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Highlighting How SHYFT & Aspire are Scaling Reliable, Affordable & Sustainable Energy
Who is Aspire Power Solutions
Aspire Power Solutions is a Distributed Energy Provider born in Nigeria with a global mission to transition millions of consumers to reliable and affordable energy solutions. Aspire offers residential and small and medium business consumers Solar Energy Storage solutions and provides Power as a Service (PaaS) to commercial and residential communities. Aspire is leveraging its experience as a Distributed Energy Provider and financier to launch an energy fintech platform that helps other similar Distributed Energy Providers catalyze access to better energy experiences. Learn More.
The Challenges Aspire are Tackling
Aspire is tackling the energy access challenge for everyday people, businesses, and communities. The Power-as-a-Service (PaaS) business model provides businesses and homes access to reliable power, often with integrated solar and storage, and helps overcome the challenges of higher initial capital costs or renewables relative to problematic generators. Particularly in regions with unreliable electricity grids, managing hybrid power systems to ensure affordable and reliable power is part of Aspire’s mission to deliver a better energy experience to energy consumers.
How Does Aspire Use SHYFT Technology?
Aspire Power Solutions leverages SHYFT’s Connect software and integrated IoT hardware to increase the visibility of energy assets and how they're performing while also enabling operational efficiency. SHYFT’s suite of solutions provides a plug-n-play solution that easily integrates with renewable or hybrid energy systems.
“We were using field staff to operate remote sites, limiting our uptake of new projects and searching for the right solution. Shyft solved our remote management challenge for our Power as a Service sites”
SHYFT Smart Transfer Switch
The SHYFT Smart Transfer Switch allows complete remote control and automation of the entire energy system, giving unprecedented levels of control relative to standard market technology. While there are solutions that deliver remote start of generators or automatic transfer switches, SHYFT STS allows remote control and programming of the system using parameters from numerous streams of data. The system reduces the need for human intervention that can lead to error and ensures that systems are running optimally, especially for power services businesses.
SHYFT Ultrasonic Fuel Sensors
The SHYFT Ultrasonic Fuel Sensor provides high-resolution fuel monitoring for tanks, allowing Aspire to monitor fuel levels and consumption, including receiving alerts like fill events (time and amount), low fuel alerts, and abnormal losses (e.g. theft or leaks). This insight helps drive transparency regarding costs as well as enable operational efficiency, by being able to plan for fills and verify fill data.
SHYFT Inverter and Generator Integrations
Aspire uses a diverse range of components to provide energy services. With SHYFT, they do not need to view multiple dashboard but instead can view the performance of inverters and generators from a single dashboard. SHYFT Connect can integrates with the OEM’s API’s to gather near real-time data and aggregate it in a single portal, or use SHYFT GX or IX proprietary gateways for a hardwired connection that can often perform more robust functions with better data reliability. This means, Aspire does not have to wait for an end-user to contact them about an issue on-site - they can remotely view the status and alarms to begin troubleshooting to reduce time to resolution, or in many cases, mitigate issues altogether.
How SHYFT is helping Aspire scale reliable energy
Automate and control power switching and operating schedules across the fleet to drive operational efficiency and reliability
Driving transparency in a market where there is a gap in energy consumer trust and the service providers
Tracking the run hours of our generators to be more accountable and provide data that supports optimizing cleaner energy access
Tracking grid energy access, hours of operations, kWh supplied & other power metrics at a high resolution, leveraging this data to engage grid operators to help increase grid performance and prevent erroneous billing
Delivering over 98% data reliability, ensuring Aspire has a complete view of their assets and system performance
“We run our Power as a Service business on SHYFT. Distributed Energy Providers are the future of energy and SHYFT is making the future possible.”
Select Aspire Projects featuring SHYFT Solutions
Location: Impact Hub & Google Launch Pad
Status: Fully deployed
System Description: Aspire built and operates a system combining 30kW Solar, 100kVA Generator, 48kWh Storage, 24.6 kVA Fronius Inverter Capacity, 45kVA Victron Inverter Capacity and uses SHYFT Connect for asset management
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Status: Phase I complete
System Description: Leveraging SHYFT technology, Aspire will be one of the first Distributed Energy Providers in Nigeria to provide an intelligent, data-driven microgrid featuring digitalized energy metering enabling customers to track their energy consumption and spend down to a 15-minute resolution. Our customers can track their energy behavior and optimize their consumption to fit into their willingness to pay for power. This will be a game-changer in driving further consumer incentives for use of solar and effectively pricing power. To date, no other urban community development has this functionality or novel design.
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