Asset Manager: My report’s wrong, can you fix it please?
Engineer: I see we missed a lot of data this month. IT, what is going on?
IT : Auto-Reply: I’ll be out of the office until further notice. Please
submit a ticket or call one of my 12 immediate managers for
assistance.
Asset Manager: For the love of God, can someone just quickly pull the data for me.
This report is due to our investors by Friday.
Engineer: Sure, let me just…. ,.
SELECT * FROM
Some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists WHERE Data = Good
If you don’t get the last joke, it’s okay. I found it on twitter. Unfortunately, this conversation happens all too often in renewables. There’s nothing that stirs the pot more than a broken report on a Friday morning. Even the most well-rounded data-driven companies find themselves pounding the keyboard at one another over data issues.
Still, let’s psycho-analyze this exchange a little bit more.
- The asset manager seemingly feels powerless over a non-functional report and lacks the tools and training to fix the issue without an expert. There’s also a fundamental expectation of perfect data, which unfortunately doesn’t exist in actual operations
- Instead of spending his time fixing problems in the field, the engineer is forced to chase down data issues which he doesn’t have the tools or access to fix anyway (probably because he or she is stonewalled by IT)
- IT:
Sorry to pile on IT again, but they’re just too easy of a target. In reality, this is a problem across all departments, not just IT. Business units need to better train IT personnel on the use cases of their data, while IT needs to be more flexible and stop using cybersecurity as a scapegoat for lack of progress and innovation.
Anyway, I digress. So how do we stop reports from breaking?
In simple terms, we need to build a house…. a data house (“data lake” is so 2017).
Here’s some simple steps to get started.
1. Lay the Foundation: The first step in knowing whether your report is right or wrong is knowing where the true source data resides, and how it was collected in the first place. The answer to these questions lies in the data integration layer, whose sole responsibility is to interconnect all raw sources of data into one easily accessible, corporate-wide database. Whatever you do here, try and limit the amount of pit stops your data makes along its journey. Far too often, we see situations where system A exposes the data to system B, which then transforms it, and pushes it to system C, which is then copied over to a production server D, and then into an excel workbook via macro once per day. In this case, you have 4 points of failure, and virtually zero ability to detect which system is responsible for your report not working correctly.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Keep that same approach when centralizing your data.
2. Normalize your data: This is the “apples to apples” argument. Reporting across multiple sites is a waste of time unless you can do it consistently, with full transparency into the methods of how certain performance KPIs are generated. Unfortunately, no two power plants and SCADA systems are alike. Developing a generic data model that works and normalizes data, alarms, outages, and events across all technologies and asset types can take months, if not years. Before trying to take this on as an internal project, look to pre-built platforms on the market that already do this for you out-of-the-box
ahem...Bazefield?
3. Modify your data: Perfection should not be the goal in steps 1 & 2, because it will never happen. There will always be communication outages, or situations where data is lost or reported inaccurately. Because of this, users will always require tools and software to modify the root causes of outages, correct inconsistencies, and manually add context to their data.
No amount of automation can tell an asset manager that they lost $20,000 this week because a squirrel electrocuted itself in the main transformer.
Unfortunately, instead of integrating these 3 pillars in a stable data architecture, organizations often overlook steps 1 & 2, and build something heavy on sizzle, but light on substance. End Result? The data house ends up looking more like a Christmas tree which blows over at the first sign of trouble.
Don’t be this guy. Spend the time and money up front to centralize and model your data correctly. Our first video series will tell you exactly how Bazefield can help achieve this for you.
by Brad Johnson, Lead Solution Architect, Bazefield
TruBoard Partners Enters Strategic Partnership with Bazefield, the Fastest-Growing Comprehensive Renewable Energy System
TruBoard Partners, headquartered in Mumbai, and a leading energy transition company focused to provide third-party independent asset management services for renewable assets in India, has announced a significant partnership with Bazefield, a Norwegian provider of the global market's fastest-growing and most comprehensive off-the-shelf renewable energy asset management system. This collaboration marks a major milestone for both firms in their shared mission to revolutionize energy management through advanced data analytics.
Bazefield and W3 Energy start cooperation
UMEÅ, Sweden, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- W3 Energy has signed a five-year cooperation agreement with Bazefield AS and thereby implements the Bazefield operating system in the business. In addition, W3 Energy will support Bazefield's product and customer development.
"We are gradually moving towards a hybrid world in renewable energy production and with Bazefield we get a platform that allows us to continue our expansion. We look forward to contributing in the development of their products and sharing our experience with their customers", says W3 Energy's CEO Pär Dunder.
