Practical Advice for Utility-Scale PV + BESS Control System Development and Commissioning
7 Tips to Reduce Time, Money, and Stress
7 Steps to Protect Your Business from Cybersecurity Threats
Reduce your risk for attack with these simple steps
Is it Time to Upgrade Your SCADA System?
How do you know when its time to upgrade or replace your SCADA system?
Support Plans Aren’t Warranties, and Go Beyond Software Maintenance
A good support plan ensures customers meet their EPMS and SCADA system goals for years after installation and commissioning.
Automatic Generator Starter Battery Testing
Does the NFPA 110 Support Automatic Generator Starter Battery Testing?
5 Key Things to Understand About SCADA Reporting
Stop exporting data manually, start automating reports for better visibility.
Choosing a Power Monitoring System Over SCADA
Skip the difficult customization of SCADA or BA and proactively find facility inefficiencies with a power monitoring system.
What Owners Should Know About High Availability and Redundancy
Underspecify redundancy and you might end up paying for it later.
3 Reasons to Upgrade SCADA Software
Upgrading will increase interactivity, planning, and communication, and improve overall ROI.
3 Reasons Why, and How to Automate Healthcare Testing
Want to reduce human error, simplify compliance reporting, and spot premature failure?
Beyond the PLC: Taking a Holistic View of Redundant Architecture
True redundancy extends beyond just the PLC to everything that could affect the controls system.
Should You Put an Electric Submeter Inside Switchgear?
Choosing convenience over serviceability increases costs over the long term.
Helping Co-op Utilities Implement Solar
Transmission operator limitations shouldn’t stop you from considering solar.
Are You Missing NFPA 110 Generator Alarms?
Do you really know if your generator alarms comply with NFPA 110?
What are Submeters?
The behind-the-scenes hardware that best helps you gain better visibility into your facility’s energy and power? Submeters.
PV Fleet Security: Layers of Separation
Protect your fleet from hacking or intrusion with these 7 scenarios.
Power Quality Made Simpler
Using a management process helps users realize where “dirty” power is coming from and help mitigate the effects for a more energy-efficient company.
Mitigating Power Quality Issues in Industrial Facilities
Designing facilities with power quality in mind.
Detecting Power Quality Events in Industrial Facilities
Using PME to detect, measure, and maintain power quality.
Battery Storage and Solar: More Efficient When Controlled Together
Solar can finally operate in all 4 quadrants of the PQ curve.
Cloud-Based EPMS Bridges the Gap Between Building Automation and Traditional EPMS
Who are the best candidates for application-specific EPMS over the cloud?
Energy Cost Allocation for Industrial Facilities
Keep cost centers accountable and measure energy conservation goals with cost allocation.
“Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should” and Other SCADA Implementation Pet Peeves
Overspecifying or underspecifying device points needlessly drives up SCADA implementation costs.
5 Meter Installation Nuances When Monitoring Utility-Scale Solar kW
It’s time to start paying attention to solar meter selection.
4 Major Power Quality Issues in Industrial Facilities
For having such a large potential to seriously devastate industrial infrastructure, power quality events are largely untracked.
Disaster Recovery: Preparing for SCADA Computer Failure
Disaster recovery is more than application backups.
How Should You Design Your Main Solar Overview SCADA Screen?
Designing a solar HMI to be intuitive for efficient operation.
Three 2018 Predictions for SCADA and Controls
In 2018, expect cloud-based SCADA, more power quality issues, and additional application functionality.
What Solar Bin Class Means for Site Monitoring
Differentiating between bin class variations and underperformance.