Balance of Plant (BOP) is all infrastructural facilities except for the main product producing facilities in a plant. A BOP is generally used in a power project to all supporting facilities and auxiliary systems of the power plant needed to deliver the electricity, other than the generating unit itself. In the power plant, a BOP includes transformers, inverters, supporting structures, and control and monitoring systems of the entire plant, but not the turbine, generator, and generator step-up transformer, and all its elements.
Related Definitions in the Project: The Project; Engineering; Plant and Process Unit
