2023 Maintenance Team of the Year (Small Organization)

The recipient of this year's Maintenance Team of the Year award for a small organization is Capital Power's York Energy Centre. Because their role in the Ontario power grid is to deliver power during peak demand periods, York Energy Centre requires extremely high reliability. The combination of their operating context (starting only when necessary to meet peak demand) and the technology being employed (gas turbine-driven generators which prefer steady-state operation) creates added challenges for the team.

Their most important KPI, "Starting Reliability" has improved from 95.8% in 2016 - 98.8% in 2022. The key tools that they credit for this improvements over 6 years include: 1) meaningful preventive and predictive maintenance programs that are completed on time, 2) commitment to continuous improvement through root cause analysis and, 3) a small but multi-skilled and flexible team which has been empowered to use and improve key systems such as planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, materials control, performance measures and information systems.