Power Plant Operations and Flexibility 2015

  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Birmingham Maple House (etc.venues), United Kingdom

Description

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.

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Event Categories

Business: Operations
Industry: Energy & Utilities
Science: Engineering

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