U.S.-based Alencon Systems LLC and Austrian-based Alternative Energy Solutions GmbH (AES) have entered into a strategic cooperation for improving the performance of utility-scale PV power plants. The cooperation agreement brings together two industry leaders focused on the enhanced performance of already installed PV assets.
Alencons String Power Optimizers and Transmitters (SPOTs) are the most powerful DC-DC optimizers for utility scale PV applications found on the market today and are ideal tools for use in retrofit applications to help generate more power from an existing PV plant. AESs performance improvement approach for PV power plants uses advanced data analysis, namely the AES Performance Improvement Technology (AES PIT). AES PIT is unique in that it detects, at a minimum cost and on top of the monitoring software, the hidden value of an installed PV plant. Under terms of this cooperation, AES will promote Alencons unique hardware alongside its industry plant optimization services to assure PV plants around the world are operating at peek efficiency.
AES considers the strategic cooperation with Alencon as a further step in maximizing AESs technical excellence and solution-focused approach. After identifying and defining the improvement measures using our AES PIT we are able to offer our customers suitable hardware solutions from Alencon in order to realize the improvement potential. said Günter Maier, Chief Operating Officer of AES.
Alencon is excited to have the opportunity to partner with a true market leader in PV plant optimization such as AES said Hanan Fishman, Alencons President. As PV continues to make up a greater and greater share of our energy supply, it will be critical that the existing PV capacity already in place is performing to maximum potential. AES and Alencon are two organizations firmly committed not just to expanding PVs use but also to assuring our existing PV resources are performing optimally.
