The previous CEO of Sunnova is now main international photo voltaic providers firm Otovo. John Berger licensed the Otovo title earlier this year from the Norwegian startup, and the efforts on separate continents have now merged to supply restore providers throughout Europe and the US.
Berger was appointed CEO of Otovo, and Andreas Thorsheim will tackle the position of chief product officer.
“As we speak marks the start of a brand new chapter for Otovo as we full this transformative mixture and create the world’s first international residence vitality providers firm,” Berger mentioned. “Greater than 200,000 photo voltaic and residential vitality jobs have been misplaced over the previous two years, leaving residence and enterprise homeowners with unprotected programs. Otovo is right here to fill that hole with the trade’s first ‘fast response’ service at an affordable value. We see robust demand for our progressive providers and anticipate rising our put in base of 45,000 owners to 250,000 energetic clients by 2028.”
“The brand new Otovo is strongly positioned to focus on the 30+ million owners within the U.S. and Europe with put in vitality belongings,” Thorsheim mentioned. “By combining our giant European buyer base and repair operations with an AI-native know-how platform, we’re creating a brand new Otovo that may function the spine of a resilient vitality future. Otovo is right here to assist the huge international market of vitality shoppers that want higher service for his or her residence and enterprise photo voltaic programs, battery storage, EV chargers, and turbines.”
Otovo is selling an all-in-one energy accomplice mannequin that unites retail electrical energy, vitality service (operations and upkeep), and grid buying and selling via a cloud-connected digital energy plant. Its AI-native Endurance platform can triage points and route the best crew in actual time, connecting technicians, vehicles and put in units right into a single responsive community. The reside monitoring operate closes the loop with clients, whereas optimized routing raises first‑time‑repair charges whereas slicing journey, the corporate claims.
“As we progress from an vitality accomplice to an all the pieces residence and enterprise accomplice, scale will hold making us quicker, AI extra exact,” Berger mentioned. “Otovo’s community of technicians, vehicles and linked units will flip that precision into actual uptime at a decrease price to serve – incomes the best to serve extra of the house and enterprise market every year.”
A lot of Otovo’s U.S. clients will possible be these with leased programs from Sunnova. The corporate filed chapter in June of this year, and SunStrong acquired Sunnova’s existing portfolio of programs. Based mostly on feedback on Photo voltaic Energy World’s personal site, the transition has not gone effectively, and plenty of Sunnova clients have expressed issues discovering help for his or her photo voltaic and storage programs.
Otovo is pitching a subscription-based platform that may provide upkeep, monitoring and operations assist to those “deserted” programs.
