Axpo Iberia owns the largest Control Centre (approved by REE) in the Spanish Electricity Market, developed internally within the Axpo Group, a European expert in electrical control systems, energy technologies and a real-time operator in European markets.
Axpo Iberia owns the largest Control Centre (approved by REE) in the Spanish Electricity Market, developed internally within the Axpo Group, a European expert in electrical control systems, energy technologies and a real-time operator in European markets.
Axpo Iberia offers its services to clients nationwide for all types of generation facilities, both wind farms and hydraulic plants, thermosolar plants, photovoltaic farms, cogeneration plants, biomass and transformer substations (SET). Additionally, at an international level, the CECOGEL Control Center has the capacity to monitor any production plant worldwide.
The Control Centre collects the signals sent by the affiliated producers and sends them to REE, offering real-time information on the production of each special regime plant. At the same time, it receives the production modification instructions from REE and transmits them to the affiliated plants, guaranteeing a correct adjustment between supply and demand in the national territory.
As for the Axpo Iberia Real Time Control System, it offers the following differentiating solutions to its customers:
High availability, based on standard redundant technologies (adapted to the main communication protocols such as Modbus, IEC-60870-5-102, IEC-60870-5-104, OPC, etc.) being a robust, adaptable and evolutionary solution.
Secure communications between the facilities and the Control Centre as they are carried out by means of VPNs, guaranteeing confidentiality in the transmission of information.
Improvement of the performance of the plants and substations, optimizing the distribution of the limitations (slogans) for plants connected to the same node (response time and 24x7 availability for all customers).
Customer access to a Web (private extranet) to be able to follow on-line and in real time the production of the installations and the main signals received.
Daily reports including production, limitations, alarms and operational information, also available on the Web.
Integrated tool (own design) for real-time optimization of the operation, management and productivity of the production facilities (Axpo POWER PULSE).