A SCADA based Power Plant Monitoring and Management System

Modern power generation plant is expected to perform at high levels of efficiency. Increasing use is made of computer based control in areas such as power generation in which this study is conducted. It is still the case in many such implementations that the operation of individual elements of plant is optimized without perhaps considering the overall plant performance. This paper presents a basis for such plant wide considerations. The approach utilizes readily available SCADA functionality to support advanced monitoring and management functions. © 2011 Springer-Verlag