Germany-based P21 GmbH has secured a 100,000-euro ($143,575) order for a monitoring and data acquisition system, which will be used as part of a scientific PV systems testing platform at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), media reports say.

This is the first order secured by P21 since being taken over by Heliocentris Energy Solutions,

The project at KISR – the research and development arm for the State of Kuwait – is part of the institute’s renewable energy programme. The client is Life Energy in Kuwait, which recently became a strategic investor in Heliocentris. Life Energy is one of the leading providers of advanced renewable energy solutions in the region. It recently launched Solyndra, a state-of-the-art thin-film photovoltaic technology.

The solution created for KISR is based on Energy Manager from P21, whose open architecture allows it to be used for a wide variety of applications, alongside its primary function in telecoms. P21’s solution is suitable for Kuwait’s extreme climate