Industry trends
2025.03.25
Smart Power Plants, Industrial Internet Platform, Luculent
Upon entering the central control room, one can see a large screen scrolling through real - time key data of over a hundred power stations' operations: installed capacity, daily power generation, average wind speed, connected capacity, annual utilization hours... These data are like the "vital signs" of the power stations, comprehensively reflecting the operational status of the group's global power stations.
With a click of the mouse by the duty personnel, whether it's the wind turbines spinning on the vast grasslands, the water turbines running day and night in the surging rivers, the shining photovoltaic panels in the solar power plants, or the battery packs ready to go in the energy storage facilities, it's as if the physical power stations have been "moved" onto the screen. Here, the vision of "observing the world on one screen and managing the whole situation through one network" has become a reality.
The group has assets exceeding 100 billion, and its power stations are scattered around the world. There are cultural differences and diverse local regulations. How can digital "intelligence" empower the "governance" of power stations?
In response, the experienced Luculent has provided the "answer" - creating an integrated "Digital Comprehensive Management and Control Platform".
"This 'intelligent brain' that integrates intelligent monitoring, data analysis, asset management, equipment early warning, and fault diagnosis can perceive, think, and make decisions. It has created a new model for the digital comprehensive management and control of cross - border power stations in multiple countries and has become a new digital engine driving green development."
According to the relevant person - in charge, this "brain" constructs two "nerve centers": the overseas regional centralized control center and the overseas power station digital monitoring center to dispatch and manage global power stations. It can be both "meticulous in observation" and "strategic in planning".
The regional centralized control center is like a "sharp - eyed observer", perceiving the slightest changes in the equipment of each power station in the region in real - time. This greatly reduces the heavy and mechanical workload of front - line staff and significantly improves management efficiency and flexibility. It is estimated that thanks to this system, at least 1 - 2 maintenance personnel can be reduced in a single wind and solar power station, saving 30 million yuan in costs annually.
The headquarters' digital monitoring center is like a "command tower", breaking down the information barriers between domestic and overseas. It realizes penetrating management and control from units to power stations, from regions to the headquarters, and across all links from safety, production to maintenance and operation, forming a "unified management through one network" system that is interconnected horizontally and vertically.
Experts from Luculent said that making good use of data is an important indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of system construction.
They have built a management system covering the entire data life cycle for the group, forming a complete chain of "collecting comprehensively, transmitting stably, and using accurately". The collection end is compatible with more than 100 mainstream industrial control protocols, ensuring that the operating status of equipment is "fully grasped". In the transmission layer, a cross - border data channel that is "loss - free and delay - free" is created. At the governance end, abnormal data is removed through intelligent cleaning to "eliminate the false and retain the true". At the application end, low - code BI tools are deployed to support managers in independently creating applications such as equipment health evaluation models and inventory turnover analysis dashboards, enabling them to "understand the essence of business by looking at the charts".
Front - line employees bid farewell to manual reports. Maintenance personnel provide maintenance suggestions for equipment such as water turbines, photovoltaic modules, and inverters based on AI + data diagnostic models. Managers can obtain benchmarking analysis with a click of the screen... It truly breaks the data barrier in cross - border operations and realizes the intelligent upgrade of "letting data do more work and making decision - making more straightforward".
The experts added that by establishing a unified equipment coding standard system, each piece of equipment has a unique "digital ID". Its physical attributes are associated with design drawings and maintenance records, its financial attributes are connected to asset accounts, and its spatial attributes are bound to geographical coordinates. Even if managers are thousands of miles away, they can see the real - time operating status, economic value, and physical location of the equipment, making assets "visible, manageable, and accountable".
The platform also dynamically evaluates the equipment status from economic, safety, and reliability dimensions. When the equipment is in a "sub - healthy" state, it automatically triggers preventive maintenance suggestions. The expert team can remotely "diagnose" through the working condition playback function and guide on - site precise disposal. This "full - life - cycle care" model extends the service life and increases the efficiency of key equipment, significantly shortens the shutdown and maintenance time, and ensures the preservation and appreciation of the group's overseas power station equipment assets and their stable and reliable operation.
"We use digital means to help the group reshape the production management process of global power stations and build an intelligent closed - loop of 'planning - execution - optimization'." an expert from Luculent introduced.
Production plans are intelligently transferred through the system, and the whole process from power station application to headquarters review is transparent and controllable. Relying on the unified coding system, a global inventory dynamic map is formed, and production resources are accurately allocated, solving the problems of long procurement cycles and insufficient reserves at overseas sites. In operation and maintenance, a point inspection and scheduled maintenance system combining equipment status and event - driven is established, which not only avoids the waste of resources caused by "over - maintenance" but also eliminates the safety hazards of "running with faults".
The platform breaks through the time and space limitations of cross - border production management. On - site maintenance personnel can report equipment abnormalities in real - time through mobile terminals. Domestic experts can guide on - site operations through remote consultations. The regional dispatch center can intelligently match the optimal resources. The headquarters' decision - makers can optimize the strategic layout based on data models. It truly helps the group achieve the digital transformation of "precipitating experience into algorithms and upgrading management into wisdom".
The platform also integrates compliance into the group's digital transformation. Beforehand, detailed regulatory "lists" are used to define data boundaries. During the process, multiple encryption technologies are adopted to build a "protective shield". Afterward, the operation audit function is used to leave a "traceability chain".
On the network security level, a "double - lock protection" is created. A hardware firewall is set up on the transmission link, and dynamic passwords + physical keys are used for dual - authentication when logging into the system. A specially designed "intelligent fusing" mechanism can automatically isolate the risk area when under attack, ensuring that the core business "runs without interruption and without slowdown". Through distributed disaster - recovery design and regular "data physical examinations", a digital defense line is built for the global power station operation, making cross - border management efficient, flexible, and safe.
"Now, with this digital management and control system, we can truly 'observe in all directions, control from afar, and manage energy across distances'." a group staff member sighed. They can detect and solve problems in a timely manner, realizing a transformation from "segmented management" to "unified and centralized command" in dispatching, a change from "experience - based" to "model - driven" in operational decision - making, and a leap from "manual data search" to "intelligent analysis" in statistical analysis.
Since the system went online, the group's main production and operation indicators have continued to rise, and the production and operation efficiency has increased by more than 20%. It not only saves effort but also actually increases the revenue.
