Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation — a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation — has completed the design, supply and commissioning of a remote operation and monitoring system based on the OpreX Collaborative Information Server for the offshore wind turbines and onshore facilities at the Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm.
Additionally, the business has a contract to provide maintenance services at this wind farm, which is owned by Green Power Ishikari GK, a special-purpose corporation, and run by JERA Co., Inc. and the Green Power Investment Corporation.
When commercial operations begin on January 1, 2024, the Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm will be the largest in Japan.
It is the first wind farm in Japan to deploy large-scale 8,000kW wind turbines.
The remote operation and monitoring system supplied by Yokogawa includes a video system to monitor all the offshore and onshore wind power generating facilities at this wind farm.
The company will also provide ongoing maintenance services for all of these systems.
Yokogawa’s Collaborative Information Server — which provides centralised data management from the offshore wind turbines, large-scale storage batteries in the transformer substation, and cameras mounted on the wind turbines, storage batteries, and turbine maintenance yard — is the central component of this remote operation and monitoring system.
This video monitoring system utilises the Edge Gateway AG 10 (for indoor) solution provided by Yokogawa subsidiary Amnimo Inc.
Wind is a renewable energy source, and the amount of electricity produced varies depending on weather conditions.
In addition to providing the information required to control the amount of power that the storage battery system will hold, this remote operation and monitoring system also accounts for the power demand data that the gearbox system operator provides.
Green Power Investment Corporation has placed orders with Yokogawa Solution Service for systems that will combine real-time data aggregation from wind farms around Japan with cloud-based analytical tools, along with the systems that were supplied for this project.
In collaboration with Green Power Investment, Yokogawa Solution Service has started proof-of-concept testing to identify indications of submarine cable damage at the Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm using the OpreX Field Instruments product DTSX3000 optical fibre temperature sensor.
Yokogawa is firmly focused on developing the system of systems (SoS) concept, in which systems work together as a whole while maintaining operational and management independence to achieve, in an emergent way, goals that cannot be achieved independently.
Yokogawa has the operational technology (OT) understanding required to interpret data from sensors and other devices and, consequently, identify how the equipment and systems should be linked to achieve optimisation at the individual and collective level — even though wind farms have a wide variety of equipment and system configurations.
