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EnergyLens

Solar energy performance reporting with MySQL and Power BI

Track generation, efficiency and downtime across solar plants and spot under-performing panels early.

SHIPSTACK · PROJECT EnergyLens Solar energy performancereporting with MySQL and PowerBI Beginner Data Analytics 1 Plant readings 2 MySQL 3 Power BI 4 Alerts 5 milestones

The scenario

EnergyLens is a beginner-friendly analytics project on time-series plant data: load it into MySQL, write the analysis queries, and build a Power BI dashboard comparing plants, inverters and weather conditions.

System architecture

01 Plant readings Generation + weather
02 MySQL Tables + views
03 Power BI KPIs
04 Alerts Under-performers

High-level flow of EnergyLens, from input to output.

What you will learn

  • Time-series SQL
  • KPI design
  • Dashboard storytelling

What you will build

  • MySQL database
  • Analysis queries
  • Performance dashboard

Build plan

  1. Load
  2. Query
  3. KPIs
  4. Dashboard
  5. Story

Tech stack

MySQLPower BIExcel