Scada for Wind farms

Hi,
We are looking for information about what SCADA systems is more suitable for wind farms.

We are new in this, and we want to buy a development key of a scada system for our wind farm.

The wind farm have already a control system programmed in php (very basic). so we want to change it in order to have a complete control system. The hardware in the turbines (hitachi eh-150, femto 96, CuBloc CuSB-22r) support modbus protocol.

Basically, can anyone give us information about Scada systems for wind farms, vendors of development key or something?

If you need more specifications to help us, please le us know.
Any recommendations or best practices would be greatly appreciated.

Warmest regards,

Since windfarms are a distributed system, you should have a SCADA system which supports this.

Have look on our http://pvbrowser.org
It is an open source solution.

Our KingView SCADA package has a free 2 hour demo. This is 2 hours at a time; so once your 2 hours are up simply exit the program and reenter. We also offer free technical support and project assistance. Here is a link:

http://www.icpdas-usa.com/king_view.php

I don't think there is anything special about wind farms as opposed to any other SCADA application. You collect and store data and display it graphically, often locally and remotely. I would be inclined to stay away from home brew type applications unless you like to live on the edge. Once people start to use the data, they will be seriously offended when it can't be accessed because the guy that dreamed it up left for greener pastures.

Modbus is probably the most common protocol so I would bet every SCADA system out there supports it.

A lot depends on just what it is you want to do with the data and how many people need to access it, and how you want to archive it. Communicating with the wind towers is probably not that big of a deal, although running a comm line to each tower from a central location if it does not now exist could be the most expensive part of the deal.

It seems likely to me that an existing windfarm probably has at least some kind of rudimentary SCADA system already that you might be able to use as a basis for whatever it is you think you want to do

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Bob

Hello,

We provide SCADA system for WindFarms. GH SCADA can be used with any wind turbine and therefore allows a uniform analysis and reporting process irrespective of the equipment used and can incorporate data from met masts and substations. It is currently used on over 5GW of wind farms globally.

You can check us out at
http://www.gl-garradhassan.com/en/software/scada.php

[email protected]

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