Our Services

Additional Services & Solutions Offerings

Enterprise SCADA Systems

Gain complete control and visibility of your entire operating portfolio with NERC CIP (medium impact) compliant enterprise SCADA systems. This allows for complete control and visibility of your entire fleet of assets from a single, centralized platform.

DAS Solutions

Customizable DAS system solutions designed to continuously monitor site performance data and alarms for all PV and Energy Storage system devices, including all site inverters (string or central), BESS, MV transformers, revenue meters, meteorological (MET) station sensors and intelligent equipment devices (IEDs).

 

Ongoing SCADA System Support, Maintenance & Upgrades

Proactive services ensuring that your operational SCADA system stays in optimal health throughout the life of your project. Includes responsive troubleshooting support, preventative maintenance and critical equipment upgrade recommendations for aging equipment. Maximizing your system’s performance and minimizing downtime for smooth plant operation.

Owner’s Engineering and FAT Support

Expert guidance for developers, asset owners and utilities, as it relates to the SCADA vendor contracted scope of work. Includes design submittal review assistance and FAT witnessed support.

SCADA/MET/IT & Cyber Security Documentation Specifications

Comprehensive specifications tailored to your needs. Industry best practices for SCADA, MET, and cybersecurity (NERC-CIP) ensure clear, consistent, up-to-date documentation for optimal system operation and security. Allows for standardization across your entire fleet of assets. Reduces risk and empowers long term ownership, by utilizing an open architecture design.

System Retrofits, Including “Rip & Replacement” Systems

Modernize your existing SCADA system for optimal plant operation. We offer robust and scalable solutions, including integrating new control functionalities and replacing outdated proprietary “black box” systems.

System Troubleshooting Support

Our dedicated team of SCADA engineering subject matter experts are available to assist with resolving issues in your control systems quickly and efficiently, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

PLC Programming, Controls Functionality Implementation

Implementing robust control logic for Master Plant Controller (MPC) / Power Plant Controller (PPC) systems. We ensure your system meets all project requirements (PPA, IA, Asset Owner requirements, and site-specific needs), allowing for optimized resource synchronization and Point of Interconnection (POI) compliance.

SCADA/HMI Programming

Nor-Cal Controls is an Inductive Automation, Gold certified Ignition Integrator. Integrated HMI solutions that keep up to date with industry best practices and that follow high performance HMI design standards. Custom built, user-friendly HMI graphical screens, enabling complete visibility and control of all on-site devices. Real-time and historical alarms customized using predefined categorizations.

 

FLOW

Our FLOW software solution offers the ultimate analytics framework for asset owners and other key stakeholders. Centered around reliable scrubbed data it can provide critical insights, FLOW is an extremely flexible and scalable analytics software platform, which makes it the perfect solution for providing enterprise level KPI visibility.

CAISO ADS

Nor-Cal’s CAISO Automatic Dispatch System “ADS” solution enables automatic awareness and acceptance of ADS requests. Our code seamlessly integrates with any local SCADA system to automatically perform all required changes to meet CAISO ADS requests. Eliminating the possibility of operator error.

PSCAD/PSSe Modeling

Nor-Cal provides UDM and Generic PPC models for Solar PV, stand-alone BESS, Hybrid, and Balance of Plant (BOP) controls.

Panel Building Fabrication Services

Building reliable and compliant control panels that meet strict UL safety standards, ensuring reliable and compliant design standards.

Plant Security Surveillance Systems

Integrating video surveillance systems (cameras, video) tailored to your specific needs, ensuring seamless integration and compliance with any asset owner’s requirements.