The Optimization and Upgrades (OAU) Division of EthosEnergy is singularly focused on growth. As part of its portfolio of independent service offerings, EthosEnergy OAU offers third-party staffing and operations services for utility and commercial power plants. Among the challenges of meeting its aggressive growth goals, OAU needs to serve all its clients’ plants with equal effectiveness, regardless of generation capacity, infrastructure complexity, and staffing model.
Instrumentation & Controls
Power plant security issues. Latest developments and case studies of new and retrofit power plant digital and wireless instrumentation and control systems
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A distribution center in Finland is installing what is being called the country’s largest industrial microgrid, a system that will use 100% renewable energy. The system is being built by…
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Valmet will supply automation technology to Pori Energia Oy's Aittaluoto biomass power plant in Pori, Finland. The target of the company's Aittaluoto 2020 project is to replace the outdated low-efficiency…
Before industrial control systems (ICSs) were network-connected, operators had little to worry about in the way of cyber threats. But as industrial environments, such as energy utilities, become more connected,…
Most operators know that air should be kept out of a heat exchanger’s cooling water supply line. Air can collect in pockets and block flow, increasing velocities, increasing system resistance,…