Maximizing Wind Farm Profits Through Operation & Maintenance Excellence
15 Feb 2024
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Optimizing wind operation and maintenance (O&M) costs remains a major challenge. 65% of O&M costs are unplanned, resulting in costly repairs, lost energy production, and logistical headaches. As wind farms mature, their components experience wear and tear, increasing the likelihood of breakdowns and the need for replacements. The wind industry is growing rapidly, but there is a lack of skilled technicians qualified to maintain complex wind turbines. Modern wind turbines generate vast amounts of data, but effectively collecting, analyzing, and using this data to optimize O&M is a challenge.
Despite these challenges, several trends are emerging to help reduce O&M costs and improve wind farm profitability.
- Industry data on failures is sparse. Identify key risks of failures on equipment and cost trends.
- Asset data acquisition. Best practices to capture metadata for your assets.
- How can data analytics be used to predict component failures before they occur, allowing for preventative maintenance and avoiding costly breakdowns?
- Review best practices on inspections. How does real-time maintenance data provide real-time advantages?
Our webinar host is Nikhil Kumar, Intertek Managing Director - Energy Consulting and Digital Solutions.
Intertek’s Engineering team has expertise across a wide range of wind operations and maintenance needs and challenges. We successfully help our customers reduce operation and maintenance costs through our insights into wind farm planned maintenance executions, areas of risk-of-failure and the use of advanced technologies. Our team’s history of successful wind generation project management is focused on asset data acquisition, predictive component failure approaches and wind engineering services.
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