Wattch: Revolutionizing Solar Monitoring and Asset Management | EP201

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In this episode of The Clean Power Hour, host Tim Montague interviews Alex Nussey, co-founder and CEO of Wattch, a cutting-edge solar monitoring and asset management platform trusted by top installers, developers, and utilities. Nussey shares the origin story of Wattch, which began as a college project building IV curve testers for a solar car racing team.

Nussey explains how Wattch differentiates itself as a data-first company by creating precise digital twins of solar assets to model their expected performance. By comparing real-time data against these digital models, Wattch can identify underperformance issues with an impressive 1.5% accuracy, resulting in customers experiencing an average 8% performance improvement within the first three months of using the platform.

The discussion delves into Wattch's comprehensive suite of services, which includes:

1. Monitoring: Enabling remote localization, diagnosis, and resolution of performance issues across a fleet in seconds with device-level insights.

2. Operations & Maintenance: Minimizing truck rolls and guesswork while improving baseline performance by up to 21%.

3. Asset Management: Tracking, optimizing, and reporting on portfolios quickly and easily with embedded financial metrics.

4. Customer Engagement: Expanding customer portfolios, engaging new prospects, and elevating brand using performance data.

Nussey also highlights Wattch's Energy IoT solutions for real-time, bi-directional, secure connections to every energy asset and their turnkey DAS/SCADA Edge Solutions for quick project configuration and commissioning.

Nussey emphasizes the critical importance of cybersecurity for distributed energy resources and provides insights into Wattch's impressive growth, having expanded to over 1,000 sites across 22 U.S. states in just four years since its founding.

Key Takeaways:

1. Wattch's comprehensive suite of services, including monitoring, O&M, asset management, and customer engagement, leverage its innovative "digital twin" approach to solar monitoring.

2. Insights into the complexities of monitoring diverse equipment across solar, energy storage, EV charging, and other distributed energy assets, and Wattch's Energy IoT and Edge Solutions for addressing these challenges.

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