Michael Kotara, a speaker at the marcus evans Generation Summit 2012, on why power generation organizations must place a strong focus on reliability and safety. Interview with: Michael Kotara, Senior Vice President of Power Generation, CPS Energy

1. Ensuring
Reliability and Safety
in the Power Generation Sector
An asset management program that Power generation organizations must
addresses key maintenance issues and put a hi gh prior ity on the
manages assets on a lifecycle basis environment. At CPS Energy we
would allow generators to anticipate routinely do employee surveys to
failures and prevent them from understand employee engagement
occurring. and these have shown that our staff
feel strongly about safety and our
We must spend money wisely and environmental principles.
increase productivity. It is a balancing
act. Once you have the whole team If you put a high priority on it and
focused on the same goal, it can be make sure all employees are aware of
Interview with: Michael Kotara,
done. it, they will deliver consistent
Senior Vice President of Power
environmental compliance.
Generation, CPS Energy
What trends do you see playing out in
Power generation organizations will the future?
succeed in the long term if they work
to improve reliability and safety, says Safety for There has been a shift towards natural
Michael Kotara, Senior Vice President
of Power Generation, CPS Energy.
“An asset management program that
employees, the gas-fired generation. In Texas we are
already seeing new gas -fired
combined cycle projects being
addresses key maintenance issues and
manages assets on a lifecycle basis
general public proposed.
would allow generators to anticipate
failures and prevent them from and onsite In addition, we are seeing older
coal-fired generation be retired. Some
occurring,” he adds.
suppliers is of that capacity may be converted
to natural gas, but there is a lot
A speaker at the marcus evans
paramount.
of uncertainty around that. We do
Generation Summit 2012, in San not know how much of the old
Antonio, Texas, February 7-8, Kotara coal fleet will actually be retired
discusses why asset management versus retrofitted with new equipment
programs in power generation to make it compliant with new
companies can help them achieve regulations.
success in today’s business
environment. How can organizations manage Do you have any final comments?
environmental uncertainty?
How can power generation executives Safety for employees, the general
reduce costs while maintaining Environmental uncertainty has proven public and onsite suppliers is
efficiency? to be a challenge; we have had to paramount.
put off any significant new decisions
Natural gas prices are decreasing, until there is some clarity around As an industry we must continue to
shifting the concern of power upcoming environmental regulations. improve safety, regardless of how
efficiency to power reliability. The The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule good it might be now, as it directly
trick for keeping costs in control is in should provide some certainty, but affects people’s lives.
maintaining high reliability. more is needed.

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