We’ve talked a lot in this space about the benefits of Emerson’s Ovation Green SCADA—built-for-purpose renewable energy software that provides a top-down approach to view, monitor, control, and optimize a wide variety of renewable energy and storage assets, across a single piece of equipment or even a full fleet of assets. It can do some impressive things, but just how impressive became even more obvious in Sarah Morgan’s Ovation Users’ Group session taking a deep dive into version 6 of the software.
Made easy with an intuitive web interface
Ovation Green SCADA’s interface is made to not only be easy to use, but easy to use where users most want to access it. Whether in Chrome or Firefox browsers, in the Android or iOS app, or even in custom clients via open API, the dashboard is built to give users an instantaneous view of the health of any and all assets (across a plant or even across an entire fleet) right away. Out-of-the-box, the software provides pre-built dashboards and data sets that display critical key performance indicators and information of interest, including wind turbines, solar PV inverters, weather stations, battery energy storage, and power plant controller defaults—making it easy to roll all of a power provider’s assets into a single view for easier visibility.
However, graphics are not limited to the pre-built dashboards, but are also highly customizable, empowering teams to create the most effective displays for their unique operations. Custom graphics can be built in-browser via component visualization, and users with appropriate rights can edit dashboards on the fly.
Remote control, across a site or across the globe
Improved visibility, however, is only the beginning, as Sarah demonstrated by diving into the equipment remote control features available in the software. From the dashboard, users can issue commands for equipment, with the ability to stop, start, and reset assets, as well as issuing setpoints for active power, reactive power, voltage, and more.
In addition, one of the key benefits of controlling assets through the software is that all actions are centrally logged for reference and audit purposes.
Powerful historical data
Ovation Green SCADA also employs a powerful historian tool that can be used for reporting and troubleshooting. Historian data can be brought in directly from controllers and is parsed by Ovation Green SCADA for storage, or data can be collected and calculated by Ovation Green SCADA based on live data. But this is not a pick and choose situation. The historian can handle both historian processing types simultaneously.
Historian information and alarm classification can be used to calculate downtime categories for a specified period, and data analysis is available for fault detection and root cause analysis.
One of the key benefits of attending the Ovation Users’ Group conference is the opportunity for deep dives like this one, driven by subject matter experts who not only share their expertise through their presentations, but also directly engage with users to answer questions and offer best practice advice.
Stay tuned to the Emerson Automation Experts blog for more highlights from the conference and be sure to join us next year so you can get hands on for improved planning and learning in your own career.
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