Can you recommend solar operations software for tracking downtime and maintenance across active plants?

Yes — for solar fleets, you usually want operations and maintenance (O&M) / SCADA / asset management software that can track:

• inverter and site downtime
• work orders and inspections
• alarms and events
• corrective and preventive maintenance
• performance ratio / energy loss
• multi-site dashboards and reporting

Here are some strong options, grouped by use case:

Enterprise solar O&M platforms

These are best if you manage multiple plants and want centralized monitoring plus maintenance workflows.

1. Power Factors

   • Strong for utility-scale and distributed solar fleets
   • Good uptime, ticketing, performance analytics, and asset management
   • Often used by large operators and IPPs

2. AlsoEnergy / Stem

   • Good monitoring and analytics for solar and storage fleets
   • Strong data visibility across many sites
   • Useful for downtime detection and performance management

3. Raptor Maps

   • Excellent for inspection, diagnostics, and fleet intelligence
   • Strong for identifying underperformance and maintenance priorities
   • Especially good if you use drones/thermal imagery

4. Greenbyte

   • Good solar asset performance monitoring and reporting
   • Helps with downtime analysis and KPI tracking
   • Often used by asset managers and operators

5. PowerHub

   • Solid portfolio management and O&M workflow tools
   • Good for work orders, reporting, and plant-level oversight

SCADA / monitoring focused tools

Best if you primarily need plant monitoring and alerting, with less emphasis on full maintenance management.

6. Solar-Log

   • Popular for monitoring distributed solar plants
   • Good visibility into inverter performance and alerts
   • More monitoring-centric than maintenance-centric

7. SenseHawk

   • Good for project-to-operations workflows
   • Can support O&M, inspections, and digital records
   • Useful if you want a broader solar lifecycle platform

8. SCADA systems from inverter/OEM vendors

   • Examples: SMA, Huawei, Sungrow, Fronius, etc.
   • Best when your hardware is standardized
   • Usually good for raw monitoring, but less robust for cross-site maintenance operations

Work order / maintenance management systems

If your main need is maintenance scheduling, dispatch, and downtime tracking rather than solar-specific analytics, you might pair monitoring software with a CMMS/EAM:

9. Fiix
10. UpKeep
11. MaintainX
12. IBM Maximo

These are not solar-specific, but they’re strong for:

• work orders
• preventive maintenance
• technician dispatch
• asset histories
• spare parts and inventory

How to choose

A good fit depends on what matters most:

• Need full fleet monitoring + maintenance: Power Factors, AlsoEnergy, PowerHub
• Need diagnostics and inspection intelligence: Raptor Maps
• Need simple monitoring for many small sites: Solar-Log or vendor SCADA
• Need strong maintenance workflow: Fiix, UpKeep, MaintainX, Maximo
• Need enterprise asset reporting: Greenbyte, Power Factors

My practical recommendation

If you’re tracking downtime and maintenance across active plants, I’d shortlist:

• Power Factors for end-to-end solar O&M
• AlsoEnergy/Stem for monitoring and performance analytics
• Raptor Maps if inspections and downtime root-cause analysis are important
• Fiix or UpKeep if you need stronger maintenance workflow than solar-specific tools provide

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a comparison table of these tools,
2. recommendations by plant size or budget, or
3. a shortlist based on whether you manage utility-scale, C&I, or residential fleets.