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True:SCADA™

Utility-scale, Non-Proprietary PV+BESS control, and Compliance Support – all in a unified ecosystem.

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Next Generation Control

Trimark’s True:SCADA™ product suite is our next-generation control solution – built better for PV and BESS owners, integrators, and the grid. Its high efficiency, high-fidelity control, fast reporting, big data management, and vendor-neutral configurability are designed to meet the challenges of owning and optimizing utility-scale PV and BESS resources.

True:SCADA™ is designed specifically for portfolio management, resource control, and market integration with tools that help maximize resource revenue. It unifies data while delivering fast local control, cloud orchestration, and real-time compliance. Tailored specifically for utility-scale PV, BESS, hybrid, and co-located resources, True:SCADA™ eases integration, extends scalability, and integrates with ISO and utility protocols. It’s also built right in the USA.

Key Features

  • Non-proprietary configurability allowing any trained and experienced integrator to set up, test, and deploy;
  • Fast access to production data for accurate reporting and meaningful alarms;
  • Quick response to meet operating targets, control ramps, delivering grid stability;
  • Consistent data across entire portfolio supports meaningful comparisons and actionable insights;
  • Linux-based system for high availability, robust performance, and lower expense;
  • Templatized components codify best practices and standardize preferences, allowing trained integrators to deliver repeatable and consistent configurations.

Origin Story

In 2012, Trimark introduced its first-generation SCADA system. Since then, Trimark has deployed control systems at more than 600 PV and BESS resources – including the largest, most complex PV and BESS resources in the world.

Our experience helped guide our vision for a truly revolutionary control ecosystem.

Blending the latest technology advances with Trimark’s field-proven experience, Trimark created True:SCADA™ – a system specifically for advanced PV and BESS control. It delivers improved performance at a lower cost while supporting grid resilience. It’s better for the owner; better for the grid; and better for the integrator.

True:SCADA™ provides the tools resource owners need to thrive in competitive power markets where responsiveness and precise control are paramount. True:SCADA™ supports business and operational requirements, including:

  • Participation in energy markets with native functions to validate and execute requests for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Automated Dispatch System (ADS), and/or ancillary services;
  • Unified master plant control to operate hybrid or co-located PV and BESS resources;
  • Maximize revenue while meeting LGIA limits and PPA requirements;
  • Repeatable, reliable, and fast reporting for commissioning, plant status, portfolio-wide analytics, and audit.

Substation controls seamlessly flow through your RTAC to the local HMI.

Substation controls seamlessly flow through your RTAC to the local HMI.

As a vendor-neutral system, True:SCADA™ can be deployed by any trained systems integrator. Anyone qualified to configure controls for critical infrastructure – trained resource owners, third-party systems engineers, and integrators – can add devices or configure an entire system.

Settings can be analyzed and thoroughly tested long before deploying to a site or propagating across the enterprise.

The result: faster integration, lower costs, greater repeatability, better consistency, and a larger pool of qualified engineers to perform the work.

All device configurations guaranteed accurate between cloud and site.

All device configurations guaranteed accurate between cloud and site.

Grid resilience is imperative. So critical power resources and the systems used to operate them must be equally stable. With True:SCADA™ reliability is baked in. Here’s why:

  • True:SCADA™ is security-hardened according to NERC-CIP, utility standards, IEEE guidance, and additional best practices.
  • True:SCADA™ follows precise ramp rates to meet exact delivery targets at the point of interconnection as required by your PPA and LGIA.
  • Automated control for Primary Frequency Response (PFR), Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR), voltage control (Volt-VAR), power factor, reactive power, and shunt capacitor / reactor devices.
  • Overload protection by managing real and reactive power flow between resources that share transformers.
  • Manage and control Volt Amp Reactive (VAR) power flow from each resource to deliver the necessary VARs at the point of delivery as required by the LGIA.
  • Manage and optimize VAR flow between hybrid or co-located PV/ BESS resources to maximize BESS apparent power capability.
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    Better for the Owner

    True:SCADA™ provides the tools resource owners need to thrive in competitive power markets where responsiveness and precise control are paramount. True:SCADA™ supports business and operational requirements, including:

    • Participation in energy markets with native functions to validate and execute requests for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Automated Dispatch System (ADS), and/or ancillary services;
    • Unified master plant control to operate hybrid or co-located PV and BESS resources;
    • Maximize revenue while meeting LGIA limits and PPA requirements;
    • Repeatable, reliable, and fast reporting for commissioning, plant status, portfolio-wide analytics, and audit.

