Solar & Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Industry 

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Unlimited Possibilities For Solar & BESS On One Platform

Ignition is the only platform that offers unlimited licensing, highly scalable architectures, and endless possibilities for creating tailored solutions in the solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) industries. Leading solar power plant and BESS operators depend on Ignition to collect superior data, enhance analysis, and optimize performance across their entire portfolio, from PV arrays and inverters to substations and beyond. This trust in Ignition leads to lower operational costs and higher productivity.

Ignition by the Numbers

8,000+

600+

end users with Ignition deployed in solar-related applications

300+

Ignition system integrators with a utility-scale solar/BESS focus

Ignition gateways deployed in solar/BESS-related applications

FEATURED CASE STUDY

Solar-Power Provider Improves Integration, Data Analysis, and Reporting 

DEPCOM Power designs, builds, and operates utility-scale solar power plants, and uses Ignition for plant monitoring and control, as well as data analysis, troubleshooting, design, and reporting. 

“Other platforms can run you up in costs and headaches in a hurry. Ignition is very user-friendly, and easy to integrate with every data type, connection, and platform.”

- Jimmy Hood

DEPCOM

MORE SOLAR PROJECTS

A Variety of Improvements for Solar Plant

This SCADA system for a 35 MW solar PV plant in North Carolina monitors equipment in real time to ensure high availability.

Solar Provider Puts More Than 30 Sites on a Single SCADA Platform

Ecoplexus now has a consistent look and feel for all the sites — in addition to lower costs, greater efficiency, more data than ever before, and improved data analysis.

Connecting Numerous Systems for a Brighter Solar Future 

This project involved working with Canadian Solar to create CSEye — a custom hybrid asset performance monitoring and CMMS application for the solar PV operations & maintenance...

TOP BENEFITS OF USING IGNITION

Unmatched Scalability

Ignition lets solar and BESS companies handle vast tag counts and multiple sites gracefully and cost-effectively. With its unlimited licensing model, you can manage hundreds of thousands of tags and add more sites, tags, users, devices, or projects without extra costs. Ignition also speeds up commissioning and deployment for new projects like no other software can. With User Defined Types (UDTs), equipment (such as a battery unit) can be defined once and used across an entire project. Scale your system as new needs arise, quickly roll out new sites, and provide a consistent look and feel across all sites and assets.

Gain Openness & Flexibility

Interoperability doesn’t need to be an issue anymore. Ignition integrates with a wide range of OEM equipment and utility/ISO protocols, enabling you to connect with everything in your operations.

Real-Time Visibility

Data visibility in real time is essential for grid compliance, market participation, and O&M optimization — and Ignition provides it. Ignition delivers vital real-time data to any device, enabling users to monitor equipment, and manage operations from anywhere. It also improves operational efficiency by connecting business systems with real-time data, visualized through customizable dashboards for KPIs.

Data Analytics & Reporting

Ignition can swiftly turn massive amounts of plant data into actionable insights. Ignition offers dynamic reporting tools that allow users to create and automatically send data-rich PDF reports. Its open, cross-platform nature also allows companies to leverage cloud platforms and machine learning tools for deeper data understanding, predictive analytics, and improved operational efficiencies. 

Interested in Ignition for Utility-Scale Solar/BESS Solutions? Set up a time to talk!

See More Water & Wastewater Resources

See More Water & Wastewater Resources

Largest Publicly Traded U.S. Water/Wastewater Company Benefit from Enterprise Solution

American Water teamed up with Flexware Innovation and Automated Controls Concepts (ACC) to create an Ignition ecosystem for SCADA...

Largest Publicly Traded U.S. Water/Wastewater Company Benefit from Enterprise Solution

Utility Replaces Five SCADASystems with One

Water Utility Seamlessly Transitions Operating Systems and Speeds Development

The Utility Department at the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, provides water and wastewater services to 150,000 people.

American Water teamed up with Flexware Innovation and Automated Controls Concepts (ACC) to create an Ignition ecosystem for SCADA...

Design and develop a new treatment plant HMI to replace WinCC and condense third-party applications into...

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Architectures That Fit Your Needs

Architectures That Fit Your Needs

Ignition’s most common architecture consists of a single on-premise Ignition server (with optional redundancy) connected to a SQL database, PLCs, inverters, weather stations, and clients. 

Basic (Single-Site)

In the Ignition hub-and-spoke architecture, multiple local and remote sites are linked together by a central Ignition Gateway, ideal for multi-site deployment portfolios. 

Hub & Spoke 

For enterprise-scale portfolios, leveraging public cloud infrastructure enables systems to scale horizontally and vertically as workloads evolve and new sites come online. Ignition can be purchased directly through the AWS or Azure marketplaces to streamline SCADA application deployment. 

Elastic

SOLAR & BESS RESOURCES

Enterprise SCADA Streamlines Processes for Renewable Energy 

Energy Storage SCADA

This resource provides a solution for integrating energy storage systems, networking facilities, and utilizing SCADA to monitor the status of real-time power transactions, BESS, Energy Storage Management Systems (ESMS), Power Management Systems (PMS), and Environment Status.

Weather Widget

This weather widget provides forecast information in a modern-looking UI. Possible uses include: dropping into a dashboard-type view, creating a grid of multiple locations (for a solar plant enterprise), and adding to an overview screen. 

Find out how a US leader in utility-scale battery storage and solar power leveraged Ignition for a single-platform solar SCADA system that oversees six locations and reports KPIs and data analytics in real time. 

View more resources hereNew Solar & BESS Demo and Case Study coming soon!

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