LAHORE: American company GE has signed a contract with Hubco to provide its digital industrial solutions for the 1,292MW Hubco power plant in Balochistan.
Commissioned in 1997, the plant operates four 323 MW generating units. Additionally, it’s the largest independent steam power plant in Pakistan and exports power to the national grid.
“GE’s digital solutions are a game changer for the energy sector and we are happy to be working with them,” said Khalid Mansoor, CEO of Hubco. “Once implemented at the Hubco Power Plant, these solutions will help us to enhance the reliability of our operations.” Powered by Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system built exclusively for industry, GE’s Digital Power Plant includes a suite of software solutions that can enable Hubco’s power plant operators to analyze and monitor operations across all touch-points in real time and help identify any maintenance issues ahead of time, leading to greater asset uptime and reduced unplanned downtime.
The Balochistan Hubco Power Plant is equipped entirely with non-GE equipment, demonstrating the power of Predix to operate across different types of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
“Pakistan is a leader in leveraging GE’s Industrial Internet technologies that can significantly enhance asset uptime,” said Dr. Azeez Mohammed, President & CEO of GE’s Power Services business in the Middle East & Africa. “The agreement with Hubco marks the sixth deployment of our advanced digital industrial solutions in the country, underscoring our commitment to provide our partners in Pakistan with cutting edge solutions.”
Industry experts estimate that between now and 2025 there is $1.3 trillion in value creation for companies that embrace digitization and $90 billion is expected to be invested in the energy industry’s digitization by 2020.
