OrxaGrid Blog

Case Study: OrxaGrid Optimises Solar Plant Efficiency with its Grid Analytics Platform

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:59:15 +0000

A solar power plant of 5 MW in Western India faced challenges monitoring crucial components such as combiner boxes, inverters, and transformers — all essential for aggregating generation data. The electricity network connected to the plant also lacked real-time data and forecasts from the plant, which are critical for energy planning and conducting audits.

These challenges limited the plant’s ability to optimise efficiency, reduce downtime, and fulfil its obligations to the electricity network operator. To resolve these issues, the plant partnered with OrxaGrid, a SCOPE venture.

Powering Up Efficiency: Why AMI Solutions Shine Brighter Than AMR

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The way we manage utilities is undergoing a transformation. Gone are the days of meter readers trekking through neighborhoods to manually record consumption. Today, both Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) offer automated solutions, but AMI takes things a significant step further. Let’s delve into the world of smart meters and explore why AMI solutions hold the key to a more efficient, sustainable, and customer-centric future.

AMR vs. AMI: Understanding the Core Differences

Both AMR and AMI automate meter reading, eliminating the need for manual data collection. However, a crucial distinction lies in their communication capabilities. AMR systems typically use one-way communication — meters collect data and transmit it periodically to a central collection point via radio waves or cellular networks. This process improves efficiency but has limitations.

Empower your feeder line O&M using OrxaGrid's Cable Health Indexing tool in Asset Management

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 05:06:19 +0000

Now with OrxaGrid’s asset management portfolio, you can do so much more.

For electrical manufacturing companies, ensuring the health and longevity of their cable infrastructure is paramount. Aging cables pose a significant risk, leading to costly downtime, safety hazards, and reputational damage. Traditional inspection methods are often tedious, time-consuming, and prone to human error. However, a new era is dawning, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its game-changing approach to cable health indexing and prescriptive maintenance.

Enhancing Tomorrow's Power Grids with OrxaGrid's Asset Management Solutions

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:38:17 +0000

Now with OrxaGrid’s asset management portfolio, you can do so much more.

As the world embraces a shift towards sustainable and decentralised energy generation, electricity distribution networks face new challenges in managing their assets effectively. The growing adoption of distributed generation and evolving customer needs necessitates a transformation from centralised to distributed electricity networks. However, this transition comes with its own set of complexities, including real-time monitoring, prompt issue resolution, and optimising power flow to avoid outages. In this dynamic landscape, the development of smart grids and advanced analytics platforms has become imperative for efficient asset management.

AI in Action

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:41:07 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools have occupied the analytics market over the last decade and show promise for futuristic outcomes. Not only do they represent an interesting phenomenon at the disposal of a computing era, but they also provide a number of benefits to the academic and corporate sectors. As a business case, AI/ML has shown promise with around 92% of large companies reporting returns on their data and AI investments. Further, a global survey reports that AI yields strategic benefits by improving system efficiencies and decision making when used to its potential.

Monitor Your Distribution Network In Real-time with OrxaGrid's Single Line Diagram

Tue, 25 May 2021 14:45:52 +0000

Today I’m sitting down with the OrxaGrid development team to discuss their interactive Single Line Diagram which allows users to easily create, edit and export their single line diagrams.

The OrxaGrid Analytics Platform features an editable and configurable Single Line Diagram (SLD) tool that brings live system monitoring data from on-site sensors. Having an SLD tool that shows power system data in real-time is useful for substation operators, field engineers and energy managers.

Low Carbon by OrxaGrid Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:53:11 +0000

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to OrxaGrid’s Low Carbon app to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

Detecting Early Stage Failures in Wind Turbines

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:42:21 +0000

OrxaGrid partnered with a wind generation operator that wanted to reduce operating costs through predictive maintenance.

Challenge

The operator wanted to test a predictive maintenance strategy that could reduce operating costs by minimising cost of replacement and by decreasing the amount of productive time lost to maintenance. The operator’s goal was to foster new innovative and reliable predictive maintenance strategies backed by data.

The Solution

OrxaGrid obtained SCADA, meteorological mast, maintenance log and historical failure data of five 2MW wind turbines to build a failure prediction model. The components that were to be monitored were gearbox, generator, generator bearing, hydraulic group and transformer.

Optimising Transformer Performance At A 5MW Industrial Solar Park

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:36:55 +0000

OrxaGrid partnered with a solar operator that wanted to reduce operating costs through predictive maintenance.

About Solar Farms and Transformers

Solar power in India is a fast developing industry. India is one of the lowest cost producers of solar due to a combination of high solar potential, low land costs and dropping panel costs.

Most solar energy in India is generated by large-scale industrial solar farms which feed into the local electricity grid. A 5MW solar farm can power over 1,500 homes annually (based on an average annual consumption of 3,300 kWh) and save 2,150 tonnes of CO2.

Developing an IoT Based Energy Distribution Analytics System In Rural India

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:57:56 +0000

OrxaGrid partnered with an electricity distribution utility that faced high technical and commercial losses and frequent power outages.

Reading Your Solar PV Installation Output Results with the OrxaGrid Low Carbon App

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:29:13 +0000

Today we are sitting down with OrxaGrid’s Data Analytics team to discuss how to read your results for the Solar PV Installation Outputs.

The OrxaGrid Low Carbon App will help you optimise the size of your proposed Solar PV Installation.

This app is provided on Microsoft AppSource and made available through the Microsoft AI for Good programme.

If you want to read about how to use the OrxaGrid’s Low Carbon App, you can read about it here.

Optimise the Size of Your Proposed Solar PV Installation with the OrxaGrid Low Carbon App

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:20:54 +0000

Today we are sitting down with OrxaGrid’s Leadership team to discuss their latest app to help building owners quickly and accurately calculate the optimal size of Solar PV Installations.

Most people in the world have learned at some point in their lives that solar power systems convert energy from sunlight into clean electricity.

We also have some understanding that solar panel technology can help reduce our carbon emissions by relying less on fossil fuels for electricity.