TCS Intelligent Power Plant
A digital twin and AI platform enabling sustainable power generation for efficient energy transitions
Services
IoT and Digital Engineering
Bringing Together IoT and Digital Engineering to Create Rich Experiences
Highlights
- In an era of decarbonization and energy transition, enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of power production from both conventional and renewable sources is a must to sustain and strengthen energy grids.
- Utility companies are adopting AI and digital twin-based technologies for the sustainable operation of thermal and renewable plants.
- TCS Intelligent Power Plant, our pre-built AI platform for power plants, enables centralized monitoring of operations and optimized power generation from distributed mix energy sources.
Overview
Enabling sustainable and flexible power generation
In an era of decarbonization and energy transition, optimizing the performance of a mixed-energy generation portfolio, including thermal and renewables, has become more critical than ever. Efficient plant operations and the integration of various energy sources are a must to supply a sustainable and reliable grid.
TCS Intelligent Power Plant is a digital solution that offers a comprehensive approach to managing mixed energy generation and optimizing the performance of plants by applying the concept of a smart energy hub. Powered by artificial intelligence, IoT, and digital twin technologies, the solution can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. It enables utilities to effectively balance conventional and renewable energy sources, ensuring a more sustainable and resilient energy generation.
TCS Intelligent Power Plant is an excellent example of how new technologies like digital twin and AI can support critical plant assets that now are operated in ways that were never anticipated when these plants and their support systems were designed.
Solution
Providing real-time advisory for smarter decision making.
TCS Intelligent Power Plant analyzes data from sensors, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and historical performance metrics.
The insights from that data allow it to identify potential issues and provide real-time advisory for improved plant performance, reliability, and cost savings.
The pre-built customized platform comprises four key modules:
- Intelligent Power Plant Insight: Provides advanced visibility and insight into plant operations in real time
- Intelligent Power Plant Performance: Optimizes performance in diverse operating conditions, reduces emissions, and minimizes operating cost
- Intelligent Power Plant Asset Performance Management (APM): Provides predictive maintenance and improves asset reliability and availability
- Intelligent Power Plant Studio: Provides engineers and data scientists a data workbench with a low-code interface to develop digital twins
Utilities can easily adopt the solution to enable purpose-built use cases. They can use it for efficiency enhancement, auxiliary power use reduction, generation forecasting, availability improvement, lowering emissions, and operations and maintenance cost control.
Benefits
Enhancing power plant reliability, flexibility, and cost efficiency
TCS Intelligent Power Plant helps improve the performance of power plants—both thermal and renewables— by efficiently monitoring equipment and processes, optimizing operations in real time, and improving availability.
Key benefits for thermal power plants include:
- Real-time insights, predicted KPIs alerts/alarms, and soft sensors
- A reduction in auxiliary power usage and an increase in power sales by up to 1%
- A 0.5–1% reduction in plant heat rate by optimizing combustion
- Up to 8% reduction in emissions of harmful gases
- Up to 20% reduction in operations and maintenance costs by predicting failures with an accuracy rate of nearly 85%
- Up to 2% increase in plant availability through improved asset health
Key benefits for renewable power plants:
- Real-time insights, dynamic KPI monitoring, alerts, and performance reporting
- Up to a 40% reduction in maintenance and inspection costs by using AI
- An improvement in plant uptime by 0.5-1%
- The use of advanced AI algorithms to mitigate uncertainty and reduce curtailment by up to 1%
The savings potential for utilities from TCS Intelligent Power Plant is $3-4 million annually per GW of energy production capacity.
The TCS advantage
A partnership with TCS provides utilities with the following advantages:
- Open and scalable platform: We provide a low-code digital twin workbench to create and customize AI models. It is also modular and can be easily scaled across units quickly and without too much effort.
- Competitive advantage using TCS intellectual properties (IP): TCS Intelligent Power Plant uses proprietary TCS IPs backed by more than 37 patents developed from more than 10 years of foundational research in energy, utilities, and AI. This ensures first to market advantage.
- Wide compatibility: Our solution works seamlessly with all makes and models of equipment, control systems, and UI devices while integrating seamlessly with third-party tools and applications.
- Self-learning AI and digital twin approach: We can cost efficiently deploy and scale data- and physics-based hybrid AI digital twins with real-time self-learning capabilities.
- Autonomous operations: TCS Intelligent Power Plant is future-ready to offer closed-loop optimization with control loop auto-tuning for both stable and flexible load operations.
