Enel is a global organization headquartered in Italy. With more than 83,000 employees worldwide, it provides a wide variety of hydroelectric, thermoelectric, nuclear, geothermal, wind-power, photovoltaic and biomass power stations. Enel North America focuses solely on renewable energy though wind and geothermal power.
Enel North America has many wind farms throughout the United States, but its wind farm in Fenner, New York had presented an immediate challenge requiring regulatory compliance with New York State's regulatory group called NYISO (New York Independent System Operator) which operates most of New York's electrical grid. NYISO requested meteorological data from wind farms as a result of an increase in more energy generation through wind power. NYISO has its own Web services program that publishes data from the different types of power and needed the metrological data from wind farms to ensure power stayed continuous on days where the wind just wasn't blowing as much.
Enel was receiving more and more pressure to comply with NYISO's new regulations, and therefore needed a development partner that would jump in with the capability and the capacity to get this project done quickly and efficiently and ensure no interruption in wind power. Enel appreciated Amadeus Consulting both for our sustainability culture as well as our forward thinking architecture methods and experience with enterprise software development.
Amadeus Consulting values sustainability as one of its core guiding principles, and was enthusiastic about developing a solution for a renewable energy company with a global presence. Enel already had a piece of hardware inside all its wind turbines that was collecting not only meteorological data but also pulled data on how much each turbine was generating. The data was being stored locally, however and wasn't aggregated in any way to make it useful for business intelligence nor was it complying with NYISO's regulations.
The legacy hardware in the wind turbines is using Windows 98. The data mechanisms were somewhat challenging to integrate with the newer technology being used by NYISO's Web service. However, because of our capabilities and competencies we exceeded the client's expectations and created a repository system for collecting and reporting on power generation and meteorological data for Enel to evaluate in the future and garner business intelligence. SQL Server was used to push data to NYISO and ensure regulatory compliance.
The application was deployed in early August 2009. As a result of this successful relationship with Enel, Amadeus Consulting hopes to continue on as a development partner for future work.