Unscheduled power plant outages are very costly and waste energy because that electrical energy must then be transmitted over longer distances from other plants to the locality whose power station is out-of-service. Better trained plant operators as well as better designed plant control and safety systems are germaine in this day and age when our world's emphasis is on conservation of natural resources.

This paper presents a Performance Measurement System that can be utilized for optimizing operator training efforts along with collecting man-machine operational research data on a training simulator. This system was developed for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and further work on this project is continuing. This paper presents a basic introduction to the system, methodology incorporated in its design, data and results obtained, as well as future plans for the coming three-year term.