DIGISOLAR

Solutions developed

The DS Suite will empower planners, operators, and end-users with cutting-edge tools for performance verification, predictive maintenance, and real-time energy optimization. Its investor-trusted planning capabilities and user-friendliness, currently lacking in the market, will unlock large-scale solar thermal investments, accelerate solar thermal market penetration, by de-risking and boosting deployment. DigiSolar’s innovative business models further enhance cost-competitiveness, lowering return-on-investment periods while ensuring a reliable, carbon-free energy supply.

Main results

- Demonstration of DS Suite’s capability to offer a complete digital solution for the seamless and optimal design, integration and operation of solar thermal plants in 4 demo-sites, offering an uninterrupted, secure and affordable supply of solar heat, reducing CO2 emissions by 198 tnCO2/y and OPEX at demo-sites.
- Integration approaches span design, construction, operation and end-of-life stages of solar thermal plants.
- Predictive maintenance tools. Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) coupled with digital-twin tools.
- Successfully delivered AEMS with MPC, OPEX reduced by 10%.
- Enable dynamic LCA & LCC approaches.
- Feasibility assessment of DS Suite.