolio. The figures below reflect Skyfri's own production data, confirmed by Skyfri:

Plants under management
7

Solar and battery sites running on the EMS.

Battery power controlled
>4 MW

Combined battery power across the managed portfolio.

Battery capacity controlled
>5 MWh

Combined battery energy storage capacity across the portfolio.

Solar capacity monitored
>1 MWp

Combined PV capacity across the managed sites.

Largest single battery managed
>2 MW

The biggest individual battery the EMS controls on one site.

In production since
June 2024

First production deployment of the EMS.

The clearest sign the architecture holds up is that it has kept running since June 2024 across all 7 plants - and that Skyfri and Order Group are now scoping a new EMS project for Hydro Rein.

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Solar and Battery Asset Management Software - FAQ

Paweł Zieliński
Paweł Zieliński
Co-founder and Product Owner
Energy Hub

  • Renewable energy asset management software tracks and, in the more advanced cases, directly controls a portfolio of solar and battery sites from one platform. Skyfri's platform is one example: Skyfri Intelligence handles monitoring and data, Skyfri SolarSCADA handles site-level hardware control, and Order Group built the EMS architecture that runs underneath both, now live across 7 plants. Order Group builds this kind of software across the energy sector - see our Energy Hub for the wider range of trading, monitoring and storage platforms we've built.

  • A solar monitoring software platform turns raw data from inverters, meters and sensors into production figures, faults and site status an asset manager can act on. On Skyfri's platform, that data acquisition, processing and display sits inside the EMS stream Order Group built, alongside the control logic it feeds.

  • An EMS decides when a site's batteries and inverters charge and discharge, how they run peak shaving and energy trading, how they respond to DSO (distribution system operator) requests, and how much the site exports to the grid. Skyfri's EMS, which Order Group built and which runs fully offline, does all of this across multiple batteries and inverters on the same site, including a single battery of more than 2 MW.

  • An EMS needs to run offline because a control decision on a live battery - charge, discharge, cut export at the connection limit - cannot wait on an internet connection that might be down. Order Group built Skyfri's EMS to keep running continuously without one.

  • A real portfolio is rarely built on a single manufacturer, so a platform managing it has to be OEM-agnostic. Skyfri Intelligence and Skyfri SolarSCADA are both built this way, per Skyfri's own product description - designed to read and control hardware neither Skyfri nor Order Group designed.

  • The stack is a React frontend and a Python asyncIO backend, a Databricks data pipeline, and Azure IoT Edge plus Azure IoT Hub connecting to the field, hosted on Azure. That combination has to move data from many distributed sites into one system reliably, which is a different problem from a typical web app backend.

  • A project like this needs a feasibility study because the platform has to work with hardware and site conditions the team does not control yet. Order Group and Skyfri ran a Technical Feasibility Study in November 2023 - market analysis, feasibility study, technical specification - before writing production code, which reached the field in June 2024.

  • Asset management means acting on the data: an algorithm enforcing a site's load limit, or an EMS running peak shaving and energy trading across a whole portfolio, instead of a chart someone has to read and act on by hand.

  • Companies managing solar and battery assets at enterprise scale use software like Skyfri's. Skyfri names Hydro Rein, Dominion Energy and Madison Energy Infrastructure as clients on its own site, and operates from Oslo, London, Denver, Bangalore/Hyderabad and Singapore.

  • Yes, in the same continuous arrangement that started in January 2024: the engineers who built the EMS are still working alongside Skyfri's team, now scoping a new EMS project for Skyfri's own end customer, Hydro Rein.

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