Wind Farm Management

One of the main challenges in managing wind farms is the turbines themselves. They often come from different manufacturers, which means running multiple supervisory systems in the control center. It also makes auditing turbine service contracts difficult, since the data is collected by the manufacturers themselves. Another challenge is meeting the minimum availability and efficiency levels set in those contracts: turbine protections can trip abnormally, causing downtime even when no maintenance stop is scheduled.

Elipse Power Renewable is a platform for automating and managing wind farms. It brings turbines and substation IEDs from every manufacturer into a single hub. Its standardized turbine modeling tool makes data more reliable for audits, reducing financial losses in vendor contracts.

Benefits

• Higher wind turbine availability
• Fewer financial losses in vendor contracts
• Safer, more efficient wind farm operation
• Lower regulatory risk and fines
• Shorter engineering and deployment time
• More accurate decisions on new investments

Features

• Single platform: correlates substation and generation events, improving downtime analysis
• Oscillography analysis: fine-tunes protection settings, reduces nuisance trips, and raises turbine availability
• Extensive driver library: communicates with equipment from every manufacturer
• Regulatory reporting: the ONS Grid Procedures Submodule 2.7 library groups events logically, simplifies integration, and cuts regulatory fines and labor hours
• Standardized report templates: reduce engineering time and increase reliability
• Historical database: supports decisions on future investments