Future-oriented energy automation. Low-carbon energy transition confronts the power industry with great challenges.

As part of the Renewable Energy Directive, the European Commission (EC) has proposed an increased target for renewable energy generation, aiming to represent 40 per cent of Europe’s total energy supply by 2030 up from a previous goal of 32 per cent. Here, I examine the need for digital substations to prepare for the grid of the future.

COPA-DATA closes the year 2021 with a revenue increase of 18.5 per cent. The business accredits its growth to the transformation towards sustainable production and ever advancing digitalization in industry. In 2021, the company surpassed its record result from 54 million euros in 2020 to global group sales worth 64 million euros.

Are wind farm communications where they need to be?

Automation software supplier, COPA-DATA is hosting a new webinar for the pharmaceutical sector. The Data Integrity webinar, held on March 18, at 09:30am (GMT), will help users understand the maintenance and assurance of data accuracy across digital systems that store, process and retrieve data.

The phrase ‘smart factory’ was first coined in 2011 at German trade exhibition, the Hanover Messe.

In the Middle East, COPA-DATA’s zenon software platform has become firmly established as the standard software for digitalization and automation in the energy and utility sectors. To strengthen market coverage in the region, COPA-DATA CEE/ME founded a permanent branch office in Saudi Arabia.

At the end of June 2020, a 70-panel photovoltaic system was installed on the roof of the COPA-DATA headquarters in Salzburg and went into operation. More than one third of the location’s annual electricity demand will now be generated directly on site and be fed into the local grid of Salzburg AG. In addition, the system will serve as a testbed for the further development of zenon engineering for PV systems.

Due to the global coronavirus crisis, we organized our first joint partner and user conference – zenonIZE – as a virtual event over 16 and 17 June. The need to overcome geographical and technical boundaries was a recurring theme throughout the program.

Straton 9.4now supports TLS on both the DNP3 and IEC 60870 energy protocols, as well as the Authentication on DNP3, and the possibility for the user to do online programming from scripts.