Power generation planning support apparatus and power generation planning support method

A power generation planning support and control method, comprising:

• acquiring, by circuitry, a physical quantity that represents a startup condition of a turbine;
• reading, using the circuitry, first information that represents a relationship between a startup schedule of the turbine and the physical quantity;
• predicting, by the circuitry, the startup schedule that corresponds to the acquired physical quantity, by extracting the startup schedule, based on the acquired physical quantity and the read first information;
• outputting, using the circuitry, the predicted startup schedule;
• calculating, by the circuitry, a startup schedule based on a plurality of previously stored parameters, each of the plurality of previously stored parameters corresponding to a different one of a plurality of times of events during a startup of the turbine, with a plurality of parameters that are adjusted by adjusting the plurality of previously stored parameters separately and in a predetermined order based on an order of the plurality of times when an error between the output startup schedule and an actual machine startup schedule is larger than a threshold, and updating the plurality of previously stored parameters to the adjusted parameters and updating the stored startup schedule to the calculated startup schedule to enhance an accuracy of the predicted startup schedule when an error between the calculated startup schedule and the actual machine startup schedule is smaller than the threshold;
• and
• initiating startup of the turbine in accordance with the output startup schedule.