The Plan And Control Of The Chief Production And Management Of The Thermal Power Company

Tn the year of 2002, the State Council approved the electric power sector reform program, which indicated the general target is to break monopoly, bring competition, improve effiencency, lower cost, perfect price mechanism, optimize resources accommodation, to push electric development network the grid, to establish an electric market with separation of politics and business; fair, orderly and healthy system under government supervision. Under this situation, the external business environment for thermal power plant changed. The varying elements of power generation hours, the grid prices and fuel cost concerning the gross profit are influenced by the supply and demand, price competition ( in northeast grid considering energy-saving, environment protection and reliability), and open coal price, all these increase the uncertainty of thermal power plant management risk.Thermal plants is a highly monopolized business, it has traditionally the following problems: first, weakness in target-setting, achievement feedback and penalty & award; Secondly the achievement and creation drive element not connected; thirdly the stimulation system not closely related to the target commitment record; fourthly the business culture prefer more on reliability, security and technology than profit seeking culture. The old conservative thinking weakens the realization of profit and cost management; fifthly failure to form a reasonable and scientific target check system to discipline the sub departments and arouse their enthusiasm.To face off these problems, the thermal power plant company should strengthen their competitive capability to live with the changing environment. Only low cost and new product can win the competition and profit. In general, detailed cost management should low the cost far down than other competitors to achieve advantage in cost.To apply detailed target management system, a modern plan and control system must be established with whole duration, unit records, market surrounding and tight control as its characteristics. The whole process from production to finance must have plans; the plans should closely in tune with the market situation; there should be a target plan to guarantee the accuracy. All plans and its check system should be closely controlled.Key target element must be sorted out form the profit schedule and find the connection in between and establish target system, the system can be divided to production target, energy cost target, price target and fixed assets target including controllable and non-controllable.Detailed analysis should be made to the generation unit capacity record, according to the supply and demand curve to regulate the plant unit generation target curve line. The coal quality factor should also be considered, for those months, records go far from the target curve, reason should be pursued, and then measures should be followed.Energy cost including electricity cost, water cost and coal cost. All these costs are vital target to the changing factors in cost management.Coal consume control is to analyze the coal consume quantity data, then draw a curve line of the trend according to time and running capacity, such to find the factor concerning coal consume to control the supply of coal.The plan of electricity cost is to analyze the constitution of that cost, and make a data form of the cost composition, to forecast the cost under different running capacities, then we can get a power consume plan. All data should be reasonably collected and studied to find the factor influencing the cost to offer reference for cost control. To control the controllable fixed assets cost (repair cost; material cost; other cost), we should stick to the standard requirement of two main measures—cost management and reasonable arrangement of unit mechanical check.To guarantee the target control reach its programmed stage, a department must be set up for target plan and control. The plan and marketing department is the management team for daily check and arrangement of plan and control activities with corporations of other departments. A company standard should be set up for plan and control program. All targets should be decomposed, transferred and controlled to achieve profit control.