KISSY - Power Plant Information System

VGB Statistic “Performance Indicators”

In the liberalised energy market the evaluation of the capacity of an own power plant compared to other power plants (benchmarking) is of great importance.

Strategic tools to optimize the capacity of a power plant in competition are:

- compilation of availability data and evaluation of performance indicators
- comparison of indicators of a single plant with the indicators of several plants of  the same type.

The power plant information system KISSY of VGB is the tool, which treats these questions efficiently. It currently contains availability data and performance indicators from over 9,760 plant years of German and foreign power plants.

The elaborated performance indicators are defined and analysed in the VGB Guideline “Availability of thermal power plants – basis and compilation” (VGB RV 808).

The new kind of operating power plants initiated by the liberalised market requires the consideration of further performance indicators. KISSY enables to extend the field of performance indicators substantially. The intended extension will comprise:

- indicators for commercial availability
- damage- and condition-oriented indicators.

The data base system KISSY enables the online input of data via Internet by authorised users (Description of data input).

Standardised reports about the evaluation of performance indicator figures and analysis of non-availability of power plant components in ten year periods are available at VGB PowerTech Services .

Special evaluation will be provided on demand at individual costs.