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Power Generation

End-to-end solutions for smart, reliable power generation​
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Power Generation
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Maximize Visibility Across Generating Assets for Secure, Sustainable Operations​

The need for power generation has never been greater. Whether you’re generating power for customers or your own operations, you need to improve operational efficiency and keep up with evolving regulations despite aging assets and shrinking resources. Smart systems and technologies available today make it possible to transform your operations, increasing visibility and automating key processes to maximize reliability and productivity.​

Does a lack of visibility make it hard for you to combat cyberattacks, ensure asset availability, or operate in a sustainable way? Intelligent, data-driven systems help maximize operational efficiency while keeping generating assets safe and secure. Whether you would like to reduce your energy consumption and waste, modernize legacy assets or make better use of the data you generate, we can help.​

Rockwell Automation provide the services, expertise, and world-wide support to help you transform your generating assets. Whether you work with renewables like wind and solar or industry bedrocks like coal, oil and natural gas, we can help you modernize your assets to increase visibility, reliability, and productivity—all while keeping up with evolving regulations and threats.​

Power Generation Solutions Guide
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Power Generation Solutions Guide

An overview of solutions for the power generation industry.

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Increase Revenue and Reliability with Rockwell Automation​

Rockwell Automation supports power generation companies with end-to-end products and services to help you deliver results that matter. From control systems to visualization tools and networking solutions, we can support you wherever you are in your journey and expand on our expertise with help from a global partner network.​

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Maximize uptime with full visibility across generating assets​

Enhance visibility and control to eliminate unplanned downtime and drive increased profitability. Gain easy access to critical information via intuitive dashboards to increase reliability. ​

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Get more from your data with energy intelligence​

Unlock meaningful insights from your data to transform power generation. Consolidate and analyze data to reveal actionable insights into emissions, maintenance, operating costs and more.​

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Optimize operations to stay sustainable and compliant​

Understand resource utilization to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and keep up with evolving regulations. Operate in a clean, sustainable way to stay productive while acting as an environmental steward.​

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Build on a resilient network to minimize cybersecurity risks​

Protect, detect, respond to and recover from cyberattacks to limit security risks and minimize their impact. Minimize risks and maximize compliance with dedicated 24/7 support and monitoring. ​

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Support a streamlined, connected worker experience​

Augment core workflows to support workers and help close the skills gap. Get more from your employees by automating away mundane tasks and enabling data-driven decision-making.​


Solutions for Power Plant Automation

Biomass

As adoption of biomass gains pace, power generation companies must find ways to maintain output while managing multiple feedstocks. Biomass Control Systems provide greater visibility and flexibility to ensure production always meets demand.

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Coal

As the industry changes, coal remains a critical fuel source. Automation tools and control systems help get the most from your existing equipment to maximize uptime and ensure plants run as efficiently and sustainably as possible.

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Hydroelectric

Hydroelectric remains a critical renewable energy source, yet aging control systems are limiting the effectiveness of older plants. Adopting modern, intelligent control systems can help ensure hydro plants can remain a mainstay of grid stability.

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Natural Gas

Natural gas plants have become a mainstay in energy markets, yet aging assets limit reliability and responsiveness. Migrating to new, whole plant control systems helps meet performance demands while providing insights into regulatory compliance and asset health.

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Solar

Global demand for renewable energy has led to the rapid adoption of thermal and now photovoltaic solar. Intelligent control systems help improve efficiency and performance by anticipating correct solar positioning and monitoring asset health to maximize generation.

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Wind

Large-scale wind turbines are often located in remote, geographically challenging locations, making equipment management difficult. Turbine control systems and support services help ensure effective, secure, and high-accuracy operations.

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Enhance cybersecurity to stay in compliance with regulations​

As the world becomes more digitized and microgrids decentralize energy production, the risk of cybersecurity threats grows. Critical industries like power generation are being targeted more than ever before. Rockwell Automation offers secure automation, control, and information systems backed by robust networking and security services to help you maximize business benefits while minimizing risk. Stay in compliance with industry regulations like NERC/CIP, protect IP, and keep customer data secure. 24/7 support helps your organization stay protected and recover quickly in the event of an incident.​

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What Our Customers Are Saying
"This PlantPAx DCS project has set the standard for all future projects at our plant and is a model for Veresen plant design."

Brett Weber, Operations and Maintenance Manager, Ripon Cogen

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Maximize uptime with a modern Distributed Control System​

Integrated Process Control, Motor Controls, Safety, and Visualization

To maintain optimized operations while keeping up with dynamic energy demands, power generation companies must make smart, fast decisions. Unfortunately, many power producers are still reliant on older, disconnected technologies that make it difficult to gain real-time insights. Migrating to a modern Distributed Control System (DCS) helps increase visibility and reliability across generating assets to make better decisions and ensure energy anticipates demand.​

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PlantPAx Distributed Control System
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