Atlantica awarded for its leadership in digital innovation

May 01, 2020

Atlantica Yield plc (NASDAQ: AY) (“Atlantica”), the sustainable infrastructure company that owns a diversified portfolio of contracted assets in the energy and environment sectors, announced today that it has received the “Pump Industry Excellence Award for Innovation and Technology” from the Hydraulic Institute.

The Hydraulic Institute is the largest association of pump industry manufacturers in North America. In its 2020 Annual Conference celebrated in Arizona, U.S.A., it has recognized Atlantica for its leadership in driving digital innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning and anomaly detection for predictive maintenance of critical equipment.

This award is issued to the company or organization which, through its pumping systems related activities, has made a significant impact on Energy Efficiency in North America. Atlantica’s in-house Advanced Analytics team for Machine Learning and Predictive Maintenance has worked, jointly with Sulzer, a global leader in fluid engineering, in the deployment of Sulzer’s BLUE BOX , an advanced analytic solution on operational performance of critical pumps.

Since mid-2019, several pilots programs have been developed at two of Atlantica’s solar power plants. The results of the enhanced artificial intelligence capabilities have helped Atlantica to prevent anomalies, hence reduce its operational risks and improve uptime going forward.

Emiliano Garcia, Atlantica’s Vice-President for North America received the award.

“This award crystalizes our digitalization efforts to streghthen our marchine learning capabilities, leveraging artificial intelligence features to perform real-time predictive maintenance.”

“We would like to thank the Hydraulic Institute for this Award and Sulzer, who is committedly helping us to materialize part our digital innovation plan.”

Emiliano Garcia, Atlantica’s Vice-President for North America

About Atlantica

Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure Ltd. is a sustainable infrastructure company that owns a diversified portfolio of contracted renewable energy, storage, efficient natural gas, electric transmission, and water assets in North America, Europe, and South America (atlantica.com).

About Sulzer

Sulzer is a global leader in fluid engineering specialized in pumping, agitation, mixing, separation and application technologies for fluids of all types. (www.sulzer.com).

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