Predictive Maintenance News
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Why AI and Energy are the New Power Couple
by Vida Rozite, Energy Policy Analyst; Jack Miller, Energy Efficiency Policy Analyst; and Sungjin Oh, Energy Analyst, IEA Power systems are becoming vastly more complex as demand for electricity grows and decarbonisation efforts ramp up. In the past, grids directed energy from centralised power stations. Now, power systems increasingly need to support multi-directional flows of electricity ...
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Switch2’s ICON Connected HIU shortlisted for HVR award
Switch2’s ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), which is improving heat network efficiency by up to 35%, has been shortlisted in the HVR Awards 2023 (Domestic Heating Product Of The Year category). Richard Harrison, CEO of Switch2 Energy said: “ICON is a great example of UK design, engineering and manufacture and it’s playing a critical role in raising heat network ...
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Digital Innovation Award success for Switch2 Energy
Switch2 Energy has won the Digital Innovation Award in the prestigious Decentralised Energy Awards, which celebrate the UK suppliers and products that are driving sustainable energy excellence. The award recognises Switch2’s ICON electronic heat interface unit (HIU) , which is helping to improve the efficiency of heat networks by up to 35% – resulting in major cost and carbon ...
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Switch2 Energy innovation wins nomination for net zero award
The new ICON electronic heat interface unit (HIU) – designed and manufactured in the UK by Switch2 – has been nominated for the Innovation of the Year (energy provision) Award. Icon is a game-changing technology that provides full remote monitoring of heat networks – improving efficiency by up to 35% and generating big cost and carbon savings. It uses advanced 5G internet of ...
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Denmark's Energinet selects Hitachi Energy's Lumada APM for Asset Management
Hitachi Energy this week announced that Energinet, Denmark's national transmission system operator (TSO), has accelerated their digital journey with the selection of Hitachi's industry-leading Lumada Asset Performance Management (APM) solution. This latest collaboration between Hitachi Energy and Energinet will help the TSO better assess grid reinvestments needed to achieve their 2030 carbon ...
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Urban Node 324 Becomes First Cellular NB-IoT and LTE-M Controller to Receive D4i Certification
Urban Control, the leading smart city solutions provider, today announced that its Urban Node 324 Cellular IoT LED streetlight luminaire controller has become the world’s first NB-IoT and LTE-M lighting controller to receive D4i certification from the DALI Alliance. D4i is an industry-wide standard that enables smart, connected luminaries. By taking care of control and power requirements, ...
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Digital Controls Delivering Powerful Predictive Maintenance Solutions
Digital Controls is utilizing current expository procedures to minimize the maintenance cost ,reduce production downtime and optimize performance by using methods for early identification of inevitable hardware failures. The objective is to limit breakdowns and excessive depreciation. Digital Controls predictive maintenance strategy is a closely watched, condition based maintenance and field ...
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Schneider Electric Takes a Controlling Stake in ETAP
Schneider Electric announced this week that it has acquired a controlling stake in ETAP Automation Inc., a leading software platform for electrical power systems modeling and simulation. Used by 10,000+ design and engineering firms globally, ETAP models, simulates, control, and optimizes customer electricity power systems based on their digital twin equivalents. Subject to normal regulatory and ...
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Siveco to speak at DUSA Roundtable on Maintenance 4.0: what works, what doesn't (October 28, Suzhou)
DUSA European Association Suzhou invited Siveco China's Managing Director, Bruno Lhopiteau to speak at its Roundtable on the topic of "Maintenance 4.0: what works, what doesn't, lessons from 20 years in China" on October 28 in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). Numerous conferences have been held on the topic of Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing, during which Maintenance is often cited as a ...
By Siveco China
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Iberdrola jumps from giant PV project to new build blitz
Iberdrola will harmonize PV plant layouts and use common build strategies to minimize costs in a massive simultaneous construction initiative in western Spain. Iberdrola's giant 500 MW Nunez de Balboa solar plant in south-west Spain highlights the scale and speed of solar construction taking place in the country. Built within a year, the 290 million-euro ($315.5 million) project is Europe's ...
