As RNG projects scale, operators need reliable SCADA systems to manage complex facilities.We break down the most common platforms used in the industry and how teams select them.
PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
Rimba Partners with Aveva to Automate Reporting & Analysis Directly From the Plant Floor
April 13, 2026 • By Rimba Marketing Team
We are proud to announce Rimba’s partnership with Aveva — a significant step forward in making industrial reporting and analysis faster, more reliable, and more connected to real plant operations.
Aveva is part of Schneider Electric, a Fortune Global 500 company widely recognized for leadership in energy management, industrial automation, and innovation across critical infrastructure and industry. Through native integration with AVEVA CONNECT, Rimba can now access time-series data directly from sensors and plant systems and turn that operational data into compliance intelligence workflows. Aveva Connect provides a cloud-based industrial data foundation that helps unify on-premise and cloud data in one environment.
This partnership strengthens our ability to help industrial operators reduce the time spent analyzing data and creating reports, enabling faster root-cause identification and minimizing costly downtime.
This will also reduce the cost of compliance by minimizing manual data collection, reducing spreadsheet-heavy workflows, and connecting compliance directly to real operating data from the facility floor. Together, we can support continuous monitoring and reporting for air permits, emissions, water permits, and broader energy and sustainability compliance.
This partnership with Aveva marks a meaningful turning point for how our customers approach reporting and data analysis. For companies already managing air permits, emissions tracking, water permits, and broader energy and sustainability obligations, the biggest friction point has always been getting the right operational data into the right compliance workflow — quickly, reliably, and without armies of people manually pulling records.
With native access to Aveva Connect, Rimba customers can move from raw sensor and plant data to audit-ready compliance reporting with far less manual effort. For the industries we serve — renewable fuels, process industries, wastewater, utilities — this is the infrastructure that compliance teams have needed. We are excited about what this means for our customers today and for the broader industry as regulatory demands continue to grow.”
— Timothy Daniel, CEO, Rimba
For use cases in renewable fuels and process industries, this integration creates a strong foundation for programs such as the Renewable Fuel Standard, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Canadian Clean Fuel Regulations, and other compliance frameworks that rely on continuous operational monitoring. This spans a wide range of facilities: digesters, ethanol and renewable diesel plants, SAF facilities, upgrading facilities, wastewater treatment plants, terminals, utility systems, and chemical plants.
This partnership is about making compliance more connected to the plant floor itself: native access to sensor data, less manual effort, lower cost for compliance teams, and faster movement from raw operational data to reporting and audit readiness. Instead of manually downloading and validating massive datasets, chasing spreadsheets, formatting data, PDFs, lab reports, and disconnected plant records, operators can move toward a more reliable and audit-ready compliance process.
What This Means for Customers in Practice
The practical impact of this integration goes well beyond convenience. For example, compliance teams working across air permits, emissions monitoring, water management, and energy reporting spend a significant portion of their time not on compliance itself — but on the manual work that surrounds it. Fetching data from plant historians, reformatting it for permit templates, reconciling sensor readings against lab reports, and rebuilding the same spreadsheets month after month. With Rimba and Aveva Connect working together, that work can largely be eliminated.
Consider a renewable diesel or renewable natural gas facility managing both an air permit and RFS obligations. Today, that team might export data from a plant historian, reformat it in Excel, cross-reference it against emission factors and feedstock logs, and then manually populate report templates — a process that can take days and is prone to version errors. With this integration, Rimba pulls live time-series data directly from Aveva Connect, applies the compliance logic automatically, and generates audit-ready reports without a single manual export. The compliance team shifts from data wrangling to review and decision-making.
For wastewater treatment facilities managing water discharge permits, the same principle applies. Flow meters, pH sensors, and effluent monitoring systems generate continuous data that must be tied to permit limits and reported to regulators on defined schedules. Rather than manually pulling readings and building compliance summaries, operators can trust that Rimba is continuously watching those data streams through Aveva Connect — flagging exceedances in real time and keeping reporting current without a backlog of manual reconciliation at the end of each period.
For energy and sustainability reporting — whether for internal ESG targets or external frameworks — the integration means that utility consumption, emissions data, and operational metrics no longer need to be gathered from disconnected systems before they can be reported. The data flows continuously, the calculations are applied consistently, and the audit trail is built automatically as operations run. When regulators or auditors ask for records, the answer is ready — not assembled under deadline pressure.
This partnership would simply not have been possible without the exceptional dedication of the Aveva team, and a shared commitment to delivering something that truly serves industrial operators. We are especially grateful to Scott Kolo, John Marriot, and Eric Cardinal, whose leadership made this collaboration reflect exactly the kind of partner we are proud to work alongside. We look forward to building on this foundation together for years to come.
About Rimba
Rimba is a compliance intelligence platform purpose-built for industrial operators. We help facilities across renewable fuels, process industries, and utilities turn operational data into continuous, audit-ready compliance reporting — reducing manual effort and lowering the cost of staying compliant.
FactoryTalk is one of the most widely used SCADA platforms in North American industrial automation.
Many RNG plants rely on Allen-Bradley PLCs, making FactoryTalk a natural choice due to its tight integration with Rockwell control hardware.
Ignition has rapidly become one of the fastest-growing SCADA platforms in the industrial automation sector.
Unlike traditional SCADA systems, Ignition is built around web-based architecture, making it well suited for remote monitoring and multi-site operations.
GE’s iFIX platform has long been used in industrial process monitoring.
In RNG facilities, it is often deployed in plants that require strong data historian capabilities and integration with existing industrial automation infrastructure.
GE’s iFIX platform has long been used in industrial process monitoring.
In RNG facilities, it is often deployed in plants that require strong data historian capabilities and integration with existing industrial automation infrastructure.
AVEVA’s System Platform (formerly Wonderware) is widely deployed in industrial automation environments.
The platform is known for strong visualization and process monitoring capabilities, making it common in facilities that require detailed operational dashboards.
VTScada is frequently used in infrastructure monitoring environments such as water utilities and gas distribution networks.
Some RNG operators deploy VTScada for remote monitoring of distributed digester systems.
Selecting the right SCADA platform for an RNG facility depends on several operational and technical factors. While most SCADA systems provide similar core functionality, operators typically prioritize compatibility, scalability, and data accessibility.
Most RNG plants rely on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to control equipment such as digesters, gas upgrading systems, compressors, and pipeline injection infrastructure.
As RNG portfolios expand, many operators manage multiple facilities across different regions.
In these cases, centralized monitoring becomes increasingly important. Platforms such as Ignition and FactoryTalk are commonly used to monitor multiple RNG plants from a single operations center.
Operators often spend hours each day interacting with SCADA screens, especially in facilities where digesters, upgrading systems, and compressors must be monitored continuously. When interfaces are poorly designed or cluttered, it becomes much harder to identify problems quickly.
The RNG industry is still relatively early in its digital transformation.
Most facilities today rely heavily on SCADA systems that were originally designed for industrial process control, not for portfolio-level operational insight.
As operators scale to dozens of plants, a new category of software is beginning to emerge on top of SCADA systems.
These platforms focus on:
Rather than replacing SCADA, these tools use SCADA data to provide higher-level operational intelligence across multiple plants.
For operators managing growing RNG portfolios, this additional software layer is becoming increasingly important.
