A six-year partnership in green energy

Novar builds green energy systems for businesses across Europe solar parks, battery storage, and the smart management that ties it all together. With employees in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Sweden, they needed software that could keep pace with their growth.

They came to us through a referral in 2019. Six years later, we're still building together.

Where it started

When Novar first reached out, they were managing their projects through a combination of Excel and Power Apps. It worked, but it was restrictive. As they grew, the manual overhead was becoming a bottleneck creating and documenting new projects took days, and there was no unified view of operations across countries.

They needed a system that could scale with them.

What we've built together

Over six years, we've developed three interconnected systems that form the backbone of their operations:

Project Management Platform: The core of everything. A web application where Novar manages their entire portfolio: solar parks, rooftop installations, and battery storage projects. Hundreds of projects across multiple countries, all in one dashboard.

We worked closely with about eight end users from different departments to get this right. Each team had specific needs, and the challenge was building features that worked for everyone without creating a tangled mess. Custom permissions, cross-department workflows, integrations with SharePoint for document management.

What used to take days, setting up and documenting a new project, now takes minutes.

Live Energy Dashboard: A simpler project, built alongside the main platform. A web interface that displays real-time energy capture across their solar installations. They didn't have visibility into this before; now they do.

Measurement Management Platform: This one came later, solving a different problem. Because of how their business operates, their measurement data captured by their parks needs to be accurate and auditable by third parties.

Before, someone had to manually log into each supplier's portal, export data sets, and compile them into Excel for calculations. It took days.

We built a system that pulls measurements from multiple sources into a central database, connected to their data warehouse, with a web interface for downloading and reviewing data. The architecture is deliberately modular. If one supplier's API goes down, everything else keeps running.

Now what took days takes less than five minutes. We're storing thousands of data points daily, and the data is clean enough to pass third-party audits without headaches.

The bigger picture

The real outcome isn't any single feature. It's what Novar can do now that they couldn't before.

They have a unified view of operations across four countries. The silos are gone. Reporting that used to take weeks now takes hours. And because the administrative burden has dropped so dramatically, they can take on more projects and enter new markets faster.

We've been working together for six years. The platform keeps evolving as their business does. That's how it should be, software that grows with you, not something you outgrow.

Technologies: .NET 8, ASP.NET Core MVC, C#, Azure (SQL Database, Blob Storage, App Service, DevOps)

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