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.