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Fat Spaniel Provides SaaS Solution for Storm Sustainability’s Education Portal
SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 12, 2010 - Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc., a provider of lifecycle management services for renewable energy systems, announced its relationship with Storm Sustainability Ltd. to provide comprehensive solar monitoring services for their educational portal, SunskoolTM.
Storm Sustainability takes advantage of Fat Spaniel Technologies system, turning real-time renewable energy system performance data into an educational tool, Sunskool. The Sunskool website provides up-to-the-minute information about how much energy each Sunskool is generating and how much energy the school is using. The web-based portal is now the most comprehensive solar monitoring service available to schools in Australia, allowing classrooms to log-in and see how much energy their school is generating and consuming.
Storm Sustainability is a highly experienced contracting, design, and installation company focused on delivering innovative and sustainable water, solar, and resource monitoring solutions. Working with its partners in industry and government, the company is committed to promoting awareness about resource management and conservation. Storm Sustainability’s growing team of experts and wealth of knowledge helps meet customers’ needs while protecting the environment.
“If we don’t change the way people think, and encourage them to embrace sustainability, technology can’t accomplish the real goal of responsible energy,” said Peter Wilson, director of technology and innovation at Storm Sustainability. “Using the Fat Spaniel services, we gained a flexible API for building the Sunskool portal and as a result we can now bring renewable energy from the rooftop into the classroom and make it real for kids. Fat Spaniel gives us easy access to all of the data, and we use it to help students and teachers appreciate the whole energy cycle. It’s really motivating when they can see how to make a difference in terms of carbon footprint and conservation.”
Storm Sustainability plans to release other dashboards for schools, helping them raise awareness about water conservation. Fat Spaniel services will help them monitor and report real-time conditions for harvesting rainwater and for identifying system leaks to eliminate undetected waste. Fat Spaniel services are also enabling Storm Sustainability to provide resource management solutions to both residential and commercial customers.
Teachers are using Sunskool to raise a new generation of enlightened energy consumers. With increased awareness, the whole school community actively embraces the solar projects and helps to increase the overall benefits achieved with the alternative energy solutions.
“Working with Storm, we provide the most comprehensive solar monitoring service available,” said Randy Rajagopal, senior director of marketing at Fat Spaniel. “This state of the art technology enables schools to educate children by taking the data off the roof and directly into the classroom. Fat Spaniel is a global leader in renewable energy management and we can help Storm grow a worldwide Sunskool community. Storm’s Sunskool portal can ultimately drive energy consumption behavior modification through educational programs worldwide.”
To read the full Fat Spaniel and Sunskool case study, visit http://www.fatspaniel.com/news-events/collateral-kit/case-studies.
About Fat Spaniel
Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of lifecycle management services for the renewable energy industry. Solar power producers, financiers, system integrators, plant owners, and OEMs take advantage of Fat Spaniel’s category-defining Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to maximize system uptime, energy output, and return on investment. Fat Spaniel’s lifecycle management solutions empower renewable energy component vendors to provide fully manageable solutions and inspire application developers to innovate advanced Web-based energy applications and visualizations. With its partners and customers, Fat Spaniel shares the vision of a world where renewable energy is the first and best energy source, deployed in 28 countries and more than 4,000 locations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.fatspaniel.com.
Tags: Fat Spaniel, renewable energy, solar, Storm Sustainability, Sunskool