Tackling the Challenge of Alerts in Solar Operations

The Growing Challenge of Alarms in Solar

Modern solar farms are massive operations. Each site runs a mix of inverters, transformers, substations, and environmental monitoring systems, all generating their own alarms.

All these assets are critical to production, but there’s a problem. They all send out alarms: warnings, status changes, fault codes. Hundreds if not thousands of alarms every week. When those alarms are spread across different systems, you face two major risks:

• Overwhelm - too much noise, making it difficult to separate the critical from the routine.

• Blind spots - if no one is watching the right system at the right time, critical alarms slip through unnoticed.

  
  

This isn’t just frustrating, it has real consequences. Alarm overload slows response times, increases compliance risk, and can lead to unnecessary downtime.

What Alarm Overload Looks Like in Practice

Imagine a solar operator trying to track several inverters across a large site. A string-level issue throws multiple low-priority alarms just as a high-priority fault occurs in the main transformer. Because the alarms arrive through different systems, the critical issue doesn’t get attention until it’s already reduced output.

In other cases, dozens of low-level inverter warnings can bury the handful of alarms that actually impact performance. When this happens, operators waste hours working on low-priority alarms whilst serious ones are left waiting.

Over time, this flood of alarms begins to cause problems and operators start tuning out the noise and that’s when costly incidents begin.

Why Alarm Management Matters Now

The solar industry is scaling rapidly. Sites are larger, portfolios are expanding, and operators are under more pressure than ever to:

• Maximise uptime.

• Deliver against performance guarantees.

• Prove compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.

  
  

A single missed alarm can lead to lost revenue, contractual penalties, or regulatory exposure. And as solar projects continue to grow in size and complexity, a fragmented approach to alarms simply won’t scale.

Introducing KUDO Alarm Management

KUDO has developed the Alarm Management feature to address this challenge head-on. The feature pulls all alarms into a single, centralised system.

Instead of juggling multiple platforms, solar operators gain one clear view of all alarms across the site or your entire portfolio. That visibility is supported by tools that help teams act with speed and confidence:

• Centralised dashboard - view alarms from all assets in one place.

• Tiering system - categorise alarms by severity, so Tier 1 alerts are prioritised above minor warnings.

• Smart workflows - acknowledge, action, and dismiss alarms within the system, ensuring nothing is missed.

• Filtering - reduce distraction by focusing only on critical alarms when needed.

  
  

This streamlined approach reduces noise, sharpens focus, and ensures your teams spend their time where it matters most.

The Benefits for Solar Operators

With Alarm Management, solar operators gain a clearer, faster path to action. The system ensures that the most important alarms always rise to the top, so teams can focus on what matters without being distracted by background noise. By prioritising visibility, operators are able to reduce downtime, maintain high levels of availability, and keep production on track. Every alarm is tracked and logged in one central place, simplifying compliance and making audits far easier to manage. For operations and maintenance teams, resources are used more effectively, with staff deployed to the right issues at the right time instead of chasing routine alerts. And as solar portfolios continue to expand, a centralised approach provides consistency across sites, giving operators confidence that nothing slips through the cracks.

Preparing for the Future of Solar Operations

The future of solar is bigger, more connected, and more regulated. With larger projects and tighter performance requirements, operators cannot afford fragmented alarm handling.

Alarm Management lays the foundation for smarter solar operations:

• Consistent processes across every site in a portfolio.

• Support for remote teams with one system that ensures no alarm is missed.

• Readiness for growth as sites scale and expectations on uptime and reporting increase.

  
  

By moving away from reactive processes and toward a centralised, proactive system, operators protect output, strengthen safety, and prepare for the next phase of solar growth.

See Alarm Management at Solar & Storage

Heading to Solar & Storage? Visit us at Stand P12 to see how KUDO’s Alarm Management feature works in practice. Our team will show you how centralised alarms cut through the noise, sharpen response times, and make solar operations more resilient.