Renewable Energy Management Solutions Reviews and Ratings

Mandatory Features:

• Asset management: This includes comprehensive asset management capabilities for the effective tracking and management of renewable energy assets. This can be intrinsic to the REMS offering or via third-party enterprise asset management (EAM) and asset performance management (APM) applications. REMS must include the following functional areas to support asset management capabilities: Inventory management; Shutdown and outage; management; Tracking actual costs; Asset management; Work management

• Grid integration and interconnection: This feature facilitates the seamless integration of renewable energy assets with the electrical grid for efficient power flow. This feature includes advanced technologies and protocols that facilitate bidirectional power flow, grid stability and optimal utilization of renewable energy resources. By enabling effective grid integration, this feature promotes the reliable and sustainable integration of renewable energy into the existing energy system, contributing to a greener and more resilient grid.

• Operational control and maintenance: This feature supports dynamic control of assets and features for scheduling and managing maintenance tasks to maximize generation and ensure optimal performance. This improves business portfolio outcomes through a technical and economic control objective, implemented with automated closed-loop control, including dashboards and tools for reporting.

• Remote monitoring, control and predictive analytics: This feature provides remote access and control capabilities for renewable energy assets. It allows operators and maintenance teams to monitor the performance, status and health of assets from a centralized location. Real-time data and analytics enable proactive decision making and timely interventions to ensure optimal asset performance. Additionally, this feature leverages predictive analytics to anticipate maintenance needs and minimize downtime. By analyzing historical data and patterns, it can predict potential issues, enabling preventive maintenance and reducing the risk of unexpected failures. This feature empowers asset owners and operators with the ability to remotely manage and optimize their renewable energy assets, improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.

• Scalability and flexibility: This feature is designed to provide scalability and flexibility to accommodate the growth and changing needs of renewable energy portfolios. It enables business orchestration of renewable operations across traditional organizational silos, including asset and work management, operations, and overall business performance. The integration of business activities across enterprise systems is a key aspect. The system allows for unit performance optimization while considering the trade-off with prescribed portfolio performance, taking into account smart servicing plans and forecasting outages for efficient dispatch across units, sites and the entire portfolio. It offers the ability to identify, measure, manage, optimize and report on the operations and performance of the portfolio as a whole.

• Reporting, analytics and compliance: This feature includes robust reporting and analytics capabilities to gain insights, comply with regulatory requirements and adhere to environmental standards. The inclusion of data monitoring capabilities enables users to gain a better understanding of information, facilitating quicker and more informed decision making. This encompasses features such as a single view, customizable dashboards and the ability to reconfigure the system to meet operational requirements.

• Performance benchmarking: This feature includes benchmarking capabilities to compare asset performance against industry standards and providing insights for improvement. By analyzing key performance indicators and metrics, this feature helps identify areas of strength and areas that require optimization. It enables asset owners and operators to make data-driven decisions to enhance overall performance, increase efficiency and achieve industry-leading standards.

• Performance monitoring and data integration: This feature includes real-time monitoring and integration of various data inputs to optimize renewable energy operations and identify performance issues. This includes real-time sensor data, weather data tools, lidar for real-time weather measurement and forecasting, site data, and discrete digital twins, as well as renewable operations and dispatch techniques (such as wind turbine wake management).