Category: Energy

1. Introduction Equipment failure imposes an enormous burden on industry. It is estimated that unplanned downtime reduces plant productive capacity by between 5 and 20 percent and costs industrial manufacturers $50 billion annually. The cost to repair or replace equipment may be significant, but the true cost of unplanned equipment failure is its consequences. The […]

Introduction Power distribution utilities implement information and operational technology (IT/OT) applications to manage power distribution commercial activities and grid operations. These IT/OT applications include billing, customer care, smart metering, advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and outage management systems (OMS). In order to successfully run business processes – such as […]

Amazon’s innovation and resources made available to leading start-ups changing the world. If there had been any doubt in the past, developments over the last couple of years have demonstrated how clean energy has become critical from both a policy and innovation lens. The global climate crisis requires significant innovations in clean energy deployed at […]

Grid simulations power various applications in the utility engineering value chain, from planning to operations. Driven by decarbonization, decentralization and digitization goals, utilities need these model-based simulations to be more detailed, accurate and faster than ever, while leveraging an increasing number of high-resolution grid measurements. This blog introduces some of the challenges associated with data-informed, […]

The high cost of grid failure When electricity goes out, our life activities stop. When this happens, utilities have the responsibility to quickly triage the situation, then formulate and carry out a response while customers are inconvenienced. Danger rises and costs pile up. Keeping the power on is not a simple task without multiple core […]

Fossil fuels have powered transportation and industry since the Industrial Revolution. To combat climate change, the pursuit of cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable forms of energy has become essential. In episode three of the four-part AWS documentary series Climate Next, the London-based energy tech pioneer Octopus Energy uses smart grid technology to support an all-renewable […]

As I wrote in ‘Reduce Collaboration Toil for Capital Projects Using AWS’ blogpost, customers in the energy industry spend millions of hours collaborating internally and across with external partners such as Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractors over the life of a capital project. The key pain points customers face include collating comments, inefficient routing […]

Introduction The oil and gas industry is divided into three main sectors: upstream, midstream, and downstream. The downstream business sector includes refining and petrochemical facilities that process petroleum crude oil and raw natural gas into finished products, plus the marketing and distribution of these products. These industries include a complex network of processes, infrastructure, and equipment […]

According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination […]

India is going through a revolution in renewable energy (RE). During fiscal years 2016–2020, the Indian RE generation space saw a compound annual growth rate of 17.33 percent. This was fueled by dedicated support from the government in the form of RE-focused policies such as the Green Energy Corridor Project and increased investment in the […]