THE WORLD'S LARGEST RENEWABLE ENERGY CONTROL CENTER
ACCIONA’s Renewable Energy Control Center (CECOER) carries out real-time monitoring of the group’s renewables facilities, which total around 12,000 MW. Located in the offices of the Energy Division in Sarriguren (Navarra, northern Spain), and with delegations in Chicago and Santiago de Chile, it manages data from more than 400 wind farms and hydropower, photovoltaic and CSP plants owned by the ACCIONA Group or other companies in 24 countries on the five continents. As well as power generation plants, it also supervises the operation of 300 transformer substations.
The CECOER records more than 500,000 incidents per year related to the operation of the plants. Of these, it solves 60% remotely, avoiding more than 250,000 local operations, and finds solutions to the rest by liaising with maintenance services on the ground.
CECOER has a direct impact in terms of achieving high availability rates of the facilities operated by the company, and also low deviation rates between real and previously programmed production communicated to the system operator. The CECOER is staffed by a highly-qualified team of 100 people, ensuring its operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
