With the deregulation of North American electricity markets, Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. acquired several power generating facilities across North America to increase its power generating portfolio. The challenge was that this new asset’s operations were being controlled from five regional centres across North America, each using different software platforms and operating procedures. Brookfield wanted to consolidate monitoring, operations and management of all its operations into two national centres.
Premios y reconocimientosBBA’s team of SCADA, telecommunications and data processing experts were mandated to establish two national centres for power generation control and management, one in Canada and the other in the United States.
This extremely complex project involved creating new telecontrol concepts and operating procedures to meet Brookfield’s operational and security needs. The client wanted to be able to operate a control centre nationally, while maintaining regional redundancy (multisite operation) and meeting new NERC regulations. The BBA team succeeded in designing and implementing innovative solutions that comply with one of the most complex regulations.
The BBA team tackled many challenges, both through its innovation in new redundancy techniques and its meticulous management of intrinsic security for new installations. BBA managed this project excellently by successfully meeting initial budgets while providing financial savings to Brookfield.