German-based wind-farm operator, BayWa r.e., has chosen Breeze software system for wind-farm management. This marks Breeze’s largest installation of a German wind portfolio to date. “We have done a thorough evaluation of a number of wind-farm management systems and found Breeze to be the most capable system according to our needs. The people from Breeze…
EDF Renewable Services wins remote-monitoring contract with ALLETE Clean Energy
EDF Renewable Services (EDF RS), a provider of renewable O&M services in North America, has entered into a contract with ALLETE Clean Energy (ACE), to provide 24/7/365 remote-monitoring and turbine resets for five of its wind projects located in Oregon, Iowa, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. The projects include: Condon (49.8 MW) in Oregon, Storm Lake I (108…
Vaisala tackles transformer downtime with unique monitoring device
Vaisala, a global provider of environmental and industrial measurements, offers a unique in-oil condition-monitoring probe that provides critical early warning information to track transformer faults. The new Moisture, Hydrogen, and Temperature Transmitter -MHT410 device is designed to help power and energy utilities minimize transformer-related downtime. Vaisala has already shipped the first customer orders. High-voltage transformers are…
Moxa’s MXview ToGo App provides real-time industrial network monitoring
Managing and monitoring industrial networks just got easier with Moxa’s new MXview ToGo mobile app. Often project managers and administrators are busy and on the move, making it difficult for them to stay informed of changes in the status of devices and networks or to troubleshoot situations that could impact network availability. Now, with MXview ToGo,…
Bachmann Monitoring holding a one-day Nov 11 workshop: “Profi[t] with Wind”
On November 11, 2015, the wind turbine experts from Bachmann Monitoring will be holding the one-day workshop series “Profi[t] with Wind” for the eighth time. This year this established event will take place for the first time as part of the 24th Wind Energy Days conference in the “Van der Valk Resort” in Linstow. With…
SeaRoc awarded O&M contract on the Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm
SeaRoc Group’s marine management and monitoring tool, has been selected by E.ON to help manage the operations and maintenance phase of the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm through its software system. The SeaPlanner software has been used on the project since April 2013, providing personnel and operations management during the construction phase. This first-hand experience of…
Binsfeld Engineering’s new TorqueTrak TPM2 features digital output signal
Binsfeld Engineering has released the new TorqueTrak TPM2 torque and power-monitoring system for applications including wind turbine machinery. The TPM2 model features a digital RS422 full duplex, serial interface, with user-selectable sample rates ranging from 10 to 4800 samples/second. Signal resolution is 15 bits for eight input ranges from 0 to 32mV/V down to 0…
Vestas honored for using big data to optimize wind-turbine performance
By using big data Vestas is able to foresee when turbine components are malfunctioning and need maintenance − before they actually do. This was one of the reasons Vestas won Deloitte’s Big Data Award last week at Deloitte’s Information Management Conference, IM2015, in Copenhagen. Vestas uses smart data to optimize maintenance of wind farms all over…
Schaeffler to exhibit condition monitoring and main shaft bearing solutions at WINDPOWER 2015
Schaeffler will showcase a broad array of product and service solutions for wind turbine applications at the 2015 American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WINDPOWER Conference and Exhibition held May 18-21 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The WINDPOWER annual conference and exhibition is the premier trade show in the U.S. for wind…
Remote-monitoring M2M solution enhances control and notification in industrial environments
Industrial automation and networking company, Red Lion Controls, has added a new application feature to its Sixnet series RAM industrial cellular RTUs. The series now features a web-based, user-configurable event engine that can trigger I/O and relays or send SMS text messages based on real-time operational data. With connectivity options such as I/O, serial, Ethernet…
Moventas’ new zero-down condition monitoring lease program offers reductions in O&M costs
Moventas North America is proud to introduce an innovative financial solution with their Condition Monitoring Lease Program that converts the upfront installation costs for condition monitoring into an affordable monthly payment for wind farm owners. Additionally, this financial innovation translates condition monitoring from a hardware only business to a complete life-cycle service. Developed by Moventas,…
Red Lion FlexCard modules enable single-display monitoring of multiple applications
Red Lion Controls, global experts in communication, monitoring, and control for industrial automation and networking, announced the integration of FlexBus technology to its PAX2C proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller portfolio. By inserting field installable FlexCard modules, users can now populate PAX2C PID controllers in more than 150 configurations to monitor and control multiple application processes on a…
Vibration monitoring goes wireless
Wind-farm operators are looking for the best ways to prevent failures while maintaining turbines. One way is to help O&M teams detect problems as soon as possible and avoid possible disasters. Vibration, one of the best indicators of potential problems, is often monitored in the nacelle. Vibration monitoring gives O&M companies and technicians a predictive…
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Flexible monitoring electronics means being able to be adapt to any kind of safety sensor system. This is what the “eloFlex” system from elobau has been designed for: flexibility of parameter selection for logic control of sensor inputs and relay outputs.