Power Plant Operations & Performance Optimisation
Every plant drifts from its design numbers — performance engineering is the discipline of noticing early and recovering deliberately.
Format
Classroom · 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
Which plant types does the course apply to?
The programme is built for thermal and combined-cycle plants, with principles that carry to any generation technology. It works the numbers that decide a generation asset’s margin — heat rate, availability, start reliability and auxiliary consumption — as an operating discipline.
Does it cover flexible operation and cycling?
Yes — a full stream addresses the modern reality of flexible operation: cycling, low-load running and fast starts, with their real cost to plant life priced rather than ignored, and the new mission profile of operating in renewable-heavy grids.
How does the course approach performance recovery?
It maps heat-rate and availability losses to their real causes across boiler, turbine, condenser and balance of plant, ranks efficiency actions by payback — from cleaning to capital — and builds a performance recovery plan the plant can actually execute, including the free megawatts in how the plant is run.
Is the course available in-house and in French?
Yes. BIZENIUS delivers in English and French, and in-house editions can be built around your own fleet’s performance data. Sessions run on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request; fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.
Who teaches this
Practitioners, not presenters.
Led by engineers and managers who have held operating, maintenance, safety and project accountability in oil and gas, mining and power, and who hold the technical and safety qualifications they teach towards. They bring plant, field and project experience into the room, across the full lifecycle from exploration to closure.
What the bench brings
- Electrical installations, transmission and substations
- Energy audits and efficiency programmes
- Renewable-energy feasibility and delivery
- Work-equipment and lifting safety
- Electrical installation design, supervision and maintenance
- Equipment inspection and lifting-equipment safety
Where they have practised
Current and former practitioners — people who hold the seat today alongside those who have held it.
Sectors: Telecom · Manufacturing & industry
Regions: Europe
How they teach
- Plant, field and project case studies
- Incident and emergency scenario exercises
- Group exercises on real technical decisions
- Exam-style knowledge checks and quizzes
- A personal action plan
Cohorts are kept small so every exercise is worked on the participants’ own situations — in person or live virtual.
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