• PowerWatch: Operating a Wind Farm as a Standalone Balancing Authority

    NaturEner's Glacier Wind farm is a unique entity in the electrical grid. It is the first wind generation facility that has operated as a wind-only balancing authority. This poses a number of challenges in operating the wind farm reliably and ...
    Year: 2012

    ISO Market Participation for Wind Generation Assets

    Exelon Wind owns wind generation assets across several ISO/RTO markets, including Midwest ISO (MISO), Southwest Power Pool (SPP), PJM, and ERCOT. While much of the fleet generation is registered as intermittent renewable resources and sold through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), ...
    Year: 2012

    Optimizing Wind Farm performance with the PI System and Transpara VisualKPI

    NaturEner is a developer and operator of utility scale wind farms. Our Glacier Wind farm is unique in that we operate as a wind-only Balancing Authority. We have to monitor both operational and commercial data to ensure best performance. This ...
    Year: 2012

    Creating Real-time Situational Awareness Across Your Entire Wind Operations

    In 2010, Edison Mission Energy worked with OSIsoft and Versify Solutions to implement technologies and processes that added additional real-time insight to plant availability and outage events. These technologies provided automated communications between operations, dispatch and the trade floor. Attendees ...
    Year: 2012

    Renewable Energy Monitoring with the PI System

    Duke Energy Renewables entered the wind power industry in 2007 and has since invested over $2.5 billion into growing its renewable operations. By 2013, it is expected to own and operate an estimated 1800 MW of wind power in six ...
    Year: 2012