For as little attention as it gets, hydro generation is a surprisingly important part of global power infrastructure. Many of the most critical sites around the world have been in operation for decades, reliably generating energy and supplying water management for...
Standardizing instrumentation is one of the most effective ways to reduce risk in natural‑gas power projects. Selecting a single main instrumentation vendor (level, pressure, flow, analytics, and safety) creates consistent engineering standards and streamlines design,...
In a POWER Magazine article and podcast, Emerson Addresses Power Industry’s AI-Driven Demand Surge, Emerson’s Seth Harris joins Executive Editor Aaron Larson to discuss these challenges and the role of automation and AI-enabled technologies to help address these challenges.
Much of the focus on green energy is centered around solar and wind generation. However, there are many different potential sources of green energy, and one of the most exciting, if not the most well-known, is green hydrogen (GH2). From pilot programs testing GH2...
Combined cycle plants will play a crucial role in this growth in electricity production. Emerson’s Ovation distributed control system automates 18 of the 20 largest combined cycle plants here in the U.S. Ovation Green automates many other forms of non-hydrocarbon energy sources, including nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, battery, and green hydrogen.
Solar generation has been around for a very long time. However, until recently, it always made up a very small percentage of global power generation. As a result, solar generation was never really considered critical infrastructure. Today, however, that dynamic is...
Emerson’s Nikolaos Pratikakis and Michael Painter presented Modernizing Power Plant Control with Aspen DMC3: AI-Enhanced MPC for Efficiency and Reliability at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference.
Sheldon Willis, Allen Caswell, and Darius Walczak presented Ovation Intelligence Framework Applications at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference.
At the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference, Emerson’s Mike Painter and Melanie Novacek presented Unleash Efficiency with Performance Optimization Software.
One of the most popular topics of discussion at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference has been the new Ovation™ Automation Platform 4.0. Attendees have had the opportunity to take a close look at the software to see all the new capabilities and features built in....
There is no question that the rise of renewable energy has complicated operations for power generators and distributors. New technologies mean new devices and lots more data to manage. With each passing year, everything seems to be getting bigger and more complicated....
I caught the Inverter-Based Resources presentation by two engineers with a leading U.S. electrical power supplier at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference. These inverter-based resources (IBRs) are driven by renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
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