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Blog post: 07/10/2025 3:27 pm

Author: Spark Team

VR SOP Training for Thermal & CCGT Power Stations

Standardise start-ups, isolate hazards, and improve outage performance with custom VR

Thermal and combined-cycle plants face high-energy hazards, complex start-ups, and outage pressure. Spark builds bespoke VR SOP training that mirrors your boilers/HRSGs, turbines, condensers, switchyards, and control philosophies—so teams can rehearse critical sequences, isolations, and emergency actions without risking people or equipment.

Power-station pain points

• Start-up/shut-down: thermal stress management, purge sequences, interlocks, and permissives.
• High-voltage safety: switching, earthing, LOTO, live-work exclusions, clearances.
• Outages & SIMOPS: contractor coordination, confined spaces, hot works, scaffold interfaces.
• Abnormal conditions: boiler trips, condenser vacuum loss, excitation faults, black start.
• Documentation: logs, permits, isolations, test records, and audit evidence.

How we build your VR twin

1. SOP & control-philosophy capture: PFDs, cause-and-effect, alarm sets, switching schedules.
2. Scenario design: cold/warm/hot starts, HV switching, condenser clean, emergency drills.
3. AI avatar coaching: enforces permissives, hold-points, and human-performance tools.
4. Assessment: right-first-time steps, critical control adherence, time-to-safe-state.
5. Integration: LMS links, multilingual packs, role-based modules (ops/maintenance/HSSE).

Measured benefits

• Fewer start-up deviations and HV switching errors.
• Safer, faster outage execution with consistent contractor onboarding.
• Improved regulatory and insurer confidence with verifiable competence.
• Higher availability through disciplined, practised procedures.

Why Spark

We recreate your plant and procedures—not generic content—so operators and technicians embed the right behaviours under pressure.

Discuss a bespoke VR SOP programme for your station. Contact Spark.

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