meteocontrol moves into MENAT region

Augsburg, March 16, 2016 – meteocontrol GmbH, a leader in photovoltaic (PV) monitoring and quality assurance systems, is continuing to expand. The company is currently focusing its internationalization on the MENAT region – the Middle East, Northern Africa and Turkey – and participated for the first time this year as an exhibitor at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2016 in Abu Dhabi. meteocontrol offers customized monitoring solutions for remote monitoring in virtual control rooms (VCOM) as well as SCADA software for local applications and implements all the necessary engineering, from planning to on-site commissioning. The company has already realized initial projects in the MENAT region.
The demand for solar energy in the MENAT region is rising in response to high electricity prices and the region’s growing need for energy. Northern Africa, the Middle East and Turkey have meanwhile become one of the most strongly growing photovoltaic markets in the world, in part because of the region’s high solar irradiance. “The success of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi in January 2016 confirmed the region’s great potential. The event set records in exhibitor and visitor numbers,” reports Rouven Lenhart, who is responsible for sales in the MENAT region at meteocontrol. “The level of interest in our trade fair booth was enormous, and we were able to make important contacts and nail down several projects. In particular, the opportunity to reduce operational and service costs and increase operational safety and yields through comprehensive remote monitoring poses a terrific advantage for customers in the region.”
Independent service provider for major projects
meteocontrol has already overcome the initial market-entry hurdles through projects it has carried out in Turkey and Israel. Other PV systems in the megawatt range in Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and the UAE are currently in the project pipeline. meteocontrol is ideally structured to meet the challenges of the MENAT region with its flexible, individually expandable monitoring systems. Both remote monitoring from a virtual control room (VCOM) and local monitoring solutions that rely on SCADA software can be adapted to meet system-specific and country-specific demands. “We offer our customers holistic monitoring and control solutions and provide complete service, from the planning phase to delivery of the hardware to on-site commissioning. That ensures a maximum of security for installers, operators and investors,” confirms Martin Schneider, Managing Director of meteocontrol. The focus in the MENAT region is on power-plant-scale systems, since their costs are lower and their yield potential is higher. In this respect, meteocontrol assumes that regional growth potential will be high, because major projects in particular increase the demand for independent service providers like meteocontrol.
Many years of expertise and global project experience
meteocontrol has more than 40 years of experience in the remote monitoring of PV systems as well as extensive expertise from its international project activities. The company is currently active in 90 countries around the world and has 130 employees worldwide. In addition to its headquarters in Augsburg, Germany, meteocontrol has four European offices, an affiliated company in China and a subsidiary in the United States. The company’s customers benefit from this network: For example, customers from French-speaking MENAT countries can be supported by meteocontrol France directly in their own language.