Specialists in Hydropower.

What is the role of hydropower today, and how can we take advantage of the potential of the energy source? Here you can read about Semcon’s experience – and our thoughts ahead of a future with digital hydropower.

The intelligent hydropower

We see an increasing number of examples where stakeholders around the world change their ways of working with the energy source and how its importance is increasing, as more and more intermittent power generation is supplied to the electrical system. In this change, intelligent control and monitoring is even more important than before. It should be possible to operate the stations in an even more flexible way – and with high availability to balance fluctuations in the electricity grid. This places great demands on the control systems. We see how new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used as tools for identifying development areas in the operation of power stations. Our hope is that we have so far only seen a small part of what is possible in digital hydropower. Semcon’s ambition is to be able to provide new insights and working methods – using our combined knowledge in energy production and connected devices.