Green Eagle Solutions lands Copilot Capital backing to take renewable energy ‘autopilot’ global

Green Eagle Solutions has picked up a majority investment from Copilot Capital, giving the Spanish software company fresh backing for a very specific job: taking the day-to-day grind out of renewable energy operations.

The company was founded in 2012 by Alejandro Cabrera and Juan Fernández, both software engineers who wanted to automate the round-the-clock work done in renewable control rooms. Their answer was not another dashboard for humans to stare at. Instead, Green Eagle built software that takes action itself.

That idea became ARSOS Automation Suite in 2020. The platform pulls operational data into one place and automates tasks such as fault handling, curtailments and dispatch. The pitch is simple enough: operators, asset managers and energy traders can keep visibility over what’s happening, while the software handles the response without someone having to jump in every time.

The timing is obvious. Renewable portfolios are getting bigger, they now mix wind, solar, hydro and batteries, prices move around more, and the rulebook keeps growing as renewables take a larger share of the grid. Green Eagle says ARSOS now manages 90 GW of wind, solar, BESS and hydro assets, including more than 10,000 wind turbines running autonomously and over 1 million automated actions each month across Iberia, Europe, North America, LATAM, Australia and other EMEA markets.

Copilot Capital says the deal fits its plan to back fast-growing software businesses and help them become European software champions with global reach. Green Eagle, for its part, wants to push harder into the US, where it says it already counts two of the country’s largest power producers as customers. That’s a decent signal. In energy, the boring part is often the valuable part, and automating the boring part is exactly where the money tends to hide.