Discover-the-Power-of-Digital-Customer-Stories - Ebook
Discover-the-Power-of-Digital-Customer-Stories - Ebook
Discover-the-Power-of-Digital-Customer-Stories - Ebook
POWER OF DIGITAL
Customer Stories
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Power Digital Outcomes
A sweeping digital transformation of the electricity landscape
Reliability has begun. Organizations that move with urgency to drive a digital strategy
throughout their businesses will define the industry’s future. Data and
Productivity analytics strategies will be key to future competitive advantage, to fueling
growth, determining profitability and ultimately survival. I’m inspired
Profitability by our customers every day; by working alongside them on their digital
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endeavors. I hope you will be inspired by their stories too.”
Security Ganesh Bell, Chief Digital Officer, GE Power Digital
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RELIABILITY
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RELIABILITY
APM to Improve
Reliability and Availability
of RasGas Assets
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The LNG production at RasGas in Ras Laffan, Qatar, consists The GE team worked closely with the RasGas team to develop
of seven LNG production trains with an approximate capacity and identify opportunities for a pilot project to detect early
The Predix™ cloud solution is projected failures and production optimization initiatives by leveraging a
of 37MM Tons a year. RasGas is focused on cost and value
to extend the life of RasGas assets, as well as optimization to reduce overall expenditures and enhance consolidated store of collected machine sensor data, analytic
lower operating costs through greater efficiency by improving plant reliability and availability without software and a platform that provides a plant-wide view.
compromising safety, health and the environment.
efficiencies. This ‘Software Defined Operations’ By mid 2015, the pilot project had demonstrated intially that
Solution early failures and process optimization opportunities can be
provides RasGas with deeper insights into detected with the use of analytics with the ability to identify
The initiative at RasGas began in late 2014 with a pilot for early
their plant operations to enable more forward detection of equipment or system failures and production areas to optimize and reduce waste.
optimization for selected units of three (3) LNG trains. This
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looking decisions, in turn providing inputs for Way Forward
covered GE & non-GE equipment with GE’s Asset Performance
how to manage their business. GE’s APM solution is expected to cover the entire plant by
Management (APM) solution, built on the Predix cloud platform,
monitoring and connecting 2,300+ assets with over 65,000 GE
using machine data sensors, predictive analytics and process
and non-GE devices.
optimization.
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Challenge 12 plant locations and over 500 assets. The solution uses
Salt River Project (SRP) provides generation, transmission and advanced modeling, protected by over 40 patents, to put into
distribution services, as well as metering and billing services context the normal operating relationships among all relevant
to over 1 million customers in the Phoenix metro area. They parameters, such as load, temperatures, pressures, vibration
operate 12 power plants, including coal, nuclear, natural gas and readings and ambient conditions. In real time, the software
renewable sources (hydroelectric, solar, wind, and geothermal). compares actual sensor readings to that particular machine’s
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are going to be talking real-time data.
Richard Lopriore, President, PSEG Fossil
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Challenge Solution
PSEG is one of the 10 largest electric companies in the U.S. To achieve PSEG’s digital transformation, GE’s team
and New Jersey’s largest provider of electric and gas service of experts focused on the Linden plant installing GE’s
— serving 2.2 million electric customers and 1.8 million gas Operations Optimization, capturing data from machine
customers. PSEG also owns and operates a diverse fleet sensors, applying sophisticated analytics and creating
of power plants with approximately 12,000 megawatts of insights that drive more profitable decisions for PSEG.
generating capacity located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and An M&D center was created to help drive PSEG’s key
Achieved top quartile Northeast regions. performance indicators for system availability, thermal
performance, and operations flexibility.
in heat rate and reduced production costs Faced with the challenge of providing economic and reliable
power as demand and fuel prices fluctuate, PSEG needed Results
to maintain a profitable business with their existing power PSEG improved performance with an integrated view that
Minimized fuel start costs generation assets. At the same time, PSEG leadership puts the plant manager and their trading counterpart on
recognized the value of leveraging data from their plants to the same page. Automatic notifications alert the plant
Improved reliability by make more informed decisions about operations and market manager to any operational anomalies in order to prevent
opportunities. risky operations. Cloud-based visibility, insights and actions
1% year 1 = $2MM value keep leadership focused on achieving their continuous
improvement initiatives including identifying opportunities to
improve thermal performance, increase operational flexibility
and reliability.
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PRODUCTIVITY
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solutions.
Valerio Camerano, CEO, A2A
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Challenge
With approximately 7.1 GW of clean energy facilities in
Results
Operation Optimization informed engineering and operations
A Large Renewable
North America and Europe, the company was challenged by team on potential leaks and recommended repairs within & Clean Energy
misalignment between the traders and the plant managers
causing missed market opportunities. They lacked a clear
two weeks of implementation and identified sensors that
were wired incorrectly and mislabeled, delivering inaccurate
Generation Company
view of the capacity and output of their wind and solar information. After repairs were completed, the plant was able
farms as well as the thermal performance of their natural to deliver an additional $30K/day or ~ $2 million in additional
gas power facilities. Additionally, they were concerned about capacity.
potential leaks impacting heat rates.
Traders now have visibility into true plant capacity and can Found leaks and thermal performance issues
Solution more accurately bid into the market and increase profitability.
