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Nov 21, 2023 · 2 min read

Empowering Sunrock’s ambition: Accelerating growth and climate goals with the Helin platform

Sunrock, a company providing energy strategies and solutions for large logistics real estate, has partnered with the Helin platform to manage vast amounts of real-time data from its PV solar rooftop installations. This partnership enables Sunrock to unify data sources, monitor assets, and implement an arbitrage system, accelerating their climate goals.

TL;DR

  • Sunrock required a robust solution to manage real-time data from over 1 million square meters of PV solar rooftops and facilitate an energy arbitrage system.
  • The Helin platform provided a comprehensive solution, unifying data sources, enabling asset monitoring, and establishing an app center with curtailment capabilities.
  • Helin's platform efficiently collects and encrypts high-frequency data from sensors and controls inverters and batteries, without increasing internal staff burden.
  • This partnership empowers Sunrock to accelerate its growth and contribute significantly to its ambitious climate objectives, enhancing efficiency and sustainability.
Renewable EnergyData & AnalyticsEdge Computing

Sunrock is known for offering energy strategies and solutions to companies, especially large logistics real estate firms, aiming to contribute meaningfully to the Paris climate goals. However, managing many large-scale PV solar rooftop installations simultaneously necessitates the handling of an enormous amount of real-time data. Every asset and every exchange of energy between larger grids and local microgrids must be tracked and predicted. This introduces the challenge of a broad spread of sensors or edge devices, and finding qualified technical staff to gather, protect, and analyze this edge data to unleash its full potential.

Sunrock required a solution for facilitating an arbitrage system between the grid, energy storage, and local consumption, complemented by detailed asset monitoring.

To ensure efficient operation and avoid energy loss, Sunrock required a solution for facilitating an arbitrage system between the grid, energy storage, and local consumption, complemented by detailed asset monitoring. Additionally, they needed secure, high-frequency data from all their sensors – spread across over 1 million square meters of solar roofs – and control over inverters and batteries. With this comprehensive solution, they can realize their ambitious climate objectives.

With the Helin Platform, Sunrock could unify their data sources, collect essential data from their assets, establish an app center (complete with a curtailment application), and encrypt the data and app for security.

Helin's Solutions

Helin's platform provided this solution. The platform was designed to manage edge devices on industrial assets, for example, solar assets, enhancing efficiency, safety, and sustainability, while unlocking the full potential of industrial assets. With our platform, Sunrock could unify their data sources, collect essential data from their assets, establish an app center (complete with a curtailment application), and encrypt the data and app for security. Moreover, this could be accomplished at high speed, without increasing the burden on internal staff.

The Helin Platform is proof that data can be leveraged to bring innovation forward in an effective way. It can be a catalyst, driving organizations toward achieving their objectives faster and more efficiently.

If your organization could benefit from this level of data empowerment, contact us to discuss your vision and needs. Together, we can accelerate your organisational goals and contribute to a greener, more sustainable future.

By Thomas Feenstra

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