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We are grateful to have received funding from the US Department of Energy to become the ENTR Foundation, a US non-profit supporting the transition to renewables. ENTR Foundation is now operating as a 501(c)3 non-profit.

Announcement: OpenOA and ENTR alliance teams have received funding from the US Department of Energy to bring about a revolution in open data analytics for renewable energy. Special thanks to Charles Henderson Jason Fields Lewis Armistead Brian LaMay Eric Simley Jordan Perr-Sauer for their vision and hard work. #renewableenergy #dataanalytics #innovation #ai #dataengineering

Link to the announcement: DOE Announces 2021 Technology Commercialization Fund Selections

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Clearway

Energy Group 6 Gwh wind & solar

Apex Clean Energy

2 Gwh wind & solar

 
 

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ENTR is talking with the next owner-operators.

 

What problem are we working to solve?

 

ENTR (pronounced “Enter”) is solving the data standardization problem by providing wind operators with an open-source reference architecture and technology they can easily implement.

 
 

What are the benefits of operating with a data standard?

 
 

One

Integrate with services and products at a much lower cost and higher speed.

Two

Avoid expensive and time-consuming mapping exercises every time a new wind project is onboarded.

Three

Operationalize the latest analytics across all projects in a uniform way.

Four

Attain new market growth and development.

 
 

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTs


SCADA International has agreed to contribute 1700 tag names to ENTR, providing ENTR immediate compatibility with more than 99% of existing wind turbine makes/models.

 
 

ENTR organizers gave the keynote at NREL’s annual conference on digitization in wind and announced the forthcoming tag-naming reference architecture.

 
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INDUSTRY alliance

ENTR is a community that brings together leading operators and data scientists from around the world. Join ENTR and learn from the following community members:


Leading Owner-Operators

Leading owner-operators have joined ENTR to drive standards across their operations.

Owner-operators will operationalize analytics and standardize tag naming/mapping with ENTR.

Leading Analytics Companies

Leading tech companies have joined ENTR to move the conversation forward around operational analytics.

If you are an analytics company, join us to build the next generation of model-driven insight using machine learning & AI techniques.

Leading Researchers

Leading researchers have joined ENTR to contribute best practices and existing standards to the ENTR reference architecture.

We are proud to partner with researchers in many countries, including the US, Germany, Denmark, and other European countries.

 

What problem is ENTR solving?

 

The mission of ENTR is to reduce the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for wind farms by providing the wind industry with data standards and guidance that can be implemented by any company that works in the development, construction, or operations of wind farms.

 
 
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LCOE = Total Costs/Total Energy

Wind Energy is competing primarily with natural gas and solar in the current market.

The top service providers and operators are running into diminishing returns as processes and trained people reach peak efficiency. Software is going to be the differentiator between operators who have the lowest LCOE and those who continue to operate below the proforma.

Standardization allows software to push best practices deeper into the industry quickly and across multiple operators. It reduces costs by allowing work to be bundled (reducing bonus climbs) and pushing repairs up tower (increasing diagnostics time prior to failure).

 

Imagine instead

A data architecture enabling you to scale quickly by acquiring data from new wind sites at low cost, while applying the latest machine learning algorithms to drive site performance.


The future is built on a data strategy in which 80% of your effort is devoted to optimizing operations rather than cleaning and managing bad data.

Core Values

ENTR is a community driven by a set of core values. These values undergird our ENTR Community Process (ECP)—a process designed to streamline the development of new open-source wind energy technologies.

 

EnTR IS

100% Open-Source Licensed
Everything in ENTR is free and open-source (under the MIT license).

Open-Standards Based
We are implementing existing standards whenever possible while maintaining ENTR as open-source.

Owner-Operator Led
Owner-operators include Clearway, EDPR, Pattern, Apex Clean Energy. We are set up for the benefit of the customer, while allowing vendors to participate fully.

A Community-Driven, Inclusive Process
We have a fair and democratic way of building new features into ENTR, called the ENTR community process (ECP). As such, we are community driven. New initiatives are voted on and pursued as ENTR Specification Requests (ESR’s) which are then ratified by the community.

 

ENTR is an independent industry initiative

ENTR is not controlled by any one industry working group, corporation, or country. ENTR is an independent group set up to build the best open-source technology for the benefit of the wind community as a whole. ENTR is set up to facilitate collaboration in the spirit of other open-source initiatives, such as the Linux operating system, which was itself an international effort with broad industry support. As such, ENTR is actively partnering with organizations in the US and Europe. ENTR is currently accepting contributions from the European wind community (tag naming). Our steering committee includes members from both the US and Europe.

ENTR is not proprietary. We invite industry groups to contribute to ENTR. When they do so, their contributions are placed into the creative commons under the MIT open-source license. The MIT license is permissive and enables any participant to freely extend, distribute, improve, license, or distribute the ENTR technology.

 

How to get involved

Collaboration.

Contact ENTR’s organizer Charles Henderson to receive an invitation to the ENTR Slack workspace.

Working Groups.

Join our working sessions every two weeks. Contact Charles Henderson to find out how to get involved.

Coding.

We are recruiting coders to help build out the first, fully open-source reference architecture for wind energy.

 
 

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Join Us at the First Annual ENTR Developers Conference

NREL Flatirons Campus near Boulder, CO (The event will be held in Boulder, CO)

 
 

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL ENTR Developers conference

Where: Boulder, Colorado at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

When: June 15-16, 2023

Join us at the ENTR Developer’s conference on June 15-16, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado! ENTR (short for ENergy TRansition) is an open-source software foundation dedicated to establishing and maintaining open-source data and software standards to foster collaborative, scalable analytics for renewable energy industry and global climate stakeholders. This conference will showcase our beta product launch of the ENTR data warehouse and wind energy operational analysis products and include presentations by key industry leaders from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Clearway Energy, Apex Clean Energy, Deutsche Windtechnik, and more. Additional agenda items will include collaborating with participants to identify new ideas and use cases to understand how we can solve the most impactful and challenging problems in the management and analysis of data. The conference will also include hands-on workshops to facilitate stakeholders getting started with the ENTR stack. Registration will be limited, so mark your calendars today; we look forward to seeing you there!

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(The conference week will also include meetings for DOE Wind Energy Digitalization and IEA Wind Task 43)