Making Solar Monitoring Work

© Copyr i gh t 2014 O SIs o f t , LLC .

Presented by

Making Solar

Monitoring Work

Steve Hanawalt, Power Factors LLC


Outline

• Power Factors Overview

• State of the Industry

• Why Solar’s Different

• Delivering Monitoring as a Service

• Architecture

• Monitoring Applications

• Q&A

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Power Factors

• Headquartered in San Leandro, California

• >30 GW fossil power O&M experience

• >2 GW solar power O&M experience

• Provide monitoring, reporting and performance optimization services to the solar power industry

• Deliver our applications using the PI System platform as a service

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State of the Industry

• 42% growth led by solar PV

• 2nd largest source of new

electric capacity in 2013

• Prices continue to drop

• Shift towards smaller,

distributed projects

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Why Solar’s Different

• Larger geographic distribution

• Larger variety of sizes

• Larger variety of owners

• Larger quantity of assets to track

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• Highly scalable

• Highly robust

• Efficient deployment

• Meets asset class cost

structure limitations

Solution Results and Benefits

Delivering Monitoring as a Service

Business Challenge

• How do we securely deliver

monitoring applications

used by different

customers, yet specific to

their assets and

requirements?

• Start with the best-in-class

software platforms

• Develop strong, yet flexible

data models

• Resist the urge to code

“Power Factors provides high value-added

services that leverages a new Connected

Services PI System delivery model that is

tailored to the solar power business model”

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Architecture

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Su

pp

ort •CoE

•EPM•Enterprise Agreement•Field Service Engineers•Managed PI System•Tech. Support•OSIsoft vCampus•OSIsoft YouTube Learning Channel

Ap

plic

atio

ns •PI PEs, Totalizers

•PI Asset Framework

•PI Event Frames

•PI Coresight

•Interfaces

•PI ModbusE

•PI OPC DA

•PI to PI

•PI UFL

•PI Notifications

•PI Point Builder

•PI SMT

•PI SQL Commander

•PI Webparts

Clie

nt To

ols •PI Coresight

•PI DataLink

•PI OLEDB Enterprise

•PI OLEDB Provider

•MS SharePoint

•PI ProcessBook

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Data

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PI Historian PI AF

• Templates

• External data

• Notifications

• Web services

• Event Frames

PEs

ACE

Process

Book

Data

Link

NOC Environment Customer EnvironmentBoth

Web Parts

Portal

Coresight

EAMS

C1

C2

Cn

SCADADAS Controller

Interface

Field devices

Arc

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re


Monitoring Applications

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Plant Circuit Inverter

Tracker Combiner String

Module

…Typical

…Sometimes

…Rare

1000-5000

points per

plant


Applications

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Web apps with

rich content

and…

…web apps

with summary

content


Applications – Role-Specific Views

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Execs

Engineers

Managers


Integration

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Asset Data

Commercial Obligations & Entitlements

Operational Data

Actually, you can have it all,

now…


Integration

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PI

• Event:

• Detection

• Start

• End

• Duration

• Type

• Count

• Rate of change

EAMS

• Lost production

• Lost revenue

• Event reporting

• Reliability reporting

• Warranty mgmt

• Contract compliance

• Entitlement mgmt

Bi-directional sharing

of information

between operational

data and asset

management system

drives organizational

efficiency

improvements


Bringing it All Together

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Plant operations

Asset maintenance & event history

Commercial obligations


Benefits of Integration

• Don’t have to give up best-in-class apps

• Single source of truth

• Significant reduction in cost of production

• Increases operational reach

• Better visibility into performance optimization

opportunities

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Steve Hanawalt

• [email protected]

• Partner

• Power Factors, LLC

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