Controls for offshore wind

With Omnivise T3000, Siemens Energy offers a comprehensive control solution for your offshore wind projects. From the foundation SCADA system to wind park utilities, substation automation (HVAC - High Voltage Alternating Current) and Utility SCADA, Omnivise T3000 integrates seamlessly across your wind park, including the control of onshore substations. This offers the possibility to provide efficient power balancing, utility control functions, SCADA functionalities, and substation automation.

Control the offshore wind energy of tomorrow with Omnivise.

An offshore wind farm with numerous wind turbines, focusing on a single wind turbine. This image highlights Siemens Energy's control system for offshore wind, showcasing their advanced offshore wind controls and digital wind turbine solutions. The digitalization of wind energy is evident in the control system for renewables, ensuring efficient management of both offshore and onshore wind projects.

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Hybridization is key!

Our Omnivise portfolio ensures that your offshore wind projects are efficient, resilient and ready for tomorrow's energy landscape. Whether for large-scale offshore wind farms or smaller installations, Omnivise provides tailored solutions that minimize operations and maintenance, ensure optimal lifecycle management and streamline cybersecurity efforts.

At Siemens Energy, we see a partnership - whether for your unsubsidized or subsidized wind farm - as much more than a simple supplier-customer relationship. It goes far beyond placing and delivering an order. It's a close alliance between both parties. We work together towards a common goal and develop the final solution by sharing ideas and expertise at every stage.

Together we are stronger in operating, maintaining and securing your wind park during the entire lifecycle.

We design solutions with your offshore wind needs in mind. Siemens Energy's Omnivise T3000 is an integrated control system solution for offshore wind farms that emphasizes ease of access, robustness in marine environments, and cybersecurity protection.

Our solutions are designed to manage a range of functions within your wind farm. From monitoring day-to-day operations, to managing utilities across the wind farm foundation, platforms and the wind farm itself, to controlling high-voltage substations both offshore and onshore. Omnivise T3000 is designed to integrate seamlessly with wind farm central control systems, supporting essential tasks such as power balance management, utility system monitoring and substation automation. It can complement your existing wind farm controller or operate as a stand-alone control system. Omnivise T3000 is a step towards more efficient and secure wind farm management.

GIF illustrating Omnivise T3000 as the central control center with an operator at two thin clients. Animated data streams connect to an offshore wind farm, an offshore substation, an onshore substation, and the grid. Side text: Controlling offshore wind and hybrid plants with SCADA functionality, substation automation, master power plant controller including integration of STATCOM, electrolyzer, battery storage, IT and telecom network, and cybersecurity according to IEC 62443. Also features a meteorological station and terms like direct energy marketing, virtual power plant, and asset management.

An illustration of a Siemens Energy central control room with three people working. Two are seated at PCs, and one stands in front of four large screens. Nearby, three offshore wind turbines and one offshore substation are connected by lines. Shields with hooks in the center indicate the protection of data streams, emphasizing Siemens Energy's cybersecurity solutions for offshore wind. This image highlights the importance of cybersecurity in managing offshore wind operations, showcasing Siemens Energy's commitment to secure control systems for offshore wind projects.

As wind power grows so does their risk of cyber attacks, making strong cybersecurity measures vital to prevent financial losses, power outages, and reputational damage.

Wind farms must comply with strict cybersecurity regulations like the NIS Directive, NERC CIP, and KRITIS due to their critical role in national power supplies. A secure-by-design approach, considering cybersecurity from the earliest design stages through ongoing operations, is essential. Standardizing equipment and configurations simplifies monitoring and maintenance, while clear responsibility for cybersecurity at each lifecycle phase ensures integrated, site-wide defenses.

With our holistic and secure-by-design approach we enhance you with a better reliability, reduced risks, and ensure compliance with evolving cybersecurity standards, supporting the sustainable growth of wind power as a key component of the clean energy future.

Managing a wind farm's lifecycle means also addressing the unique technical and physical aspects of wind farms, including their remote locations and complex digital systems. Omnivise helps you to ensure reliable performance while addressing potential failures. Our comprehensive asset management approach includes thorough analyses, strategic interventions, and proactive measures to optimize efficiency and longevity.

The Omnivise Ecosystem offers substantial benefits throughout the lifecycle of offshore wind projects. By leveraging data insights, remote monitoring, and advanced analytics, we enable proactive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, and informed decision-making. This allows you to enhance operational efficiency, mitigate risks, and reduce costs.

Our integrated system facilitates seamless collaboration, streamlines workflows, and promotes transparency, contributing to the sustainability and long-term viability of offshore wind projects.

Illustration of an offshore wind farm with three wind turbines spread across four separate stylized water surfaces, showcasing how Omnivise for Offshore manages the lifecycle of an offshore wind farm.

