Abstract: A system for performance monitoring of power plants is provided. The system includes a plurality of power plants respectively owned and operated by a plurality of customers, a monitoring center, at least one of the customers and the monitoring center including a plurality of analytic algorithms configured to automate performance anomaly detection, alarming, analytics and prognosis and a secured network by which on-site monitoring (OSM) data generated at each of the plurality of the power plants is receivable by the monitoring center. The monitoring center is configured to analyze the OSM data along with site specific data for each respective power plant in accordance with the plurality of analytics algorithms to derive trends and to take action with respect to each respective power plant in accordance with changes and abnormalities indicated by the derived trends.

Abstract: A monitoring and diagnostic (M&D) center includes continuous monitoring systems (CMS) for one or more remote sites. Measurement data taken at the remote site(s) is used to generate and analyze output. An on-site validation tool performs diagnostics and prognostics with output generated over different periods of time with different algorithms to generate recommendations regarding hardware upgrades, design improvements, or modified maintenance schedule.