April 2011 - Control Global

S C A D A
REMOTE WIND ENERGY SCADA CONTROL SYSTEM
Figure 1. “Mission Control” at Iberdrola Renewables monitors every turbine at
every one of its wind farms across the country 24 hours a day.
PcVue as the main SCADA system
is that it is turbine supplier-agnostic.
It is not tied to any one PLC vendor,
so that it can be free to provide data
reporting and analysis formats irrespective
of turbine type.
This was of particular importance
to us because our wind farm operators
use multiple turbine types and a myriad
of various PLCs. In addition, our
team really liked how PcVue was enduser
friendly and easy to configure. Its
ability to iconize animated mimics and
use pop-up windows reduced the risk
of overlaying crucial information and
helped simplify the view for our team.
The creation of templates for contents
and behavior associated with each
mimic and GUI (graphical user interface)
animation, ensures consistency of
the window display. We use multi-level
access rights and menus associated
with each user to ensure that navigation
within the application is tailored
to the needs and the permissions of
each individual. This allows us to have
a layer of security, traceability and control
of users’ actions.