CCUG

Primex is an established provider of mission-critical information for power plant managers. Stewart Nicholson, the founder, believes Primex’s machine learning (ML) technology represents a step-change improvement in timeliness, precision, and confidence over traditional performance information systems. “The service helps managers make better decisions and make them sooner,” he concludes.  In their webinar series, viewable here, Primex shares

End users have long treated API 653 tank inspections as necessary pain from challenges associated with fuel handling, confined-space entry, outage coordination, and weeks of operational uncertainty. A recent Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Incubatenergy Labs demonstration with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) shows there’s a safer, faster path: submersible, autonomous robots that perform phased-array UT while tanks stay online.    The system, developed by Square

  In recent years, winterization has become a hot topic for user groups, and this year’s CCUG was no exception. One reason is that the next extreme weather event seems to challenge everything done to address the last one. During the “Extreme Weather Operation” roundtable, the user facilitator noted that “bomb cyclone weather forced us

The Energy Information Administration reports that US electricity demand will increase by 25% within five years, requiring a significant increase in generating capacity, upgrades to existing assets, and improvements to grid infrastructure. But that’s only part of the solution: Maintaining the current fleet of generation assets in top condition is vital to meeting projected demand.