News ReleaseSiterra Provides Foundation for Information Distribution and Collaboration in Support of Rapid Growth of Renewable Energy IndustryCanada's Leading Renewable Energy Developer, SkyPower, uses Siterra to Actively Manage High Levels of Complexity to Deliver Superior Performance in Program Execution San Francisco, CA., March 27, 2009 — Siterra, the leading provider of web-based software designed to manage geographically-distributed capital asset programs, announced that Canada's leading renewable energy developer, SkyPower, has chosen Siterra+ as their provider of choice to assist in the data management around their projects. "Siterra+ provides SkyPower with a corporate wide standard for how information is distributed. It also offers best practices for project execution and proof of completion for overall development deliverables," said Charmaine Thompson, VP Project Management at SkyPower. "Siterra+ also plays a key role both internally and with our outside interest groups on how problems and incidents are being managed." "Siterra+ is a mission critical tool intelligently positioned to support SkyPower to get a turbine spinning commercially earlier and at lower cost," said Bernard Fried, chief executive officer at Siterra, "SkyPower gains significant competitive advantage by using Siterra's proven platform for managing large-scale, highly distributed capital programs." SkyPower is a leading developer of renewable energy projects. The company has interests in over 200 projects at various stages of development, representing over 11,000 MW of potential nameplate capacity. SkyPower is developing significant renewable energy projects in Canada, the United States, India and Panama, and the company continues to look for new opportunities in emerging markets. SkyPower drives all phases of project development, including exploration, construction and operation. Renewable energy companies must contend with an extraordinary level of complexity in their efforts to simultaneously develop many new sites, across multiple geographies, with the cooperation of many different contractors and vendors. Siterra helps keep these projects on track and within budget using a robust set of workflow-driven collaboration tools for task execution, reporting, document control, asset tracking and lease management. "Siterra has developed on-demand site management software that helps companies in planning, prospecting, acquisition, deployment, and maintenance of the company’s high-value Wind and Solar Energy and Real Estate assets," said Stephan Stokes, VP, Sustainability and Green Technologies. Siterra's platform has a proven set of capabilities that, during the last decade, supported the efficient rollout of more than 200,000 wireless cell sites in North America. Siterra stands to play a similar role supporting renewable energy companies as they begin to take on greater operational scale. AvailabilityThe Siterra+ platform is available immediately. For more information, please contact Siterra's renewable energy sales executive Barbara Martin at 415-875-7114. About SiterraFounded in 2001 and located in San Francisco, California, Siterra Corporation delivers leading web-based software solutions to plan, build, manage and grow geographically dispersed portfolios of real estate properties and operating sites for the Corporate Real Estate, Retail, Wireless and Renewable Energy industries. |
