Jarod BleiweissPower Plant Outage Services
Running an outage is much different than operating and maintaining a power plant. Time is money; a few weeks of downtime can consume up to 50% of a plant’s annual maintenance budget, costs $50-$100K in lost energy sales margin for every day of schedule overrun and can attract a lot of attention from executives.
It’s been said that “the devil is in the details,” and when your budgets and margins on the line, nothing could be truer.
With an internationally renowned stable of engineers and project managers working nationwide, NAES’s Engineering Outage Management Team lives in the daily details of your outage process, assisting in the execution of large-scale overhauls across the United States, and ensuring that your goals are met and your risks minimized.
Preparation is Key
Why Should I Care About Outage Planning?
Power plants can spend upwards of 75% of their maintenance budget on outage services. In addition, they increase their safety risk by inviting hundreds of maintenance workers to come and work on the outage. It can ruin availability goals if the project goes over schedule. To avoid these potential dangers, power plants must plan their outages far in advance and with as much detail as possible. NAES Engineering provides power plant outage contractors to minimize these risks and increase efficiency before, during, and after an outage.
“A single major outage for a typical 7FA combustion turbine could cost perhaps $30 million when you include the cost for all necessary capital parts.”
Technical Capabilities
- Forced Outage Support
- Planned Outage Management and Support
- Capital Improvement Projects
- Scope Development
- Project Controls (Cash Burn)
- Administrative Support (Scheduling & reporting)
- Spare Parts Evaluations (Criticality Analysis)
- Interim Plant Management Roles (Plant Manager; Ops & Maint. Manager)
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Boiler/HRSG Inspections
- Combustion Turbines (Minors/HGP Majors)
- Steam Turbine (Minor and Major Overhauls)
- Safety Professional Insight
Why Use NAES Power Plant Outage Contractors
The NAES Advantages
Experience
NAES has in-depth experience with power plants that you simply won’t find anywhere else. Our Outage Management process is detailed and is developed with the plant owners, managers, and operators in mind. This vast experience teaches NAES industry best practices to share with our customers.
All-Inclusive Outage Planning
Our engineering team develops approaches and methodologies, and gives transparency to our work. Rather than simply sending a person to do the work, we want our customers to understand the full scope of the job. This helps plants stay on track and helps us customize plans to fit your needs.
Unbiased Selection
NAES Engineering is committed to providing our customers with the best possible practices, particularly when it comes to outage services. In order to achieve this goal, we are determined to remain unbiased and well-informed when it comes to choosing manufacturers, contractors, etc.