Emerson to provide supervisory control for a wind farm network in the United Kingdom.
A leading UK renewable energy company, npower renewables, is to unify and centralise operations of the company’s offshore and onshore wind farms to support future expansion.
19 wind farms managed by npower renewables will have supervisory control using Emerson’s Bristol OpenEnterprise software
Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract by npower, one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies, to provide a wide area data gathering system to connect 19 active wind farms to its corporate headquarters, operations centre and regional centres, all in various locations within the UK.
The wide area data gathering solution will utilise Emerson’s Bristol OpenEnterprise software and will provide process efficiency with access to realtime operational data and historical information for all of the turbines throughout the network. The npower operations personnel as well as corporate users will all be connected through this wide area network.
The system will provide cost savings by replacing labour-intensive site visits with control capability to remotely start/stop and reset turbines, and remote security features such as cameras and access monitoring. The OpenEnterprise database is recognised as an ideal platform for expansion to include data from the current hydro electric portfolio and future wind farms in the UK and Europe.
Preserving npower’s investment in existing assets, OpenEnterprise uses open-architecture technologies to communicate with multiple brands of controllers and remote systems.
The wide area network (WAN), which links the wind farms to the operational and corporate data centres, will use a combination of technologies that range from 64 K ISDN to 2 MB ADSL communication networks. OpenEnterprise software features object mapping, which homogenises data structures and reduces processing at data centres. Object mapping also allows the communications throughput npower requires to provide realtime information to corporate users.
Redundant servers will be installed at the npower IT centre in Kingswinford. This data centre will provide realtime and historical data to the corporate headquarters at Swindon, the operations centre at Dolgarrog, and regional centres in Wales and Scotland. Using a broad variety of open communications, web servers, and technologies including ActiveX, JDBC, OLEDB, .Net, ODBC, OPC, OPC XML, and SQL, users are now kept fully appraised of operational status at all times.
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