Wind Farm Management

As leading supplier of MES and developer of the Ekho Solution Centre, iTi, in partnership with BBA, an engineering consultant and service provider that possesses strong wind power expertise, has chosen to leverage the Ekho Solution Centre to address the needs of utility-scale wind farm owners, operators, and managers, and turbine manufacturers. iTi and BBA have designed a system, which enables you to monitor the performance of your wind assets on a real-time basis, right from your Internet, anywhere, anytime.

The Real-Time Wind Power Portfolio Manager (RT-WPPM) solution is designed with the ability to view high-level asset management data, combined with the capability to drill down to the component level in every wind turbine in the fleet. This provides you with the power to capitalize on real-time information about your wind assets, empower business decision-making, and identify areas for operating, process and technological improvements.

The RT-WPPM solution retrieves and gathers critical operating data from all of you wind power assets and high performance archives. It provides you with meaningful data analysis and variance reports in support of decision-making. It features dynamic performance reports, key performance indicators, fleet-wide analysis, forecasts/schedules, and asset benchmarking.

More than just providing you with standard reports, the RT-WPPM solution features capabilities for creating instant reports (configurable by selecting any category of your choice - individual turbine, groups of turbines, wind farm, or multiple wind farms), plus reports on execution, points captured by a SCADA system, and values calculated as per warranty and operating agreements.

Based on OSIsoft’s PI System and on iTi’s Ekho Solution Centre, the RT-WPPM solution is fully OPC/ODBC/OLEDB compliant, allowing it to connect to your new or existing wind farm SCADA using standard protocoles. Because of its open system architecture, the RT-WPPM allows for third party modules embedding as to fit your business needs of today and tomorrow. This includes computerized maintenance management systems, a forecasting module per service provider and a schedule coordinator.

The RT-WPPM measures real-time performance of your wind power assets, thus helping you take informed business decisions. To learn more about the RT-WPPM wind farm management solution, please visit iTi’s partner BBA web site at www.bba.ca, or contact one of BBA’s representatives at 450-464-2111.