Planet OS and RWE Introduce Powerboard

Planet OS, a provider of online geospatial environmental data, has introduced Powerboard, a data intelligence solution that helps wind farm operators and renewable energy service providers to boost power output by up to 30%.

RWE, which plans to use the system at its wind farms, has teamed up with the company for the launch of Powerboard.

“Powerboard provides us with the potential for optimizing operations and increasing renewable energy production from our wind farms,” said Peter Terium, the CEO at RWE Group. “We are currently using Powerboard at Gwynt y Môr, our largest offshore wind farm, to help increase our power output and improve operational efficiency. As we deploy Powerboard to other renewable energy sites, we hope to further improve our competitive position.” 

The solution combines real-time operational and industrial data with a growing programmatic catalog of open and commercial data from external data providers into a single cloud-based solution. The result is a visually rich, interactive analysis tool that permits detailed optimization of a wind farm that replaces rooms full of distracting monitors that are not integrated at a software level. Furthermore, Powerboard allows stakeholders from operators, technicians to managers regardless of location to collaborate in planning and operating a wind farm to great effect, Planet OS explained.

Rainer Sternfeld, the CEO at Planet OS, said: “Customers like RWE can leverage Powerboard to have a truly distributed, responsive and aggregated view of all operations on a single screen. Using our products allows renewable energy providers to see deep patterns and monitor performance in a way that allows them to better optimize operations, schedule maintenance and feed timely data to energy traders to perform without delay.”

Powerboard is built on the cloud-based Planet OS data infrastructure, which can process all major geospatial and Earth Observation data types and formats, in addition to supporting conventional industrial sensor data.

Planet OS is a member of the NOAA Big Data Project and the White House Open Data Roundtable to make open data more accessible for everyone.