Flex-Power Services™: Boost Power Plant Flexibility

As renewables drive changes in global energy markets, fossil power plants face new operating profiles. Navigating this shift requires enhanced power plant flexibility , which is essential for asset operators to ensure grid stability and remain cost competitive. This leads to various customer requirements:

Improved start & stop performance
Fast ramp up and ramp down time
Maximum output in the reserve time

Siemens Energy, as an experienced solution and service provider, steps in for a highly flexible plant operation offering a fully integrated portfolio. The latest technical developments and digital performance services are specifically designed to enhance combined cycle power plant (CCPP) flexibility in several key areas:

Start and Stop Performance
Ramp up / Ramp down Optimization
Start Readiness and Cool Down
Demand Response
Energy Management
Emissions and Efficiency

Advanced Operational Flexibility offers solutions from the Flex-Power Services™ and Omnivise Performance portfolio.

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The Flex-Power Services™ portfolio includes products and solutions as well as studies and assessments to help adapt to changing operational requirements. Siemens Energy develops solutions to help enhance operational flexibility of power plants and its key components.

These can be provided as a retrofit for the Siemens Energy service fleet and often be combined with other modernizations. Implementing these state-of-the-art features can help to increase power plant flexibility and retain or improve plant competitiveness in the changing energy market.

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Start and Stop Performance

Products and solutions supporting Power on Demand are intended to enhance Start and Stop Performance and can include upgrades designed to:

decrease waiting times for water-steam cycle warm up
decrease or even eliminate holding times
increase ramp rates of ST and/or GT

A shortened start-up or shutdown time may not only increase flexibility, but also support a reduction of fuel consumption and associated emissions in these operating conditions.

Start Readiness & Cool Down

Advanced preservation concepts and the ability to maintain a plant in a status which allows fast re-start even after multiple days of shutdown may greatly enhance flexibility and support better dispatch success.

Reduced cool-down times may support faster access to components for inspections and repairs, thus supporting shorter outages.

Advanced inspection and interval concepts can help to safeguard and enhance availability.

Energy Management

Energy markets are becoming increasingly complex due to the influx of new generation assets like renewables, microgrids and the hybridization of traditional CCPPs with storage and other energy assets. All of which makes it more difficult for asset operators to quickly respond and optimize their generation.

Solutions that manage the distribution of generation are needed to economically optimize plant operations:

Dispatch optimization improving the energy management of your fleet through an optimized generation schedule
Hybrid controller integration responds rapidly and automated to generation adjustments

Emissions and Efficiency

In energy markets with a volatile infeed from various generation sources, combined cycle power plants may find themselves in situations where they need to improve and monitor efficiency and emissions for minimum, part and base load.

Upgrades and Performance Monitoring are intended for:

Improvement of efficiency especially in part load operation
Monitoring efficiency and emissions at minimum, part and base load

This factsheet outlines all the possible products and solutions in the Flex-Power Services™ portfolio that can contribute to the flexibility and efficiency of your power plant.

Learn more about the services and benefits of Start and Stop Performance, Start Readiness and Cool Down, Ramp up / Ramp down Optimization, Demand Response, Emissions and Efficiency such as Energy Management.

Maximizing power plant flexibility

This new white paper explores how CCPPs can respond to current market trends by enhancing their operational flexibility to swiftly respond to market demands. Learn how operational profiles of CCPPs are changing due to the rise of renewable energy sources and strategies for optimizing CCPP flexibility, including improved start-up/shutdown processes and load gradients.

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Advanced Operational Flexibility: Flex-Power Services™ for gas power plants

Meet Evolving Market Demands with Flex-Power Services™

Advanced Operational Flexibility

Flex-Power Services™ for your power plant

Start and Stop Performance

Start Readiness & Cool Down

Grid Services & Peak Power

Emissions and Efficiency

Find out more in the Advanced Operational Flexibility factsheet

Siemens Energy's reference projects

Enabling more flexibility for the Hamm-Uentrop Power Plant, Germany

From Baseload to Cycling: Enhanced Performance at Mainz-Wiesbaden Power Plant, Germany

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