What is availability in the SCADA data?

What is availability in the SCADA data?

• A. Percentage of time a turbine is available to produce power
• B. Total energy produced per day
• C. Hours of maintenance per month
• D. Percentage of time a turbine is available to produce power

Answer: (D)

Availability measures how much of the time the turbine could be producing power, i.e., its readiness. In SCADA data, you look at when the equipment is online and capable of generating power and divide that by the total time in the period. This gives you the percentage of time the turbine is available to produce power. It’s different from how much energy was actually produced, which would be production, or from maintenance hours, which are downtime events. So describing availability as the percentage of time the turbine is available to produce power captures this readiness metric.

Availability measures how much of the time the turbine could be producing power, i.e., its readiness. In SCADA data, you look at when the equipment is online and capable of generating power and divide that by the total time in the period. This gives you the percentage of time the turbine is available to produce power. It’s different from how much energy was actually produced, which would be production, or from maintenance hours, which are downtime events. So describing availability as the percentage of time the turbine is available to produce power captures this readiness metric.