Lunch-and-Learn - SolarEdge Mapping
Optimizer stickers to be used for SolarEdge mapping.
Our industry is full of new things every day. Take racking for example. The manufacturers in our industry are constantly iterating on their products and creating new ones. Racking isn't the only important component of our construction. Then, of course, take into account that we build on roofs, canopies, and ground.
So for us, learning has to be part of our culture. If you work at Pine Energy, you have to be comfortable with new tasks and new challenges. In that spirit, we've started lunch-and-learn sessions highlighting what our team is learning. In these sessions, the entire company is invited to participate in a video call led by the subject matter experts.
On April 24, 2026, we had our first lunch-and-learn to hear about SolarEdge mapping.
Earlier this year, a client asked Pine Energy to build the SolarEdge Technologies system map for a project in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We hadn't done it before. David Hearn, our Project Manager, had some relevant knowledge. Shivam Bavishiya, our Assistant Project Manager, had none. They worked through it together, and Pine Energy can now offer this capability to clients.
Over video conference, with people logging in from across the country and a few joining together in the office, David and Shivam walked the team through the SolarEdge mapping platform. When using SolarEdge optimizers on a site, this is the software our industry uses to build the monitoring system map.
We reviewed how to build the map, read the data, and see the production of each individual panel on a rooftop in real time. David and Shivam taught us how to understand why two modules right next to each other might produce different amounts of power. Could be shade. Could be a passing cloud. Could be bird poop.
Superintendents, project managers, our Director of Operations, and a handful of installers attended. We asked questions. It was a good hour.
An installer named Bryan, calling in from Texas, asked a question at the end. Bryan has worked with SolarEdge optimizers and knows the field side of the work well. But he had never seen the software. He asked how he could use this information to improve himself.
We reiterated that Bryan is improving because he now understands why the instructions he receives in the field matter. Properly setting an MC-4 connector isn't an abstract requirement. He can now see its consequence in the data. He can see the fruits of his labor.
And there's something else Bryan can now do. On a job site, someone has to pull the QR code sticker from each optimizer and build the in-field map. That map is used to build the map on the platform. Not every installer gets to do that. It takes attention and care. Bryan now understands the whole picture well enough to take that on.
The lunch-and-learn is now part of how Pine Energy operates. It won't be the last one. As our team grows and our capabilities expand, sharing knowledge across the company is how we make sure that what one person learns eventually reaches everyone.