Bazefield selected by Invenergy Services to Deliver a New Data-Driven Owner’s Platform
Invenergy Services, the operations, asset management, and energy management affiliate of Invenergy, and Bazefield have partnered on a digital platform that will increase efficiency and improve customer experience for wind, solar, and storage asset owners, a global portfolio that is expected to top 25-gigawatts by 2025.
Stay consistent with your energy modeling throughout the lifecycle of your plant - Announcing our integration with PlantPredict
Understanding whether your investments in solar assets actually perform as planned is critical to managing overall energy yields and ensuring a return on investment. To make sure our customers always know whether their solar plants and assets are performing, we’re excited to announce that Bazefield Advanced Analytics now integrates with PlantPredict’s solar modeling software.
Bazefield receives ISO/IEC 27001 certification
With the recent cyber-attacks such as Solarwinds, Colonial Pipeline and JBS meats it is becoming apparent that all companies need to do more to protect customers and company information.
Bazefield is deeply committed to the security of our customers data therefore Bazefield decided to become ISO/IEC 27001 certified to demonstrate that we have identified risks, assessed implications, and put in place systematic controls to limit any damage to our organisation and to our customers data. With the ISO/IEC 27001 certification we have implemented a comprehensive set of standard requirements for our Information Security Management System (ISMS). These standards are designed to adopt a process that relies on establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, maintaining, and improving our ISMS.
From the Ground Up: Real Time Monitoring and Event Management
In our previous articles and video series, we covered the challenges organizations face during the implementation of operations management software, and the problems caused by improper data integration. Too often, organizations get wooed by fancy marketing, reports, and data visualizations, and fail to focus on the foundational issue behind it all: the robustness and methodology behind data integration. If you don’t start with integrating the correct data from the correct sources, your reports will never be right. That being said, let’s say you’ve solved the data integration problem (or you’ve just bought Bazefield, and you’re going to let us fix it for you).
Congratulations!
What’s next?
Bazefield committed to net-zero emission by Installing solar at HQ
Bazefield has been helping clients reduce CO2 emissions equivalent to more than a million-ton through increased efficiency of their renewable generation’s plants. Bazefield has now taken it upon themselves to commit 100% to a net-zero emission future. In addition to Bazefield's already remarkable 98% green renewable energy supply, Bazefield's HQ's entire roof will be covered with solar panels that will produce an estimated 64,000 KWh a year. This output will power Bazefield's servers, charge employees’ electric cars and much more.
Bazefield selected by Oak Creek De Mexico as its Renewable Energy Operational management software
Oak Creek Energy (OCES) has been developing renewable energy projects since 1982. Based in San Diego, CA and with presence in USA, Mexico and Colombia, OCES and its subsidiary companies offer comprehensive guidance and solutions, including Development, Construction and Asset Management services for renewable energy projects.
User Adoption: Keys to Enterprise SaaS Value
Implementing new software can be as easy as downloading an app on your phone. What gives with Enterprise Software? Why does it seem like great software ideas die on the vine or get underutilized?
Of course, its easy to toss one of these diagrams up and call it a day. Have a solid product, know how to get the data you need to make it work. Maybe a couple of nice bubbles steps you need to go through before its saving your company millions if not billions, right?
Celebrating 30 GW of wind and solar managed by the Bazefield software
Bazefield continued its strong growth across the wind and solar industries in 2019, onboarding notable clients including SSE Renewables, Akuo Energy, SprngEnergy and several others. The market-leading product, Bazefield, now monitors 30 GW of assets across 25 countries in Europe, North America, South America and India. See more up to date news and read about some of our disclosed clients.
Bazefield introduces new gold standard for solar monitoring and analytics
Bazefield, the market leading renewable monitoring and analytics platform, with off-the-shelf support for wind power, solar, hydro, biomass, battery storage and other renewable technology sources, enhances its solar capabilities by embedding the gold standard EnSight, machine learning based solar advanced analytics package, into Bazefield as one single platform.
SSE Renewables choose Bazefield as their onshore wind control room solution
SSE Renewables have contracted Bazefield for control room solution for 21 onshore wind farms and 690 MW total installed capacity. The system shall support reset and restart of the turbines, including operator support based on predominant alarm detection. It is a prioritized, fast track project that will be operation by the end of Q1.
Bazefield selected by Akuo Energy as its Renewable Energy Operational management system
“Bazefield’s overall product approach, customer service and ability to integrate and easily access both turbine and substation data were key factors for choosing Bazefield as our Renewable Energy Operational data platform ”, says Regina Sweet, Director of Asset Management at Akuo.
