METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE COMPUTER-AIDED OPEN-LOOP AND/OR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF AN ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM, AND COMBINED POWER PLANT

A method is provided for the computer-aided open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the operation of an energy generation system. The method may include: creating a simulation model of the energy generation system; providing an efficiency calculation module that is designed to calculate the expected thermal and electrical efficiency of the energy generation system based on the created simulation model and using predefined operating parameters; applying a learning and/or optimization method to the provided efficiency calculation module using previously obtained known operating data of the energy generation system and/or based on simulation data obtained by the simulation model such that the operation of the energy generation system is optimized in terms of at least one thermal and/or electrical operating parameter in line with a target specification; creating a control strategy for the energy generation system on the basis of the trained efficiency calculation module; and operating the energy generation system using the created control strategy.