Wind, solar and battery storage on the same platform as the rest of the estate

IBM Maximo Renewables is the part of the MAS suite that treats wind farms, solar arrays and battery energy storage as one operating portfolio. It ingests data from the SCADA, dataloggers and OEM portals already in the field, applies analytics that are specific to renewables (loss bucketing, string analysis, weak module and weak cycle detection, drone thermography for solar), and turns the result into work that the rest of Maximo can act on.

When Renewables earns its licence

The case for Renewables tends to land when one of three conditions hits. The portfolio runs more than one OEM and the OEM portals can no longer give a single fleet view. Underperformance against expected generation is no longer obvious from operator dashboards alone and the analytics need to be portfolio-aware. Or the operating model is consolidating from multiple legacy tools onto a single platform that already runs the rest of the asset estate.

When the case is real, the value is concrete. Industry data put the cost of wind unplanned downtime at roughly $30,000 per turbine per year on average, and solar under-performance at billions of dollars of lost revenue across the sector annually (2024 Global Solar Report, Raptor Maps; Wood Mackenzie, 2019). The job of Renewables is to surface a meaningful share of that against assets the operator can actually act on.

What we deliver

• Onboarding of new sites and assets against the renewables data model: turbines, inverters, strings, modules, BESS racks and modules
• Data ingest from SCADA (OPC UA / DA, Modbus), dataloggers (FTP, SFTP, structured files) and OEM portals (API), with quality checks against renewables-specific rules
• Performance and availability analytics configured to the portfolio: loss bucketing, string analysis, weak module and cycle detection, custom alerts
• Integration with Maximo Manage so work generated by analytics lands in the same work-management process as the rest of the estate
• Operations centre dashboards for asset managers, performance managers and reliability engineers
• Managed hosting and run-state on the same MAS platform as Manage, owned by the same team that runs the rest of your environment

Two ways into the operating model

Existing MAS Manage customers usually adopt Renewables for the analytics layer (Monitor and Analyse) and keep work and asset management in Manage where it already lives. New-logo IPPs and O&M providers typically start with Renewables on its own as a focused APM tool, and add Manage when the work-management requirement matures. We have run both patterns and the operating model on the customer side determines which one fits.

How this fits with the rest of the suite

Renewables is one of the clearest cases where the MAS suite delivers value beyond Manage. It sits on top of Manage and uses the same IoT and OT connectivity layer as the rest of the suite. For operators with mixed conventional and renewable assets, the same platform manages both. The wider story sits on the MAS suite overview.