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deal with the New York Power Authority covers the state's 16
generating facilities and its transmission network, which supply
about 20 percent of the state's electricity, GE said.
GE has previously signed software and analytics agreements with
more than 20 utilities worldwide based on its new Predix
industrial operating system. All were more limited, involving
only part of a utility's generating and transmission capacity,
GE spokesman David McCulloch said.
The NYPA agreement is the broadest in scope that GE has reached
so far that includes equipment supplied by companies other than
GE, McCulloch said. NYPA is the United States' largest
state-owned power utility.
GE said its digital tools will help reduce NYPA's operating
costs and improve the reliability and efficiency of the state's
hydro and gas-powered generators.
GE's broad strategy is to use digital technology and its Predix
operating system to improve the functioning of power generators,
medical devices, aircraft engines and other large industrial
equipment, made by GE and others.
GE said it will attach sensors to NYPA's system to allow NYPA
employees to monitor and analyze the health of the equipment.
Monitoring is expected to begin in December, and will provide
'alerts' that predict "possible failures weeks before they might
occur," GE said in a statement.
(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Bill Rigby)
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