RWE Power International - Power Plant Operations and Maintenance

RWE Power International's specialist services cover every aspect of operations and maintenance, from construction and commissioning to eventual decommissioning. We offer gas turbine services, risk assessment processes, power plant information systems, environmental management and power station maintenance management. As well as this, we provide plant rehabilitation, power generation training, asset development, mining equipment engineering, and exploration and mineral deposit evaluation.

Our expertise spans the full range of electricity generation technologies, fuel sources including hard coal, lignite, oil and gas and mining methods. We offer a range of innovative solutions and techniques, including engineering support, specialist operations services and consultancy advice, to clients operating in different market conditions.

POWER PLANT OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Our worldwide power plant operations and maintenance experience has been acquired on more than 80,000MW of power plant encompassing hard coal, lignite, gas and oil fired power generation, cogeneration and renewables. Our expertise delivers greater profitability through improved plant performance at the lowest possible cost.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT GROUP (TSG)

Our Technical Support Group based at Ferrybridge provides a broad spectrum of engineering services available all year round, seven days a week. Our valuable experience derives from refurbishing, maintaining, modifying and providing emergency support for our own power plants and other major external power and industrial plants in the UK.

Our extensive workshop facilities include state-of-the-art machinery, which coupled with our vast experience enables us to offer a comprehensive, high quality service that includes:

• Workshop services and support for plant refurbishment
• Overhaul, repair and modification of plant and machinery
• Manufacture of new components, spare parts and assemblies
• Outage delivery and management
• Full steam turbine overhaul and balance of plant services
• Gas turbine services
• On-site machining
• CNC and general machining
• Non-destructive testing services
• Engineering development and technical services

TSG Ferrybridge is synonymous with engineering excellence, ensuring the correct engineering solutions which are ‘right first time’.

POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE

Our power plant performance techniques will increase your plant flexibility in response to varying levels of demand and price, ensure reliability to meet contractual commitments, and achieve greater efficiency to control costs. We will review your current plant condition, examine levels of system redundancy, and advise where best to invest for the most profitable balance between risk and reward.

GAS TURBINE SERVICES

Our unique, tested gas turbine service, proven on our own fleet of gas turbine generators, is that of an operator, not a manufacturer, and this difference influences everything that we do for our clients.

MINING OPERATIONS

Based on our extensive mining experience, we provide services that cover all aspects of the mining cycle.

RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESSES

Our unique Risk Assessment Processes identify and quantify all key risks in power plant operation. The results will enable you to optimise the running of your plant technically and commercially, reduce operating costs, run plant harder without compromising safety, availability or environmental compliance and optimise asset value.

POWER PLANT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Our real-time information applications can be implemented across all plant types, giving faster and more accurate control tracking, optimising maintenance programmes, providing expert guidance based on actual plant condition and implementing advanced plant management to maximise revenue.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Our complete range of expert services will enable you to manage environmental performance more effectively. We can assess the environmental impacts of your business, whether in power generation or mining.

POWER STATION MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

We have the expertise and resources in heavy plant maintenance and commercial awareness and understanding of plant operations that add extra value to the conventional processes of power station maintenance management.

MINING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

Our mining equipment experts understand how vital maintenance is for any successful mining operation.

PLANT REHABILITATION

Our plant rehabilitation engineers are specialists in evaluating and upgrading generation plant to prolong asset life, improve performance and implement investment strategies that deliver enhanced asset value.

POWER GENERATION TRAINING

We can meet the staff training and development needs in all aspects of power generation and mining, using state-of-the-art learning approaches.

ASSET DEVELOPMENT

We can help you manage the process of developing power plant and the risks within the development phase of a project, to optimise the long-term value of your asset.

MINING EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING

RWE Power International engineers provide expert services that cover the whole range of mining equipment.

EXPLORATION AND MINERAL DEPOSIT EVALUATION

Our services range from market studies and mineral potential surveys, through exploration management and mineral resource modelling, to mine planning, mining cost assessments and feasibility studies.

POWER STATION DECOMMISSIONING

RWE Power International can offer you valuable mothballing, preservation and reinstatement, decommissioning and demolition services.