With the deepening of the development of the industry, the advancement of technology and the pursuit of economic benefits, people’s demand trend for renewable energy tends to break through the restrictions of a single energy source, and comprehensively utilize a variety of renewable energy sources in the same region to maximize production capacity. However, different energy assets often operate with equipment from multiple manufacturers and are managed through various control and monitoring automation technologies from different suppliers, which cannot be easily integrated and limits data access.

How to unify the operational view of asset management in order to efficiently and economically manage renewable energy generation assets puts new requirements on the industry and related enterprises. The technology transition is urgent, so Emerson is building on its industry-leading wind technology and successful predecessor products, integrating wind turbine, solar, energy storage and substation technologies to solve the challenges of different energy monitoring and management technologies. Ovation™ Green renewable energy asset management and SCADA software for renewable energy assets such as wind, PV and storage management. Compared to previous systems that were entirely focused on wind resources, the new generation of products has more powerful analysis and prediction features, enhanced user interaction design based on a better user experience, and easy to configure a simple and intuitive control interface, enabling users to use the most appropriate tools and functions to complete the single farm to the upper level asset management, and ultimately achieve efficient and optimized production of the farm.

Emerson’s Ovation™ Green renewable energy asset management and SCADA software features a flexible, open design that:

Based on Microsoft Windows or Linux system;
Servers and clients can be configured on demand for data display and interaction with other renewable energy automation systems;

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Store configuration and communication data through Microsoft SQL databases, and process or manage the storage of real-time and high-speed streaming data through the more efficient Cassandra database for fast logging and retrieval;
Communicate directly with asset control devices through standard or proprietary protocols with powerful monitoring, analysis, reporting and forecasting capabilities;
Multi-user access can be realized, and users can group access rights and configure control views according to requirements;
Simplify portfolio management with renewable energy-specific features such as KPI dashboards, alarms, diagnostics, and trends; Generation, GADS and dispatch reports;
Advanced, efficient, and easy-to-use HTML-based interfaces improve operational continuity and response speed through task automation.

Improve asset performance by managing all renewable energy assets through a unified platform:

Clear and unified window to fully understand the relevant information of asset operation;
Provide full access to multi-asset, multi-system aggregate data;
Support different equipment manufacturers, system types and system years of production;
Scalable for full control of one or more sites;
Reduce operation and maintenance costs;
Protect assets and data with a comprehensive network security solution with a protective mechanism.

Different renewable energy sources themselves have the characteristics of periodicity, regionalism, randomness and volatility, which promotes enterprises to achieve practical breakthroughs. Emerson seized this opportunity to break through the barriers of wind technology and extend monitoring and asset operations management technologies to other renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic, so that users can clearly understand the operation of the entire portfolio of assets, including renewable power generation and storage assets, and efficiently manage individual or multiple assets simultaneously. Improve energy efficiency regardless of factors such as equipment manufacturer or system type. At the same time, complementary technology is used to avoid the instability caused by power supply demand, and ultimately increase revenue, reduce costs, and increase annual power generation.