Up-tower repairs average $5,000 to $6,000 for a generator bearing change out and $80,000 to $90,000 for an unpredicted failure that requires a crane.
Planning a profitable strategy for offshore O&M
Avoiding the crane cost by predicting the failure using CMS drops the per-event cost to $12,000 to $15,000. That is, a single event O&M cost avoidance or saving of $280,000. Offshore O&M, this number jumps significantly per event.
Condition monitoring: There is really only one right way
David Clark / President / CMS Wind Condition monitoring gets accolades outside the wind industry because of the value it brings to lowering O&M costs. Here’s why many in the wind industry come up short. Suppose you have recently realized the cost justification for condition monitoring. Influencing the decision is that other vertical markets already…
The alarming state of condition monitoring in the wind industry
David Clark / CEO / CMS Wind The core principles of condition monitoring are fairly straightforward: Measure an issue Label the issue Rank the severity of the issue Get information to those who can fix the issue Yet someone at most every wind-industry conference I attend makes the same negative comments about condition monitoring. Here…