Full load, part load, startup and shutdown: you get results in real time

Our specialty is Real Time Power. Getting your today and tomorrow performance from your plant and helping you run it most efficiently, right now, when you need it most. We provide solutions for customers that allow them to make more money from their generation assets. We connect the control room to the trading floor, and ensure that operators and traders can work together to maximize their income from the operation of the plant and marketing of the power output. Our solutions cover the whole range of a plant’s operation, and provide rapid returns on investment from fuel savings, maintenance savings, schedule adherence and delivering maximum MW output during peak hours.

Ask yourself these questions:

Want to produce every MW? Do you want to get every MW out of your generation asset? Do you want to know the actual efficiency of each major component of your combined cycle plant? Would you like an independent measurement of firing temperature? Do you need to assess the effectiveness of your compressor washing strategy? Do you want early detection of potentially serious plant health issues? Do you want a performance monitoring solution that continually tracks the changes in your plant?

See our Sentinel Performance Monitoring solution

Want to sell every MW? Do you want to sell every MW of plant power output when spark spreads are high? Do you want the most accurate load forecasting solution that takes into account latest weather and actual plant condition? Do you need load forecasts for real-time and day-ahead trading? Do you also need to predict minimum load accurately to help plan your generation resources for off-peak hours?

 See our Sentinel Load Forecasting solution

Starting your combined cycle units often? Are you starting and stopping your combined cycle units more than 50 times a year? Do you want to get consistent and predictable unit startups? Do you want to preserve the knowledge of skilled operators to get your best start every time? Would you like to improve your startup heat rates? Do you want to be able to accurately predict your startup and shutdown MW profiles? Do you need to plan startups and shutdowns according to market ramping rules?

See our Commander Combined Cycle solution

Need to cycle your coal-fired units? Do market forces mean you now need to cycle your coal-fired units more frequently? Do you want to get consistent and predictable unit startups? Do you want to preserve the knowledge of skilled operators to get your best start every time? Do you want to achieve startups that will help minimize your short, medium and long term maintenance costs?

See our Commander Coal-Fired solution