Enabling Renewable Energy For a Better Planet

Climate changes and global warming are driving increasing renewable energy demands around the world. Renewable energy  is energy that is collected from renewable resources sun as sunlight, wind, rain, waves, tides, biomass and geothermal heat which are utilized in renewable energy technologies to produce electricity.

Ethernet Direct supports IEC 61850 certified industrial networking solutions that can be used as part of renewable energy applications to build a reliable networking system that optimize system performance for wind turbines, hydroelectric & solar power etc.

Areas of application:

• Solar energy power plant
• Wind generator power plant
• Hydroelectric power stations
• Geothermal power stations
• Waste incineration plants
• Photovoltaic applications
• Floating Windmills and offshore applications

Requirements for the application:

• A truly industrial rated switch at wide temperature range to handle harsh environmental installations
• Ability for a product to meet the tailor-made technical and software requirements in renewable energy applications
• High EMI/EMC shielding industrial Ethernet switches and certified IEC 61850 device
• High performance switch measured in terms of throughput, latency and operating reliability – zero packet loss
• Ethernet Direct IEC 61850 industrial switches passed the performance measures in terms of system scalability as a whole
• Direct-Ring, Direct-Chain & Join-Ring redundancy technology with less than 10 milliseconds @ 250 switches