Commercial Scale Solar Advanced Energy Conference October 12, 2011 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Commercial Scale Solar Advanced Energy Conference October 12, 2011 Presented by Robert Schaefer, CEO AlsoEnergy

Wall Street, Main Street Joining Forces • Relentless government and commercial implementation of solar power • Shared focus on project finance and energy portfolio management

Wall Street, Main Street Joining Forces • Distributed solar power on the march toward grid parity • Triple bottom line is mainstreaming out tax-break, subsidy model • People, Planet, Profit social mission remains, but, in business, what matters gets measured

Renewable energy now matters to business • Projects increasing, installed system costs decreasing • Finance and pricing models maturing • Dealflow accelerating • From coal-fired to clean-tech, “old school” financial institutions are now “early adopters” crossing the chasm to a new industrial infrastructure, and establishing a new economic standards and metrics

To achieve market implementation, global energy industry needs: Software monitoring, measurement and billing solutions to monetize solar power and maximize investment returns

Why Measure? � Business Process Integration to provide comparisons of actual production, demand and financial performance � Compare Multiple Sites and compare each site’s cost and performance � Develop Better ROI to show how complicated investments deliver to the bottom line over time

To Stay Competitive, You Need Vision into All Assets Multi Site Real-Time Production

To Stay Competitive, You Need Cost and Production Analysis

To Stay Competitive, You Need Real-Time Data Current production and production estimates Single-site device status and activity Open alerts and status for all selected sites

To Stay Competitive, You Need Advanced Reporting � M ore states are adding reporting requirements � Verify utility-provided production data to ensure accurate credits and compensation � Monitoring data can be used to research and compare technologies 10

To Stay Competitive, You Need To Help Your Customers Understand Benefits 11

The Future of Commercial Solar • Dealflow and pricing breakthroughs are creating the pick and shovel solar “gold rush” opportunities • Demand is rising for monitoring, measurement and monetization tools to establish the best-practice standards in distributing solar power • As nations and business turn sunshine into sustainable energy, economic engine, cloud-based PV monitoring software is the electric meter for a new energy economy

Questions? Robert Schaefer, CEO AlsoEnergy rjs@alsoenergy.com