# Residential Plant Management

Selecting Plant>Residential storage, you will see the list of residential plants.

At the search box, search for one or multiple plants by plant name, device SN, device registration number, login account, or country/region.

Besides, you can also add plant and perform operations on a single plant: view plant details, enable data analysis, view live data, set tariff, add device, edit plant, and delete plant. The following introduces them one by one.

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# Basic Operations

# View plant details

Click Details, to enter the overview page of the plant. This pages displays the plant name, plant status, AC power, installed capacity, the amount of power generated and consumed, energy analysis, earnings, and environmental value.

# Enable data analysis

Click Data analysis enable, to enable the data analysis function for some devices in a plant. You can determine whether inverter or meter is included in the data analysis.

# Live data

It supports a device to refresh data every 10s. By setting the search conditions, you can get to know whether a device support the live data function. The status of live data of devices in a plant may be: Supported, Not supported, and Live data enabled.

For devices that not support the live data, it may be caused by the following reasons:

  • Pocket type supported, but firmware version not supported: Upgrade the firmware for users if required.

  • Pocket type not supported: Recommend the proper dongle type to users if required.

  • Micro inverter and Datahub do not support the function.

# Set tariff

Click Tariff, to set the tariff for a plant. For the setting method, see Tariff Setting below.

# Add device

Click Add device, to add devices manually or import devices in batch.

# Edit plant

Click mixureSecure to select Edit from the drop-down menu. You can edit or modify the plant information.

# Delete

Click mixureSecure to select Delete from the drop-down menu. Deleting a plant needs to acquire an authentication code from a residential user. However, you can directly delete a plant if it has not been bound with a physical device.

# Tariff Setting

This section introduces the method for setting export and import prices. Export price is the price of electricity sold to the grid. Import price is the price of electricity bought from the grid.

The general method is as follows：

  1. Select Plant>Tariff Setting, to go to the tariff setting page.

  2. Select the currency unit according to your country or region.

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  1. Select Export price and Import price from the tab, to set the export and import prices.

The following takes export price as an example, to show you how to set the price.

# Setting export price

  1. Select Export price from the tab.

  2. Select the tariff setting manner: Customized or Automatic.

    Customized is to let users to set the personalized electricity prices according to their actual situations. Automatic is that the system automatically acquires the unified electricity price of a country or region. This manner can only be available to the country or region which supports the third-party platform, or it will be hidden.

  • Customize: There are three choices of fixed tariff, TOU, and TOU (Weekday+Weekend).

    • Fixed tariff: Enter the electricity price and click Save.

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      [!Note] If you are not sure about the electricity price, please contact your local electricity company to confirm it.

    • TOU：

    1. After setting the tariff type to TOU, click Add at the price setting item.

    2. In the range of date, click the blank of end date, to divide one year into different periods.

    3. In the range of day, click the blank of end time, to divide one day (24h) into different time slots.

    4. Set different electricity prices for different time slots.

    5. After all prices are set, click Confirm.

    6. Return to the electricity price setting page, and click Save.

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    • TOU (Weekday+Weekend): Similar to TOU. Also divide one year into different time periods and set the electricity prices for different time slots. The only difference is that you need to further set the daily electricity price cycle for different time slots on weekdays and weekends.

      [!Note] During TOU setting, there must be no gap between two neighboring time periods/slots and two neighboring time periods/slots cannot overlap with each other.

  • Automatic: The system will automatically obtain and display the electricity price according to the geographical position of the plant.

# Setting import price

The method for setting the buying price is similar to that for selling price, which is not described in detail herein. For details, see Setting export price.

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