Customers testimonies JPee

Can you describe JPee in a few words? 

Founded in 2004, JP Energie Environnement (JPee) develops, finances, builds, operates and maintains wind farms and photovoltaic power plants in France.

JPee has set itself the mission of working collectively towards a desirable future by transforming the energy model at the heart of local communities. To achieve this, the family-run company, led by Xavier Nass, has more than 180 employees spread across seven branches covering mainland France: Caen, Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Bourges, Montpellier and Lyon.

We currently operate more than 620 MW, including 350 MWp of installed capacity now monitored on Energysoft, combining our conventional photovoltaic assets and those for self-consumption.

What is your role at JPee?

I am responsible for the Supervision & Analysis team within the Operations and Maintenance department.

Our mission is to ensure complete control of our facilities and associated data: real-time monitoring 24/7, alarm monitoring, performance analysis, identification of optimisation levers and continuous improvement in order to maximise electricity production, economic performance and the impact of our power stations.

What were your challenges before working with S4E SOFTWARE?

We previously used a solution for our solar assets that was evolving in a direction that no longer met our daily operational needs and our desire for change. We therefore began actively searching for an alternative solution.

A major benchmarking and pilot phase was launched between 2024 and 2025. The challenge was to choose a solution that was suited to and adaptable for our current processes and internal tools.

What objectives did you wish to achieve in choosing the solution?

Our main long-term goal was therefore to maintain our level of supervision quality in line with our standards, while ensuring a smooth transition for our teams. We already had a whole process in place and had also developed specific tools in-house for both automation and analysis, so we needed a solution that could easily fit into our operations. 

What made the difference compared to other options?

What was decisive in our choice, apart from the required technical basis, was the flexibility of the solution, the configuration options left to the user, and the ability of the teams to listen and adapt in order to understand and integrate our specific needs.

Another ‘plus’ was the relevance of certain features, which, while not essential, still met a real business need, particularly with regard to continuous adaptation to changes in the electricity market and the specific characteristics of the French electricity grid.

How did the start-up/onboarding phase go?

We received support for over a month during the start-up phase, helping us get to grips with and explore the initial configuration of the solution. As we were not particularly pressed for time, we opted for a smooth transition, spreading the onboarding process over the following few months. This allowed us to monitor both solutions in parallel without risking any loss of service. Throughout this transition phase, we were able to count on responsive and available support.

How do you use Energysoft in practice today?

Today, Energysoft is used daily by the supervision team, with real-time monitoring of our solar installations, including weekends. For analysis, we extract data directly from Energysoft and set up automated interfaces to feed our various internal tools.

The solution is also used by maintenance managers and technicians to monitor their assets, as well as by our customers for self-consumption power plants. More broadly, the tool also allows us to communicate key performance indicators and our energy impact to the entire company.

What benefits have you observed?

We have seen significant time savings when integrating new power plants. Whereas the process could previously take up to three weeks depending on the responsiveness and thoroughness of our former service provider, we are now completely autonomous on Energysoft and can complete this step in an average of three days. This complete autonomy and reduction in lead times is a major benefit for us.

On another note, the overall customisation of the solution is more advanced, particularly in terms of dashboards and alerts, which allows us to go one step further in monitoring our power stations, each of which has its own specific characteristics.

What are your next challenges?

Our two major challenges for 2026 are, on the one hand, integrating and adapting our monitoring system to our first battery storage facilities and, on the other hand, deploying artificial intelligence within our monitoring and analysis tools. In this regard, we were able to get a first glimpse of Energysoft’s ‘Analytics’ module during the pilot phase and would now like to deploy and test it fully across our entire portfolio.

If you had to recommend the solution to a colleague, what would you say?

I would say that Energysoft is an open solution, capable of adapting to a variety of needs, some of which are very specific. It offers users a great deal of autonomy, and when new needs arise, the teams are very attentive and responsive, which is greatly appreciated.

A sentence to sum up your experience?

A constructive transition, which enabled us to deploy a tailored solution while strengthening our agility in the face of change.