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Global agreement with Total Eren

  • On September 28, 2021
Inaccess, a leader in Monitoring, Control and Grid Integration platforms, has signed a global framework contract with Total Eren for the Support and Maintenance of Unity Monitoring, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and PPC (Power Plant Control) system for several Total Eren’s solar plants located in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. is a leading
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Could all power plants be virtual one day?

  • On November 11, 2021
The once-exotic idea of a virtual power plant (VPP)—a combination of distributed generation assets controlled like a single source of power—is gaining traction. Tesla is touting VPPs in California, Chile is due to install Latin America’s first VPP and even Big Oil is muscling in on the concept.  It’s hardly surprising. While the world is
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Battery Energy Storage: The Secret to Asset Management

  • On August 26, 2021
Renewable energy asset owners and operators are learning a new set of rules. For the last two decades, they have been getting used to solar and wind, the two most widely installed renewable energy technologies around the world. And these technologies still take the lion’s share of renewable energy investment.  Last year, for example, solar
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The BESS Ecosystem

  • On November 29, 2021
There is a lot of discussion around the control and monitoring of a Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and what an Energy Management System (EMS) for BESS actually does. Trying to shed some light on this question we present below the BESS ecosystem as shown from the control viewpoint. Each of the devices shown above
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The key role of SCADA systems in de-risking solar assets

  • On June 25, 2021
It’s time to add up the cost of your new solar plant. Even with continuing decreases in cost, your modules will make up the biggest item on your capital expenditure (CAPEX) bill. Other installation materials, including trackers and balance of plant, will add another big chunk of CAPEX. Then you’ve got the cost of labour,
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Cybersecurity Management: A Survival Guide

  • On May 14, 2021
Industrial Control System (ICS) is a general term that encompasses several types of control systems, including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other control system configurations such as skid-mounted Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) often found in the industrial sectors and critical infrastructures. ICS are typically used in industries such
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NTS631 v2.0 Certification for UNITY SCADA/PPC

  • On June 17, 2021
Compliance certificate License No. 2621/0181-1-CER Inaccess announces successful certification of UNITY Power Plant Controller (PPC) according to  NTS v2.0 (Norma Tecnica de Supervision) in accordance with the EU Regulation 2016/631, a harmonized standard for Generators across all European countries, with the objective to boost the market of generation technology and increase competitiveness.https://www.entsoe.eu/network_codes/rfg/ You can get a
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How can solar energy provide grid support?

  • On April 29, 2021
How can solar power help support the grid? This is an increasingly pressing question in places such as Europe, where renewable energy is gradually moving to dominate the electricity network. The European Union got 34% of its electricity from renewable sources in 2019, with Austria and Sweden seeing levels of more than 70%. Solar accounts
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Profit From Dynamic Containment in the UK

  • On June 11, 2021
Most battery storage owners and operators already know that value stacking is the key to profitability. Batteries are costly assets, but they can recoup their costs in more ways than one—and using a battery system for multiple applications can greatly improve the asset’s return on investment.  Plus, there is one particular area that batteries excel
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Dynamic Containment

  • On April 5, 2021
Grid Services Dynamic Containment (DC), which helps to manage grid frequency at timescales of under a second, a new landmark for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in the UK and other markets that will follow this paradigm. Since its launch in October 2020, Dynamic Containment has paid an average of £17.0MW/hr, almost three times higher
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SCADA for Solar PV Plants: The Complete A to Z Guide

  • On April 19, 2021
The solar value chain continues to undergo a digital transformation. Shrinking costs, performance optimization, asset reliability improvement, and ultimately extending the asset lifecycle have made the case for solar digitization much stronger. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are a good example of what’s possible. These systems can be applied for remote monitoring and
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Cross plants or single plant exports up to 50M records per file

  • On February 23, 2021
Enriched features UNITY users can now schedule or request on demand the export of data sets of up to 50 million records per file that belong to one or multiple plants. In the case of cross plant exports our new exporting engine enables efficient navigation though the assets hierarchy down to the sting level in
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UNITY Local SCADA server Redundancy options

  • On February 23, 2021
Enriched Features All utility scale solar plants require the installation of a local SCADA server that combined with the cloud platform provides redundancy and high system availability. Our technology allows two independent data streams towards the local SCADA and the cloud system eliminating any single point of failure and ensuring that in almost all cases
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UNITY Analytics: Inverter-Level Unavailability Loss Modeling

  • On December 1, 2020
Enriched Features By utilizing the accurate expected power and energy calculation performed using analytical and machine learning techniques, Inverter-Level Loss Modeling helps asset managers to correlate all events that affect plant availability with the corresponding energy loss due to those events. The energy loss calculation is performed at site and inverter levels and is presented
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UNITY Analytics: Plant-Wide Losses Modeling & Classification

  • On December 1, 2020
Enriched Features Unity Analytics and Reporting Suite now enriched with sophisticated Contingent and Technical Losses (CTL) Calculator: Combining statuses from Inverters, Circuit Breakers, Protection Devices and Grid Connection along with customizable Curated Meteo data, Modeled Production and appropriate PR and Availability Calculations, Unity Analytics perform accurate Unavailability Estimation and Classification, synthesizing those in new Unity