GE Power's new software reduces emissions at any coal-fired power plant ZDNet

Germany's RDK8 is the world's most efficient coal-fired power plant. The U.N. and governing bodies around the globe are setting new goals for reducing carbon emissions, but that doesn't change the fact that a big portion of the world is still largely reliant on coal-generated power. Moreover, the firms running coal-fired plants aren't going to simply give up on their investments. That's why GE this week unveiled a new set of digital technologies that, using data science, software and intelligent automation, can optimize any coal-fired power plant. If the new, equipment-agnostic technology, called "Digital Power Plant for Steam," were deployed at every existing coal-fired power plant globally, it could eliminate 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, GE says -- the equivalent of removing 120 million cars from the road.