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...
Look around and you’ll very quickly discover just how rapidly the world is changing. Electric vehicles—including those used for mass transportation—seem to be around every corner. People communicate and entertain themselves using a wide array of electronic mobile...
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.
Flow measurement may not always make headlines, but for industries like oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, and life sciences, it’s the cornerstone of operational excellence. I recently had the pleasure of joining Len Vermillion on the Control Amplified podcast to...
As electrification continues to increase around the globe, more and more power generators—including utilities—are looking for new sources of generation to keep up with demand. On the most basic level, the push toward more electric vehicles and the electronic devices...
We all know that assets fail. The question is not one of “if” but rather “when” and “how catastrophically”. But what many people don’t know is that the need to repair failing assets is not the only concern with asset health. In his presentation at the 2025 Ovation...
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