Key Benefits

The key benefits of the GH SCADA system are:

• Completely independent, traceable and transparent in operation. The users specify what they want to see, control, record and report.

• Independent turbine, grid and meteorological station remote interface units providing maximum data integrity.

• Easy remote access requiring only a web browser. No complex software set-ups or dongles required.

• Easily customised to meet the different needs of turbine manufacturers, wind farm developers, wind farm operators, wind farm owners and financiers.

• Operates seamlessly with machines from any wind turbine manufacturer.

• Common graphical interface allowing users to have a common front-end display to all their wind farms.

• Common reporting enabling users to produce reports with the same format for all their wind farms.

• Common format for the database allowing the same data processing to be used for wind farms with different makes of turbine.

• Validated comparison of actual to expected energy and revenue output using wind farm power curve produced by Garrad Hassan WindFarmer the industry-leading software.

• Grid and sub station interface units for control and monitoring of the wind farm electrical system.

• Meteorological station interface units for independent wind speed and meteorological parameter monitoring and analysis.

• Integration of GH Forecaster for real time forecasting of wind farm production (in development).

• Inclusion of condition monitoring in O&M records with input to preventative maintenance (in development).

• Integration of O&M operations into the SCADA system control and database (in development).