Meeting local and national CO2 emission goals and responding to social pressures related to global warming are primary factors driving decarbonization efforts in the energy industry across the world. At the same time, electricity demand is growing across the board....
I’m often asked about how much impact wind turbine control retrofits can have on overall operations, and how they stack up against replacement or repair. It’s simple: they can be a very cost-effective way to positively affect the performance and reliability of a...
Funding is flowing into U.S. hydropower facilities: Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that through the Hydroelectric Production Incentive, 66 hydro facilities would receive $38 million in incentive payments for electricity generated and sold. This...
PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative)-based control has been commonly used for decades. And while it still is adequate for controlling many process parameters, the time may be right to take a step back and re-evaluate PID-based control in power generation and other...
Emerson’s Chief Technology Officer Peter Zornio joined a distinguished panel, The Emergence of a Clean Technology Suite, at the Reuters Energy Transition 2023 Conference in Houston, Texas.
Of all the new sustainable technologies emerging in the energy marketplace, one of the most exciting is green hydrogen. In an era of increasing focus on sustainability, green hydrogen has the potential to provide clean power for manufacturing, transportation, and...
The environmental risks associated with carbon emissions have escalated over the last several decades. Although modern technologies like burner and boiler systems have enhanced our standard of living, they’ve also created long-term negative consequences in the form of...
In an H2 Tech magazine article, Emerson’s Seth Harris shows how to get the most from small-scale, residential green hydrogen production.
One of the hottest topics of conversation at the 2023 Ovation Users’ Group conference has been renewables, and much of that conversation has been around the struggle to bring a wide array of disparate renewable assets together into a unified system of control,...
Rick Kephart shares recent innovations in helping to better manage and control the growing complexities in electrical grids as they continue to decentralize in power generation, transmission & distribution.
Driven by the need to both cut resource costs and minimize their environmental impact, companies across all industries are targeting net-zero strategies and sustainability goals. Monitoring utilities such as compressed air, water, electricity, steam and other gases...
In this 10:43 YouTube video, Ovation Green Renewable Asset Management and SCADA Software Technology Demonstration, Emerson’s Brett Benson demonstrates how the built-for-purpose Ovation Green asset management and SCADA software provides a unified view of renewable assets from a single pane of glass, helping to increase production and deliver low-cost clean energy.
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