Fully online technical training designed around real industry demand, so you can specialize at your own pace.
10/31/2026
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1 month
Duration
100
Total Hours
6 Modules
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ICTESS’s Course in Renewables Monitoring and SCADA delivers specialized technical training in supervision, control, and data acquisition systems applied to clean energy facilities. The program covers everything from industrial communication protocols to configuring real-time monitoring interfaces for solar, wind, and hybrid plants.
You’ll learn to set up measurement points and alarms, design operator dashboards with key performance indicators, manage remote maintenance systems through integrated ticketing, and apply industrial cybersecurity measures to protect critical infrastructure. The course includes a Capstone Project where you’ll build out a complete SCADA configuration for a renewable energy facility.
The Course in Renewables Monitoring and SCADA responds to the energy sector’s growing need for professionals who can operate and maintain the supervisory systems that run renewable plants. Modern solar and wind facilities generate thousands of process variables that require continuous monitoring and fast response to incidents in order to maximize uptime and production.
The purpose of this course is to train technicians who can configure SCADA systems from the ground up, interpret field signals through standard industrial protocols, design efficient operator interfaces, build alarm strategies that avoid information overload, and manage remote maintenance for geographically distributed facilities through ticketing and teleoperation platforms.
The training includes hands-on use of professional SCADA platforms used at renewable control centers (Wonderware, Ignition, AVEVA) and culminates in a Capstone Project where you’ll configure a complete monitoring system for a sample plant, applying every skill you’ve built.
This course qualifies you for technical roles at renewable control centers, operation and maintenance (O&M) companies, technical departments at energy developers, and engineering firms specialized in industrial automation. You can work as a control center technician, SCADA operator, remote maintenance specialist, or renewable asset monitoring lead.
The training prepares you to manage the daily operation of renewable plants: monitoring process variables in real time, diagnosing issues through trend analysis, setting alarm thresholds based on operational criticality, generating availability and performance ratio reports, and coordinating corrective maintenance with field teams.
You’ll also build skills to design executive dashboards for different user profiles, implement cybersecurity protocols on industrial OT networks, and optimize asset management through historical data analysis. The hands-on approach lets you operate real SCADA systems from day one in your new role.
Study from anywhere with no commuting required. Balance your technical specialization with your current professional schedule.
Organize your study around your own availability. Move through modules at your own speed and revisit topics whenever you need extra practice.
Learn Wonderware, Ignition, and AVEVA, the same SCADA platforms used at renewable energy control centers.
Technical video lessons, SCADA interface simulators, forums staffed by specialized tutors, and real-world configuration exercises.
With ICTESS, you’ll get specialized training in monitoring and SCADA systems focused on professional practice and designed to help you master the skills the renewable plant operations sector demands.
What you'll achieve
Configure industrial communication architectures using standard protocols (Modbus, OPC-UA, IEC 61850) to integrate field devices into renewable energy SCADA systems.
Design point, alarm, and trend structures that efficiently monitor the operating status of inverters, wind turbines, substations, and auxiliary systems.
Develop operational and executive dashboards with sector-specific KPIs: availability, performance ratio, specific yield, categorized losses, and curve compliance.
Implement remote maintenance systems with ticket management, secure remote access to field equipment, and coordination of corrective actions with distributed technical staff.
Apply industrial cybersecurity measures to protect renewable plant OT networks from threats, segmenting architectures and configuring access under IEC 62443.
The solar and wind fleet across the country keeps expanding rapidly, and utilities, IPPs, and asset owners continue adding capacity every year. Every megawatt installed requires continuous oversight from control centers running 24/7, monitoring thousands of process variables, alarms, and events in real time. This sustained growth is fueling steady demand for technicians specialized in SCADA systems.
Critical Shortage of Qualified Operators: O&M companies report difficulty filling control center vacancies. Training in SCADA applied specifically to renewables is scarce, and many professionals come from other industrial sectors without knowing the particularities of solar and wind plants or the sector-specific KPIs involved.
Rapid Digitalization of the Energy Sector: The shift toward digital twins, machine-learning-based predictive maintenance, and AI-driven optimization requires professionals who understand the data acquisition and monitoring layer these advanced solutions are built on.
