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Organizational Announcement from Andrés Gluski
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Greetings!
While the 2015 AES Innovation Congress was held over a month ago, many of you are still discussing various projects' replicability within your business. To remind you of your experience at the Congress or to see what transpired, we've uploaded all the various pictures from the event. We also encourage you to review the Project Summaries book and review the white papers uploaded to the Outlet. Innovation is at the core of what we do and the implementation of innovative ideas is what makes us one of the world's leading energy companies.
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Organizational Announcement from Andrés Gluski
After leading the Asia Strategic Business Unit (SBU) for the last four years, Scott Kicker will be stepping down from his role on September 1, 2015 to leave AES. I am pleased to announce Marty Crotty, who currently serves as the SBU's Chief Operating Officer (COO), will become the new SBU President upon Scott's departure. I wanted to take some time today to thank Scott for his many years of service and the integral role he played in making AES the company it is today. Under Scott's leadership, we inaugurated our 1,240 MW Mong Duong plant in Vietnam, gained recognition by "Investors in People", an organization that provides international standards for the best people management practices, in the Philippines, and began construction on our 1,320 MW OPGC II facility in India. Scott's career at AES has truly shown how people develop through global experiences during his 17 years with the company. He spent time working at or with many of our businesses around the world by previously managing Global Engineering and Construction, developing growth opportunities in Latin America, and leading projects for AES in Bangladesh and Taiwan. Scott has truly helped shape AES for the future.
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Re-energizing AES.com Message from Andrés Gluski
We recently reenergized AES' online presence by launching a new AES.com. The site has a number of enhancements including:
- A refreshed Sustainability section that now focuses on our material issues
- A new Our Business section based on our SBU structure which prominently features Energy Storage and Distributed Energy
- More leadership visibility with the addition of our SBU Presidents to the Our Leadership page
- Increased integration with our social media properties on the homepage to promote the latest news
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Monthly Safety Leadership Message from Julian Nebreda
At AES, we put safety first. It's our first Value, and improving our safety performance and culture is one of our top priorities. Why? If we think about our mission as a company, improving lives, it's centered on safety. Being safe is the basis of our ability to improve lives, whether it is for our people, our contractors or the communities we serve. As a company, improving lives through safety means we ensure everyone that comes to work every day leaves the same way they came to work. It means that we have the same expectations relative to safe behaviors for our contractors that we do for our people. It also means that we care about and make the effort to strengthen the safety of the people living in the many communities we serve around the world through both education and action.
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AES Jordan Receives Award
AES Jordan's Amman East Power Plant, part of the Europe SBU, received the Best of the Best Award for their project, Reducing Losses during Plant Startup, from the Combined Cycle Journal. The journal is the independent voice of the gas-turbine-based generation sector of the electricity industry. The Amman East plant is designed to be a base load, continual running power plant. Due to an interruption of Egyptian gas supply, all power plants in Jordan are now forced to run on fuel oil. In order to manage fuel oil quantity in the power sector, the offtaker cycles (startup and shutdown) the plant on a daily basis. During start-up, energy losses occur because of lower efficiency of the units at the lower load. During gas operation, the plant normally has 10 startups per year; however, the number has been increased to 240 start-ups due to the use of oil instead of gas. The team used the APEX tools of Plan, Do, Check and Act methodology and other APEX tool such as Ishikawa and brainstorming session to study the possibility of reducing losses during start-up by reviewing the current procedures and benchmarking with similar power plants in Jordan, the Middle East and Europe. After successful implementation of the solution, the business saved US $100K a year.
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Constructing our Growth Infographic
With more than 5,500 gross MWs under construction, we are energizing the markets we serve and improving lives by providing safe, reliable and sustainable energy solutions. As development activities aimed to grow the company at a fast pace continues, we are seeking people that will help us develop, engineer, construct and bring projects online on time and within budget. Check out this infographic on the new AES.com to learn more about our various construction projects in the markets we serve and apply to help grow the business today while growing your experiences and skills.
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2015 AES Innovation Congress Award Winner Spotlight
Presenter and author Joaquin Melendez, along with co-author Juan Ricardo Inostroza Lopez, from the Andes SBU, received second place in the Customer Solutions and Business Structure category with the project: Cross-border Transmission Line Takes a New Role: Enabling Energy Trading between Chile and Argentina. Even though conditions in the Argentinian energy market had changed dramatically since the Los Andes Transmission Line was built, the AES Andes SBU imagined a use that would restore the value of the transmission line and make it a revenue-generating asset. This bidirectional transfer of energy has proven to bring more stable levels of frequency to the interconnected system and to improve voltage quality in the southern SING for the major mining customers located there. It was also done without additional infrastructure investment. The success of this project proves that it is possible, with careful planning and patience, to break down the paradigms of technological, regulatory and political obstacles that AES faces in other countries. For more information, review the project summary here or search for the full white paper on the Outlet.
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Angel Martínez Morado is Always On for Safety
Angel is an Operator at AES TEG-TEP, a generation plant in Mexico that is part of the MCAC SBU. He joined the company three years ago and has embraced our safety culture as his own. Angel puts safety first and knows that safety is not only about his personal safety but also about others' safety as well. Angel puts this belief into practice by actively promoting safety among the people who work at the plant. His strong commitment to safety is often recognized by his peers and supervisors. He has taken an active part in special projects involving safety and generation. For example, Angel contributed in the project of managing the cleaning activities of the plant economizer (a heat exchanger designed to reduce energy consumption), which required an effective safety approach. Angel knows that he can prevent incidents when he pays attention and does things the right way. This is why he follows AES operational procedures in order to do things the safe way and practices this every day. Thank you, Angel for staying Always On for Safety.
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