It seems that 2015 will define a turning point in the wind-energy market. Stakeholders at least are defining a new scenario regarding the next challenge to reducing the levelized cost of energy or LCOE. This April, in Dallas, some of those stakeholders met to share their experiences and vision. There was a clear convergence on…
Subsystem monitoring can control wind turbine availability
For wind farm operators, monitoring a wind turbine’s (WT) individual energy production is the basis of any business control strategy. As the basis, this is only the tip of the iceberg because it is affected by multiple factors and some of them impossible to change, such as environmental conditions or location. The colored traces below…
Predicting maintenance problems from SCADA data and expert systems
Nagore Guarretxena, Health Monitoring Engineer, NEM Solutions, www.nemsolutions.com The case study presented here demonstrates how SCADA data and expert technology makes it possible to detect wind-turbine failure symptoms that make it possible to optimize the dynamic scheduling for wind turbine operation and maintenance. …
A podcast: Predictive turbine maintenance from SCADA data
Spain based, predictive-maintenance company NEM Solutions, says its technology can glean a lot of good maintenance information from the mountains of SCADA data produced by each wind turbine. The company began by monitoring similar information from railroad equipment and recognized the application to wind turbines. In this WindTalk podcast, we interview Gorka Parada and Nagore…