Wind and solar farms are typically made up of dozens of turbines or inverters spread across large areas of land, often far from urban centers. Monitoring the performance of each of these units, both individually and as a whole, is key to securing the return on investment.

Unlike conventional generation, renewable energy output depends directly on weather conditions: wind, solar radiation and temperature. Having this information correlated with each unit’s actual generation makes it possible to detect performance drops that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Deploying Equinox in renewable energy

Equinox centralizes information from wind turbines, photovoltaic inverters, weather stations and energy meters across one or several plants, presenting it on a single web platform accessible to operators and management alike.

Its multi-site capability allows you to compare performance between different plants or between units within the same plant, quickly identifying which ones are operating below their expected output.

How could you benefit from the use of Equinox?

Equinox is a mature product deployed in distributed generation and renewable energy installations, allowing you to control wind turbines, inverters, weather stations and meters through analog and digital input and output modules, PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) and protocols such as MODBUS and DNP3.

In many plants, each turbine or inverter manufacturer provides its own monitoring software, creating isolated platforms that don’t communicate with each other and make it difficult to get an overall view of the plant.

With Equinox this information is integrated into a single multi-brand platform: the operator can see the generation, availability and status of every unit, regardless of manufacturer, from a single screen.

In the event of a fault, a disconnection or a performance drop in a turbine or inverter, the system immediately alerts the person in charge by text message or email, allowing action to be taken before the loss of generation adds up.

The historical generation record, correlated with weather variables, also makes it possible to audit each unit’s performance over time and detect degradation that isn’t always evident in the short term.

The use of our product brings many advantages, including:

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  Multi-brand integration

  Connect turbines and inverters from different manufacturers on a single monitoring platform.
  
  

  Outcome

  A unified view of the plant, without depending on each brand's own software.
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  Weather correlation

  Compare each unit's actual generation with the site's wind, solar radiation and temperature.
  
  

  Outcome

  Detection of performance drops that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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  Per-unit performance

  Compare availability and generation across turbines, inverters or entire plants.
  
  

  Outcome

  Quick identification of underperforming units.
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  Fault alerts

  Receive automatic alerts for disconnections, faults or performance drops on any unit.
  
  

  Outcome

  Less accumulated generation loss from unaddressed faults.
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  Generation history

  Record and store each unit's generation history for audits and degradation analysis.
  
  

  Outcome

  Better control over the return on investment over time.

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