Power Plant Operations and Flexibility 2015

Key Topics

• 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

Who should Attend

Atendees involved in the management, operation and maintenance.