They partnered with GE to build a digital twin and thermal within 2 weeks
model of their natural gas powered plants as well as
designing a forecasting model that would enable traders to
bid more capacity into the market. Increased capacity by $2MM /year
— ability to make this available to trading team
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Challenge Solution
E.ON is one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies — GE, in partnership with E.ON, developed an OpFlex Advanced
generating electricity, and retailing power and gas. Controls technology retrofit package that enables agile
and robust combined cycle starts. This package consists of
Many gas-fired combined cycle power plants in Europe are
OpFlex Variable Load Path (VLP) solution, which enables GT
40% faster combined cycle plant starts unable to be economically dispatched due to high gas prices,
low power demand, and low power sale prices.
load and exhaust conditions to be customized to best match
bottoming cycle needs, plus OpFlex AutoTune MX solution,
Plants that ran 4,000+ hours per year, now see fewer than which provides fully automated combustor tuning to ensure
50% less costly combined cycle starts 1,000 hours of profitable operation. Even that is often only robust GT operation across the full load range and whole VLP
possible in real-time power markets and only when spark operating space.
spreads are high, such as when intermittent renewable
60% more operating hours and starts over power (wind, for example) needs to be quickly replaced).
Results
With Variable Load Path and AutoTune MX, E.ON
plant without OpFlex solution
Successful operation in this time-sensitive environment demonstrated 40% faster and 50% less costly combined
requires combined cycle plant starts that are fast, reliable, cycle plant starts, resulting in up to 60% more operating
and low-cost, similar to what is possible with simple hours and starts compared to non-upgraded plants.
cycle plants.
The solution has been proven in operation on more than 10
units at 5 different sites since 2013, with more than 20,000
cumulative hours and 1,000 starts through December 2015.
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Challenge
NRG power plants across the US provide about 48,000 megawatts of
outage scheduling and, as a result, can grant the commercial team the
ability to potentially bid more MWs.
NRG
generation capacity, enough to power more than 38 million average NRG has installed the new GE solution at one of its generating stations,
households. NRG also provides retail electric service for nearly 3 million and is measuring and refining its use, working with the GE software
retail customers across the US. and engineering teams toward a broader implementation in late 2016.
As the nation’s leading integrated power company, NRG is always In addition, the GE Digital Twin will monitor NRG’s planned outage
2–3% Output improvement*
working to improve operating efficiency in its power production, timeline, helping ensure that future outage dates will not change,
balancing the maintenance requirements of its GE units among the
NRG fleet with a need to maximize power output to meet the needs of
while delivering visibility on the maximum total available output
between outages.
$5MM C ustomer revenue
the bulk power markets. per 32K Hrs.*
Results
Solution
GE has developed a unique visibility and insight analytic offering as part
With this new GE analytic offering, NRG expects to gain significant
control over the tradeoff between asset maintenance and business ZERO impact to plant
of its Operations Optimization solution, allowing power generators opportunities. NRG will be able to execute a “look ahead” approach that outage schedule
to make both short- and long-term decisions that can improve plant identifies optimal maintenance windows, allowing it to peak its turbine
profitability. This new offering leverages GE’s Digital Twin model to operations to increase profitability through advantageous market
dynamically review the operation of gas turbines to adjust operating pricing. This can occur while utilizing cold part load to bank MW hours
conditions and key set points. This allows customers to bank MW that can be used during peak periods, while maintaining asset life.
hours during turndown market conditions. By using GE’s Advanced
Controls software, power plants can be operated safely above Based on modeling and historic PJM energy pricing, this new system is
baseload conditions, while the banked MW hours can be used to take capable of providing NRG a 2–3% improvement in MW output through
* Projected estimates based on GE modeling and historical
advantage of peak market prices and conditions. This gives NRG the peak firing, potentially delivering more than $5 million of additional PJM energy pricing
ability to directly understand and act on the balance of peak firing with profitability with zero impact to its critical outage schedule.
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Challenge Solution
Mainova AG is one of the largest regional energy suppliers in The GE unit in Frankfurt was the first 6B gas turbine in the
Germany, providing electricity, gas, heat and water. world to receive OpFlex control software technologies:
AutoTune, Turndown, Variable Peak and Smart Inlet Bleed
In Germany, cogeneration using gas fuel is competing in
Heat (IBH).
60% turndown to 40% load a landscape where electricity sells on a daily basis and
purchases are mainly driven by the price of fuel. Other less This Advanced Controls solution is designed to deliver broad
costly fuel sources, such as solar, wind, coal and nuclear take operational flexibility across all modes of plant operation by
110% emissions compliant peak load precedence, leading Mainova to take an innovative step to
drive production efficiency.
expanding the operating envelope, while enabling significant
performance improvement.
Mainova was interested in lowering its minimum part load, Results
2% fuel savings during part load operation reducing fuel costs, and improving maximum power output —
all while maintaining emissions compliance.
Mainova is now able to run their gas turbine at competitive
levels, leading to a more profitable position in the market.
They also now have the ability to set emissions limits
and let the turbine control maximum performance within
those limits.
One of the biggest benefits Mainova saw was the ability
to expand their emissions-compliant operating range from
60–100% load to 40–110% load.
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SECURITY
91%
In 2013, 91% of power
$1M
The average cost of each
40%
40% of all cyber attacks are
generation organizations NERC CIP Violation.2 targeting the energy sector.
had experienced (This is the second
a cyber attack.1 largest vertical).3
Sources:
1. Baytar, T. (2014,)ct 14). Cybersecurity in the power sector. powering Engineering International, Vol. 22/#9
2. NERC CIP 2013 Reliability Report: http://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/PA?Performance%20Analysis%2ODL/2013_SOR_May%2015.pdf
3. Barron-Lopez. L. (2014, Jul 15). Cyber threats put energy sector on red alert. TheHill.com
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ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT > 13,000 power engineers and data scientists
Reliability and Availability
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For more information, visit
We have to look to innovation in
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emerging technologies.
Mike Kurzeja, Emerging Technology, Exelon Corporation
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