Wind, Solar and Battery Data Collection

GreenStream™ local data concentrator system connects to data streams from DCS, PLC, SCADA, PV string monitoring boxes, combiner boxes and inverters using protocols - OPC, OPC UA, MQTT, MODBUS and others.

Your data is:

• Stored locally in GreensStream’s data concentrator whilst being sent to the cloud for reporting and analysis and long term storage.
• Protected by GreenStream’s store and forward capability ensuring you lose no data – even from remote sites.
• Fully encrypted and secure when transmitted to the Cloud, meaning your control system network and data cannot be hacked or data compromised in any way.

Setting Up

Setting up your data collection points is easy and broadly automatic for most major vendors.

Non-standard or obscure systems can be configured manually in GreenStream™.

Combining other Key Data

GreenStream™ provides cloud based data interfaces for combining key meteorological, energy market and grid data with your live wind farm and solar data. In this way you have all the data you need in one place, for your daily decisions.

GreenStream™ solves the business challenge of getting all the key data you need, from whatever source, in one place. You can make good decisions fast to generate and sell the maximum power at the highest price.

For Energy Trading:

• Carbon and gas indices
• Market - daily price trends
• Market - daily volumes
• Meteorological data 
• Active power forecasts
• Energy demand forecasts
• Today’s energy demand
• Market day-ahead results
• Revenue forecasts
• Average generation mix and trends

For Wind Operations Managers:

• Active power and wind speed
• Meteorological data
• Reference power curve
• Wind rose
• Energy rose
• Turbine parameters
• Turbine losses
• Alarms
• Exported / imported power
• Capacity factor
• Dispatch down (MWh, %)
• Exported power vs forecast generation
• Revenue vs budget

For Solar Plant Operations Managers: 

• Irradiance and active power 
• Meteorological data
• Solar inclination
• Reference power curve
• String parameters
• Combiner box parameters
• Inverter parameters
• Power losses
• Alarms
• Active power
• Apparent power
• Power factor
• Reactive power
• Frequency
• Performance ratio
• Dispatch down (MWh, %)
• Power output vs forecast production
• Revenue vs budget

GreenStream™ gives you capacity and demand forecasts by combining your operational data with statistical, market, grid and meteorological data.

Analytics 

• Wind: view your operations at turbine / wind farm / portfolio level
• Solar: view your operations at string / combiner box / inverter / portfolio level
• See trends, patterns and correlations between your equipment and operations
• Compare performance over different time periods and understand variations
• Monitor revenue against your budget
• Calculate the value of your lost production by cause
• Create and save your own quick queries

Reports

Receive daily / monthly management KPI reports.

Reports can be scheduled and delivered to you by email in PDF format. Key reports include:

• GreenStream™ Master Daily Wind Farm Report
• GreenStream™ Master Solar Farm Report
• GreenStream™ Operational Availability Report
• GreenStream™ Contractual Availability Report
• GreenStream™ Dispatch Down Report
• GreenStream™ Revenue Report

GreenStream™ collects information from platforms such as ENTSO-E and from TSOs to bring market and grid data to your decision dashboards, including:

• Gas and Carbon Indices
• Actual Generation per Production Type
• Actual, Day Ahead Load and Future Forecast Loads
• Generation Forecasts – Wind and Solar
• Dispatch down (MWh)
• Dispatch down 
• Daily Price Trend
• Net Position
• Market Day-Ahead Price
• Balancing Reserves Market

Dispatch Down

The challenge facing renewable energy producers is the inability of the grid to take power capacity at all times. Dispatch down information is often not available or is out of date when it arrives.

Where data is not readily available, or you wish to validate TSO information, Greenstream™ collects data from the HPPP or irradiance/inverter data to calculate:

• Lost power (MWh) due to dispatch down
• % of your power capacity lost to dispatch down

GreenStream™ can calculate lost revenue due to dispatch down, referencing current market prices or compensation agreements.

Verify and protect all site workers with Greensteam™ Connected Worker

A mobile phone App for Site Workers, with a fully integrated Control Panel within GreenStream™

• Site Worker Health & Safety
• Site worker verification
• Induction training
• Critical site documentation
• Worker entry and exit notifications
• Site worker tracking
• Site worker Health & Safety alarms
• Health & Safety reporting
• Adverse weather alerts

Wind Turbine Safety (WTSR)

• Work order automation
• Transfer of Control
• Remote turbine lockout
• Process and workflows in compliance with WTSR
• Work order progress tracking
• Turbine status
• Turbine maintenance history and reporting