§ Industry · 01

Power generation: reliability for assets that must run.

Combined-cycle, hydro, wind, and solar plants share one constraint — every megawatt-hour lost to unplanned outage is revenue that does not return. Droz applies twenty-plus years of rotating-equipment reliability practice plus AI-driven condition monitoring to the assets that determine generation availability.

Asset focus
Rotating equipment
Key disciplines
Vibration · Thermography · Alignment
Geographies
CA · US · MX
Engagement
Plant-wide programs
§ Operating context

Why downtime is brutal here.

Generation plants are paid for availability, not for repair effort. Three drivers compound the cost of unplanned outage:

  • Capacity-market exposure. Forced-outage events trigger settlement penalties and degrade reliability index ratings.
  • Replacement-energy cost. A 600 MW unit out for a week can equal seven-figure replacement-energy purchases.
  • Critical rotating equipment. Steam and gas turbines, generators, and BFP pumps are not commodity parts — long lead times turn a bearing into a quarter-long outage.
  • Renewable variability. Wind gearbox failures and hydro guide-bearing issues compound when capacity factor is already tight.
§ Disciplines

Disciplines we apply.

§ Assets addressed

Assets we monitor.

DZ-A · Rotating equipment

Generation rotating fleet

Steam · gas · hydraulic turbines

  • Steam & gas turbinesTrended
  • GeneratorsTrended
  • BFP & condensate pumpsTrended
  • Cooling-tower fansSched.
DZ-B · Static equipment

Pressure-boundary assets

HRSG · condensers · piping

  • Heat exchangers / condensersInsp.
  • HRSG boilersASME
  • Pressure vesselsASME
  • Piping systemsNDT
DZ-C · Electrical & controls

Switchyard & controls

Transformers · switchgear · controls

  • TransformersIR scan
  • Switchgear LV/MV/HVIR scan
  • Excitation systemsTrended
  • PLCs & SCADAIntegrated
DZ-D · Production lines

Full plant trains

HRSG · turbine · generator

  • HRSG–turbine–generator trainsTrained
  • Balance-of-plantTrained
  • Wind gearbox fleetsTrended
  • Hydro unitsTrended
§ Standards

Standards we operate under.

ASME
Pressure-vessel & turbine codes
ISO 10816
Vibration severity
Vibration Institute
Cat. I–IV certification
CanWEA · CanREA
Renewable generation
§ Software layer

Software services for this industry.

§ Engagements

Case studies.

CS · 01

Engagement case studies forthcoming

Public power-generation engagement summaries are added as they are cleared for publication. Specific outcome metrics — availability lift, MTBF improvement, and avoided replacement-energy cost — are documented under NDA until cleared.

CS · 02

More engagements →

Browse the case-studies index for anonymized engagement summaries across other industrial sectors.

§ Plant-wide engagement
Plant-wide reliability program · Request engagement.