Energy projects fail on logistics, not on site work
A solar park or a substation spends much of its life waiting: for a transformer, for an outage window from the network operator, for the season to open. The site work is often the easy part. Reperline keeps deliveries, contractors and money on one schedule and one budget, with facts from site that arrive the day the work is done.
What breaks an energy schedule
Long lead equipment
Main power transformers, switchgear and inverters are ordered long before they are needed, from factories with queues of their own. A delivery date that moves after the factory acceptance test moves energisation, and nobody on site can win that time back.
Remote sites report late
The site is hours from the office and the signal is weak. Reports come in a weekly email, so the office learns about a stopped crew when the week is already gone.
Many contractors, one date
Civils, piling, mechanical and electrical works, the substation and the network operator each keep their own programme. The EPC contractor joins them on paper; the grid connection date joins them in reality.
Seasonal windows
Piling, cable trenching and access roads depend on ground and weather. Miss the window and the work waits for the next one, whatever the contract says.
Where the schedule breaks, and what Reperline shows
| Where it breaks | What you usually see | What Reperline shows |
|---|---|---|
| A transformer that slips at the factory | A new date in a supplier email | The delivery as its own milestone with a planned date, a signal when it is overdue, and the new date entered as a forecast. |
| An order placed long before delivery | Nothing in the actual cost until the invoice | The order as a commitment on the day it is signed, so the forecast of its budget line includes it. |
| A remote crew that stops | Silence until the weekly report | A signal after 7 days without a fact from an active phase. |
| Piling that runs slow before winter | A progress percentage on a slide | A forecast end from the real pace, and a signal when it lands more than 7 days after the planned date. |
| Tenders for the balance of plant | Bids scattered across attachments | Bids side by side next to the planned amount, and a signal when a tender closes within three days. |
What Reperline closes for an energy project
Works and deliveries as milestones, with a forecast end from the real pace.
Schedule
Orders counted as commitments when signed, in any currency, against the plan.
Budget
Progress, notes and photos from remote sites through Telegram.
Field facts
Bids for equipment and works compared against the budget line.
Tenders
A late delivery, a slow section or a silent site, sent to the people responsible.
Signals
Facts from a site with weak signal
Site leads report from a Telegram Mini App: percent done, a note and up to five photos, which can be taken during the day and picked from the gallery later. Entering a fact needs a connection, but not at the moment of the work. An entry made that evening or the next morning carries the date the work was done, and a check flags dates more than seven days back.
The owner's short summary on the phone keeps its last copy for up to a day without a connection, so the figures are there on the drive to site.
Where Reperline does not fit
Reperline is not SCADA, a monitoring platform or a dispatch system. It covers the project up to handover and knows nothing about generation once the plant runs.
It does not link milestones to each other and has no critical path. When a transformer slips, Reperline tells you the delivery is late; which works move with it is a decision for your team.
There is no ready template for energy projects yet. A project is built from the general template or by hand, and a schedule can be imported from a PDF.
Questions
Does Reperline replace our SCADA or monitoring system?
No. It controls dates and money while the project is built. Operation, monitoring and dispatch stay in the systems made for them.
Can it track equipment deliveries?
Yes. Each delivery is a milestone with its own planned date, and the order behind it is a commitment in the budget from the day it is signed. Read more in long lead items.
What if the site has no signal at all?
Photos and notes are collected on the phone during the day and entered once there is a connection, dated the day of the work. If nothing arrives from an active phase for 7 days, a signal fires in the office.
Can several contractors report into one project?
Yes. Users are unlimited on every plan, so each contractor's site lead can report progress on the project. The price is per project: see pricing.
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