Overview of Plant Performance Monitoring

GP Energy Services provides the people, processes, and technology to improve your generation fleet's efficiency, capacity, and availability. We work with utilities and independent power producers to increase their enterprise effectiveness. Through GP Energy Services' solutions, we partner with our customers to adapt to change and provide the infrastructure for them to gain competitive advantage.

GP helps organizations transition from labor intensive, legacy plant performance spreadsheets to an automated and standardized system for fleet-wide data collection, analysis, and reporting. This allows the generating enterprise to move beyond disjointed spreadsheets and difficult scripting languages, non-standard and inefficient processes, and inconsistent calculations requiring significant manual input.

GP Energy Services focuses on performance information access, analyses, and meaningful information to better manage your assets. We work with you to establish key performance indices, processes, and technology to drive your generation fleet performance.

Transitions in Plant Performance Monitoring

Plant performance monitoring expands from the individual plant focus to the entire generation fleet economic performance. Plant performance monitoring has changed from the traditional annual performance test using specialized test instrumentation and reactive response by on-site performance specialists.

Plant performance monitoring evolves to an ongoing, real-time process using plant instrumentation to proactively leverage fewer experts using better technology to focus on overall fleet performance, often using external vendors and partners. Today's virtual environment allows the enterprise to monitor each plant and the entire fleet in real time to achieve continuous learning and sustained improvement.

Program Overview

GP Energy Services works with you to maximize the return on your generation fleet by proactively taking actions to improve the overall fleet performance. We strive to maximize generation output and optimize plant efficiency. Our objectives are to regain lost fleet megawatt output, improve fleet availability, decrease fleet heat rate, and reduce O&M costs. The overall benefit is to improve fleet economic performance and profitability.