Automated system and method for implementing unit and collective level benchmarking of power plant operations

摘要

Systems and methods for implementing benchmarking analysis (168) for power plant operations comprise electronically accessing power plant operational data (166) within at least one type of operation within a power plant, electronically analyzing data from one or more power plant components within one or more different power plant units in one or more collections of multiple power plant units to identify cycles and key events on one or more of a component level (220), a unit level (230) and a collective level of multiple power plants (240), generating at least one scorecard summary (252) of calculated power plant operational characteristics on selected levels of operation comprising one or more of a component level, unit level and collective level of power plant units, and providing the at least one scorecard summary as electronic output to a user. Additional optional steps include using the data from the scorecard summary to detect outliers (262) and/or to cluster (264) selected components, units or fleets having similar operational characteristics.