making solar monitoring work
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Presented by
Making Solar
Monitoring Work
Steve Hanawalt, Power Factors LLC
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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
Pre
se
nta
tio
nD
ata
An
aly
sis
Da
ta
Acq
uis
itio
n
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
hitectu
re
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Monitoring Applications
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Plant Circuit Inverter
Tracker Combiner String
Module
…Typical
…Sometimes
…Rare
1000-5000
points per
plant
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Applications
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Web apps with
rich content
and…
…web apps
with summary
content
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Applications – Role-Specific Views
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Execs
Engineers
Managers
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Integration
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Asset Data
Commercial Obligations & Entitlements
Operational Data
Actually, you can have it all,
now…
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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
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Bringing it All Together
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Plant operations
Asset maintenance & event history
Commercial obligations
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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
• Partner
• Power Factors, LLC
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