Orange Solar to offer digitally transformed solar power solutions

Orange Solar Product Manager Rifas Sameer

While solar power is gaining traction as a lucrative source of renewable energy in Sri Lanka, incorporating technology to gain insights into usage patterns, savings, and demand/supply is proving useful in terms of leveraging its full benefits. 

As part of its efforts to offer a digitally transformed solution to customers, Orange Solar is mapping out the next phase of its journey – to offer a completely integrated solar power solution that offers actionable data, based on usage. 

“We see tremendous potential by connecting the most powerful and reliable solar systems on the market with data and analytics that can help our customers make smarter decisions about their energy use,” said Orange Solar Product Manager Rifas Sameer. 

He said the company hoped to continue to invest in integrated technology solutions to support customers in managing and optimising their solar power solutions. “It’s not just about switching to renewable energy, rather getting the most of your investments with real-time and actionable data. This is going to be an important milestone in the next chapter of our renewable energy solutions journey,” he added. 

Orange Solar celebrates half a decade of successful operation in the solar power industry this year, assisting homeowners and businesses across the country to reduce their utility bills with efficient and reliable solar panels. 

According to Sameer, Orange Solar’s cutting-edge solar module technology and solar power systems are designed to generate electricity over a system life, typically exceeding five years. 

“Our sector has progressed from solar technology, products, acceptance, penetration and job growth as a contributor to the overall economy. It is becoming increasingly cost effective for consumers, businesses, and utilities to use solar power instead of conventional sources,” says Sameer 

As such, Orange Solar has been gathering momentum in the solar power market over the past few years. Its services in this space include installation, construction, ongoing maintenance and monitoring. It also offers financing solutions that provide customers with a variety of options for purchasing a range of high efficiency solar products that suit relevant industries and households. 

With the increased adoption in solar power, Orange believes there’s potential for an innovative solar power solution it is banking on. To this end, Orange has already focused on R&D investments to further expand its technological leadership in its solar power digitisation efforts.  

Its future solar power solutions will be enhanced with technology that will be designed to lower system costs and improve performance. It will also incorporate analytics capabilities that will provide real-time insights into energy consumption and production. 

In the commercial and industrial business segment, the company has currently had more than Rs. 550 million worth of projects awarded. Significant projects that have been completed already include 5MW worth of installations across the island. 

“The majority of innovation planned for the coming years will be to improve system availability and environmental adaptability and to optimize end-to-end lifetime cost and management automation. digitalisation, artificial intelligence, large-scale software and management will all play a more and more important role in  the solar industry and we intend to proactively plan ahead to go in line with this trend,” added OREL Corporation General Manager – Business Development Chaminda De Silva. 

“There will no doubt be great challenges in harnessing the full potential of these digital advances. But, with much greater operational efficiency and ultimately, a reduction in customer bills standing tall as the hero benefits from such change, it’s a revolution that those of us who operate in the energy industry must embrace and strive to push to the forefront and for us this will be a key vision going forward.”