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Leverage Trimark’s decades of industry experience to make your utility-scale renewable generation and energy storage project a success.

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Connect. Comply. Optimize.

To help you anticipate and avoid challenges, our power-sector veterans provide the advice you need to make a smart start. We guide you through planning, design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and servicing systems used to operate renewable and storage resources.

Get a Smart Start

Understand the business, operational, and technical requirements of the interconnection process to set your course for success.

  • Generation Interconnection Application: Trimark experts help you understand interconnection and new resource implementation requirements. You’ll gain expert perspectives and counsel on your options and steps involved in each major project stage.
  • ISO/Utility PPA and IA: We can review and report on contractual commitments, settlement considerations, and related obligations.
  • Consolidated Technical Requirements: Trimark will consolidate telemetry, metering and instrument requirements into an actionable report.
  • Engineering Studies and Modeling: Trimark can deliver required modeling (e.g. PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF/DYGEN) to enable detailed substation design and inform SCADA control strategies.

 

I need help with Requirements!

Make informed decisions about SCME, compliance requirements,
equitable settlements, ongoing reporting, equitable loss assignment, and integration with control.

  • Incentive/REC Feasibility: Trimark can help you assess options, plan incentive program participation, and help you register for Renewable Energy Credits.
  • SCME vs. ISO ME SUPPORT: Trimark experts help you compare benefits and obligations of Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) and CAISO ME to help you make an informed decision.
  • Meter/SCADA Feasibility Study: Meter data is critical input to accurate control. Trimark experts help you understand the possibilities, what is required, and how it integrates into a functional system.
  • Meter Mitigation Study: If something goes wrong, our experts help you assess the root cause to support effective corrective actions, accurate settlement values, and maximum revenue.
  • Complex Metering: Complex environments often require metering schemes to support equitable loss assignment. Trimark experts assess your situation and help you plan the right meter scheme for you (e.g. peer-to-peer, DLC, etc.).
  • WEIM Participation: We help you understand requirements and contractual obligations for Participating and non-Participating Resources and/or Entities in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM).
Let's make a solid plan

Optimize and Mitigate

Leverage experts in PV and BESS monitoring and control to plan a
successful deployment or overcome issues that may occur after
commissioning.

Planning

Draw insight from SCADA professionals for help with:

  • SCADA Master Planning including objectives, market participation, control concepts, and hardware/software.
  • SCADA System Transition Planning for effective system replacement or migration.
  • ROC System Planning to address challenges of fleet management and secure, remote site control.
  • Mid-term Assessment to evaluate existing system performance related to Mod 26-27 tuning, fault tolerance, regulatory non-compliance, root cause failure analysis, control concepts, response, and related diagnostics.
  • Intelligent Alarm Strategy helps you determine what is important and avoid nuisance alarms.

    Owner’s Representative

    Get an expert on your side to support planning, selection, completion, criteria and alignment with your plan.

    • System Requirements and RFP Support ensure relevant system functionality in a complete package.
    • Engineering Reviews to validate proposed system compliance with industry standards, contractual obligations, and interconnection requirements.
    • Test Witnessing under an expert’s watchful eye.
    I need help with SCADA
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      Interconnection Guidance

      Get a Smart Start

      Understand the business, operational, and technical requirements of the interconnection process to set your course for success.

      • Generation Interconnection Application: Trimark experts help you understand interconnection and new resource implementation requirements. You’ll gain expert perspectives and counsel on your options and steps involved in each major project stage.
      • ISO/Utility PPA and IA: We can review and report on contractual commitments, settlement considerations, and related obligations.
      • Consolidated Technical Requirements: Trimark will consolidate telemetry, metering and instrument requirements into an actionable report.
      • Engineering Studies and Modeling: Trimark can deliver required modeling (e.g. PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF/DYGEN) to enable detailed substation design and inform SCADA control strategies.

       

      I need help with Requirements!
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      Metering Consulting

      Make informed decisions about SCME, compliance requirements,
      equitable settlements, ongoing reporting, equitable loss assignment, and integration with control.

