Welcome to the EUCG Fossil
Productivity Committee
The
EUCG Fossil Productivity Committee (FPC) is one of the five committees and
working groups that make up EUCG, Inc., an electric utility trade association
founded in 1973. The FPC was established in 1985 to promote and to facilitate
the continuous improvement of fossil plant management practices. The Committee
offers a forum for the mutual exchange of historical cost and performance data
and process improvement information for fossil-fired power plants. In 2007, the
Committee had thirty-five utility members from throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia.
The
mission of the FPC is to promote and to facilitate the continuous improvement
of fossil plant management practices. The Committee offers a forum for the
mutual exchange of fossil plant performance, historical cost data, and process
improvement information. Topics include plant operations and maintenance
issues, outage planning, activity-based management, process management, and
data analysis.
The
Committee maintains an annual database and uses the data to produce
benchmarking studies of cost and performance as well as plant staffing. The FPC
identifies best performers based on low cost and high performance.
Representatives from top-performing plants are invited to the semiannual EUCG
conferences to describe the operations and management practices that drive
their plants success. The Committee also invites representatives from high
performance organizations outside the electric utility industry to share
processes and practices that contribute to their success.
The
FPC is always critically evaluating cutting-edge innovation in plant management
and O&M operations through periodic in depth surveys on topics such as
boiler tube failure, plant staffing (operations, maintenance and engineering), SCR and scrubber installation and maintenance cost.
Among
the Committee's new projects is an effort to form an alliance with the Combined
Cycle Users Group for development of a combustion turbine/combined cycle (CT/CC)
cost and performance data base.
The
FPC is also working on its third annual Fossil Plant Flash Report survey that
will provide an early exchange of select cost and performance data to the FPC
membership.