In-house Concepts in Wind Farm Operations

- Top Directors on how to Manage Profitability, Control and Risks - 14 Nov, Madrid

Please complete the preparations found at the lower end of this page.

The meeting is held from 9 am to 3 pm on the 14th of November at Enel's Madrid office. 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 encompass a range of possibilities, from excluding main components from the LTSA to completely internalising O&M. These concepts enable you to become more profitable and gain better control. Still, they also mean that you need to take on more risk. 

Owners who adopt this strategy immediately become more isolated and have a greater need for collaboration with other wind asset owners who share the same strategy.

The purpose is to learn from one another and to shape projects that address common needs. When we identify a common need, O2O WIND will draft a project, including the most suitable person/consultant to lead it, launch it, and follow up on the results.

Working in collaboration means it is cheaper, faster, and gives us more leverage.

The fourth year for our Top Directors' Forum

This is the fourth year of this ongoing initiative. The most recent one was held in November 2024, and compared to the previous one, we experienced a 70% growth. In November 2024, we gathered the top directors from Akuo Energy, Borusan, EDF Renouvelables, EDPR, Enefit Green, Enel Green Power, Enerjisa Üretim, Engie, Eurus Energy Holdings, Fortum, GA WIND, Iberdrola, Luminus, Nadara, Naturgy, RWE, Saeta Yield, TotalEnergies, Vattenfall and YPF.

We forgot to do the classical group photo in November 2024, so we reused the mighty one we did when Iberdrola hosted the Top Directors' meeting:

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

• Putting the MWs on the table 
• Creating a dynamic portfolio of all turbines owned by the wind asset owners. Each company can log in and see which matches they have within the group for all their turbine models, OEMs and technology platforms.
• KPIs for supervising a wind farm
• Enabling an exchange of components
• A portal to match WTG owners and ISPs
• A wind service portal

Each meeting is unique and provides top directors with a new opportunity to present current challenges that can be addressed with solid input from their 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 the bottom of this page. 

At Enel Green Power's Madrid office

José Alba is the initiator and a big fan of our top director's meetings and will host the next one at their Madrid office. The top director meeting will be on the 14th, and the Owner's Roundtable will be held on the 12th-13th of November. Enel's office is just a 300-meter walk from the Novotel Madrid Campo de las Naciones. The address for Enel's Madrid office is: C. de la Ribera del Loira, 60.

Picture from our Nordex Delta Owner's Meeting in 2024, also held at Enel's Madrid office.

Evening dinner - El Rincón de Jaén I

Held on the evening of the 13th of November

We will organise an evening dinner on the evening before the Top Directors' Forum, at 8 pm on November 13th. We will enjoy the best of Andalusia and informal chats about wind farm operations at El Rincón de Jaén I. Address and phone number: Calle de Don Ramón de la Cruz, 88, 28028 Madrid, +34 91 401 63 34. They are flexible at this restaurant and have agreed that each person will pay their own bill at the table. From experience, we will let the Spaniards order all the food, then divide the bill among us. Please let us know in the form below if you wish to join.

Schedule

Evening dinner on the 13th of November at 8 PM at El Rincón de Jaén I (see above)

14th of November

• 09:00 Meeting starts
• 12:00 Our turbine-specific hour
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Meeting ends

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's assistant. We say no to this. We want to ensure that decision-making power is present at the meeting. Once we open a top director's assistant forum, we'll let you know 😀.

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 goal of implementing 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. Perhaps you will impress the less experienced individuals in the room, but you will likely receive 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 or not. It simply creates more valuable discussions.

News for this meeting

At previous top directors' meetings, we have spent time going around the table, asking each participant to identify their top three turbine models they are currently focusing on in operations. This has then sparked valuable discussions among those with overlapping priorities. Learning from this, we will include a turbine-specific hour before lunch during which we will divide the group into smaller groups.