Fourth Partner Energy: Web, Android and Analytics for a Solar Portfolio
Web, Android and the data-crunching backend behind a distributed solar portfolio spanning 3,000+ projects.
About Fourth Partner Energy
Fourth Partner Energy is one of India's leading distributed solar energy companies, delivering renewable energy to commercial and industrial clients across India and Southeast Asia. Its portfolio spans on-site rooftop, ground-mount and carport solar, wind-solar hybrid, open access, battery energy storage and carbon credits, serving sectors from IT services and pharmaceuticals through to manufacturing, retail and automotive. CharPixel worked with them extensively on web and Android applications, and on the backend that does the data crunching and analytics behind them.
- On-site solar across rooftop, ground-mount and carport installations.
- Wind-solar hybrid, open access and battery energy storage offerings.
- Over 3,000 projects executed across distributed solar and open access.
- Serving ITeS, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, retail, F&B, cement, automotive and engineering.
- Operating across India and Southeast Asia.
- Client
- Fourth Partner Energy
- Industry
- Renewable Energy
- Business type
- Distributed solar energy company serving commercial and industrial clients
- Website
- fourthpartner.co
What the platform had to solve
A distributed solar portfolio is an analytics problem before it is an energy problem. Generation is spread across thousands of installations on customer rooftops and sites, each producing continuous data over connections nobody controls. Raw output figures mean little on their own — performance only becomes actionable when measured against what the asset should have produced, and when that comparison is available to the operations teams and the corporate customers who are buying the power.
What made it difficult
Generation data at portfolio scale
Thousands of installations producing continuous readings adds up to a volume where ingestion design, aggregation strategy and retention policy decide whether the platform is useful or merely expensive.
Output only means something in context
A kilowatt-hour figure is not performance. Performance is that figure against expected generation for the conditions, which makes the analytics layer the actual product rather than the reporting surface on top of it.
Assets sit on other people's sites
Installations are on customer rooftops and premises, so connectivity, access and network conditions vary per site and cannot be standardised the way an owned facility could be.
Several audiences, one dataset
Operations teams, asset managers and the corporate customers buying the power each need a different view of the same generation data, at different levels of detail.
How we approached it
- 01
Data and analytics backend
The ingestion and processing layer behind the platform, turning continuous generation data from a distributed portfolio into figures operations can act on.
- 02
Web application
Portfolio and asset-level interfaces giving internal teams and customers visibility of generation and performance.
- 03
Android applications
Mobile access for teams working at sites rather than desks, where the estate is physically distributed by definition.
- 04
Performance reporting
Reporting surfaces built on the analytics layer, so a figure shown to a customer traces back to the measurements behind it.
What it was built with
The technologies named for this project.
Applications
Web application
Android
Backend
Data processing
Analytics services
How the system fits together
The structural decisions behind the platform.
- 01
An ingestion and processing backend sitting between distributed generation assets and the interfaces built on top of them.
- 02
Analytics computed server-side so web and Android clients consume derived performance figures rather than recomputing them.
- 03
Reporting surfaces built on the same analytics layer, keeping customer-facing figures consistent with internal ones.
What the platform does
Portfolio monitoring
Generation visibility across a distributed estate of solar installations.
Performance analytics
Actual generation assessed against expectation rather than reported as a raw figure.
Customer-facing reporting
Views for the corporate offtakers buying the power from installations on their own sites.
Mobile access
Android applications for teams working across a physically distributed estate.
Operational dashboards
Interfaces surfacing the assets that need attention rather than presenting raw telemetry.
CharPixel is a skilled team of developers known for delivering results swiftly.
Siddharth GorechaManager — New Initiatives, FourthPartnerWhat this project involved
Data Analytics & Engineering
Pipelines, warehousing and reporting built so the numbers reconcile and people act on them.
Web Application Development
Scalable web applications on modern frameworks, engineered for first-load performance and sustained load.
Mobile App Development
Native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps, built for real network conditions rather than office Wi-Fi.
Custom Software Development
Bespoke systems shaped around your operations, integrated with the tools and data you already run on.
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What did CharPixel build for Fourth Partner Energy?
Web and Android applications, and the backend behind them — which was mostly data crunching and analytics. In a distributed solar portfolio that backend is the substantive part: the interfaces present what it computes.
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Why does distributed solar need heavy analytics?
Because generation figures on their own do not tell you whether an asset is performing. The useful question is always comparative — output against expectation for the conditions — and answering it across thousands of installations is a data processing problem rather than a reporting one.
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Who uses the platform?
Internal operations and asset management teams, and the commercial and industrial customers hosting installations on their own sites, each needing a different level of detail over the same underlying data.
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What does Fourth Partner Energy do?
It is one of India's leading distributed solar energy companies, providing on-site rooftop, ground-mount and carport solar, wind-solar hybrid, open access, battery storage and carbon credits to commercial and industrial clients across India and Southeast Asia, with over 3,000 projects executed.
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