The mission of the Fossil Productivity Committee (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. 

The committee maintains an annual database that serves as a source of historical performance, cost, and staffing data. Updated annually with data supplied by FPC members, the database serves as the basis of published studies comparing plant and unit cost and performance as well as plant staffing. The committee also uses the data to identify top-performing plants based on low cost and high performance.  Representatives from these plants are invited to the semiannual EUCG workshops 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 sponsors in-depth surveys on topics such as boiler tube failure; plant staffing (operations, maintenance, coal yard, and engineering); planned outage intervals; and SCR and scrubber installation and maintenance costs. 

Among the committee’s other products is a Combustion Turbine/Combined Cycle (CT/CC) cost and performance database that includes an alliance with the Combined Cycle Users Group.

The FPC held its second annual Outage Forum Workshop in June 2008; workshop topics included the outage planning organization; outage preparation and implementation; outage case studies; and outage success stories and lessons learned.  The committee is working toward establishing an outage metrics database for measuring planned outage performance.     

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