Cybersecurity as a Strategic Priority: Renewable plants are critical infrastructure subject to specific regulation. The ability to implement secure architectures and industrial cybersecurity protocols has become an essential requirement that sets up-to-date professionals apart from traditional profiles.
Completing the Course in Renewables Monitoring and SCADA positions you in a technical niche with strong demand and a shortage of qualified professionals. The rapid expansion of solar and wind installations has multiplied the need for operators and technicians who can manage these assets from specialized control centers.
Access to Technical Roles at Control Centers: You’ll be qualified for positions at O&M companies managing portfolios of renewable plants, independent power producer (IPP) control centers, and operations departments at energy utilities.
Mastery of Industry-Standard SCADA Platforms: Proficiency with Wonderware, Ignition, or AVEVA sets you apart in hiring processes, since these platforms require specific training that isn’t covered in generalist degree programs.
Ability to Optimize Asset Performance: You’ll learn to detect production deviations, diagnose causes of downtime, and propose operational improvements based on historical data analysis, skills that add measurable, direct value to a facility’s profitability.
This course is designed for technical professionals looking to specialize in the operation, monitoring, and remote maintenance of renewable energy facilities through SCADA systems. Recommended profiles include:
Program details
The Capstone Project is the culminating stage of the program and brings together every technical skill developed throughout the course. It consists of fully configuring a SCADA system for a sample renewable facility, from defining the communications architecture through commissioning the operator interface, applying the professional methodologies used at real control centers.
The project includes designing the industrial network architecture with protocol selection based on device type, configuring the point database with variables from inverters, meters, weather stations, and auxiliary equipment, designing navigable process screens, parameterizing alarms prioritized by operational criticality, and building historical trends for production and availability analysis.
You’ll also develop a KPI dashboard with standard sector indicators (PR, availability, categorized losses), configure a ticket management workflow for maintenance incidents, and document the cybersecurity measures applied to the proposed architecture. The final documentation must meet the technical level and professional format expected of control center operations manuals, demonstrating your ability to configure and document operational SCADA systems.
The Course in Renewables Monitoring and SCADA includes hands-on training with the platforms most widely used at sector control centers: Wonderware (AVEVA InTouch) for HMI development and process supervision, Ignition by Inductive Automation for its modern, web-based, scalable architecture, and the fundamentals of AVEVA System Platform for enterprise environments. You’ll learn to configure device connections using OPC-UA and Modbus, design interactive process screens, parameterize alarms and trends, and build dashboards with operational KPIs. Proficiency with these platforms is highly valued in hiring processes at O&M companies, since it lets you start operating from day one without an additional learning curve on job-specific tools.
Prior automation experience is not required, though a basic understanding of electricity and familiarity with computing environments is recommended. The course is designed for technicians with backgrounds in electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or technical engineering who want to specialize in renewables monitoring. If you have experience as a solar or wind plant maintenance technician, you’ll find the course especially accessible since you already know the equipment you’ll learn to supervise remotely. For professionals coming from other industrial sectors with control room experience, the transition will feel natural as you adapt your existing skills to the specific context and KPIs of renewable energy.
The ICTESS professional certificate validates your technical specialization in SCADA systems applied to renewables and is recognized by employers in the sector as high-value practical training. While it doesn’t replace official credentials required for certain positions, the certificate documents very specific operational skills: SCADA configuration, industrial protocol handling, dashboard design with sector KPIs, alarm management, and remote maintenance. O&M companies particularly value this training because it demonstrates the ability to operate real industry platforms, knowledge of renewable plant operations, and up-to-date industrial cybersecurity know-how. Many control centers prioritize candidates with specific SCADA training over generalist profiles without energy monitoring experience.
This Course in Renewables Monitoring and SCADA stands out for its specific focus on the clean energy sector and its practical orientation toward O&M control centers. While generalist automation courses cover SCADA from a broad industrial perspective, this program focuses exclusively on applying it to solar, wind, and hybrid plants, with all their particularities: inverter and wind turbine protocols, sector-specific KPIs (performance ratio, contractual availability, categorized losses), cybersecurity requirements for critical infrastructure, and the remote maintenance workflows used by O&M companies. It also includes training on the SCADA platforms most widely deployed in the renewable energy sector, rather than generic systems that later require adapting to real energy operations.
