Power Plant Construction Is Over. What Do I Do Now?

With the recent decline in demand for power plant cost engineers, associated with the abandonment of plans to build additional power plants, many plant cost engineers are faced with a career crisis. Currently, with no new construction programs of any significance apparent, regulators have turned the...

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Published in:Cost engineering (Morgantown, W. Va.) W. Va.), 1990-04, Vol.32 (4), p.17
Main Authors: Thamm, Tom B, Strandell, Marjatta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cost engineering
Downtime
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY
Engineers
MAINTENANCE
Maintenance costs
Maintenance management
MANAGEMENT
Operations
PERSONNEL
POWER
POWER PLANTS
Preventive maintenance
PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL
PUBLIC UTILITIES 296000 > Energy Planning & Policy-- Electric Power
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Summary:With the recent decline in demand for power plant cost engineers, associated with the abandonment of plans to build additional power plants, many plant cost engineers are faced with a career crisis. Currently, with no new construction programs of any significance apparent, regulators have turned their attention to the cost of plant operations. With regulators questioning utility prudence in plant outages caused by equipment failure and with the cost of plant maintenance increasing dramatically, utilities are increasing efforts to improve plant maintenance management. Such a plan requires the very skills that the professional cost engineer possesses, including the ability to operate as a part of a team, to develop methods and procedures, and to optimize the use of resources. Power plant cost engineers, who have been displaced due to construction completion, should make themselves and their capabilities known to utilities that need good people on their plant maintenance team.
ISSN:0274-9696