Clear Shift in Focus for Onshore Wind Energy
With the current uncertainty of the PTC and many wind-farms aging, the wind industry is shifting its focus from putting new towers in the ground to maintaining existing fleets through structured management programs.
Many Wind Farm sites that emerged in the late 2000s are now coming out of warranty, placing the onus on operators to pay more attention to performance, rather than relying on manufacturers to fix problems.
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The general consensus is that maintenance costs are too high, and the main concern lies with the lack of proactive maintenance programs. The companies that will be at the forefront of the industry in 2014 are those that can implement structures that focus on reliability, risk and KPI's.
Greater emphasis on O&M should be good news for service providers, those companies offering condition-monitoring, retrofits and data analysis. IHS Emerging Energy Research sees the service market doubling in size by 2025, from $3 billion now, to $6 billion.
At Wind Energy Update's Operations & Maintenance Summit [Dallas, TX, 15-16 April] North America's Wind Industry will gather to discuss these critical challenges and ponder on the latest developments for achieving further cost reduction through more streamlined O&M programs.
Topics at the top of the agenda are the reduction of costs in operational maintenance, optimizing production, main component strategy, technologies to reduce failures, retrofitting and asset life extension, data gathering and analysis and strategic solutions for post warranty management.
Already operators from NextEra, Iberdrola, EDPR, E.ON, EDF, Pattern, Noble Power, AES, Infigen, Duke Energy are supporting the event plus Broadwind, Romax, Gamesa, IBM headling have confirmed as sponsors.
For more information visit the website http://goo.gl/wE67EY
or contact
Elizabeth Demestiha
Project Director | Wind Energy Update
elizabeth@windenergyupdate.com
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