AI technologies help realize more efficient operations of power plants
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/27
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan Power Company is seeking to tap into the advances of
Taipower holds a forum on AI applications to power systems (CNA)
artificial intelligence for applications to improve energy conservation and storage, the state-owned power enterprise said in a forum on April 27.
Effort has been made to apply AI to the island’s power plants. For example, the establishment of coal production tracking systems has allowed for more efficient operations of coal boilers, noted the President of Taipower Chung Bin-li (鍾炳利).
The heating systems for supercritical steam generators at Linkou and Datan Power Plants, he added, are also being made more efficient by employing AI technologies, reported CNA.
With renewable energy set to reach 20 percent of the nation’s total electricity produced by Taipower by 2025, the company will work to incorporate AI with big data analysis of weather information and energy storage, so as to address issues of intermittency, a problem that often arises with renewable energy sources. [FULL STORY]