Energy landscape illustration featuring wind, solar, combined cycle, heat turbine, and biogas. Showcasing how Omnivise for Offshore and the Omnivise T3000 control system utilize SCADA, energy management, Omnivise hybrid controller, and other solutions for seamless integration of PV, ancillary services, green hydrogen, offshore wind, and onshore wind.

With our Omnivise portfolio, hybrid offshore wind energy becomes a game-changer for reliability and efficiency. We offer advanced solutions such as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Energy Management, Omnivise Hybrid Controller and the seamless integration of all your assets in the overall energy landscape.

By integrating energy storage, solar PV, ancillary services, and green hydrogen production, offshore wind hybridization opens new revenue streams and optimizes business cases post-subsidies. This approach enhances operational flexibility, reliability, and energy yield, ensuring grid code compliance and stability. It also enables participation in emerging energy markets and the provision of ancillary services.

Overall, hybridization is key for optimizing operations, diversifying revenue, and adapting to market changes, ensuring a sustainable and resilient future for offshore wind energy.

Omnivise T3000 SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) enables easy operation of multiple Remote Plants from a Central Control Center over the entire lifecycle of your wind farm.

Integrated controls on a single platform for the entire lifecycle of your wind farm
For process engineering and auxiliary power, Omnivise T3000 improves the transparency of the installations and thus improves the quality of operator control over the entire lifecycle.
Scalable and future-proof system for the entire lifecycle
Having a scalable SCADA system helps you to stay prepared for future opportunities and requirements (e.g., direct marketing or integration of hydropower).
State-of-the-art
Control systems equipped with an IEC 61850 interface are well established on the market and are already state-of-the-art.
Cyber-secure today and in the future
Omnivise T3000 is officially certified by TÜV SÜD according to IEC 62443, the leading standard for IT security for industrial communication networks.

Main Automation for offshore wind: Overall SCADA system by Siemens Energy, featuring three main pillars: wind farm, platform, and onshore. Under wind farm: monitoring control of wind turbine auxiliaries, wind turbine substation automation, interface WTG/park controller. Under platform: SCADA integration of auxiliaries on HV offshore platform, offshore HV substation automation. Under onshore: central monitoring/control, onshore substation automation, TSO interface energy-management trading support. All supported by IT network, including cybersecurity.

Our Omnivise Energy Management Solution (EMS) is designed to dynamically coordinate your energy assets. It forecasts energy production and predicts achievable price points for potential energy off-takers, such as electricity and ancillary service markets. By leveraging these predictions and real-time data, Omnivise EMS manages energy dispatch, monitors operational limits, and optimizes remuneration schemes.

Omnivise EMS uses advanced analytics to accurately forecast energy production from offshore wind and other renewable sources. It assesses potential price points for various energy off-takers, enabling informed decision-making and optimized energy dispatch. This proactive approach aligns your production capabilities with market opportunities.

With Omnivise EMS, you can predict demand, forecast production, and determine the best strategy to optimize remuneration while staying within operational limits. This comprehensive energy management approach drives operational excellence, efficiency, and economic viability for your wind projects.

Demo of Omnivise Energy Management: Omnivise Energy Management system divided into three main areas: 1. Hybrid: Maximize revenue within a volatile energy market, 2. Combined cycle power plant: Improve profits and compete in renewable markets through optimized dispatch, 3. Power to X: Maximize X production with grid connection.

Direct Energy Marketing for Offshore Wind: Direct Energy marketing cycle showing three pillars: 1. Energy management center: Manage fleet availability, monitor fleet performance against targets, connected to wind farms via availability plan and wind farm performance. 2. Wind farms: Manage fleet availability, monitor fleet performance against targets, generation and ancillary service set points. 3. TSO: Availability declarations, bids and offers, balancing instructions (MA and TERRE), connected to wind farms via direct instructions, to energy management via fleet instruction, and from energy management center via reserve availability.

Direct Energy Marketing automates the process of providing physical dispatch plans to generating sites and provides greater transparency across an entire generation fleet.

Direct Energy Marketing is a connectivity enabler providing:

Platform for inter-site dispatch
Broker for data from Transmission System Operator (TSO), forecasting, plant systems
A way to manage past, present and future data
Central monitoring of wind farms with robust, fault tolerant communications to regional control centers
Set point interface to wind farm Omnivise T3000 SCADA
Ability to work across multiple reserve markets, languages and time zones
Way to calculate alarms based on operational performance and financial data
Ability to notify operators of upcoming events
Low scale-up costs

Omnivise Asset Management is a modern software suite combining deep domain know-how, the latest technologies and methods, and modern software design. Its four modular applications cover all power generation core processes and domains, supporting both local and remote teams. It is built on a single platform, so users can draw on the same data and insights. Seamless workflows between applications enable cross-role collaboration, while supporting broader use cases, such as Remote Operator Rounds & Inspections, Asset Performance Management, Full Plant Monitoring, and Remote Operations up to Autonomous Plant.