Examples of our work
In the past 5 years we have supported clients on more than 400 projects in thermal-power generation, including the following:
Growing a Country’s Electric Power Capacity
Supporting a country in building up 20 gigawatts of electric-power capacity over a 20-year period, including helping to develop supply and demand models, draft a strategy and implementation plan, explore efficiency opportunities with an offshore-wind developer, and capture savings of 30 percent in capital expenditures and 10 percent in time
Identifying Personnel Trends
Creating personnel-management tools drawing on untapped databases to help a client identify trends in overtime and absenteeism and cut hours affected by half
Improving Heat Rate
Using advanced analytics to help an aging-coal-plant client analyze more than 3,000 production variables and millions of data points to isolate six parameters that affect heat rate and can be controlled by operators, resulting in a 2 to 3 percent improvement in heat rate and a substantial reduction in cost
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Impact Story
How a power plant switched on sustainable savings
A lean pilot sets a utility on course to achieve $9.5 million per gigawatt in annual bottom-line savings.
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