1. Microsoft Azure Tools Help to Redefine Asset Management for Renewable Energy Projects
"Flexibility, reliability, security and simplicity are what Microsoft Azure is built for, and PowerHub uses Azure as its integral backbone to provide exactly the same to our clients.” – Etienne Lecompte, CEO, PowerHub
SITUATION
Renewable energy project owners and operators are faced with managing an expanding fleet of projects across vast areas. They must manage each project’s ongoing obligations, documentation, compliance, and an ever-growing volume of generation data and information. With a need to link these aspects in meaningful ways across different projects in various geographies, disparate systems and processes make this task extremely challenging.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
PowerHub
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ORG SIZE: 30 employees
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
PowerHub is a simple cloud-based asset management solution designed by and for renewable energy professionals. By intelligently centralizing project information, PowerHub helps clients unlock efficiencies, capabilities and insights that have the potential to transform businesses.
SOLUTION
PowerHub created a web-based asset management portal solution based on Microsoft Azure App Service, Batch service, Data Factory and Scheduler. The solution also utilizes Azure SQL Databases and Azure Storage that thereby reduces the total cost of ownership compared to if clients were to invest in these costly storage systems on their own. Azure cloud services allowed PowerHub to help clients focus on the management of their projects and not on the costly information systems infrastructure required to support it.
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure allows PowerHub clients to have a centralized system to enter their project information, upload related documents and import data.
With all the material uploaded by clients, PowerHub transforms and links the information meaningfully to unlock efficiencies and insights thanks to Azure.