    Substation controls seamlessly flow through your RTAC to the local HMI.

    Substation controls seamlessly flow through your RTAC to the local HMI.

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    Better for the Integrator

    As a vendor-neutral system, True:SCADA™ can be deployed by any trained systems integrator. Anyone qualified to configure controls for critical infrastructure – trained resource owners, third-party systems engineers, and integrators – can add devices or configure an entire system.

    Settings can be analyzed and thoroughly tested long before deploying to a site or propagating across the enterprise.

    The result: faster integration, lower costs, greater repeatability, better consistency, and a larger pool of qualified engineers to perform the work.

    All device configurations guaranteed accurate between cloud and site.

    All device configurations guaranteed accurate between cloud and site.

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    Better for the Grid

    Grid resilience is imperative. So critical power resources and the systems used to operate them must be equally stable. With True:SCADA™ reliability is baked in. Here’s why:

    • True:SCADA™ is security-hardened according to NERC-CIP, utility standards, IEEE guidance, and additional best practices.
    • True:SCADA™ follows precise ramp rates to meet exact delivery targets at the point of interconnection as required by your PPA and LGIA.
    • Automated control for Primary Frequency Response (PFR), Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR), voltage control (Volt-VAR), power factor, reactive power, and shunt capacitor / reactor devices.
    • Overload protection by managing real and reactive power flow between resources that share transformers.
    • Manage and control Volt Amp Reactive (VAR) power flow from each resource to deliver the necessary VARs at the point of delivery as required by the LGIA.
    • Manage and optimize VAR flow between hybrid or co-located PV/ BESS resources to maximize BESS apparent power capability.

Precise Control

True:SCADA™ delivers precise PV and BESS plant control, high-fidelity data, cloud-based management, and compliance support – all in a unified ecosystem.

Maximize Revenue

True:SCADA™ leverages advanced compute technologies, automates controls, and exceeds industry standards. It seamlessly integrates with ISO and Utility protocols to optimize operations and maximize revenue.

Built on Linux

Built on Linux, True:SCADA™ is engineered for high availability, resilience, security, and scalability – as you should expect from your mission-critical systems.

True:SCADA™ At A Glance

Modular Architecture

Configurable Control, Command, Insight, RIG, and additional modules under development.

Fast Implementation

Cut integration time and cost. Trained integrators use expert tools to accelerate configuration and deployment.

Real-time Grid Integration

Bi-directional, secure telemetry enables market participation.

Security and Business Continuity

Role-based configuration, controls, reports, and diagnostics to take your security beyond NERC CIP.

Field-to-Cloud Integration

Secure connections between site and cloud ensure consistent data.

Scalable Across Portfolio

Enterprise configuration change management and propagation.

Built on Linux

High uptime, lower costs, interoperability, and long-term serviceability.

Coded to Open Standards

Built on open-source, non-proprietary platforms for compatibility and development community support.

ISO Integrated

Validates setpoints from utility or ISO; then executes actions to delivery precisely at the Point of Interconnection.

An Integrated Ecosystem

True:SCADA™ includes interconnected modules:

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Data

Designed for big data. IIOT data points. Time series based

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Configurator

Templatized and version-controlled configuration tools and algorithms.

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Control

Secure data telemetry, logic execution, and local control.

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Command

Secure portfolio and date interface. Intelligent alarming and reporting.

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Insight

Predictive analytics and diagnostics powered by Machine Learning.

Technical Details

Trimark partners with resource owners and EPCs to deliver end-to-end solutions that unify engineering, integration, computing, instrumentation, and networking. As your long-term partner, our team works with you to coordinate and deliver a thorough system from panel to point of interconnect.

On-Site OS

Linux

Database

Postgres/Timescale. Energy Market Optimized

Language

.NET 8.0

Messaging System

Neural Autonomic Transport System (NATS)

Data Source of Truth

Local and/or Cloud

Configuration

Local or Cloud based 
w/ versioning

Self-Healing

Auto Restoration

Deployment Time

1 – 3 hours

Configuration Time

1 – 2 weeks

Architecture Structure

Modular, High Availability, Energy Market Specific

Security

Meets NERC-CIP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2

Updates

Automated and/or Scheduled

Logging

Local and/or Cloud

Historized Data Storage

Local. Unlimited Cloud.

Containerization

Kubernetes Clustering

Machine Learning

Platform Supports Advanced Predictive Analytic Models

Calculation Service

Spans Portfolios and/or Sites

Advanced Data Analytics

Model Driven

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