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| 6TH - 12TH APRIL 2018 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
Soware company Copa-Data claims
the UK is under-utilising its potential
for hydro-electric generation com-
pared with its European neighbours
because it is not employing the latest
sophisticated control and monitoring
systems.
Pictured is a plant on the River
Drina in Serbia which uses the com-
pany's Zenon, which can intelligently
monitor the installation from a series
of data feeds to help maintenance
personnel make better informed deci-
sions of which bits of equipment need
repair or replacement, obviating the
need to swap out fully-functioning kit.
By archiving data from the plant's
operation, the soware can identify
Going against
the flow
