ePowerControl PPC

Power Plant Controllers

An advanced controller tailored to serve grid-tied and off-grid utility-scale solar plant applications.

  • Comply with national grid codes

  • Increased installation reliability
  • Facilitate remote maintenance
  • Connection with aggregators to access spot market

solar scada casing with big moxa by elum energy

Why choose ePowerControl PPC?

Flexible Control Strategy

Adapt to project-specific layout and control needs with our customizable control strategy feature.

Ensured grid-compliance

Ensure compliance with national grid-code requirements for controlled injection of power into the grid.

Connection with spot market

Integrate your installations with aggregators, who sell defined energy production on the spot market. It communicates the status of the power plant to aggregators at any time.

Spinning reserve management

Determine how many gensets will be immediately available to produce energy instantaneously
How PPC works by Elum Energy

Achieve optimal performance while complying with complex
grid requirements

Advanced control solution able to meet local grid-code requirements, technical constraints from the IPP and the final client,

throughout the 25 years of PPA Contract.

Holistic engineering assistance throughout project lifetime
Compatible with
95% equipment
of the market
Flexible architecture that adapts to the scaling of your project

How does our power plant controller
work?

ePowerControl PPC scada

Tailored control features to meet your project requirements

Automated controls manage grid feed-in, ramp rate control + frequency support (O/F and U/F)
Reactive power management Automated ramp rate control, power factor and voltage at PCC

Management of decoupling requests/coupling based upon authorization from the TSO/DSO

Data exchange and direct P/Q setpoint mode upon TSO request

Two distinct operating modes are available:
Manual mode, in which the user defines active and reactive powers setpoints targets,
Automatic mode, in which the generation of setpoints is automatic based on the selected configuration.

Supervision, control & data
acquisition
with ePowerSCADA

✔ Real time offline monitoring
✔ Offline alarms
✔ Touchscreen visualization
✔ Remote access

Elum has provided seamless operation of large-scale power plants worldwide

Frequently asked questions

ePowerControl PPC is suited for the control and monitoring of utility-scale solar plant applications (grid-tied or off-grid), with advanced capabilities in the field of PV monitoring system.

ePowerControl PPC solution is compliant with the national grid requirements. Our solution has been successfully certified with some grid codes (France, Spain, Portugal, etc)

The monitoring and control of the power plant is possible via Elum SCADA system for PV plants or third-party SCADA.

The PPC has two distinct operating modes: – Manual mode, in which the user defines active and reactive powers setpoints targets, – Automatic mode, in which the generation of setpoints is automatic based on the selected configuration.

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