meteocontrol GmbH, the photovoltaic service provider with headquarters in Augsburg and subsidiaries in Moers, Madrid, Milan and Lyon, is continuing its internationalisation strategy and has offered technical support in Asia since January 2014.
In addition, the company has been able to acquire strong partners in South Africa and South America. Its sister company meteocontrol North America is responsible for cultivating the growth market of the U.S. Know-how and experience are required to meet the legal and technical requirements of the individual markets, which meteocontrol has already gained from numerous projects and used to great success in a wide range of different countries.
meteocontrol addresses the growing requirements of international markets by further developing its products with country- or even system-specific solutions. In this, meteocontrol benefits from the experience gathered in projects in Europe, which were important stimuli for future requirements, especially as regards active and reactive power control.
By early implementation of grid feed-in management and expanding our portfolio, we are now able to respond better and faster to the demands of the market. Our employees are familiar with the rapidly changing market requirements and are able to meet them without delays, states Michèle Rascher, International Business Development Manager.
The focus of the internationalisation strategy is now on cooperation with system partners in South Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. As a result, the products and services can be marketed more efficiently and tailored even better to the countries and systems in question.
Specialized employees are assigned worldwide to commission PV systems and provide services covering all aspects of quality assurance by meteocontrol.
First grid-connected projects In northern South Africa the first PV-system was commissioned last year in cooperation with the partner juwi Renewable Energies. Another partnership has is underway for South America. The partner company will equip its systems with the monitoring system by meteocontrol.
We also have our sights trained more keenly on the South-East Asian market, which shows enormous potential for future growth, explains Michèle Rascher. Therefore our next step will take us to find a good cooperation partner in Thailand or one of the neighbouring countries and be present at trade fairs.
Since the beginning of this year, meteocontrol can offer local presence for South-East Asia: Based in Hong Kong, the technical support team is on hand to provide support for future partners. To familiarise operating personnel with the monitoring system saferSun, meteocontrol offers full-day training courses in Cantonese, English and German.
The first trainings were already held this year in Bangkok and Singapore. meteocontrol also operates in Western Asia: meteocontrol is supplying monitoring systems and equipment in Israel since 2009 in cooperation with Ledico Ltd. and already commissioned few big PV systems there. Intercultural skills Building markets around the world demands not only technical know-how, but also knowledge of cultural backgrounds and local circumstances in terms of project management on-site.
Robert Pfatischer, Managing Director of meteocontrol, counts on the expertise and joy of his employees tackle the challenges involved in international projects: Weve learned something from every project and successfully contributed what we learned to the next one. Our project managers have the necessary intercultural skills to open up new markets. We are consistently developing new technological solutions in order to continue our internationalisation successfully.
