New Belgium Brewing Company

Scope of work

Commercial / industrial rooftop solar at the New Belgium Brewing Company brewery in Asheville, NC, with the Duke Energy required Small-scale Distributed Generation (SDGI) controller — built by ReNu Energy with REIG owning the SCADA scope.

What we delivered

• Provided and installed the Duke Energy SDGI control system that lets Duke remotely communicate with and control the small-scale system.
• Two RTACs deployed to isolate the comms domains from each other — Duke on one side, the customer's monitoring on the other.
• Worked with the EPC and the inverter manufacturer to build the correct comms stack between RTAC and string-level hardware.
• Assisted Duke with final system testing during interconnect.
• Verified remote data collection by the brewery's asset team after hand-over.

Outcome

A commercial-scale rooftop PV system in production, with Duke holding the control authority it required for distributed generation and the brewery seeing clean monitoring data on its own dashboard.