Featured in Energy Storage Highlights 2018

A factor of 10

Solar power plants not only need to be built, but also operated, monitored, and maintained. Many approaches to digitalization promise to make these plant management processes significantly more efficient – up to a factor of 10.

By

Michael Fuhs

11 Sep 2018

Control room at Meteocontrol subsidiary Raising Power in Augsburg, where more than 1,500 plants around the world are monitored. | Image: Raising Power

A small spot on the right edge of China is illuminated on a map. It is the location of a multi-megawatt power plant. The plant could have produced 2.54 GWh in the past 153 days, but in fact it generated 2.32 GWh. “Some of the losses could have been avoided,” says Kam Mofid, General Manager …

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