O&M Strategy and objective for O2O WIND will be added shortly
Wind Asset Management Director
Akuo’s wind farms are still young, with the oldest ones barely exceeding the 10 year milestone. Also, as part of our project financing strategy, a full scope O&M contract is typically required by the lenders and/or the shareholders to keep a reasonable risk profile. As such, most of our turbines are maintained by the OEM under the initial O&M contract. Despite that, one of our long-term objectives is to be able to select and implement the optimal O&M strategy once these initial constraints are lifted. We have therefore taken over the maintenance of three wind farms in France where we work hand in hand with ISPs to provide the best possible service to our turbines, in order to gain knowledge and experience in this specific area and become less dependent on the OEMs.
Sharing is one of Akuo’s core values. It was therefore natural to join the O2O Wind platform to connect with other owners around the globe facing similar issues as we do. We believe that these exchanges will help us all improve the way we work and optimize our assets.
O&M Strategy and objective for O2O WIND will be added shortly
O&M Manager
We try to keep know-how in house and in the same time to have a good relation with turbine manufacturer for improvement of efficiency and performance of the turbines. We are in the process of defining a long term O&M Strategy. We started to communicate more often with parts manufacturers to have a different opinion on root cause analysis.
The O&M strategy of CGN Europe Energy is to continuously increase the value generated by our assets by developing expertise in
condition monitoring and underperformance detection, while ensuring that our assets are managed to the highest environmental and safety standards.
Robb Lynch
Operations Manager at Community Windpower
Our O&M Strategy
As an established onshore owner-operator of several wind farms, we seek to maintain the longevity of our assets whilst controlling our cost base and establish firm proactive service and maintenance strategies from our OEM's to maximize availability. We endeavour as an organization to develop new and inventive solutions and strategies to the challenges the industry faces and are comfortable to experiment with new technologies as they arise and build solid partnerships with our service suppliers.
Our objective for o2owind International
Director
Long term strategy suggests having a secured level of steady energy production over the long-term full service agreement based on mutually-benefited relationship with Vestas. Mid-term O&M strategy aims to develop internal expertise in scheduled maintenance and out of scope additional services i) to decrease maintenance costs at the group of companies level; ii) to assure an internal baseline maintenance of the wind farm fleet in case of force-major events affecting the full service agreement occur.
As for now we have decided that we will pick up the habit of sending invoices as soon as they have defeated Putin
Current challenges that I want to solve
Presently my main challenges is extend the scope of predictive analysis in Wind industry at same level as developed in other technologies, i.e. not only aimed to prevent failures, but mainly to reduce maintenance activities of turbines by increasing life of single components.
Our ambition for O2O
Brian mullen
Operations manager
O&M Strategy
Energia’s main goal is to maintain a high level of availability from our assets which in turns increases the overall energy yield. This involves a close relationship with the various OEM’s to ensure a preventative approach to service and troubleshooting is achieved rather than a corrective approach which in turn leads to greater turbine downtime and subsequently a higher level of faults.
Our ambition for O2O
Head of Wind and Solar Operations and Maintenance Manager
Enerjisa Üretim is one of the leading Energy Generation Corporate in Turkey operating a diversified portfolio. Due to the increasing installed capacity with the latest mega project of 1 GW package get on board, it became a breakeven level for us to convert our operations more in house basis. Depending on the several conditions of our different portfolio, we are applying different O&M Strategies varied from full OEM coverage to the mixed responsibilities. It is a transient period for us to convert our models into more agile structure and grasp the assets we own with a more focused approach.
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Manager Operation & Maintenance Statoil ASA
Statoil see the need to mature the service delivery within O&M. Our experience with wind started in 2001 and we have identified substantial improvement opportunities. Given the current market conditions we see value creation potential in taking control of the O&M activity at site and have a team of own technicians that work closely with the OEM in the warranty period. This gives us real strategic options when it comes to possible renewal of the O&M contracts and it will enable optimal value creation for our owners in a lifetime perspective.
Egon Leonhardsen
CEO
O&M strategy
With the sun gone from mid-November to mid-February, -25 Celsius and with speeds often greater than 50 m/s we have adapted a steep learning curve. From the outside our 15 Nordex N80 at Havøygavlen looks the same but the technology inside has been radically altered. In 2004 our availability was at 72% but now we are above 95%.
