GE Digital Software Now Offers Carbon Advice and Insights Designed for Thermal Generation Plants
Summary
As an example, the software may recommend the optimal timing for an offline water wash or inlet filter cleaning to help ensure that equipment runs more efficiently, burns less fuel, and therefore, produces fewer emissions. Also available now, Carbon Data Insights will support Carbon Reduction Advice with actual fuel data and gas turbine configurations, enabling a more accurate calculation of CO2 tonnage versus traditional statistical estimations. Carbon Data Insights allows plant operators to monitor and report both daily real-time production and cumulative calculations of their emissions. Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group, commented, “Energy must be produced in the most efficient process possible, but that cannot be achieved without tools that provide real-time visibility into asset degradation and possess the analytics and intelligence to make the necessary improvements that ensure the most optimized asset performance. These insights are so critical to minimizing costs, reducing unscheduled downtime, and increasing the sustainability of the energy production process with features such as carbon data insights to help facilities save fuel and reduce emissions."