Clir Renewables: Renewable-asset performance analysis and benchmarking

Clir Renewables standardises operating data, explains asset underperformance and supports reporting, risk analysis and investment decisions.

Best for: Renewable-portfolio owners evaluating losses, contractual availability, budgets and investment risk.
Less suited to: A replacement for local protection, a plant controller or a field-device commissioning tool.
Deployment: Portfolio software and analytical services using existing asset data and operational records.
Data in: SCADA time series, event logs, contractual rules, financial assumptions and industry comparisons.
Pricing: Platform and analytical work are quoted commercially; public universal pricing is not established.

Overview

Clir Renewables analyses renewable-energy assets to explain performance and support decisions across the investment lifecycle. Its Clir Portfolio platform standardises operating information so owners can compare sites and understand why results differ from expectations. This is particularly useful when a portfolio contains inconsistent SCADA data and reporting practices. The service sits above the physical control system: its role is to identify losses, reconcile evidence and improve decisions, rather than to supply an inverter or protection relay. Clir combines software with renewable-energy expertise to interpret what the data means commercially.

Offering

Clir Portfolio addresses three specific reporting problems: understanding performance, reconciling contractual availability and comparing actual results with budgets. The platform standardises SCADA data and event logs, applies contract logic and supports explanations of lost energy or financial variance. Its lifecycle solutions extend that analysis to development, insurance and acquisitions. These are distinct use cases: an operator may need to challenge an availability calculation, while an investor may need more credible assumptions for a valuation. The common product is an evidence base that connects operating behaviour to the decision being made.

Products and platforms

Clir lifecycle analytics
Analytical services

Development, operational, insurance and acquisition analysis using site and industry data.⁴

Technology

The Portfolio description identifies a renewables-specific data model, digital twins and automated analysis as the basis for cleaning SCADA information and detecting anomalies. Contractual availability analysis combines events and operating data with the rules that determine how performance is counted. Budget reconciliation uses historical operation, loss drivers and scenarios to revise longer-term yield expectations. The solutions overview adds comparisons with industry data. This is a different integration need from a device register map: the important inputs are usable histories, consistent asset context and the relevant operational or contractual definitions.

Markets

Clir's solutions serve developers, operators, investors and insurers. Development work supports technology, siting and contract assumptions; operational analysis identifies underperformance; insurance work evaluates project-specific risk; and acquisition work tests energy-yield and valuation assumptions. The Portfolio offering brings recurring reporting into that wider analytical role. A buyer can therefore compare Clir with both software platforms and technical-advisory services, depending on the engagement. It is most relevant when the owner needs an independent explanation of performance and risk, rather than another display of the same unqualified production figures.

Company

Clir's history records its founding in Vancouver in January 2017 by renewable-energy consultants, followed by a Glasgow hub in 2018 and expansion into solar in 2020. The contact directory retains Vancouver and Glasgow locations. Its 2021 financing announcement describes a CAD27 million Series B round, supporting the development of technology for asset owners and risk analysis. The company's history also records the launch of insurance and acquisition-oriented services, explaining why its current offering extends beyond day-to-day wind-farm monitoring.