As renewable energy scales, industrial platforms must evolve to meet growing demands for operational visibility, reliability, and data-driven decision-making. This session shares NextEra Energy's journey from early platform lessons to Sequoia—a next-generation architecture built with Ignition and Cirrus Link.

We will highlight the challenges of operating at enterprise scale, key architectural decisions, and practical guidance for organizations modernizing industrial operations—while looking ahead at the capabilities needed to support the future of renewable energy.

Participation by flexible resources like battery storage in ISO and RTO markets requires a complex combination of secure, real time telemetry, value stream co-optimization, and operational support for both the resources in question and the organization as a market participant. Based on a case study in the U.S. PJM market, we will discuss how DER fleet operators can meet ISO communications requirements and operate their assets securely, optimally, and efficiently.

As renewable portfolios scale, the operational risk shifts from managing individual sites to orchestrating entire fleets. This panel explores enterprise deployments moving toward a centralized, software-defined data control plane and how to de-risk fleet delivery by leveraging high-level IT standards, including MQTT Sparkplug B pipelines, open APIs, enterprise Ignition architectures, and high-performance time-series historians. Discover how to build secure, unified data frameworks that simplify NERC/FERC compliance, optimize real-time asset management, and enable robust, multi-site orchestration across the entire enterprise.

As Solar + BESS facilities grow in scale and complexity, SCADA delivery must move beyond bespoke project execution. In this joint session, Matt Steele and Phil Turmel will explore the technical and organizational barriers that make utility-scale deployments hard to standardize, from diverse equipment topologies to complex asset relationships and evolving operational requirements. They will share an Ignition approach centered on standardization, templating, and deployment automation, including declarative specifications, reusable UDT- and tag-driven HMI deployment, and automated configuration workflows that reduce customization effort while improving consistency and scalability. The session will show how these practices can support a transition from site-by-site project adjustments to a more repeatable, fleet-ready model for Solar + BESS SCADA delivery.

The success of any renewable fleet relies on its site-level data foundation. This panel explores how to move away from project-specific SCADA delivery and toward a software-defined engineering model. The panel discusses how applying strict standardization, templatization, and automation de-risks the Point of Interconnection (POI), Power Plant Controllers (PPCs), and BESS Energy Management Systems (EMS). Discover how to build open, vendor-neutral architectures that satisfy rigid ISO requirements while leveraging rapid template-driven configuration to accelerate commissioning schedules, reduce engineering hours, and enforce absolute data consistency.

As solar and battery storage fleets scale from individual assets to fleet-wide operations, the data architecture powering the SCADA stack becomes critical. This session shows how teams are pairing Ignition with TimescaleDB to create a scalable, reliable historian and analytics foundation for renewable energy operations.

We will cover the business case, technical capabilities, and deployment patterns behind this approach, including how SCADA engineers are connecting plant-level systems with enterprise aggregation layers. The session will focus on the data patterns specific to solar, BESS, and grid integration scenarios, and how this architecture supports long-term retention, fast fleet-wide queries, and operational visibility as deployments grow. Attendees will leave with practical deployment patterns they can adapt to their own operations.

As solar and battery storage fleets scale from individual assets to fleet-wide operations, the data architecture powering the SCADA stack becomes critical. This session shows how teams are pairing Ignition with TimescaleDB to create a scalable, reliable historian and analytics foundation for renewable energy operations.

We will cover the business case, technical capabilities, and deployment patterns behind this approach, including how SCADA engineers are connecting plant-level systems with enterprise aggregation layers. The session will focus on the data patterns specific to solar, BESS, and grid integration scenarios, and how this architecture supports long-term retention, fast fleet-wide queries, and operational visibility as deployments grow. Attendees will leave with practical deployment patterns they can adapt to their own operations.