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Find your system’s site data at system level > 
System name
Give your system a clear designation. See also Naming guideline.
Recommendation: Virtual systems
We recommend including the attribute “virtual” in any way, for example, “PV Augsburg virtual” or “V – All Augsburg”.
Street, postal code, and any location-related data
You have two options to enter location-related data:
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Either select the system’s location on the Map. This automatically fills in all location-related data.
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Or enter the address data manually and use the Search functionality afterwards. This automatically fills in longitude, latitude, altitude, and time zone.
Recommendation: Virtual systems
When combining systems, choose a relevant location for the data you want to monitor with your virtual system, for example, a central point among all the systems. We do not recommend combining systems that are very far apart from each other, as the combined data can be imprecise, for example, irradiance values.
CO2-emission factor
Use the country-specific value based on the entered address, or enter an individual value.
The emission factor affects the Savings CO2 equivalent portlet. Later, you can also change the value there. See Savings CO2 equivalent portlet.
System type
The system type determines the way of your general data import. You can not change the system type after creating the system. Choose between three options:
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Photovoltaic system: For this type, automatic data import with a data logger is supported. Monitoring is carried out with the portal. This is the default option.
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Virtual system: Configure a new system on the basis of other systems, for example, combine several systems into one or divide a system into several virtual systems. See Virtual system.
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System without measurement system: For this type, no automatic data import is supported. Select this option if your system does not import data from a data logger or equivalent source (PLC, API, etc.). Nevertheless, you can record meter data manually.
System profile
The system profile type determines the system plan that is displayed in the System plan portlet. You can also filter the components list in various charts in the Evaluations tab by parts of your system plan. Choose between two system profile options:
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Standard: The system plan corresponds to your subsystems division. See Subsystems.
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Advanced: Define your own system plan if it should differ from the subdivision into subsystems. You can choose between System-Transformer-Distributor-Inverter and a System-Transformer-Inverter structure. When choosing an advanced system profile, you must later define it at system level >
Note: Virtual systems
The system profile option is not displayed if you select the system type virtual system. Because virtual systems always have an Advanced system profile, which must be defined separately, there is no other option here.
Additional information
Optionally, add additional information, for example, a mailing address. This information will also be displayed in the System profile portlet (which is unrelated to the system profile you chose before).
Recommendation: Virtual systems
We recommend noting the system key(s) of the original system(s) in the Additional information of the virtual system. Although there are other ways to trace the original system(s) based on the virtual system, this is the easiest way.
When managing a lot of systems, we also recommend noting the virtual system in the Additional information of the original system(s). This is not visible in any other way in the original systems.