Trailblazing integrated AI platform ushers
in an era of firm, affordable, clean energy.
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PALM BEACH, Fla., April 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BrightNight, the next-generation
global renewable power producer built to deliver clean and
dispatchable solutions, today introduced PowerAlpha®,
the proprietary software platform that uses cutting-edge Artificial
Intelligence, data analytics, and cloud computing to design,
optimize, and operate renewable power plants with industry-leading
economics.
PowerAlpha was unveiled today at the "AI: Powering the New
Energy Era" summit in Washington,
D.C. Sponsored by BrightNight and hosted by the Foundation
for American Science and Technology, it is the first independent
industry summit in North America
exclusively dedicated to exploring the influence of Artificial
Intelligence on the energy sector. The summit brought together
senior public officials, policymakers, energy industry leaders,
experts, academia, and investors, including co-sponsors NVIDIA,
IBM, C3.ai and Qcells, and representatives from the Department of
Energy, U.S. Congress, Intel, Alphabet (Google), EEI, Bank of
America, KPMG, EPRI, and other organizations.
BrightNight's PowerAlpha platform accelerates the global clean
energy transition and decarbonization by ensuring the generation of
reliable power at the lowest cost attainable in various geographies
and power grids globally. Its benefits as realized in the design,
optimize, and operate stages within the project's lifecycle
include:
- Designs optimal renewable power solutions to
reliably meet the growing load on the power grid. It takes a net
value optimization approach to optimize every project for every
customer's specific needs through dispatchable firm and semi-firm
hybrid power solutions.
- Optimizes lifetime project cost and value by
centralizing the engineering, development, financing, operation,
and maintenance of renewable power plants in a single integrated
platform, with a singular focus on serving customer needs at lowest
cost and highest reliability.
- Operates renewable projects seamlessly and
efficiently by significantly improving forecast accuracy through
AI-driven analytics, bringing significant cost savings for
renewable asset operators.
- Enables customers to make optimal asset allocation
decisions, engage in long-term resource planning, define
replacement or augmentation strategies, and enhance the utilization
of power transmission infrastructure. Ultimately,
PowerAlpha® helps BrightNight's customers put renewable
resources where they make the most impact and achieve their clean
energy goals.
- Designs around-the-clock, high-load-factor
solutions for data centers, delivering up to 99% load factor at
significantly lower cost compared with available market
alternatives.
PowerAlpha's unique dispatch hybrid controls interface can also
be integrated with utilities' Energy Management Systems for even
more operational efficiency and integrated asset management
solutions. Also, with the increasing demand for more power to
support the growing use of AI applications and corresponding data
centers, PowerAlpha is leveraging AI capabilities to drive greater
efficiencies, better designs, and higher capacity renewable
projects.
Martin Hermann, CEO of
BrightNight, said: "Through relentless innovation, the dream of a
sustainable clean energy transition, where renewable power is
affordable and reliable, is now within reach. The integration of
Artificial Intelligence with renewable energy offers solutions to
numerous challenges, from demand forecasting and smart grid
management to labor shortages and the design of efficient power
projects. I am proud that BrightNight is at the forefront of this
technological revolution, bringing the clean energy transition
closer to reality than ever before."
Kiran Kumaraswamy, CTO of
BrightNight, said: "PowerAlpha® provides a fully
integrated platform that is highly differentiated in the
marketplace in its ability to design, optimize, and operate hybrid
renewable power projects with cutting edge capabilities enabled by
AI and utilizing patent-pending algorithms. Our team is
redefining industry standards, optimizing renewable projects
globally to integrate new load like data centers and increase
utilization of existing infrastructure."
BrightNight has delivered a number of PowerAlpha®
projects and use cases in the U.S. and globally, where it is
helping customers optimize existing transmissions infrastructure,
integrate long and short duration storage solutions, increase
capacity, and improve dispatchability of renewable assets, as well
as repower existing projects.
BrightNight's is also using PowerAlpha to develop projects with
its partner in India and
the Philippines, ACEN, one of
Asia's leading renewable
companies. ACEN Group CIO Patrice Clausse said, "PowerAlpha has
been an important enabler for our investment decision-making. We
feel confident leveraging its capabilities to simulate the
performance of numerous hybrid renewable power plant configurations
incorporating solar, wind, and energy storage and identify the most
efficient configuration. This has enabled us to optimize our plant
configuration and was a critical component in our recent
tender wins."
For more information about PowerAlpha® and
BrightNight's 37 GW renewable power portfolio, please see
www.brightnightpower.com/poweralpha or contact
origination@brightnightpower.com.
About BrightNight
BrightNight is the first global renewable integrated power
company designed to provide utility and commercial and industrial
customers with clean, dispatchable renewable power solutions.
BrightNight works with customers across the U.S. and Asia Pacific to design, develop, and operate
safe, reliable, large-scale renewable power projects optimized
through its proprietary software platform PowerAlpha® to
better manage the intermittent nature of renewable energy. Its deep
customer engagement process, team of proven power experts, and
industry-leading solutions enable customers to overcome challenging
energy sustainability standards, rapidly changing grid dynamics,
and the transition away from fossil fuel generation. To learn more,
please visit: www.brightnightpower.com
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