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 · Live 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
Do the programmes cover the energy transition as well as conventional operations?
Both. The curriculum spans oil and gas operations, drilling project and risk management, ESG, and the global energy transition — including how conventional operators finance and sequence the shift. Participants leave able to weigh transition decisions with the same rigour they apply to an operating asset.
Is project finance for energy and infrastructure covered?
Yes — advanced project finance analysis and modelling, PPP and infrastructure finance, and the financing of oil, gas and mining projects all sit in the curriculum. Participants leave able to build and stress a project-finance model and defend the structure to lenders and boards.
How do we enrol a team on an energy programme?
Send an enquiry or brochure request from the programme page; a senior practitioner responds within one business day with the brochure and the options for your group. Team cohorts are arranged through that proposal — including a private, in-house edition when the whole unit should train together.
Who typically attends the energy and utilities programmes?
Engineers, operations managers, project and commercial leaders, and HSE and finance professionals from oil and gas, power, utilities and mining. Regulators and national companies attend alongside private operators, which sharpens the discussion on both sides.
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