Comprehensive hydropower automation

Advanced control for turbines and hydropower plants

With extensive experience in hydropower control strategies—such as water balance control, frequency support applications, and power plant fleet management—Valmet is well-positioned to provide the ideal solution for modern hydropower plants. The Valmet DNA Automation System seamlessly integrates these strategies, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.

Valmet’s comprehensive hydropower plant automation concept includes:

• Turbine controller
• Automatic voltage regulator
• Vibration monitoring
• Electrical protection
• Field equipment
• Distributed control and information management
• Ability to integrate everything into a single system

Deep expertise in hydropower plant operations

Valmet DNA automation solutions leverage advanced tools to harness the full potential of both current and historical hydropower plant data. These insights empower plant personnel to optimize operations and maintenance, driving cost efficiency. Key benefits include enhanced production planning, predictable maintenance shutdowns, and improved asset condition management.

Engineered with Valmet DNA's standard design tools, applications ensure rapid start-up times for greenfield projects and minimal downtime for retrofit installations.

Valmet’s expert team provides comprehensive support for all hydropower automation projects, from retrofitting existing plants to the delivery of new turbine systems.

We have developed a long-term partnership with Valmet across our other hydropower plants. As Valmet has successfully retrofitted hydro turbine automation with Valmet DNA at our Siikakoski hydropower plant, we aimed to implement a similar solution for the Verla plant, too. A unified automation system across all sites, including engineering tools and data collection, ensures that only one system requires future upgrades.”

Jukka Rämä, Senior Vice President, Asset Management, KSS Energia

KSS's Finnish press release regarding the delivery

Our existing central control system was obsolete. We wanted to replace it with a new one that features more than just the basic functions, such as network monitoring and controlling power plants, dams and pumping stations. We looked for a system that provides us with a better overview of the production process, enhances our operations on the electricity markets and enables us to develop both our process and its condition monitoring.” 

Tommi Hansen-Haug, Operation and Maintenance Specialist at PVO-Vesivoima