Industry Articles

• Mercury Specie & Multi-Pollutant Control Project
  May 28, 2008
  NeuCo has begun round two of the CCPI project at NRG Limestone.  The objective of the DOE II project at Limestone is to optimize the efficiency of pulverized coal-fired electricity generation, control the speciation of mercury, and minimize the emissions of mercury and other pollutants.  NeuCo and NRG Limestone will demonstrate the ability to affect and optimize mercury speciation and multi-pollutant control using non-intrusive advanced sensor and optimization technologies.  Read the full article featured on Power Engineering Online. 
  
  
• Integrated Optimization Software at Baldwin
  May 27, 2008
  The NeuCo/DOE 4-year, $19.1 million Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) technology development project has finally come to completion.  Dynegy's Baldwin Energy Complex now hosts the country's most significant integration of real-time asset optimizers for coal-fired power generation.  Read more on the project's approach and updated results in the article featured on Power Engineering Online. 
  
  
• Energy Central Topic Centers: The Latest NOx Challenges:
  February 22, 2008
  In this article, Peter Spinney, NeuCo, focuses on the latest NOx challenges facing the power industry. With impending emission regulations, Spinney describes how NeuCo's software solutions can help weather the sea change that's rapidly approaching. Look for this article on Energy Central's Topic Centers Generation Technologies webpage and in their EnergyPulse newsletter.
  
  
• New Article - EL&P Magazine: Artifical Intelligence (AI) helps power plants weather sea change
  December 14, 2007
  Peter Spinney, of NeuCo, Inc,  has written an article featured in the November/December issue of Electric Light & Power magazine. The article focuses on artificial intelligence for optimization and NeuCo’s DOE I project at Dynegy’s Baldwin plant.  This is EL&P’s annual operations performance rankings issue as well.
  
  
• New Article-- Where the Information Is- Electric Utility Fleet Optimization through process control
  December 1, 2007
  An article in Control Magazine's December issue, featuring Detroit Edison Energy's (DTE) overall plant performance.  CombustionOpt is installed at DTE's Saint Claire plant while NeuCo is in the beginning stages of implementing combustion optimization at Belle River and Monroe plants. 
  
  
• Technology Attributes for Successful Unit Optimization
  July 27, 2007
  This article describes the "technology must haves" for successful optimization. 
  
  
• NeuCo Acquires Pegasus Technologies
  February 1, 2007
  Article appearing in the Reinhold Environmental Clear Stacks newsletter about the industry impact of the NeuCo/Pegasus teaming.
  
  
• Combustion Optimization and the Clean Air Interstate Rule
  January 1, 2007
  This paper discusses the hardware and software approaches most commonly undertaken to prepare for CAIR, the challenges of each, and the role that optimization can play as the integration engine that manages tradeoffs between goals, processes and systems.
  
  
• CIO Magazine: The School of Hard NOx
  August 16, 2006
  Public utility JEA used NeuCo neural network technology to create an artificial intelligence system that determines the optimal combinations of oil and natural gas the utility's boilers need to cost-effectively produce electricity given fuel prices and the amount of electricity required.
  
  
• CIO Award Winners: JEA
  August 6, 2006
  JEA awarded CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Award for Innovation for deploying NeuCo technology.
  
  
• CombustionOpt at Duke Energy- Coal Gen 2006
  August 1, 2006
  At last year's Coal Gen, NeuCo presented results from installing CombustionOpt technology at Duke Energy's Gibson Station.
  
  
• Online Analytics can extract content from devils of details
  March 1, 2006
  
  
• CCPI Bears First Fruit
  February 2, 2006
  
  
• Power Engineering Online: Substantial Progress Shown in Clean Coal Power Initiative Results
  January 17, 2005
  When the Department of Energy and NeuCo announced a $19.1m technology development initiative to deploy and demonstrate integrated optimization software solutions at Dynegy's Baldwin Energy Complex, most people believed that it would take all of the four years budgeted for the project to see significant results. NeuCo has proven that wrong.
  
  
• Power Engineering: Coal-Fired Generation -- The Need to Be Nimble
  
  NeuCo is featured in a Power Engineering article about the increasing degree to which coal-plants' values are being tied to newly-acquired flexibility it didn't have when originally commissioned, and the role optimization can play.
  
  
• Electric Light & Power: Should IT Play a Role in NOx Compliance?
  
  
  
• The Energy Utilities Project: Enterprise Learning
  
  A white paper written by NeuCo's Curt Lefebvre appearing in The Energy and Utilities Project publication by Montgomery Research and IBM. The paper discusses the revolutionary approach that inductive-based artificial intelligence technologies offer to asset optimization.
  
  
• Power Engineering: Coal Aims to Reclaim Fuel of Choice Status