Performance monitoring and analysis for power plants

摘要

A system 10 for performance monitoring of power plants 20 is provided. The system includes a plurality of power plants 20 respectively owned and operated by a plurality of customers, a monitoring center 40, at least one of the customers and the monitoring center 40 including a plurality of analytic algorithms configured to automate performance anomaly detection, alarming, analytics and prognosis and a secured network by which on-site monitoring (OSM) data generated at each of the plurality of the power plants 20 is receivable by the monitoring center 40. The monitoring center 40 is configured to analyze the OSM data along with site specific data for each respective power plant 20 in accordance with the plurality of analytics algorithms to derive trends and to take action with respect to each respective power plant 20 in accordance with changes and abnormalities indicated by the derived trends.