With the increasing amount of renewable generation in the ERCOT Interconnection, there is a heightened need to assess and manage more-infrequent yet potentially severe risks. To address these concerns ERCOT has created the Reliability Risk operator desk to, in part, ...
Year: 2017
Ciners’ Trona Mine and Processing Plant In Green River, Wyoming has a Vertimill that was experiencing unexpected downtime due to lower quality ore grade feed. The Vertimill contributes 65% of the plant's hourly production. Operations asked OSIsoft and Engineering to ...
Year: 2017
Aurelia Metals Limited (AMI) is Gold and Base Metals mining company located in Orange NSW, Australia.
At the end of 2015, Aurelia Metals were grappling with a new plant that was not performing at nameplate capacity, and had a significant debt ...
Year: 2017
Scrubgrass Generating produces power in Pennsylvania by burning abandoned coal piles and reclaiming the sites with the ash. When their power purchase agreement ended the plant entered a dynamic pricing merchant operating mode. That mode required the plant know their ...
Year: 2017
Managing the western half of the North American Power Grid and being responsible for its reliable operation is a challenging mission. Peak receives tens of thousands of measurement and status data points from the Grid every minute. Turning all of ...
Year: 2017