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Commissioning of the Distributed Control System Commences

24/01/2025

December 2024

The HPP team has achieved another key milestone in the commissioning phase of the Project. The team successfully dispatched the software for the distributed control system (DCS). The DCS is best described as the ‘brain’ of the power station and is the central point of control for all the different systems.

The process known as loop-checking commenced in December 2024. Loop-checking tests whether the DCS is receiving signals from different parts of the power station and ensures that it is processing the information correctly. Information comes from various sensors around the site, checking temperatures, flows and pressures of various processes. The DCS processes this information and then decides what the power station needs to do next.