02/09/2026 - Press release Growing wind portfolios, rising complexity: COPA-DATA to showcase Unified Wind Farm SCADA at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026

At booth 350 in hall A3, visitors will experience live demonstrations covering wind farm control, substation automation, battery energy storage and centralized monitoring and control across wind portfolios.

More wind energy does not simply mean more turbines. As portfolios expand, assets diversify and margins tighten, operational complexity increases, along with the pressure to maintain availability, efficiency and security.

Europe faces the parallel task of expanding and modernizing its wind energy infrastructure. According to WindEurope, 151 GW of new wind power capacity is expected to be installed across Europe between 2026 and 2030 . At the same time, aging wind farms are reaching the end of their original support and service periods. The challenge is therefore twofold: adding new capacity while keeping existing assets productive through continued operation, retrofit or repowering.

Visit COPA-DATA at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026 (booth 350, hall A3)

Against this backdrop, COPA-DATA will present Unified Wind Farm SCADA at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, taking place September 22–25. Built on the integrated zenon software platform, the vendor-independent solution provides centralized monitoring, control, alarm management, historization and reporting across turbines, substations, battery storage and balance-of-plant systems, from individual wind farms to entire portfolios.

From fragmented systems to unified operations

Wind farm operators manage turbines, substations, storage and auxiliary assets from multiple manufacturers and technology generations. Separate HMIs, data structures and communication methods fragment operational data and alarms, slowing diagnostics and increasing training and support requirements. Retrofit and repowering projects add further integration pressure, while offshore conditions, growing OT security requirements and scarce specialist expertise make failures harder and more costly to address.

Replacing established system landscapes in their entirety is neither necessary nor economically viable for every project. Unified Wind Farm SCADA consolidates turbines, substations, storage and balance-of-plant systems in a single operational platform while allowing existing assets to remain in use. New components can be integrated step by step without tying the operator to a single manufacturer’s ecosystem.

zenon provides the software foundation for this approach. Its hardware-agnostic, vendor-independent architecture provides operators and engineering teams a consistent basis for managing heterogeneous wind farms while retaining control over future hardware and technology choices.

“For operators, the key is to retain the ability to develop their wind farms without entering into a new vendor dependency. An open software foundation protects existing investments and preserves freedom of choice for future technology decisions. This independence is not only technically important; it is also a significant factor in long-term competitiveness,” says Stefan Hufnagl, Industry Specialist Management Energy, COPA-DATA Headquarters.

Experience unified Wind Farm SCADA live

At the COPA-DATA booth, visitors will be able to follow the operational chain from individual turbines and substations through wind farm control to centralized portfolio control. The demonstrations show how real-time values, alarms and historical information from different assets and locations can be accessed through a consistent HMI.

Conversations and live demonstrations will focus on:

• Unified Wind Farm SCADA: Centralized monitoring, control and reporting across entire onshore and offshore wind portfolios, independent of asset manufacturer

• Vendor-independent integration: Native support for OPC UA, IEC 61400-25, IEC 61850, DNP3 and IEC 60870 to connect turbines, substations and auxiliary systems

• Integrated substation automation: SCADA and HMI for wind farm substations, combined with turbine monitoring and balance-of-plant data

• Operational efficiency: Centralized alarm management, real-time monitoring and historization to support faster fault analysis and proactive operations and maintenance

• Efficient engineering: Reusable templates, libraries and standardized project structures designed to reduce configuration effort, support faster commissioning and scale across large fleets

“Today, operations and maintenance teams often spend valuable time piecing together information from separate vendor systems,” says Jürgen Resch, Director Industry Management Energy, COPA-DATA Headquarters. “Unified Wind Farm SCADA with zenon brings live values, alarms and historical data from turbines, substations, storage and auxiliary systems into one operational context. This enables teams to correlate alarms across system boundaries, identify the causes of faults faster and reduce manual effort and the risk of errors. Reusable engineering structures also make it easier to standardize solutions and scale them across entire wind portfolios. The result is less time spent navigating systems, and more time spent improving operations.”

Explore the energy landscape 2026

Unified Wind Farm SCADA forms the central wind energy story within COPA-DATA’s wider Energy Landscape 2026.

Further live demonstrations will cover:

• Wind energy: Unified Wind Farm SCADA, Turbine Monitoring and Wind Park Control, Offshore Platform Management
• Substation and grid automation: Substation Automation, Station Level Solutions: Substation HMI and Gateway, Situational Awareness and advanced Command Processing, Network Control Center solutions
• Renewable generation and storage: Hybrid Renewables, Utility-scale Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems, Grid-connection

• Future proof solution architectures: Platform agnostic deployment and virtualization, IT/OT integration, Cyber Security, IIoT

Discuss wind farm modernization with COPA-DATA experts

Throughout WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, COPA-DATA’s energy automation specialists will be available to discuss practical approaches to operating heterogeneous wind portfolios, integrating multi-vendor assets, modernizing wind farms and substations, planning retrofit and repowering projects, incorporating battery storage and hybrid energy systems, strengthening operational transparency, and standardizing engineering across sites.

Visit COPA-DATA at booth 350 in hall A3 during WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, September 22-25, at Hamburg Messe.

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About COPA-DATA

COPA-DATA is an independent software manufacturer that specializes in digitalization for the manufacturing industry and energy sector. Its zenon® software platform enables users worldwide to automate, manage, monitor, integrate and optimize machines, equipment, buildings and power grids. COPA-DATA combines decades of experience in automation with the potential of digital transformation and a strong drive for sustainability-enabling solutions. In this way, the company supports its customers to achieve their objectives more easily, faster and more efficiently.  

The family-owned business was founded by Thomas Punzenberger in 1987 in Salzburg, Austria. A sales network of international distributors and 14 subsidiaries ensures that the software is marketed worldwide. More than 500 certified partner companies further support end users with the efficient implementation of the software, particularly in the key industries of food & beverage, energy & infrastructure, automotive and pharmaceutical. 

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Samuel Inwinkl

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