Solarrus Corporation and meteocontrol, two of the leading energy service providers for the PV industry, have announced a partnership to jointly develop a new operations platform to promote and deliver their services.
By partnering with Solarrus, meteocontrol will have the capability to offer north American customers the commissioning, corrective repair and maintenance capabilities on sites with meteocontrol hardware.
The partnership will also expand meteocontrol's capabilities to monitor key performance indicators for electric vehicle charging stations and battery energy storage systems.
Field capabilities will be fulfilled by True South Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solarrus.
Customers will benefit from a co-operation which combines high-quality field services with easy access to other meteocontrol quality analytics, such as performance checks or on-site evaluation of systems to optimize project yields and costs.
"Incorporating True South Renewables field capabilities into the meteocontrol offering makes a lot of sense for our customers," said Robert Pfatischer, managing director of meteocontrol. "Selection of the asset management platform is an important decision for each and every project.
"Meteocontrol is offering market-leading solutions, we recently surpassed a monitored capacity of more than 10 GWp. Now we are able to also incorporate service and maintenance of the equipment from a field organization that is recognized as the largest independent solar O&M (operations and maintenance) company in the US market."
Solarrus Corporation, the parent company for True South Renewables (TSR) and MaxGen Energy Services (MaxGen), will work with meteocontrol to customize a new software platform for a new monitoring and reporting capability that will co-ordinate all field operations, including technical operations management for solar, electric vehicle charging, and battery energy storage installations.
The new meteocontrol monitoring and reporting operations center will not only receive and analyze data from the field, but will also be fully integrated with the dispatch system for SolarrusÂ’ field technicians.
Those technicians are active in the U.S. from coast to coast and in 2014 performed O&M services for over 2,000 unique locations. By integrating meteocontrol analysis and alarm triage with Solarrus' field footprint, it is anticipated operations management will be more efficient.
"A critical element of the software platform provided by meteocontrol is that the operations center will be technology agnostic, allowing data for all field services provided by TSR and MaxGen to be captured and integrated with the ability to dispatch field technicians," said Bill Klein, co-founder and CEO of Solarrus.
"The operations center will continue to allow TSR and MaxGen to take on service and maintenance contracts regardless of the type of equipment selected by our customers. By incorporating meteocontrol's software, we will be able to further automate the analysis that we deliver for our customers today."
The new meteocontrol monitoring and reporting operations center will be co-located in the Solarrus headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, and the staff will integrate personnel from Solarrus, True South Renewables, MaxGen, and meteocontrol.
