Solara Egypt

Inverter logs sat on separate vendor portals, performance ratio was a spreadsheet exercise run once a month, and anomalies surfaced only when a tenant complained about a power cut. The brief was to replace all of that with one platform: real-time monitoring, automated alerting, and financials in the same view.

The temptation in monitoring products is to build a reporting tool: export a CSV, generate a monthly PDF. We made the opposite call. The dashboard is always live: generation versus consumption plotted across the last 24 hours, energy flow broken into solar array, facility demand, and grid export, weather data (irradiance, module temperature, wind) surfaced alongside the performance numbers. The decision to show all of this in a single unscrolled viewport meant ruthless information hierarchy: the four KPI cards at the top tell you if today is fine; everything below explains why it isn't.

The public marketing site and the operator dashboard share the same Next.js codebase, split by a locale-aware middleware that routes unauthenticated visitors to the landing pages and authenticated operators to their organisation's plant views. The ROI calculator runs entirely client-side against Egyptian market tariff data embedded at build time. No API round-trip means it works reliably even on slow mobile connections. Three.js powers a subtle solar panel visualisation in the hero; Recharts drives the performance charts in the dashboard. Internationalisation (English and Arabic with right-to-left support) is handled via i18next with per-locale MDX content for the blog.