{"id":75301,"date":"2026-08-25T03:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75301\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:17:19","slug":"renewable-energy-operation-center-core-of-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75301\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Operation Center (CORE) of USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Control Center in Portland was opened in September 2010 to\u00a0optimise the control and financial performance of Iberdrola’s wind farms in the United States.\u00a0The purpose of this meticulous control of the wind energy generated by the company is to improve the way the energy supplied is managed and to provide greater stability to the country’s electricity network.<\/p>\n

The centre not only\u00a0monitors and operates the renewable energy production facilities centrally and remotely 24 hours a day 365 days a year,\u00a0but also stores the data it receives from the plants for subsequent analysis. It does this via\u00a0Iberdrola’s CORE platform<\/a>, which connects it to all of the group’s renewable energy operation centres and allows it to receive information from all of the facilities of this type run by the company worldwide.<\/p>\n

When it was commissioned, the NCC managed 41 wind farms, generating a combined power of 3,900 MW. Today, following the incorporation of the photovoltaic plants, the centre oversees the operation of more than 55 facilities, supervising over 1,500,000 data items in real time and managing almost 7 GW of renewable energy active power.<\/p>\n

How does the NCC work?<\/p>\n

The NCC controls and operates the facilities in the following way:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Information on the facilities
Every wind farm and photovoltaic plant is equipped with a local control and information system that\u00a0records the performance of the machines and the electricity substation.\u00a0This system is connected remotely to the operation centre.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Analysis of the information
The CORE platform receives the information from the generating plants. This is then presented to the operators in an organised and simplified format, enabling them\u00a0to swiftly detect and analyse any breakdowns or stoppages, and to undertake a remote analysis.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Incident resolution
The\u00a0operators \u2014 highly qualified in fields such as renewable energies, IT and telecommunications \u2014 take the appropriate decisions for solving the problem, be it\u00a0from the NCC itself or via local\u00a0operational or maintenance agents with whom Avangrid Power has an agreement in every plant. This helps\u00a0limit breakdown stoppage times and increases the availability of each facility.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Surveillance of the facilities
The NCC also supervises the security of the facilities through a video surveillance system installed in the plants.<\/p>\n

The CORE platform deployed in Portland meets the\u00a0security and reliability standards required in the United States.\u00a0Its design and development was inspired by Iberdrola’s\u00a0CORE in Toledo (Spain)<\/a>, which has been operational since 2003 and is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

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