Power Plant Operations and Flexibility 2015 is a conference that covers topics such as:
- Renewables, particularly wind and solar have been growing at an increasing pace over the last decade
- The Impact Of Renewables Penetration And Changing Economic Incentives In The Wholesale Power Market
- The intermittency of wind in particular has forced generators to be more flexible
- Carbon emissions targets have created economic incentives that push coal and less efficient gas to the margin of economic viability
- Specific, relevant, and actionable intelligence that makes people more proactive and productive
- Detecting, diagnosing, and prioritising equipment and process problems before they become costly failures
- Supporting production by realising more value from what we already know
- Using equipment condition to optimise your maintenance activities
- Achieving large scale user buy-in by keeping it simple
- Improving confidence and speeding up decision making through the integration of knowledge sources
- The importance of considering human performance influencing factors
- Understanding the nature of different tasks, and the different elements that we need to support human reliability
- The standardisation of operating practices
- What we can expect based on the environment and task we have given operators rather than just thinking about what we `want`
- Changes to the plant for short term preservation
- How to optimise run up rates
- How different teams responded in the heat of the moment and lessons learnt
- How to deal with abnormal circumstances and incidents
- The emergency responses and the positive case studies
Power Plant Operations and Flexibility 2015 brings together atendees involved in the management, operation and maintenance.
