ABB has reached the cumulative 5-GW mark in providing programmable Logic Controller-based (PLC) solar plant automation solutions in India.
This milestone is an outcome of many significant solar power projects that the company won across India for its utility-scale SCADA and String Monitoring Solutions.
According to A R. Madhusudan, President – Drive Products, Motion, ABB India Ltd, “This is a positive move for the industry and will catalyze India’s plans of generating 100 GW of solar power by 2022. We, at ABB, will continue to play a key role in achieving this target,” he added.
Efficient running
ABB’s SCADA system is an automation control solution that helps in the efficient running of solar plants. It enables plant operators to seamlessly monitor and analyze relevant solar project data in one place. It addresses the needs of the renewable energy industry and supports ABB’s efforts to develop technologies that help in securing a sustainable future.
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Cost reduction
Delivered as a part of ABB’s Drive Products offering, the utility-scale SCADA solutions reduce the cost and risk of investment in operating photovoltaic (PV) power plants. In most utility-scale solar PV projects, string boxes are fitted with monitoring systems that perform different kinds of protection, performance and efficiency monitoring. ABB’s string monitoring solutions reduce downtime and increase productivity, while improving the safety of PV panels, and the entire plant.
Tracking devices
With tracking devices, the energy production of a PV plant can increase up to 30 per cent in optimal locations. ABB’s AC500 PLC, part of the automation solution, uses high-precision solar algorithms to ensure all type of trackers precisely align and follow the movement of the sun with exceptional accuracy.