Public electric vehicle charging at large scale SMATCH
Are our cities and infrastructure ready for it?
Root cause analysis involving CCPP equipment
ENGIE Laborelec’s root cause analysis (RCA) activities for CCPPs have seen enormous growth over the past few years. Customers appreciate our comprehensive multidisciplinary approach and our capacity to successfully challenge OEMs and other stakeholders.
Scrutinizing zero-emission supercritical CO2 cycle technology
ENGIE Laborelec is conducting technical due diligence on NET Power’s supercritical CO2 power cycle. This groundbreaking technology is a potential game changer for power production, using natural gas and oxygen to generate zero-emission electricity while also capturing CO2.
Shoring up the business case for offshore floating wind farms
ENGIE Laborelec has installed permanent Lidar measurement systems on the nacelle of one of the WindFloat Atlantic turbines off the coast of Portugal. The measurements and analyses are expected to shore up the business case for floating wind turbine technology.
Accurately assessing wind distortion in complex wind farm terrains
In-depth analysis allowed ENGIE Research to challenge OEM-imposed wind sector management (WSM) on a turbine in the port of Ghent. The study sheds additional light on how to better assess the phenomenon of wind distortion in complex terrain.
Guidance in the residential batteries market
As demand for residential batteries started to boom in the Flemish region of Belgium in 2021, ENGIE Laborelec’s experience in this area, developed through years of R&D, proved to be invaluable.
Viability of robotized PV cleaning demonstrated
ENGIE Laborelec’s highly efficient robotized PV cleaning solution is a game-changer for regular cleaning of single-axis tracking modules. Last year, its value was demonstrated in a semi-autonomous setting at the Trompezòn plant in Mexico.
Successful recovery of PID-affected PV installations with a rapid ROI
Potential induced degradation, or PID, continues to impose a serious threat to the performance of every generation of PV plants. ENGIE Laborelec achieves impressive results with PID mitigation solutions tuned to the plant configuration.
Learning more about the impact of public lighting on biodiversity
ENGIE Laborelec is engaging in a comprehensive research program to investigate the impact of public lighting on biodiversity, taking bat activity as a reference. Measurements carried out in 2021 near Paris and Brussels provide food for thought about further research.
Demonstrating that up to 25% H2 co-combustion is viable
ENGIE Laborelec has demonstrated that using a gas fuel mix with up to 25% hydrogen in an SGT-600 gas turbine is safe and requires no hardware modification.