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title: "Fleet Management: EMS Sites"
url: "https://ensights.productfruits.help/en/article/fleet-management-ems-sites"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-08-25T16:02:57.354Z"
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# Fleet Management: EMS Sites

Sites where enSights actively controls equipment — the list, what each column means, and the actions available per site.

*Monitoring & Control → Fleet Management → EMS Sites*

## What this page is for

EMS Sites lists the sites where enSights does not only *watch* the equipment but **controls** it — batteries charging and discharging to a schedule, inverters curtailed to a limit, export held under a site cap. If a site appears here, an energy-management policy can be pushed to it.

This is the operational counterpart to PV Sites and BESS Sites: those tell you what happened, this one decides what happens next.

## The table

-   **Name** — the EMS site. Click it to open the site's control pages.
-   **Site Limit (kW)** — the connection or export limit the EMS must respect. A dash means no limit is configured, so limit-based policies have nothing to work against.
-   **Location** — city and country.
-   **SoC** — combined state of charge of the site's storage.
-   **Status** — the commissioning state of the EMS link. *Pending* means the site is defined but not yet exchanging control messages with its controller.

Search, Preferences (columns), Export, the period control and the view chips all behave as described in *Saved views, filters and columns*. EMS Sites is also where the "modified view" bar is most visible, because resizing columns on this narrow table counts as a change.![The EMS Sites fleet list](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/915fae96-8fca-4acd-af67-c75e90a047aa)

## Row actions

-   **Edit** — the site's identity and limits.
-   **Open Wizard** — the guided setup that walks through equipment, meters and controller for a new site. Use this for commissioning rather than editing fields one by one.
-   **Configuration** — the low-level configuration pushed to the controller.
-   **One-time Policy…** — a single scheduled action (charge, discharge or limit) for a specific window, without touching the recurring policies. This is the right tool for a one-off event such as a grid test or a heat-wave peak.
-   **Design** — the site's single-line/equipment layout.
-   **Share…** — give someone outside the tenant a link to the site's view.
-   **Copy to Tenant…** — duplicate the site definition into another tenant.
-   **Delete** — treat as permanent.

## Inside a site

Clicking a site opens the EMS workspace with its own tabs: **Live**, **Dashboard**, **Policies**, **Insights**, **Maintenance**, **Meters**, **Controller**, **Documents** and **Diagnostics**. They are covered in *EMS site: Dashboard*, *EMS site: Policies* and *EMS site: Meters, Controller and Diagnostics*.

## Common tasks

**Commission a new EMS site.** Add the site, then run *Open Wizard* and complete equipment, meters and controller. The Status column moves off *Pending* once the controller is talking.

**Handle a one-off grid event.** Row actions → *One-time Policy…*, set the window and the operation. Recurring policies resume automatically afterwards.

**Check a site is actually under control.** Open the site → Dashboard and look at *Active Policy* in the Live Data rail. "N/A" means nothing is being enforced right now.

## Common questions

**The site shows Pending and never changes.**  
Pending means no controller handshake. Open the site's *Controller* tab — if it says no agent is assigned, the site needs an agent (see *Agents*).

**What is the difference between BESS Sites and EMS Sites?**  
BESS Sites is the monitoring view of the batteries themselves. EMS Sites is the control layer over a whole site, which may include batteries, inverters and meters together.

**Why is Site Limit empty?**  
It has not been configured. Until it is, policies that cap export or import have no reference value.