Universal performance monitor for power generators

A system, comprising:

• a communications network;
• a plurality of remotely located data sources to provide power data, the power data including quantitative and qualitative data of one or more power generation units,
• wherein the quantitative data and qualitative data comprises (1) market data, (2) operational data, (3) alarms, and (4) tracking of monitored recorded events based on numerical thresholds including specific megawatt levels, and alerts when a number of megawatts produced at the one or more power generation units reaches the specific megawatt levels, wherein each of the specific megawatt levels reached requires a unique action or log entry to be recorded;
• and
• a performance monitor in communication with the plurality of remotely located data sources through the communications network, the performance monitor including
• a communications unit to extract the power data from the plurality of remotely located data sources,
• a data conversion unit to transform the power data into a common data format,
• a data store to store the transformed power data, and
• a user interface unit to display the transformed power data on one or more client devices through the communications network.