Innowatts Brings Advanced Energy Analytics to South America

Houston Company Partners with Celsia to Grow Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Customer Base

Houston-based Innowatts, a leader in AMI-enabled predictive energy analytics and AI-based solutions, announced that it is expanding its partnership with Colombian utility Celsia to deliver more accurate forecasting and analytic tools aimed at lowering costs to more than 5,000 current and prospective Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. The move strengthens Innowatts’ foothold in the Latin American market, which is seen as a critical future growth area for smart grid and AMI-enabled energy systems.

Part of the Grupo Argos conglomerate, Celsia operates 28 hydroelectric, thermal, photovoltaic and wind power plants with a combined capacity of 1.8GW, and delivers 6,500 GWh per year to over a million customers in Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras.

By enabling more accurate energy forecasting and real-time load analysis, Innowatts’ tools will help Celsia boost both total revenues and gross margin per unit generated, while also delivering more reliable, lower-cost energy to its C&I clients. The company will also use Innowatts’ analytics to support sales activities for its clients, helping to grow its footprint and further increase its long-term business performance.

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The new deployment is seen as cementing a long-term relationship between Celsia and Innowatts, with smart-meter analytics helping to fuel Celsia’s strategies around customer acquisition and engagement. Innowatts’ Smart Alerts tools will also generate real-time load forecasts, allowing Celsia to more actively engage customers ahead of periods of anticipated high usage, limited bandwidth or extreme weather conditions.

“Innowatts’ tools are giving us a deeper understanding of our customers’ real-world energy needs,” says Juan Alzate, Celsia’s Chief Innovation Officer. “That lets us serve our customers better, and helps us make smarter decisions around customer engagement and strategic growth.”

Innowatts’ advanced analytics tools use sophisticated machine-learning systems trained using weather and energy data from 23 million smart meters around the world, offering unparalleled insights into real-world energy use across a wide range of conditions. Such tools have proven their value in the United States, and Latin America is seen as a new frontier for smart grid technologies, with the region’s energy firms expected to invest more than $20 billion on building out smart grid and smart meter infrastructure by 2027.

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Colombia has announced plans to achieve 90% smart-meter penetration by 2030 in urban areas, while Costa Rica is aiming for 100% migration to smart meters by 2025. Elsewhere in the region, Mexico is targeting 79% penetration by 2025, while Brazil plans to install 63 million smart meters by 2021.

“Latin America is on the brink of a true smart-grid revolution, and that represents a huge opportunity for Innowatts – and a huge opportunity for clean-energy pioneers like Celsia to reap the benefits of smarter, more accurate analytics,” says Sid Sachdeva, Innowatts’ CEO. “Innowatts’ cutting-edge analytics platform has truly global potential, and will make sustainable energy more affordable and dependable for consumers all around the world.”

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