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Find out how AVEVA customers are putting industrial intelligence to work
- ENEL
- Innergex
- Meridian Energy
When complexity becomes clarity
In the power industry, reliable supply is critical as demand fluctuates and energy sources shift.
As the world’s largest private producer of renewable energy, ENEL needed to predict and prevent outages for the millions of people that it serves.
ENEL’s engineers wanted a solution that could:
- Boost efficiency in line with the company’s digital leadership vision
- Analyze vast amounts of new data for more impactful decision-making
- Use data to build resilience and agility into power generation
With AVEVA already supporting their digital strategy, ENEL’s teams knew that they could rely on AVEVA technology to predict failures before they occur, while also reducing maintenance costs.
Utilities have understood that digitalization is not a slogan, it’s not something cool you can tell your customers, it is something that you have to foster in order to survive and keep your competitiveness high.
Predictive analytics powering incredible possibilities
ENEL’s digital twin predictive tool uses statistical models to spot anomalies, prompting operators to investigate. Built-in fault detection helps teams identify the root cause of these anomalies by analyzing past behavior.
ENEL’s new tool can even detect faults and anomalies when a plant is in a transient state. With increasing pressure on power plants to be more flexible – and fluctuate between starting up and shutting down – this feature is an absolute essential.
Performance, future-proofed
Keeping the lights on is an incredibly important job, and as a power company that means having the advanced decision-support to deal with issues before they impact the grid.
ENEL’s digital twin builds resilience and agility into the heart of its operations, warning operators in the control room of any potential problem. It tells them what it might cost and advises teams on how to intervene.
By putting industrial intelligence to work, ENEL has been able to prevent over 220 potential failures at its plants – all while delivering unprecedented levels of performance across 23GW of power generation.
Being a data-driven company means we always need to have the data. We cannot afford any data gaps. The new tools from AVEVA ensure that we always have the data on which we base our decisions.
When risk becomes opportunity
Innergex are on a mission to help build a better world.
As a global leader in renewable energy, Innergex has a rapidly expanding network, with many sites in remote locations. But with these facilities using different operating systems and software, communication could be unreliable, performance was inconsistent, and data was often lost.
To dial up efficiency – and hit their climate goals – Innergex set out to:
- Standardize and consolidate operational control
- Improve data analysis and reporting
- Create a system that would eliminate data loss
Innergex needed an open, agnostic approach to unify these disparate systems. And they also required a flexible solution that would grow and scale with the business. This made AVEVA software a natural fit.
The transition to a clean economy, turning a risk into an opportunity, will be powered by renewable energy. This represents a unique opportunity to meet our collective climate goals while promoting sustainable economic development and enhancing the human condition.
Operation: control
Working with AVEVA, Innergex brought these disparate systems together into one environment. This gave operators a holistic view of exactly what was happening across all sites, enabling them to address issues proactively and optimize performance on-the-go.
This seamless connectivity and functionality significantly improved operational agility, scalability, and sustainability. And thanks to AVEVA software, Innergex was able to put a robust data structure in place to counter data dark spots and safeguard data integrity.
Plotting a path towards sustainable expansion
These new solutions have completely reshaped Innergex's processes and procedures.
Troubleshooting has been transformed, with operations staff at every plant, as well as the managers from the corporate office, all using the same data. Operational excellence and efficiency have hit new heights. And seamless access to data means stronger business cases for investment.
By putting industrial intelligence to work, Innergex is better equipped to navigate the renewable energy landscape, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and fight climate change.
AVEVA Operations Control provides significant flexibility to deploy what we need and makes it easy to upgrade to remain current.
When downtime becomes real-time
The teams at Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s largest renewable energy generator, believe in making a difference through data.
However, the company faced difficulty in assessing the performance of its assets. Limited information made it hard to proactively identify maintenance issues. And the lack of real-time insights made performance optimization a challenge.
If the team at Meridian wanted to see how their generating assets were performing, they had to shut them down to access data. Routine maintenance and investigations into asset degradation required shutdowns, as well.
Frequent operational disruptions reduced efficiency. And the inflexibility of outage scheduling, compounded by market demand constraints, added further complications.
Our goal was to move towards a condition-based approach, to optimize resources through condition-based monitoring. That’s where the AVEVA PI System came in.
The platform takes center stage
Overall, these challenges highlighted the critical need for a comprehensive solution that provides actionable insights into asset performance without relying on plant shutdowns. By partnering with AVEVA and implementing the AVEVA PI System, Meridian found their answer.
AVEVA PI System provides an open and agnostic centralized platform for collecting data, which delivers critical metrics to various business units in the formats most relevant to them.
Significant improvements are realized in both data collection and analysis. Unlocking real-time data transparency facilitates informed decision-making across the organization. Teams gain valuable insights into asset performance and they’re able to optimize maintenance schedules and enhance overall efficiency.
Decision-making processes are streamlined. And without the need for frequent shutdowns, asset reliability is improved, downtime minimized, and operational efficiency results in cost savings.
Difference through data
As the world transitions towards sustainable energy, innovative technologies become an imperative to drive efficiency, resilience, and decarbonization.
Meridian's strategic collaboration with AVEVA serves as a compelling example of how data-driven decision-making can empower organizations to overcome operational challenges.
The integration of real-time monitoring and predictive analytics capabilities enables Meridian to optimize resource usage, reduce environmental impact, and ensure reliable energy supply for consumers.
By putting industrial intelligence to work, Meridian has set a precedent for proactive asset management practices, driving innovation, efficiency, and sustainability for the benefit of society and the environment.
The AVEVA PI System has given us a foundation to build upon with the hopes of creating more complex analytics in the future
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