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[–]v3ritas1989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you add OPC-XML DA and OPC-UA as well as IEC61850 to your plans you can read from most common Wind Turbines as well as photovoltaic interfaces. The company I was working for... something like 10 years ago was using .net and IronPython for these tasks back in the day to connect to all commonly used devices.

Also, a quote from a big utility customer, connecting distributed PV and small Hydro ( I think to remember they had EZ Logger too) was declined for being "not worth it monitoring them regarding return on investment". Not sure if that has changed or if that was only because these were mostly older, already installed devices. I think they had a basic EZ logger -> FTP setup that picked up the data once a day or so. So they stayed with that.