Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) is a multi-service utility owned by the City of Gainesville, Florida. As the state’s fifth largest municipal electric utility, GRU provides electric, water, wastewater and telecommunications services to approximately 93,000 retail and wholesale customers in Gainesville and surrounding areas.

Heat exchangers (HX) remain a key asset in the process industries, vital to ensuring energy efficiency and proper functioning of the plant. With the industry’s focus on sustainability and the challenges posed in developing novel sustainability projects, optimal HX design and operation are even more critical.

Global hydrogen demand is forecast to increase dramatically to 2050. Dozens of nations around the world have established hydrogen roadmaps or policies that are fueling the adoption of hydrogen that will help adhere to net-zero policies. To adhere to these policies, a significant amount of capital investment will be needed to satisfy increasing hydrogen demand.

Operational teams and engineers understand their processes intimately, yet converting that expertise into actionable operational and advanced process control (APC) strategies can be complex. Moreover, a lack of understanding of APC actions often leads to constrained APC controllers, and in some cases, to APC being disabled altogether, resulting in lost benefits.

Frequent changes in refinery operating conditions cause planning models to fall out of sync with actual conditions, making them less reliable. At the same time, updating these models is complex, often forcing refineries to turn to expensive third-party consultants.

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Wildfires are no longer just a seasonal threat — they’re a year-round crisis reshaping the way utilities must plan and operate.

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Modeling and Optimization

Electric utilities are facing unprecedented grid complexity. Aging infrastructure, increasing distributed energy resources (DERs) and rapidly changing load patterns are making it harder to maintain reliable operations using traditional grid models.