Technology
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Press Releases
GE Digital Launches Accelerator Tools to Help Energy Companies Accelerate Digital Transformation
Advanced digital techniques and product configurations incorporate energy subject matter expertise and best practices from GE Digital’s engineers and technology partners Tools can accelerate time to leverage predictive analytics, asset health and reliability processes, asset strategy optimization, and change management workflows without custom development SAN RAMON, Calif. – JUNE 6, 2022 — GE Digital today […]
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Press Releases
GE Digital Partners with Visionaize to Provide 3D Visualization Capabilities to APM
Designed to enable increased situational / contextual awareness with 3D plant models for inspection, maintenance, and engineering activities Ability to access and contextualize enterprise data helps to optimize asset management processes and facilitate decision making SAN RAMON, Calif. – JUNE 6, 2022 — GE Digital today announced a technology partnership with Visionaize, a provider of […]
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Energy Storage
Zinc Batteries Power Stationary Energy Storage
As solar, wind and other renewable resources play a larger role on the power grid, renewables’ essential partner—energy storage—must keep pace to provide power at peak hours when the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow. Rechargeable zinc batteries offer an ideal energy storage solution; they can release power back to the grid for […]
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Nuclear
France’s NUWARD SMR Will Be Test Case for European Early Joint Nuclear Regulatory Review
The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), the Czech State Office for Nuclear Safety (SUJB), and Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) have picked France’s NUWARD small modular reactor (SMR) design as a test case for an early joint regulatory review for SMRs. The development marks a notable step by European regulators to align practices in a […]
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Connected Plant
Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
“Cyber-physical systems” are the next generation of closely integrated physical and cyber systems. Several critical systems such as the power grid, autonomous transportation systems, and process control systems are examples of cyber-physical systems. They are liable to be attacked by malicious agents who can compromise the sensor measurements being used to control them. Indeed, there […]
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Press Releases
Duke Energy One, L3Harris offer new operational solution for nuclear power plants
▪ Innovative new service for nuclear facilities provides customized, immersive 3D simulations. ▪ Solution provides way for customers to address operational opportunities, challenges while helping to improve efficiency, reduce costs. CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Duke Energy One and L3Harris Technologies have announced a customized, cost-effective solution for nuclear power plants that will provide complete 3D simulations […]
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Press Releases
ENGIE and Google Cloud join forces to accelerate wind energy development with advanced data management and artificial intelligence
ENGIE and Google Cloud aim to optimize wind energy management on the power markets through an Artificial Intelligence based solution. ENGIE and Google Cloud signed a new partnership for the development of an Artificial Intelligence-based energy solution to optimize the value of ENGIE’s wind portfolio on the short term power markets. ENGIE and Google Cloud’s […]
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Hydrogen
Much-Watched Reciprocating Engine Hydrogen Pilot Kicks Off at Michigan Power Plant
A landmark project to test fuel blends of up to 25% volume of hydrogen mixed with natural gas in reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICEs) has launched at WEC Energy Group’s 56-MW A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan. If successful, the pilot—one of the first of its kind in the U.S.—could provide key insight into how […]
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Connected Plant
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Energy Trilemma
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is arriving in a most timely manner to help resolve the world’s energy trilemma—the transition to net-zero, energy security, and energy affordability. For many years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been at the forefront of discussions on climate change and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Below, I outline our key takeaways […]
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T&D
The Vital Link: How HVDC Is Modernizing the Grid
Significant advances in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission are in step with rapid changes to energy systems worldwide. Shortly after POWER magazine began publication in 1882, the competitive