As one of North America’s largest renewable energy developer, owner, and operators, Invenergy LLC has faced and overcome numerous challenges in sourcing and building out a robust, cost-effective real-time data infrastructure for the wind and thermal assets in their portfolio. Invenergy has leveraged their Enterprise Agreement (EA) and PI infrastructure to provide real-time data, analysis and enterprise visibility to corporate and site personnel. This paper will provide best practices and details on the robust and cost-effective infrastructure design, deployment, and integration with OEM supplied SCADA systems as well as how Invenergy is leveraging real-time data to manage operating costs and operating effectiveness for nearly 1000 wind turbines deployed across the United States. Directions and future project work that continues to leverage the EA will also be provided.
Speaker
Kevin Schroeder
Kevin Schroeder is an Operations Engineer for Invenergy, providing technical support and oversight for Invenergy’s 1,600 MW of operating wind assets. Prior to focusing on operations, Mr. Schroeder provided onsite construction and commissioning oversight as well as supported development and permitting of new wind facilities. Mr. Schroeder is now the technical project lead for several new initiatives including the deployment of an enterprise PI system, deployment of condition monitoring software, and the development of wind turbine performance analysis tools. Mr. Schroeder holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University.
Mike Liska is an Electrical Engineer focusing on SCADA Engineering for Invenergy, acting as the single point of contact for all SCADA related activities at Invenergy. Mr. Liska is primarily responsible for supporting the day-to-day operations of Invenergy’s various SCADA systems. Mr. Liska is also involved in a variety of PI based projects, including the implementation of additional data sources into PI, leveraging PI to transfer data to a variety of 3rd parties, and utilizing PI for substation monitoring and communication. Mr. Liska holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineer Technology.