Cut-throat competition is currently the order of the day in the European energy market as a result of the energy mix transformation. To drive the transformation forward, renewable energies are receiving extensive support in some parts of Europe via power levies and guaranteed feed-in payments. This situation brings changes in operating regimes for existing conventional power plant fleets. Plants that were still being operated in base load a few years ago are now facing increasingly frequent shut-downs, and in some cases long outage periods. From a purely technical point of view, this has brought a series of new challenges for power plant suppliers. The first products designed to address these chal-lenges have now emerged onto the market.
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