Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe

Siemens signs first balance-of-plant wind service agreement in U.S.

By Michelle Froese | May 24, 2016

Siemens wind service technicians performing service and maintenance on a SWT-2.3 megawatt turbine.

Here Siemens wind service technicians perform service and maintenance on a SWT-2.3 MW turbine.

Siemens has signed a long-term contract extension for service and maintenance at the 152-MW Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma that will add balance of plant (BoP) to the scope and extend it for another 15 years. This marks the first long-term BoP wind service agreement in the U.S. for Siemens.

The customer is CPV Keenan II Renewable Energy Company (CPV Keenan II), headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Siemens will provide an additional 15 years of service and maintenance for the 66 SWT-2.3-101 turbines installed at the Keenan II wind farm, located near Woodward, OK.

The new agreements add BoP to the scope with Siemens performing or coordinating the performance by others of certain service and maintenance activities throughout the wind plant, including the collector system, substation, transformers, transmission lines, switchgear, equipment, machinery, fiber optic cables for the supervisory control and data-acquisition (SCADA) system, control systems, communication systems, foundations, towers, and access roads.

“As the wind energy industry in the U.S. continues to mature, more and more of our customers are looking to Siemens for a fully integrated lifecycle approach to support their long-term operational goals and to help reduce costs,” said Mark Albenze, CEO of Siemens Power Generation Services, Wind Power and Renewables business unit. “This balance of plant agreement at Keenan II supports our goal to provide added value to customers such as CPV Keenan II through integrating our service offerings across the entire plant and tailoring them to meet their specific operational needs. As the original equipment manufacturer for select transmission and substation equipment, Siemens is in the unique position of being able to extend our service offerings beyond the wind turbines.”

“We are very pleased with this arrangement. The expansion of Siemens’ scope in a long term contract will ensure the Keenan II wind farm continues to provide reliable low cost wind energy to Oklahomans for years to come,” added Dave Magill, SVP of Asset Management at CPV.

The service and maintenance will be supported by Siemens Digital Services, including advanced remote monitoring and diagnostics services. Select data-driven services will utilize Sinalytics, the platform architecture and technology foundation for Siemens Digital Services, as well as tailored industry-specific applications.

Siemens Digital Services for Energy incorporate advanced analytics based on market, operational and contextual know-how, for a service and maintenance approach tailored specifically to an individual customer’s operating needs. This allows for a comprehensive plant-level asset optimization scenario enabling both predictive and prescriptive services.

The Keenan II wind farm went into commercial operation in December 2010. Keenan II generates enough electricity to power approximately 45,000 average Oklahoma homes and avoid approximately 413,000 tons a year in greenhouse gas emissions-the equivalent of taking nearly 72,000 cars off the road. The project has a 20-year power purchase agreement with Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company. Siemens has been providing service and maintenance on the 66 SWT-2.3 wind turbines at the project since it began operations in 2010.

In 2012, Siemens opened a 64,000-square-foot wind service distribution center in nearby Woodward, OK, citing the area’s proximity to wind projects throughout the wind belt. Siemens currently provides service and maintenance for more than 4,000 installed wind turbines in the Americas region and more than 10,000 globally, with a combined generating capacity of approximately 24 GW.

Siemens
www.siemens.com


Filed Under: News, Projects
Tagged With: siemens
 

About The Author

Michelle Froese

Related Articles Read More >

Richardson Electronics to deliver pitch energy modules to TransAlta wind fleets
Equinor halts work on Empire Wind offshore project after federal government order
ARESCA wants input on offshore wind standards
US wind market has worst install year since 2013

Podcasts

Wind Spotlight: Looking back at a year of Thrive with ZF Wind Power
See More >

Windpower Engineering & Development Digital Edition

Digital Edition

Browse the most current issue of Windpower Engineering & Development and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading wind power engineering magazine today.

Windpower Engineering & Development
  • Wind Articles
  • Solar Power World
  • Subscribe to Windpower Engineering
  • About Us/Contact Us

Copyright © 2025 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising

Search Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe