Shorebreak Energy

Shorebreak Energy Developers builds commercial solar in California and keeps watching those systems for their owners after install. We designed and built the monitoring platform behind that service. An owner logs in to see what the system is producing right now, what it has saved and how it compares with forecast. Shorebreak’s operations team uses the same app to watch the whole portfolio.

The platform has two halves. A data pipeline on Google Cloud collects readings from eGauge meters at every site and rolls them up in SQL. A WordPress app turns those numbers into dashboards, alerts and monthly reports, using custom Elementor widgets and Highcharts.

The Site Dashboard

Each system has one page that answers the questions an owner asks. Year-to-date production and avoided cost sit at the top, with production against forecast and a lifetime comparison below. Live gauges show power, amperage and voltage, and a row of tiles converts the energy into CO2, trees, homes and cars.

Data Pipeline on Google Cloud

App Engine cron starts each job on a schedule. A master endpoint queues one Cloud Task per site, and a worker endpoint fetches that site’s readings from the eGauge API and writes them to Cloud SQL. Running each site as its own task means one slow or offline meter does not hold up the others.

Raw cumulative readings are converted to interval deltas and then summarized into materialized views for day, week, month, year and lifetime. The dashboards read those pre-computed totals and never have to scan years of raw readings. The site list and settings live in WordPress, and the jobs read them over the REST API.

Custom Widgets and Charts

Every block on the dashboard is its own Elementor widget: the KPI panels, the live gauges, the environmental offsets and the time-range tabs. Pages can be rearranged in the editor, and a new page can reuse any widget.

Highcharts and Highstock handle the charting. The app shows a week of one-minute generation and usage data, year-over-year production back to 2019, a zoomable full history and a weather forecast for the site’s location.

Portfolio View and Alerting

For the operations team, a sites report lists every system with its monthly forecast, actual production and the percentage between them. Cells are color-coded, so an under-performing site stands out, and the table exports to CSV, Excel and PDF. A scheduled flatline check flags systems that stop producing. Site names and system details are anonymized in this screenshot.

Monthly Client Reports

Every system gets a monthly report with year-to-date production against forecast, a month-by-month table and the environmental equivalents. Owners can open it in the app or download it as a PDF.

Platform at a glance

Meters in the field, numbers on a screen.

ClientShorebreak Energy Developers

RolePlatform architecture, data pipeline and dashboards

SourcesMore than 100 eGauge devices

CloudGoogle Cloud

Pipeline

• PHP
• Python
• App Engine
• Cloud Scheduler
• Cloud Tasks

Data

• Cloud SQL
• Cloud Storage
• Rollups

Application

• WordPress
• Elementor
• Highcharts
• Pantheon
• Fastly

Reliability and Operations

The pipeline collects from more than 100 eGauge devices, and any one of them can be slow or offline on a given run. Monitoring, logging, retry handling and error management keep one unreachable meter from stalling the rest.

• a
  Retries and loggingEvery run records what arrived, what was retried and what failed.
• b
  Cloud SQL careAn indexing strategy, backup and restore workflows and planned schema changes.
• c
  Storage lifecycleRaw telemetry archives in Cloud Storage with lifecycle and retention rules.
• d
  HostingWordPress on Pantheon behind the Fastly CDN.