Power Plant Operations & Performance Optimisation
Every plant drifts from its design numbers — performance engineering is the discipline of noticing early and recovering deliberately.
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Classroom · Virtual
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A generation asset earns or loses its margin in a handful of numbers: heat rate, availability, start reliability, auxiliary consumption. This programme works those numbers as an operating discipline — performance monitoring that separates degradation from noise; the losses mapped to their causes across boiler, turbine and balance of plant; availability improvement grounded in failure history; and the modern reality of flexible operation: cycling, low-load running and fast starts, with their real cost to plant life priced rather than ignored. For thermal and combined-cycle plants, with principles that carry to any generation technology.
What you will do
Who attends
Plant operations and performance engineers; shift supervisors and operations managers; asset managers of generation portfolios; utility technical staff.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The numbers that pay
- Heat rate, availability, start reliability, auxiliaries — measured honestly
- Performance monitoring: baselines, corrections, degradation curves
- The loss map: boiler, turbine, condenser, balance of plant
II.Recovering the megawatts
- Availability: bad actors, outage quality, start failures
- Efficiency actions ranked by payback — cleaning to capital
- Operating practices: the free megawatts in how the plant is run
III.The flexible era
- Cycling and low load: what it does to the plant, priced
- Fast starts and ramping: capability built without gambling
- Operating in renewable-heavy grids: the new mission profile
Frequently asked
Which plant types does the course apply to?
The programme is built for thermal and combined-cycle plants, with principles that carry to any generation technology. It works the numbers that decide a generation asset’s margin — heat rate, availability, start reliability and auxiliary consumption — as an operating discipline.
Does it cover flexible operation and cycling?
Yes — a full stream addresses the modern reality of flexible operation: cycling, low-load running and fast starts, with their real cost to plant life priced rather than ignored, and the new mission profile of operating in renewable-heavy grids.
How does the course approach performance recovery?
It maps heat-rate and availability losses to their real causes across boiler, turbine, condenser and balance of plant, ranks efficiency actions by payback — from cleaning to capital — and builds a performance recovery plan the plant can actually execute, including the free megawatts in how the plant is run.
Is the course available in-house and in French?
Yes. BIZENIUS delivers in English and French, and in-house editions can be built around your own fleet’s performance data. Sessions run on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request; fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.
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