Enel Green Power is partnering with NarrativeWave to help predict the maintenance needs of the former’s geothermal facilities in the US.
Software developed by NarrativeWave will be used to help Enel to prevent failures at the 25MW Cove Fort, 13.4MW Salt Wells and 33.1MW Stillwater plants.
Enel said the projects use large-scale electrical submersible pumps located over 500 metres underground at temperatures of more than 150 degrees Celsius for the extraction of geothermal fluid.
This creates a “challenging situation to monitor and perform maintenance activities”, the company said.
The software monitors and analyses the pumps’ operations using anomaly detection models based on past operational data, automatically alerting operators and making predictive operations and maintenance recommendations.
Enel Green Power head of operations and maintenance in North America Stephen Pike said: “This collaboration with NarrativeWave provides us with an innovative solution that will allow for better planning and prediction of maintenance activities at our geothermal sites, reducing costs and increasing productivity.
“Innovation is core to our continued operational excellence and through partnerships like this one we are able to maximise the performance of our plants to deliver clean, reliable energy to our customers.”
NarrativeWave chief executive Benjamin Decio said: “We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with Enel Green Power, one of the largest global operators of renewable energy and a proven innovation leader, to jointly develop a solution that can now predict on average 54 days in advance of a possible defect, setting the stage for future operational improvements.”