CEMEX Energía
CEMEX Energía optimizes the operation of its wind farms with AVEVA PI System
Founded in 2014 with the mission of reducing electricity costs and CO2 emissions in cement production through renewable energy, CEMEX Energía uses AVEVA PI System (Cloud) to manage its wind farms. The company needed to maximize output from Latin America's largest wind farm — essential to CEMEX's cement production — and implement a data management system capable of supporting its operational energy platform for all divisions. With AVEVA PI System, CEMEX Energía has gained visibility into its wind generation, now tracks the performance of warranty and service contracts, and has a reliable asset management strategy that allows it to meet its contractual obligations while improving its environmental footprint.
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How does AVEVA PI System improve wind farm operations?
AVEVA PI System (Cloud) centralizes all operational data from CEMEX Energía's wind turbines in real time. Combined with a Google Maps overlay and animations, it provides an immediate overview of the wind farm. Operators visualize production, identify assets with high failure rates and trigger targeted corrective actions. This real-time data management turns wind operations into a predictive approach, maximizing output at the largest wind farm in Latin America.
Why track warranty and service contracts with AVEVA PI System?
AVEVA PI System enables CEMEX Energía to objectively measure the actual performance of its turbines against the contractual commitments of manufacturers and maintenance providers. With PI DataLink and Event Frames, operational reports become automatic and actionable. The company has hard evidence to enforce warranties, negotiate penalties and continuously improve its service contracts. It is a major financial lever in a sector where availability determines the profitability of the investment.
What role do Event Frames play in preventing wind power production losses?
Event Frames automatically structures operational events (failures, shutdowns, performance drops) in AVEVA PI System. CEMEX Energía focuses its analysis on assets with a high failure frequency to anticipate production losses. This event-based approach replaces time-consuming manual analysis with structured reporting, identifies root causes and directs maintenance resources to the wind turbines that are most critical to the wind farm's overall industrial performance.
How is the cloud transforming the management of a renewable energy portfolio?
AVEVA PI System in the cloud allows CEMEX Energía to access data from its distributed wind farms from any CEMEX group site. This cloud architecture removes local infrastructure constraints, facilitates multi-site deployment and speeds up the consolidation of operational data. For a renewable energy producer directly supplying its cement plants, the cloud ensures continuous visibility over the energy-production chain, which is essential for controlling costs and reducing CO? emissions.
What environmental benefits does AVEVA bring to a cement manufacturer?
CEMEX Energía was created to reduce electricity costs and CO? emissions in cement production through renewable energy. AVEVA PI System maximizes the output of the wind farms supplying the cement plants, reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Real-time traceability of green production makes it possible to precisely measure the carbon footprint avoided. It is an exemplary use case of digital transformation serving industrial decarbonization in a high-emission sector.