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World`s tallest CSP tower completed; Spanish CSP output hikes 16.8%
Shanghai Electric completes Noor Energy 1 CSP tower in Dubai Construction partners on the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai completed the 260-meter high receiver tower on January 9, Shanghai Electric, lead EPC contractor, said in a statement. The $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 project will be the world's largest CSP plant and includes a 100 MW CSP tower plant, three 200 MW parabolic ...
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Siemens Gamesa expands cloud computing to boost services
A new company-wide IT system will improve data collection and analytics, boosting predictive maintenance gains and spare parts efficiency, Alan Feeley, Chief Information Officer at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, told New Energy Update. In November, turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa announced a new deal with IT specialist Infosys to implement a new digital infrastructure platform across ...
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CSP cloud cameras set to cut sun block losses
Cutting-edge camera technology and irradiation forecasts could increase CSP revenues by several percentage points and boost competitiveness in key China and Middle East markets, researchers say. Advances in sky camera systems are set to drive up CSP efficiency in the coming years. In November, U.S. technology developer Heliogen hit CSP tower temperatures of over 1,000° C by using ...
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SOKRATHERM exhibits compact CHP unit GG 50 at the E-world 2020 fair
At the E-world energy & water fair in Essen (Germany, 11.-13. February 2020) we will present our further optimized compact CHP unit GG 50 in hall 2 on stand 505. The CHP unit with 50 kW electrical and up to 94 kW thermal power is equipped with a low-maintenance gas engine and reaches a total efficiency of 98.6% at optimal utilization of the condensing heat. It is apt to supply especially ...
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Brazilian hydropower plant selects Coswin 8i
We are pleased to count TIBAGI ENERGIA SPE S.A. among our new customers. TIBAGI ENERGIA SPE S.A. was established for the development, construction, operation and maintenance of the UHE Tibagi Montante hydroelectric plant, located on the Tibagi River, about 3 km from the city center of Tibagi (state of Parana, Brazil), and will have an installed capacity of 36 MW. Coswin 8i will be implemented ...
By Siveco China
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Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building Advisor Improves Campus Performance and Drives Energy Savings at the University of Iowa
Fault detection and diagnostic systems, advanced analytics, task management and advisory services help University of Iowa building managers proactively monitor for system faults and manage a large influx of data and complex building systems. -- University of Iowa used EcoStruxure Building Advisor to monitor 6.7 million square feet across 49 buildings, resulting in $900,000 in energy savings in ...
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Wind Power Forecasting with EA-PSM SAS
Free electricity trade market requires wind power producers to forecast day-ahead power generation. Mismatch between forecasted and real generation becomes direct losses for the wind power plant owner. However, due to intermittent nature of the wind, simple forecasting models usually are not good enough to reach satisfactory results. Automatic and self-learning algorithms are needed to ensure ...
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LF Energy Ecosystem Gains Momentum for Open Source Innovation With New Members and Projects
LF Energy, a Linux Foundation initiative developing and sustaining open source technology innovation in the energy and electricity sectors, is rapidly growing its community with additional founding Premier member, Faraday Grid, joining RTE. New General members include IBM, OSISoft, and Recurve; while Elering AS, Energinet, Energy Foundation, École Polytechnique Fédérale de ...
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Supporting Mining Development with Predictive Services Utilising AI and IoT
Sumitomo Corporation acquired a stake in Relialytics, a company developing an AI-based predictive maintenance service for mining equipment, in June 2019. In recent years mining development have been automated and optimised to reduce costs and increase productivity. Maintenance of mining equipment remains dependent on the intuition and experience of skilled workers, and there are needs for ...
By Relialytics
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Taller wind turbines drive growth but raise reliability risks, experts warn
Advances in wind power technology will open up new project opportunities but operators must tackle growing size and site climate challenges to minimize costs, North American wind experts said at the Wind O&M Canada 2018 conference. In North America and Europe, wind power developers face increasing cost pressure following the removal of subsidies. Wind suppliers have responded by ...
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