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A new generation is rising, defined not by age or experience, but by the relentless desire for progress.
By harnessing trusted insight and ingenuity - your Industrial Intelligence - you can open up new avenues for growth, drive decarbonization, and reshape the Power industry today and for the future.
Ensure reliable and secure power supply with trusted insights that span your value chain.
Turn data into decisions
Transform disconnected data into decisive action.
Break down silos
Share integrated data across teams and systems.
Connect every link
Power collaboration and resilience throughout your value chain.
Turn insight into growth
Build new revenue streams and enable efficiencies.
Learn more about how AVEVA customers harness their Industrial Intelligence
- AGL Energy
- Innergex
AGL Energy turned complexity into clarity
AGL is an integrated energy company producing energy from thermal power, natural gas, wind power, hydroelectricity, solar energy, gas storage, coal and battery storage across Australia.
In nine years, AGL’s power capacity grew from 300 to over 10,000 megawatts of electricity generation. As a result, the company saw overwhelming growth in its data.
However, this additional power capacity produced diverse data flows, with information held in many unconnected, incompatible systems. This made it much more challenging for AGL’s leadership team to get a complete view of operations, and for the field teams to manage vast new volumes of renewable energy, flowing into the grid.
Divided data makes insight impossible
The team needed high-resolution data to optimize operational performance, especially with aging infrastructure. They also needed to consolidate multiple SCADA technologies into one system. The team identified three key steps they needed to undertake:
- To give teams across the organization access to real-time data and insights to improve accuracy of decision-making.
- Expand from real-time awareness to predictive modelling to prevent lost time incidents.
- Share power generation data securely with partners, optimizing usage across distributed power generation sites.
Using AVEVA PI System and CONNECT, AGL centralized its time-series information from every generation site, unifying and visualizing that data into a dashboard where they could both understand operational performance and apply industrial AI in order to predict and prevent outages.
Now, the whole team benefits from integrated intelligence, spanning the entire value chain: each individual has secure access to near-real-time data; everyone is empowered to make changes that can improve many aspects of business performance.
What came along was a solution that really fit what we needed and that was [AVEVA PI System]. It could connect to any one of our controllers. We could harvest every piece of real-time data and make it available to every person at AGL.
Saving AU$10 million each year
By using CONNECT to harness industrial intelligence, AGL has saved approximately 6-10 million AUD per year in avoided failures via Advanced Pattern Recognition diagnostics.
The team has also cut data capture time from 10 minutes to 1 second across 200 wind turbines, helping optimize performance. This led to a ROI payback of 4 months and enhanced efficiency as a result.
Now, real-time wind power generation data from turbines can also be shared securely with AGL’s university partners to drive further optimizations.
Innergex turned risk into 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.
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