Plant safety monitoring at EDF Monitoring the safety of EDF infrastructure EDF installed a monitoring system on the penstock of a hydroelectric plant in order to measure any impact from the works in the vicinity. EDF's Hydraulic Engineering Center (HEC) opted to use HBM technology in this preventive device. The Passy hydroelectric plant, the most important power plant in the Haute-Savoie department of France, generates electricity using water held back by dams and glaciers. In late 2013, major civil engineering works were planned in the vicinity of a "penstock", or pressure pipe, transporting water from a glacier, and it was necessary to ensure that these works would not have any impact on the solidity of the penstock or its attachments. This type of pipe, often seen on mountainsides, take

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