Repowering - from the wind asset owner's perspective

22th of June 2021 - The real challenges facing wind asset owners wanting to repower their assets

So far we have received bookings from Akuo Energy, Borusan EnBW Energy JV, Brookfield, CEZ - Tomis Team, Dorper Wind Farm, Enel Green Power, Energia, Engie, Fortech bv, Inox wind, Luz de Mar, Meridian Energy, NATURGY RENOVABLES, Ørsted, PNE AG, Prowind, RWE Renewables, Skellefteå Kraft AB, Statkraft, Synergy, Trustwind, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, Vector Renewables, Voltalia, Wigton Windfarm Ltd and Wind Energy Holding.

Booked companies are based in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Norway, PORTUGAL, Romania, South Africa, SPAIN, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and the US.

Target group

This webinar has been produced for the wind asset owners who have decided to explore the opportunity of repowering one of their wind farms.  

Goal

We have not engaged a consultant who will give all the answers. Every repowering project is different. We are gathering the wind asset owners to include their questions, experiences and opinions. With this webinar, we want to look closer at the challenges involved and help you to create the repowering business case for your company. The idea is to first include experiences held among your peers and thereafter you will have much more qualified questions for the consultants that you will maybe include.

Introduction

We will introduce the webinar with two repowering projects presented from the owners perspective: 

• Richard Wasell, Operations Manager at Finnmark Kraft was managing their repowering project of Havøygavlen wind farm, the most northern wind farm in the world, for two years. Richard will share their experiences from doing so
• Hans-Christian Schulze, Country Manager at Eolus North America, Inc. will present their case where 400 turbines were replaced with 13 turbines and energy output went up by 400 % for the Wind Wall 1 wind farm in California. Compare the old ones in the lower right corner with the new ones in this picture. 

After a 2 x 15 min introduction we will include all wind asset owners in the discussion.

Your moderator

Kelly Dallas, Vice President Technical at Wind Energy Holding will moderate our webinar. Kelly has a long and global career in managing operations. He has worked for companies such as Energia Renewables, Bord Gais, Platina Partners, Wind Prospect Operations and BlackRock. He also has a long and prosperous career, moderating O2O WIND’s webinar and will also moderate our webinar on Repowering

Questions we wish to include:

• How to build the repowering business case?
• How should your business case include future trend of wind turbines to be shaped in terms of efficiency, power intensity?
• How should your business case include the future trend of the WTG CAPEX?
• Which authorities do you need to include?
• Who are the accredited companies to perform the special studies for repowering?
• Which various categories of suppliers do you need to include in your repowering and where to find these suppliers?
• Lifetime extension (common in Europe) vs. Repowering?
• Partial Repowering (common in the USA) vs Repowering?
• Types of foundation improvements in Repowering
• What is the optimum repowering time of an existing wind power plant?
• Do you want to keep the foundation and the tower – how does that impact your business case and which challenges does that create?

Country specific questions to be excluded 

The participants at our webinars normally come from 4-5 continents. Therefore we will not include country-specific questions such as requirements and regulation, funding structures, environmental measures, electricity market price development or national or local laws and jurisdictions.

22th of June 2020. Duration: 1,5 hour. Starts at: GMT -7: Calgary, Salt Lake City, Mexico City at 7 am; GMT - 6: Chicago, Houston at 8 am; GMT - 5 Toronto, New York, Miami at 9 am; GMT-4 - Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro at 10 am. GMT: London, Dublin, Lisbon at 1 pm; GMT +1: Copenhagen, Hamburg, Madrid at 2 pm; GMT+2 - Istanbul at 4 pm; GMT + 4,5: Mumbai 18:30; GMT +6 Bangkok at 8 pm

Please register below. Please note that only energy companies owning wind farms can participate.