Improved Accuracy of Power Plant Fuel Measurement and Process Efficiency

There was a discrepancy between natural gas usage recorded by the sponsor at its power plants and what it was being billed by its suppliers. Fuel usage and measurement are critical to accurate operations and cost management, and the goal of this project is to assess the sponsor’s fuel measurement system in order to locate the source of the discrepancy. After mining large amounts of data supplied by the sponsor and finding a correlation to explain the discrepancy, the team developed a correction factor that aligned sponsor and supplier measurements. The team then integrated this correction factor into the power plant data management software to ensure that it recorded valid fuel usage.