Targeting 'Bad Actors' to Pass the ueneration Uptime Test

摘要

Bad actors don't just haunt Hollywood. All across the U.S., room for error in the power industry is shrinking as generation capacity margins compress and transmission system bottlenecks grow. While the industry works to squeeze more juice from existing generating assets, the implementation of an equipment failure analysis program that identifies, tracks and eliminates equipment "bad actors" presents a major opportunity that utility executives should carefully consider. Blocking and tackling maintenance and reliability programs that emphasize equipment failure analysis of current assets serve as a small "operating hedge" in a market challenged by political pressures against new base load coal and increasingly expensive gas-fired generation.