Generation Cost Frontier Analysis, Dynamic Market Adjustment, and Strategic Gaming: Integrated Tools for Benchmarking, Competitive Market Analysis, and Strategy Formulation Under Conditions of Uncertainty in the Transition to a Competitive Electricit

摘要

The electric utility industry is currently experiencing major change brought on by deregulation. As a result, the focus of power plant managemnet is moving from maximizing plant reliability to reducing costs and getting the most from maintenance reliability spending. To analyze the effectivencess of maintenance programs, utilities have benchmarked their plants' maintenance spending and reliability against similar plants-those with similar equipment design, vintage, age, capacity, and operating history.