Ambitions with O2O WIND
Sharing with knowledgeable friend in the industry is a rarity for us above the polar circle but we hope that will change with O2O WIND. With finance just being secured for our latest investment I know that the next months will be busy. Although I do believe that we have a lot of extreme experiences and interesting solutions to share and I have also discovered that many of our toughest issues are very similar to the issues fought by owners in more normal conditions.
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Head of Asset Management, Wind & Solar at Fortum
Fortum is an European energy company providing our customers with electricity, gas, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency.
Together with our subsidiary Uniper, we are the third largest producer of CO2-free electricity in Europe. At the core of our strategy we have the objective to grow a sizeable portfolio of renewables.
Our O&M strategy aims to leverage our +100 years of experience from electricity generation with the agility needed in order to be a market leader in the transforming landscape of wind, by doing so we hope to extract the most value from the assets over its lifetime
"At Genneia we develop, build, market and operate high-efficiency systems with reduced environmental impact to generate the reliable and sustainable energy that the world needs to keep moving.
With several assets distributed throughout the country, Genneia is the leader in renewable generation in Argentina.
Our focus and effort is to guarantee the useful life and availability of assets. For this we use practical and agile solutions, in addition to an exhaustive monitoring and control of the facilities and service providers"
"We would like to engage with other windfarm owners and operators to share successes and concerns surrounding our assets"
Gul Ahmed Energy Group is one of Pakistan’s leading power generation groups. Established in 1994 by (Late) Mr. Iqbal Alimohamed, the Group initiated operations with a thermal power plant located in Korangi Industrial Area, Karachi. Since then, we have expanded our project portfolio to Wind, Solar & Power Solutions, with a power generation capacity of 236 Megawatts (MW) in total.
Manager Wind
EDF Luminus aims at increasing the performance, efficiency and availability of its wind assets through a close cooperation with the wind turbine manufacturers, the newly created EDF subsidiary EDF Energies Nouvelles Services Belgium on behalf of the daily O&M and our industrial clients for assuring further sustainable expansion of the portfolio. EDF Luminus tends at exploring possible advantages offered by new technologies and will continually evaluate to what extend energy yield can be optimized within the englobing permitting framework.
We decided to join because we want to give it a shot. We expect to enter a forum where we can discuss and share on major breakdowns, root cause analyses and turbine types. We want to optimize and further perfect our O&M performance by sharing best practices so we can eventually move to condition based maintenance. That would be the end goal.
O&M Wind Farm Manager Gas Natural Fenosa Renovables
The platform is a discussion forum, promoting networking and sharing experience among the wind turbine/farms community. The format encourages open debate and is a proven way to discuss and solve common problems and specific wind turbine issues, identify potential solutions and learn about new developments or retrofits. If you’re involved in the asset management, operation and maintenance of wind turbine generators this is your opportunity to exchange ideas and improve the performance in a constructive and supportive environment.
Head of Technical Asset Management, RWE Innogy
RWE Innogy is an active Owner that seeks to make informed decisions and apply best practices in the management of our assets: we make every effort to understand the technical condition of the plant and optimise the maintenance service and operational setup. We aim to maximise the value generated by the assets, whilst maintaining the highest standards of safety, and strive for continual improvement through sharing of lessons learned across the fleet.
Busines Unit Manager Wind
Our reasons for joining are that we want to have the opportunity to share operational and maintenance experience with other wind farm owners, specific problems and possible solutions for these problems, both to get a better basis for evaluations of turbines and turbine suppliers for procurement.
Head of Operations
Our strategy as a new turbine operator, in a market where we see huge technical risks, has been to sign up for long term service agreements with Energy Based Availability where OEMs take on risk. This has given us a low foreseeable costs and right focus on the production. Our top priority is of course HSE, but we focus on managing our agreements, analyzing operational and performance data to push KPIs in right direction. This helps us bringing down LCoE and lost production.
O&M Strategy
As good industry practice dictates, Wigton, at all times, adheres to the preventative maintenance schedules recommended by the original turbine manufacturers. Our intent is to optimize life cycle costs and energy yield by maintaining a high level of availability whilst, at the same time, continuing to impact positively on Jamaica’s economy and environment by providing energy from a cleaner and more affordable alternative to imported fossil fuels.
Our ambition for O2O
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