Category: Electrical

  • SCADA Miner: getting more from your SCADA data

    This week I’ve had the pleasure to meet (virtually) Tom, an electrical engineer specialized in SCADA. Tom developed an interesting software called “SCADA miner“. Basically, the software automatically dig the available data from various sensors and cross check the information to spot actual or potential problems that might go unnoticed, “lost in the sea of…

  • Wind farm substation: an overview

    Almost in every wind farm a step-up substation is built to collect all the energy generated by the turbines and received through the MV cables. The exceptions are new wind farms or existing wind farms extensions built near a substation that can be upgraded to absorb the additional energy produced: in these cases, only a…