Prediktor to deliver Control and Monitoring Solution for PV-Plant

FREDRIKSTAD, Norway - April 12, 2013 - PRLog -- The contract was secured after an initial pre-study project where Prediktor laid the grounds for the operations and maintenance strategy and defined suggested system architecture.

The solution will be built using Prediktor’s APIS industrial IT product portfolio and will be put into operation October 2012.

“I’m extremely happy that we now by securing this project have entered into the downstream side of the PV industry after several years of deliveries to solar cell production plants” says Thomas Pettersen, VP Solutions at Prediktor.

“We have chosen Prediktor’s control and monitoring enterprise system because we have found it the best tool to ensure long-term benefits from our PV projects.  The system will support us in taking the best decisions to optimize the production and maintenance of solar power plants.  We are happy to select Prediktor’s system and we are looking forward to their collaboration with our German and South African engineering environments” says Kari Mercedes Fremme, Project Director, Scatec Solar.

The contract also contains an option for system roll-out to two new South African large-scale plants and existing European plants.

About Prediktor
Prediktor AS is Norwegian based IT software company established 1995. The company provides high performance data acquisition and storage solutions to a wide range of industries like solar, maritime, oil and gas as well as the food and feed. Prediktor is also recognized as a competence center for advanced Industrial IT solutions. Among Prediktor’s special competence areas are real-time, model based solutions that transforms data into information that is a foundation for immediate decision support or closed loop control. Prediktor's solution support process control industry standards like OPC and OPC UA. www.prediktor.no


About Scatec Solar
Scatec Solar AS, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, was formed in 2007 and is an established global developer of ground-mount and commercial rooftop PV solar energy solutions, focusing on making solar power attractive and affordable to customers and investors worldwide. Scatec Solar deploys the best available technologies to develop PV systems, and has the capability to handle all aspects of each project, from securing permitting rights to the final commissioning and operations. Scatec Solar has established its Competence Center in Regensburg, Germany. The Company is the first turnkey PV supplier with triple ISO certification for quality, environment and health. This full client service includes project development, structuring equity and long term debt financing, turnkey construction, EPC, PPA contracting, and O&M capabilities. Scatec Solar has built a rapidly growing track record of more than 180 MW best-in-class PV installations by targeting regions – Europe, USA, India, China, South Africa – with excellent solar irradiation and high return on investment potential. The Company’s current pipeline of project development exceeds 2 GW worldwide. www.scatecsolar.com