Enel Green Power’s “Plant Operations & Maintenance Tool”

Power Generation sector is experiencing an accelerated transition towards a decarbonized fleet. Global electricity share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, will jump from less than 3% (2010) to over 50% in 2050. If capacity and the number of assets will increase, the number of people-per-MW that will be managing these fleets will drop dramatically. In Wind technology, both onshore and offshore, it’ll move from 4.1 people/MW (2010) to 1 person/MW in 2050 (IRENA, 2019), only partially due to asset size and geographical optimization. A more diverse fleet with fewer people-per-MW will require a completely new approach to how power plants are operated and maintained.In this paper, we show the key benefits of combining real time operational data from the assets and synthetic data generated using innovative data analytics approaches in one tool. This combination allows to easily operate the plants and simultaneously to optimally schedule their maintenance by reducing lost production