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How Repowering London worked with Alentis Energy to build a single source of truth for all their energy operations
AlentisCommunity Energy England member Repowering London manages 45 solar installations across London with a 1.5MW capacity on behalf of 11 different energy cooperatives.
They recently worked with Alentis Energy to track maintenance, centralise all their contracts and documentation, and maintain an equipment register to simplify the management of their rooftop solar portfolio.
The Challenge: Tracking work and equipment across a wide range of distributed assets
With a growing list of sites and solar assets comes a massive administrative burden: physical maintenance, regulatory paperwork, and site-specific data to track.
By early 2025, the Repowering London team realized that manual tracking and spreadsheet-based management had reached its limit.
Knowledge and information were often held within teams or with individuals, which meant valuable context could be harder to access during periods of leave or transition.
Recognising this highlighted an opportunity to strengthen shared systems and documentation, continuity, asset reliability, and ultimately the value delivered to the community.
The Solution: Alentis created a single source of truth for asset management
To future-proof their operations, Repowering London joined Alentis as an early development partner. Together, they refined the Alentis Operating System specifically for small-to-mid-scale solar portfolios.
Alentis now serves as the “orchestration engine”, helping automate several different operations workflows for the Repowering team, ncluding:
- Work Management: A centralized platform to schedule, track, and document maintenance across all 45 sites.
- Smart Document Management: All records are housed in a single, searchable repository, fully queryable via the Alentis chatbot.
- Automated Equipment Tracking: Automated data extraction ensures the team knows exactly where every piece of equipment is – and its current status.
The Results: Operations built to scale
By offloading operational complexity to Alentis, Repowering London has transitioned from reactive tracking to proactive management.
The Repowering London team can now ensure all work is completed efficiently and on time more easily, freeing up mental bandwidth to focus on optimizing energy generation, or developing more assets.
A year on, Repowering London is continuing to expand capacity, without a proportional increase in headcount or administrative overhead.
“Working with Alentis has been a genuinely collaborative experience. As an early development partner, we were able to shape a system that reflects the realities of managing a distributed, community-owned solar portfolio. Alentis has given us the structure and visibility we needed to manage a complex portfolio more proactively, improving continuity, reliability, and confidence across our operations as we scale”
– Lorraine Haskell, Head of Asset Management, Repowering London
“Solar portfolio growth brings exponentially more operational complexity. Repowering London is at the forefront of building the sophistication required to manage distributed assets at scale. Developing our work management features in partnership with the Repowering London team showed us exactly what practical energy asset managers need. We’re excited to support them as they scale in the most efficient way possible.”
– John-Henry Charles, CEO & Founder of Alentis:
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Alentis provides enterprise grade AI and tooling to the community energy sector, and has community energy clients across the UK including Big Solar Co-Op, Edinburgh Solar Co-operative, and Energise South Downs.
To learn more and book a free 30-minute demo, visit the Alentis Energy website.