      • Incentive/REC Feasibility: Trimark can help you assess options, plan incentive program participation, and help you register for Renewable Energy Credits.
      • SCME vs. ISO ME SUPPORT: Trimark experts help you compare benefits and obligations of Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) and CAISO ME to help you make an informed decision.
      • Meter/SCADA Feasibility Study: Meter data is critical input to accurate control. Trimark experts help you understand the possibilities, what is required, and how it integrates into a functional system.
      • Meter Mitigation Study: If something goes wrong, our experts help you assess the root cause to support effective corrective actions, accurate settlement values, and maximum revenue.
      • Complex Metering: Complex environments often require metering schemes to support equitable loss assignment. Trimark experts assess your situation and help you plan the right meter scheme for you (e.g. peer-to-peer, DLC, etc.).
      • WEIM Participation: We help you understand requirements and contractual obligations for Participating and non-Participating Resources and/or Entities in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM).
      Let's make a solid plan
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      SCADA Services

      Optimize and Mitigate

      Leverage experts in PV and BESS monitoring and control to plan a
      successful deployment or overcome issues that may occur after
      commissioning.

      Planning

      Draw insight from SCADA professionals for help with:

      • SCADA Master Planning including objectives, market participation, control concepts, and hardware/software.
      • SCADA System Transition Planning for effective system replacement or migration.
      • ROC System Planning to address challenges of fleet management and secure, remote site control.
      • Mid-term Assessment to evaluate existing system performance related to Mod 26-27 tuning, fault tolerance, regulatory non-compliance, root cause failure analysis, control concepts, response, and related diagnostics.
      • Intelligent Alarm Strategy helps you determine what is important and avoid nuisance alarms.

        Owner’s Representative

        Get an expert on your side to support planning, selection, completion, criteria and alignment with your plan.

        • System Requirements and RFP Support ensure relevant system functionality in a complete package.
        • Engineering Reviews to validate proposed system compliance with industry standards, contractual obligations, and interconnection requirements.
        • Test Witnessing under an expert’s watchful eye.
        I need help with SCADA

      Expert Perspective

      Why does their job matter? Trimark team members explain.

      I develop control software that simplifies the operation of utility-scale solar power generation and energy storage. That’s key to making renewable energy stable, reliable, and viable – which is how we’ll save the world.

      Brian Buhl

      Principal Software Engineer

      Last summer when temperatures topped 117 degrees and power demand reached a record 52 GW, California faced a real threat of blackouts. Our team worked nights and weekends to commission SCADA to control two BESS resources that added 227 MW of critical reserves just in time to help avoid a crisis.

      Tom Noble

      Director of Project Engineering

      The systems we design are a small, but critical, part of power generation. We design the ‘brains’ that monitor and control each resource to be reliable and durable – in some very tough environments. I’m proud to do my part to leave a lasting benefit for society.

      Vince Brashear

      Director of Engineering and Design

      We help customers meet Utility and ISO control requirements. It’s exciting to bring equipment together to work as a cohesive, efficient system.

      Yesenia Chavez

      Control Engineer I

      We start by understanding our client’s needs. One way we do this is by creating a system block diagram to show Trimark’s equipment and scope. Our customers often rely on our diagrams to make sure everyone is on the same page.

      Russell Stansbury

      Proposal Manager

      Related Markets

      If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you’ve arrived? At Trimark we’re here to help you set attainable targets; anticipate challenges; and guide you past many common hurdles. Whether you need a plan for success or help resolving a problem, our experts smooth the way.

      Developers / Independent Power Producers

      Chart a course towards regulatory compliance, revenue metering, and advanced control.

      Engineer, Procure Construct

      Eliminate project gaps and overlaps to meet requirements, avoid change orders, and finish strong.

      Utilities

      Gain practical advice on metering, secure data telemetry, and control.

      Scheduling Coordinator

      Considering SCME? We’ll help you create an SQMD plan to meet requirements and maintain compliance.

      Projects

      Take a minute to see how Trimark has helped resource owners, EPCs, and ISOs change the electric grid.

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      39 CAISO Remote Intelligent Gateway (RIG) Replacements for Compliancy

      Jan 29, 2020

      Project Type: PV generating facilities – 39 sites Location: Throughout CA with one site in AZ Client/EPC: 39 customers Products/Services:…

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      Ridgetop II

      Ridgetop II

      Dec 01, 2018

      Project Type: Wind 27.392 MW Location: Mojave, CA Client: Terra-Gen Products/Services: CAISO revenue meters and ARIG configuration Ridgetop II is…

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      Gaskell

      Gaskell West 2a, 2b, 2BESS, 3, 4, & 5

      Jun 26, 2023

      Project Type: 105MW PV, 20MW/80MWh BESS Location: Rosamond, CA Client/EPC: Matrix Renewables Products/Services: Trimark SCADA including Vantage, Trimark Remote Intelligent…

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      Midway II

      Midway II

      Dec 03, 2018

      Project Type: PV rated at 30 MW Location: Near Calipatria, CA in the Imperial Valley EPC: Blattner Energy Products/Services: SCADA,…

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