2024 - AVEVA World - Paris - AVEVA PI System
CS Energy: Meeting the challenges of a shifting energy market through data analytics
The Australian energy market is facing increasing challenges with the move to renewables. Base load thermal generation has been a key part of the Queensland market for decades. Renewables are coming into the market, but providing narrow windows of energy output and are not yet meeting the baseload energy requirements for our state. The increase in solar production (in particular) is placing increased strain on the network during the middle of the day, requiring thermal plants to move to flexible operations in order to reduce emission and reduce cost as pool prices move to negative values. In this session, we'll talk about how we can flex operations between renewable and thermal assets and how we use prediction to best schedule outages, plan derates, understand when to charge batteries, predict the life of assets and change maintenance strategy.
Industry
Power and Utilities
Company
CS Energy
Speaker
Raju Tiwari
Raju Tiwari is Data Analytics Manager at CS Energy. CS Energy is a Queensland Government-owned energy corporation with an energy portfolio of more than 3,500 megawatts. Raju has over 17 years of global experience across various industries including Manufacturing, Mining, Pharma and Power. Has managed various IT/OT projects and currently leading the integration of renewable sites like BESS, Hydrogen into the energy portfolio of CS Energy. Raju's formal education includes a Bachelor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and have been working with number of Aveva products for more than a decade.
Company
CS Energy
Speaker
Katherine Bowden
Kate Bowden is Head of Asset Analytics at CS Energy. CS Energy is a Queensland Government-owned energy corporation with an energy portfolio of more than 3,500 megawatts. Kate has over 25 years’ experience in engineering, reliability, projects and automation across various industries including Defence, Consulting, Mining, Government, Rail and Power. Kate is now leading an initiative to embed predictive analytics and maintenance strategy changes in CS Energy’s Asset Management Framework. Kate’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Master of Business Management and Master of Professional Accounting.
Session Code
AW24-PSU-D1-SESS-171
