PV park equipment: SCADA, video and radar surveillance and more
PV park equipment: we advise you on SCADA, solar field control, video and radar surveillance and monitoring systems for your solar park.
Are you planning a PV park? We advise you on plant equipment, technically sound and tailored to your needs. This includes SCADA systems, solar field control, video and radar surveillance systems and monitoring systems. The equipment helps determine how transparent, controllable and safe a solar park runs in operation. We know the requirements of authorities and experts and support you in communication with the plant manufacturer. In selecting the equipment, reliability, maintainability and clean interfaces to operations management and the grid operator count.
As part of the equipment, a SCADA system brings the plant's data together in one place. Typically, measured values from strings, inverters, meters, protection devices, transformers and weather stations flow in. Monitoring compares measured generation with expected yield and reports faults, so that outages and power losses are noticed early. Complete and finely time-resolved data make it easier to detect, over a plant's lifetime, gradual performance losses from ageing and rising maintenance effort. There are also external requirements: for subsidised plants, requirements for remote controllability and adjustability may apply, depending on the applicable Renewable Energy Expansion Act (EAG) regime and the funding conditions, and the technical rules (TOR) for power generators provide for the transmission of real-time data to the grid operator above a certain size. The selection of components feeds into the tender for PV components. How surveillance and monitoring pay off in day-to-day operation is shown by technical operations management.
Solar parks are often remote, and modules, inverters and cables are sought-after targets for theft. Video systems with sensor-controlled night vision are meant to detect intruders early, and additional sensors such as radar can further secure the site. Inverters and junction boxes should also be protected against unauthorised access, for example by a fence. If the system raises an alarm, a control centre can evaluate the footage and intervene via loudspeakers. Fire protection also affects the equipment: the fire brigade's requirements for access routes, labelling and emergency documents must be agreed with the competent fire brigade and authority for the specific project. Emergency numbers should be kept on site and in the emergency documents and checked regularly. If a battery storage system is added, the control system becomes the interface between storage, inverters and grid connection, and the storage system is considered separately in the fire protection requirements. The earlier these points are brought together in planning, the fewer rounds of coordination arise later with authorities, grid operator and plant manufacturer.
With Agri-PV, technology and agriculture interlock. Tracking modules change the space that machinery can use below and between the rows; how the land is farmed is set out in the land management concept. The module position also influences where sunlight is reflected, which a glare assessment examines. As a highlight, we deliver the Agri-PV plant turnkey as the EWS Sonnenfeld®. For wind farms, we advise on the equipment of wind turbines.
