In-house Concepts in Wind Farm Operations

- Top Directors on how to Manage Profitability, Control and Risks - 28-29 of May, Paris

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Engie hosts the meeting at the 35th floor in one of their skyscrapers, overlooking Paris. The meeting is held from lunch-to-lunch meeting on the 28-29 of May. We are gathering the top directors developing in-house concepts for their wind farm operations and how they could better manage profitability, control and risks in collaboration.

Purpose

In-house concepts include many possibilities, from excluding main components from the LTSA to completely internalising O&M. In-house concepts allow you to become more profitable and gain better control. Still, it also means that you need to carry more risk. 

Owners who have this strategy immediately become more alone and have more use for collaboration with other wind asset owners, having the same strategy.

The purpose is to learn from each other and to shape projects for common needs. When we find a common need, O2O WIND will draft a project, including the most appropriate person/consultant to lead it, launch it and follow up on the results.

Doing it in collaboration means that it is cheaper and faster and gives us more leverage.

The third meeting for this group

This is the third meeting in this ongoing initiative. The first was held at Enel's facilities in Rome, and the second at Iberdrola's Innovation Campus in Madrid:

At our top director meetings, we solve challenges in two ways: 1) directly at the meeting or 2) in more formalized collaborations developed over time. Within the last category, we have nine ongoing initiatives:

• Putting the MWs on the table (5 initiatives)
• KPIs for supervising a wind farm
• Enabling an exchange of components
• A portal to match WTG owners and ISPs
• A wind service portal

You can have a more detailed introduction of these, as per the listing from our meeting in Madrid. 

Each meeting is unique and gives a new opportunity for the top directors to present current challenges that could either be solved with some solid input from your top director peers, directly at the meeting. Your input can also be turned into a collaboration initiative developed among participants over time.

This input is shared in the form at this page's bottom. 

On the 35th floor in one of Engie's skyscrapers, overlooking Paris

Engie will host us at their Paris office: Pl. Samuel de Champlain, 92400 La défense, Paris. The meeting starts at 12 pm (CEST) on the 28th of May and ends at noon the next day.

Time schedule

 28th of May

• 12:00 Lunch served at the Engie office - Pl. Samuel de Champlain, 92400 La défense, Paris
• 13:00 Meeting starts
• 17:00 Meeting of day one ends
• 20:00 Evening dinner at... to be added shortly

• 09:00 The meeting starts at the Engie office. Samuel de Champlain, 92400 La défense, Paris
• 12:00 Meeting ends

Evening dinner - To be added shortly

To be added shortly .... Address and phone number: 

Accommodation

Fees and expenses
There is no fee for participating. Everyone covers their expenses for transportation, evening dinner and hotel. 
 
  

Form 1 - Participants

Please share the participants' contact information and food preferences below. You can submit this form now and form 2, with the challenges later. Members have asked me if they can send a top director assistant. We say no to this. We want to have the decision power present at the meeting. 

Form 2 - Our agenda
Our agenda is the most genuine agenda we could have. Every challenge on the agenda is based on real and current events experienced by an energy company operating wind turbines with the strategy to implement in-house concepts. Furthermore, all the people who have formulated these challenges will be found at our meeting: the top directors themselves. Avoid formulating grand and mighty challenges with the ambition to impress your peers. Maybe you will impress the less experienced people in the room, but you will have less input from the more experienced ones.

This is an invite-only event. We will not include participants through video links. Either you will be around the table at the Engie office or not. It simply creates more valuable discussions.