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EDP Renewables adds GE’s Wind PowerUp technology to increase output for GE Wind Fleet

By Nic Sharpley | February 5, 2014

EDP Renewables (EDPR) will use GE’s Wind PowerUp, a GE Predictivity solution, to increase the power output of 402 GE 1.5-77 wind turbines located at five U.S. wind farms. PowerUp is a customized software-enabled platform that increases a wind farm’s output.

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402 GE wind turbines at five EDPR wind farms in Oklahoma, Indiana and Illinois to receive the PowerUp technology,

By using PowerUp, EDPR is expected to increase power, generating more than 420,000 megawatt hours of additional energy each year, which would provide the equivalent power used by 33,000 average U.S. homes. The contract model between GE and EDPR is structured to minimize risk while letting new technologies to be quickly added to the EDPR fleet as they are developed in the coming years.

The wind farms that will be installing PowerUp are Blue Canyon V wind farm in Oklahoma, the Meadow Lake III wind farm in Indiana and the Top Crop I, Top Crop II and Railsplitter wind farms in Illinois. When PowerUp is activated, a GE software program performs a complete before and after wind farm power performance analysis, validating the performance improvement. By adjusting performance dials, including speed, torque, pitch, aerodynamics and turbine controls, PowerUp is able to improve the power output of each unit and the overall wind farm.

PowerUp is part of GE’s brilliant wind platform, which harnesses the power of the Industrial Internet to analyze tens of thousands of data points on a wind farm every second, driving higher power output and creating new revenue streams for customers. It is an ecomagination qualified product.

EDP Renewables
www.edpr.com

GE Power & Water
www.ge.com


Filed Under: News, Software, Turbines
Tagged With: edprenewables, GE
 

Comments

  1. Aditya Gupta says

    February 5, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    I am completly satisfied withGE’s Wind PowerUp technology to increase output energy. It might help in the further development of INDIA. GE’s inventions are outstanding. I wish if I could be a part of GE. Proud to be an INDIAN.

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