SFINCS

The SFINCS controls & monitors the solar field as part of the power plant. If the heliostats are thousands of individual burners that heat the receiver, then the SFINCS is their burner management system. The SFINCS includes all the solar field control functions from communication with the heliostats, weather and cameras, to aiming and calibration, to DCS interface for control setpoints and sensor data. The SFINCS User Interface provides the operators with visibility to all of this functionality.