Thermal Power Generation
Enhancing Performance for Electric-Power Generators
NDB Holding Group helps electric-power generators enhance revenue, reduce costs, and transform fleet performance. By taking a holistic approach, we enable clients to respond effectively to pressures from lower gas prices, constrained demand, tighter environmental controls, and the transition to renewable energy.
Driving Operational Excellence
Operational excellence is critical as margin pressures intensify. Our comprehensive approach helps clients simultaneously improve plant performance, strengthen central procurement, and optimize capital portfolios, ensuring sustainable gains across the organization.
Maximizing Value Across the Plant
To achieve maximum impact, we address all value levers at the plant level—including revenue, commercial optimization, fixed costs, and variable costs such as fuel. Capability building is embedded in project design so clients increasingly rely on their own teams as programs scale, with NDB Holding Group gradually reducing support from one wave to the next.
What We Do
Driving Frontline Performance in Power Generation
NDB Holding Group partners with many of the world’s largest power-generation fleets to achieve lasting improvements in frontline operations. We help clients develop capabilities that build a strong foundation for performance excellence, supported by our global network of specialists with deep expertise and hands-on experience in power generation, lean operations, and energy efficiency.
Frontline Plant Operations
Our field-tested process, complemented by learning modules, IT tools, and lean techniques, helps clients identify improvement opportunities, generate and evaluate ideas, set priorities, and track results. Each program is tailored to the relevant generation technology—fossil, hydro, or nuclear—targeting heat rates, individual productivity, and outage times.
Portfolio and Operational Risk Management
Using a systematic approach to evaluating risks and returns, we enable clients to make better decisions on sourcing mix, wholesale/retail balance, long-term versus short-term sales, and hedging programs. We help align commercial and operating incentives to capture opportunities and drive sustained impact.
Performance Transformation
Our pragmatic focus on value creation allows clients to capture operational gains quickly, adjust performance in real time, and track progress effectively. To ensure continuous improvement, we emphasize both long-term shifts in mindsets and behaviors and immediate performance gains.
Examples of our work
Growing a Country’s Electric Power Capacity
Identifying Personnel Trends
Improving Heat Rate
FEATURED CAPABILITIES
Innovative Tools and Methods for Power Generation
NDB Holding Group continually invests in developing advanced tools and methodologies to enhance client outcomes, including:
Power Gauge: Our global benchmarking tool leverages data from 600 thermal-power stations to generate insights into operational best practices and improvement opportunities.
Wind O&M Benchmarking: This specialized operations and maintenance tool provides technical and economic assessments of over 440 wind parks and 10,000 wind-turbine generators.
Commercial Optimization Tool Kit: Our proprietary dispatch-optimization model helps generators maximize revenue across a variety of wholesale-market conditions.
TETRIS: Using our proprietary PowerIQ platform, TETRIS identifies optimal spend profiles and regulatory constructs to maximize value for utilities and their customers.
