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Power Generation
Navigating the challenges of power generation
As the energy landscape rapidly evolves, balancing efficiency, sustainability, and profitability has never been more complex. To thrive, organisations must embrace smarter tools, actionable insights, and innovative digital solutions that enable them to adapt quickly, optimise operations, and secure long-term resilience in a changing world.
Power generation companies face a mix of technical, environmental, regulatory, and market‐driven challenges:
- Unplanned downtime & aging assets: Equipment failures, wear & tear, especially in older plants.
- Fuel costs and efficiency pressures: For coal and gas plants, fuel price volatility; for hydro, managing water flow and efficiency.
- Emissions & environmental regulations: CO₂, NOₓ, SOₓ, particulates; thermal discharges; nuclear safety; increasing regulatory scrutiny.
- Operational complexity & safety risks: Shutdowns, turnarounds, complex operations; safety in nuclear and high‐temperature/fossil plants.
- Data silos and lack of visibility: Multiple systems (control, SCADA, documents, engineering, asset management) but poor integration; limited cross‐team awareness.
- Need for flexibility & load following: With more renewables on grid, plants need to ramp up/down, start/stop more frequently, respond to grid signals.
- Sustainability & decarbonisation goals: Pressure to reduce carbon footprint, improve energy use, possibly integrate hydrogen or fluid changes.
- Remote operations & workforce constraints: Need for remote monitoring, fewer specialists on site, safety issues, travel/logistics.
Key benefits of Kognitwin
Kognitwin is a digital solution that provides a unified platform for all your asset data. By visualising, contextualising, and modelling complex information, it helps you navigate challenges with confidence and make informed decisions.
- Unified single source of truth
- Breaks down operational and project silos
- Data, simulation, engineering documents, control data, operational data all contextualised together
- Real‐time monitoring, predictive insights & what‐if simulations
- Combines physics‐based simulation and machine learning to provide real‐time monitoring and predictions
- Enables scenario modelling: what happens if load changes, equipment degrades, sudden failures
- Improved safety, risk management & compliance
- Visualising cumulative risk; managing safety in operations; ensuring regulatory compliance
- Tools for “safe operations,” including mechanical isolation planning, risk dashboards etc
- Operational efficiency and cost reduction
- More efficient work processes: planning, scheduling, execution across business units
- Early detection of problems, reducing unplanned shutdowns
- Acceleration of sustainability and decarbonisation efforts
- Better energy consumption forecasting and emission monitoring; supporting initiatives like hydrogen, CCS, renewable integration
- Rapid deployment, broad user adoption
- Digitisation times are relatively fast (assets digitised in ~3 months)
- High user efficiency gains. (For example, 85% of users report being more efficient. )
How Kognitwin can support your power generation objectives
Maximise Plant Availability & Uptime
Real‐time monitoring + predictive analytics spot anomalies early; what‐if simulations help you plan maintenance without surprises.
Improve operational efficiency & reduce fuel / resource costs
Use scenario modelling to optimise load schedules; hybrid ML + physics models to optimise fuel combustion, startup/shutdown regimes.
Ensure safety & regulatory compliance
Tools for risk visualisation; safety dashboards; management of isolations; audit‐ready documentation; compliance tracking integrated with operations.
Support flexibility & grid responsiveness
Simulate ramping, load changes, fuel substitutions; understand operational impacts of fast changes; enable planning of turnarounds.
Achieve sustainability / decarbonisation goals
Monitor emissions, energy consumption; model alternative fuels / co‐firing / hydrogen; evaluate carbon capture or other decarbonisation options with scenario tools.
Reduce unplanned costs & downtime
Early warnings, anomaly detection; more accurate scheduling of inspections and maintenance; fewer surprises.
Empower remote operations & cross‐team collaboration
Single interface / industrial work surface accessible anywhere; shared dashboards, documentation enriched with context; roles can be assigned, tasks tracked across disciplines.
Enable strategic & investment planning
Use what‐if and look‐ahead simulations for capital projects, plant upgrades, estimating ROI; model different future regulatory, market, fuel cost scenarios.