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EDAMS Solar Parks – Operations 

Designed to cater for the unique requirements of Solar Parks. Provides Real Time Intelligent Information from PV Parks including production amounts, predictions, and patterns for energy management. EDAMS Operations Management – Solar Parks, is based on a real-time Asset Management system.

Key Benefits

– Performance Analysis enabling Timely Intervention
– Cost Optimal Real Time Production Control of Solar Parks
– Fault-Free and Maximum Performance of Assets Operation
– Reduced Energy losses and Power Production Optimization
– Efficiency and Cost Optimization in performing operations
– Analysis and Forecast
– Reliability, Efficiency and Availability

Includes:

Metering / Logs Manager | Real Time Weather & Solar Data | Faults Monitoring & Analysis | Production Analysis & Forecasting | Energy Losses Analysis | Performance Analysis | Management Dashboards | Solar Park Production Control Center

Metering / Logs Manager

EDAMS Logs and Metering Manager is a monitoring and recording system of data and events, required for:

  • Capturing and viewing information
  • Triggering Maintenance requests in the case of problems arising
  • Energy Management, and
  • Statistical analysis for Maintenance and Rehabilitation Planning purposes.

Real Time Weather & Solar Data

EDAMS-Operations maintain direct links to OpenWeatherMap© for the retrieval of historical and predictions of weather information and Solcast© for the continuous download of solar data.

The Solcast© method for estimating solar irradiance from geostationary weather satellites. It includes:

  • Detection of cloud cover.
  • Modelling the available solar radiance under clear skies.
  • Final estimate of the amount of solar irradiance reaching the Earth’s surface after it passes through the clouds (if any are present).

 

Faults Monitoring & Analysis

Alarms Monitoring

  • Fault Analysis refers to automated Real time analysis of readings to identify failure and raise Alarms. Alarms are on dashboards that enable drilling down to identify specific problems and reasons for raising the alarm.

Trigger Maintenance Management

  • All Alerts are automatically allocated to PV Assets for Maintenance purposes and easy reference. EDAMS-Maintenance Management (EDAMS-MMS) is automatically activated to issue Maintenance Requests and Job cards

Production Analysis & Forecasting

Load / Capacity Factors

  • The system summarises the daily records per month and computes the monthly daily averages of energy production together with the min and max production recorded for each month. Based on the capacity of the park the monthly Load/Capacity factors are computed.

Production Modeling & Forecasting

  • EDAMS can provide hourly and daily forecasts automatically re-calibrated by intelligent AI algorithms.The system has the capability to forecast power production up to 7 days ahead dynamically updating the predictions

Energy Losses Analysis

  • The system analyses the PV Park losses and evaluates the performance of the PV Plant on a regular basis. Shading, soiling and inverter losses are analysed and system inefficiencies are identified.
  • PV Park losses can be computed from actual data for any period and compared to DC and AC output.

Performance Analysis

  • The system calculates the daily performance ratios both for each plant and each Inverter/ panel system. The performance ratios are shown graphical with time for user definable periods.
  • Based on records the system computes the daily/weekly and monthly performance indicators such as Reference System Yield, Specific Yield, Performance Ratio, System Efficiency, Capacity Factor, Availability Factor and Modules Efficiency.

    Management Dashboards

    • Web-enabled Management Dashboards provide easy access to relevant information at all management levels. Dashboards are available at Operator, Supervisor, Departmental Manager and Senior Management levels.
    • Senior Management can view production performance indicators per solar park or even compare performance of different parks.

    Solar Park Production Control Centre

    • The PPP (Park Production Program) is generated by the EDAMS Trading software as the cost optimal production schedule for the park daily.

    • The required production output of a park may change throughout the trading day due to various events, such as breakdowns, DSO (Distributor System Operator) direct interventions and TSO (Transmission System Operator) real time instructions for curtailment.

    • As a result, the Control Centre software will automatically regenerate the production program for each park on a real time basis (on a pre-set interval) in line with cost optimal conditions for the Energy trader managing the park.

    • A suitable Control Centre User Interface exists allowing monitoring and manual intervention when required.

    • Additionally, a suitable Park Communication module exists that allows for automated park production curtailment based on the optimal requirement.

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