Join me in congratulating Stephen Zitney Director, NETL AVESTAR Cente and the entire NETL team for Achieving Operational Excellence for Energy Systems from Smart Plant-to-Smart Grid
From the AVESTAR LinkedIn Group: "The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) has selected the “AVESTAR 3D Virtual Energy Plant Simulator and Immersive Training System (ITS)” as a winner of the 2013 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional (MAR) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. Based on the EYESIM virtual reality (VR) software from Invensys Operations Management and deployed at NETL's AVESTAR Center, the virtual energy plant ITS is used to deliver realistic, cost-effective, and low-risk workforce training to the energy industries. VR-based training helps operators increase their process knowledge and confidence, so they can bring plants online faster, reduce shutdowns and downtime, and reduce the risk and cost of equipment damage.
Several partners are working with NETL to make the system available to a wider audience. NETL has agreements with West Virginia University for engineering students and researchers and with Pierpont Community & Technical College for students in their power plant certificate program sponsored by FirstEnergy Corporation. A license agreement between NETL and Invensys will allow the technology to be delivered as a generic virtual energy plant ITS and be used as the basis for developing customized, plant-specific ITS solutions for the energy industry, academia, and national laboratories.
The award will be presented to NETL at the 2013 FLC-MAR meeting on November 13-14, 2013 in Leesburg, Virginia. http://www.flcmidatlantic.org/awards/2013/"
Friday, 11 October 2013
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