The CORE, which boasts advanced technology, controls all Iberdrola's windparks, small hydro plants and sub-plants and also any other potential customer's.
In the first phase, Iberdrola will use CORE for its windparks located in Brazil, France and Portugal and plans to include all its overseas facilities, totalling 304 MW, in a gradual way. The company owns 4,000 MW of renewable energy in total, which puts the company as the national and world leader.
The utility's intentions as concerns renewable energy is "to reach 6,200 MW of installed capacity in 2008 and 10,000 MW in 2011. The international expansion will be the key, reason why the company has already offices in France, UK, Italy, Germany, Poland, United States, Greece, Portugal, Mexico and Brazil”.
Recently, the firm has announced two important operations in the US, where it has acquired Community Energy Inc (CEI), and China, where it has signed a framework agreement with the Bayannaoer City Council, in the North of the country, where it will browse locations to build windparkss.
CORE mission
Iberdrola's Centro de Operación de Energías Renovables (Renewable Energy Operations Center) services windparks and small hydro plants, belonging both to Iberdrola and other developers, 24 hours 365 days a year. “Every renewable facility has a local control and information system that gathers the main turbine and electrical plant operational variables while easing maintenance through a remote connection to the CORE”, explained the utility in a press release. This center receives all the information and presents it to the users in an organized and simple way so that these can quickly detect problems and make remote stops. The needed decisions are then taken from such information: remote reboot or activation of local operational and/or maintenance areas. In this way, the repair times are reduced thus increasing availability rates.
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