PV+BESS SCADA

The Right Information; Right at Your Fingertips

Vantage presents real time and historical information for your entire portfolio, all in one intuitive view. From there, you can drill in to assess performance of a resource or a specific device.

• Single pane view of portfolio, fleet, resource, or plant devices.
• Over 118 standard reports. Create and save customized reports.
• Realtime production trends.
• Customizable alarm definitions and alerts.
• Capture and historize 5-minute, 1-minute, or 1-second data for analysis and warranty support.

Control PV and BESS with Pinpoint Precision

Vantage unifies control over PV and PV+BESS resources with a built-in Master Plant Controller and split-second execution. It’s the precision you need to meet PPA and LGIA requirements and help protect your assets.

• Meet exact setpoints at the point of interconnection.
• Automate control for Primary Frequency Response (PFR), Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR), Voltage control (Volt-VAR), Power Factor, reactive power, and Shunt capacitor / reactor devices.
• Monitor and control inverters, BESS, trackers, breakers, cap banks, and protective relays.
• Monitor meters and meteorological instruments.

Unify Control of Complex Environments

Trimark’s Master Plant Controller (MPC) unifies control over hybrid and/or co-located PV and PV+Battery Energy Storage (BESS) resources. MPC functionality is designed to:

• Comply with LGIA limits and PPA requirements while maximizing revenue.
• Provide overload protection by managing real and reactive power flow between resources that share transformers.
• Manage and control reactive power (VAR) flow from each resource to deliver the necessary VARs at the Point of Delivery to comply with LGIA requirements.
• Manage and optimize VAR flow between hybrid or co-located PV/ BESS resources to maximize BESS apparent power capability, when available.

What to Expect from a Trimark SCADA system

Trimark builds durable solutions on redundant computing equipment – as you should expect from a system that controls critical infrastructure. That investment pays off in high availability, regulatory compliance, and opportunities for market participation.

• End-to-end solutions include software, hardware, HMI configuration, data gateways, cyber secure networking, field network equipment, meteorological stations, and revenue meters.
• Engineering for HMI narrative, control narrative, cloud or local data historization, and configuration of real-time trending.
• Design Engineering for equipment selection and layouts; thermal and power load calculations; fiber network loss attenuation calculations. Panels and cabinets engineered and built according to UL and NEC guidelines and building and electrical codes.
• Field installation, system testing, and support for plant commissioning including reports to validate power production.
• Complete documentation package, user training, and post-COD support.
• Stable code base proven on more than 500 installed systems.
• Industrially hardened PLC supports advanced logic.
• Predefined device libraries to interface with devices using DNP 3.0, Modbus, OPC, IEC 61850, ICCP, API, and MQTT.
• We can rapidly configure or add functions to meet your unique needs.

Learn more about what sets Trimark apart.

Security and Business Continuity

Trimark takes a 360 approach to cyber security and disaster recovery to support uptime – optimizing generation and maximizing revenue.

Trimark’s network design standards consider a wide range of needs to easily integrate into a client’s NERC CIP Policy, including standard security policies (ACLs) that comply with NERC CIP standards.

• Deployed on hardened Nutanix or Dell servers and industry standard RTUs/automation controllers.
• Support rapid recovery with redundant, local hardware and controls plus regular system and data backup to the cloud.
• Avoid unplanned outages with highly reliable servers and automatic failover, if needed.
• Easily produce NERC Mod 26 and 27 compliance test reports.

Trimark applies extensive experience in PV and BESS control to deliver end-to-end SCADA solutions built on Ignition software (Inductive Automation) as the HMI and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) RTAC hardware as the Power Plant Controller.

Together with Trimark’s extensive experience in PV and BESS control, this technology stack provides a complete monitoring and control solution suited for many utility-scale Photovoltaic (PV) generation and Battery Energy Storage (BESS) resources.

Trimark is a Certified and Credentialed Integrator.

Vantage shows site details, operating status, and other key performance data in a single view. From this dashboard, operators can access controls, reports, alarms, and recent history.

For resources that need simple monitoring and the most basic control, Trimark delivers a simple monitoring system to track recent site information, alert you to critical events, and support inverter reset.

It’s just right for commercial and industrial resources.