Digital energy production

In volatile markets, flexible plants offer major potential. And the new digital platform D-Central enables RWE Supply & Trading to make the best possible use of these potentials. The platform provides a highly scalable IT infrastructure based on a virtual power plant. It bundles decentralised, flexible plants to form a virtual pool and makes them available to the electricity markets. That enables the plant operators to benefit from the expertise of the trading company in the area of asset optimisation, and from state-of-the-art algorithms. The high level of automation offered by the platform is a key deciding factor in being able to manage the many different types of plant and the various market demands. That means that controllable power, which has not previously been offered, can be optimally marketed on short-term markets or as operating reserve. And of course the energy system as a whole benefits. Electricity generation, which depends increasingly on sun and wind, is brought into better balance with demand. It’s a classic win-win situation.

A digital ecosystem is therefore currently being developed to comprehensively control processes and increase their efficiency. Wherever possible, the digital ecosystem solutions are developed with a focus on the user, in order to make the best possible use of the many years of experience accrued by the company.

The digital ecosystem comprises several solutions that communicate with each other. It enables users to enter information just once, to allow the data to flow seamlessly between the applications with a high level of automation.

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The Campaign Planner is one of the core applications in the digital ecosystem. It includes the long-term maintenance planning process by bringing together the necessary data, such as ship availability, engineer availability, maintenance information and historical MetOcean data within a single system. That enables RWE Offshore Wind to plan and optimise its maintenance activities quickly and cost-efficiently.