"We are excited that Akuo has selected our system to support the important work in getting renewable energy assets to reach their full potential. We look forward to a long term and successful relationship" says Peter Hansen, Managing Director at Bazefield Americas.
Envision Digital’s first Bazefield project delivered to Algonquin Power
Surpassed 25 GW of wind and solar managed by the EnOS Bazefield software
Bazefield has had a very strong growth in the wind and solar domain. The market-leading product, EnOS Bazefield, currently manages 25 GW on installations across 25 countries. This includes sites in Europe, North- and South America and Asia.
The system is in use by a range of notable clients such as EDF Luminus, ReNew, Brookfield Renewables, ConEdison, Equinor, within a range of others clients. EnOS Bazefield is the state-of-the-art product when digitalizing renewable energy O&M.
ReNew Power contract secures successful entry for 3E and Bazefield in the Indian market
3E and Bazefield have collaborated with ReNew Power for digitalizing O&M for ReNew's 4,100 MW utility scale wind and solar energy portfolio.
Bazefield entered the very prosperous Indian renewable energy market in 2018.
EDF Luminus choose EnOS Bazefield as their new Wind Monitoring Tool
Bazefield has contracted notable EDF Luminus for implementing EnOS Bazefield as their new Wind Monitoring Tool for their for their 64-site wind power portfolio.
EDF Luminus is a major player in the Belgian market.
Portland General Electric Partners with EnOS Bazefield for Operational Management system
Adding Portland General Electric (PGE) into the EnOS Bazefield system, strengthening our position in the North America market. The contract with PGE is for Biglow Canyon and Tucannon River wind farms for a combined capacity of 717 MW. “We have added a lot of investment and efforts into the North American market with our new office in San Diego, and the Portland General Electric contract is important to secure our US position and growth”, says Peter Hansen, Head of Bazefield Americas.
3E and Bazefield is jointly delivering an operations management system to Luxemburg utility Enovos’ portfolio of more than 300 MW of wind, solar, hydro and biogas.
n order to streamline its operations, Enovos has tendered a software solution that allows performance optimization and reporting, document and contract management, integration in direct market and financial reporting processes. Bazefield and 3E has been selected as the most comprehensive software platform to provide this functionality for the 4 different renewable energy technologies under asset management.
René Jost, CEO of Enovos, says, “This is the best software solution on the market to meet up to our high requirements for integration. The support of the experts of 3E and Bazefield will allow us to integrate our business processes for optimized asset operation.”
Adding the 402 MW Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in UK, Equinor now manages more than 700 MW offshore wind power in EnOS Bazefield
By already supporting the 317 MW large Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm and the Hywind floating turbine projects in Equinor, their portfolio of wind power managed in EnOS Bazefield now peaks over 700 MW offshore wind power with the added Dudgeon project.
Supporting other large offshore wind clients in UK, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium, more than 2,5 GW offshore wind power are managed in the EnOS Bazefield operations management system.
Strong US position
Portland General Electric adds 717 MW into the EnOS Bazefield system, securing Bazefield a strong position in the North America market. The contract with PGE is for Biglow Canyon and Tucannon River wind farms.
Advanced analytics tools and in-memory big data analytics platforms support in EnOS Bazefield
Besides the strong availability and performance analytics Apps in EnOS Bazefield, the powerful data engine in the system is a big data platform itself. With full data transparency, use of open interface standards, combined with the Software Development Kit (SDK) supporting open Application Programing Interfaces (APIs), a wide range of options for utilizing advanced analytics tools and in-memory big data analytics is supported. Our partners and clients have utilized a range of such advanced analytics and big data tools with EnOS Bazefield.
Bazefield will also start offering build in advanced wind farm analytics fully integrated with EnOS Bazefield as the big data platform. Contact us for more information around support for advanced analytics and in-memory big data analytics.
Bazefield opens North American office in San Diego
With Bazefield’ s growth in the North American market, it has become crucial to open an US entity to support and drive new growth says Bazefield CEO Sigurd Juvik, it has all along been part of the company’s global growth strategy to open up a US based office once we have customers onboard to support.
With the robustness and scalability of the EnOS Bazefield platform, we recognize strong product fit for the North American market, which in general include larger facilities and portfolios. We are offering an all-inclusive service to the North America market with turn-key delivery and a choice between an in-house installations or cloud services, which includes all project services, software operations, maintenance and 24/7 support.
