Optimizing Wind Power Performance

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Optimizing Wind
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Vice President, Operations, Chief Operating Officer,
Wind Capital Group Upwind Solutions
862.1 MW installed Bruce Hamilton, Director, Energy, Hear from Acciona Energy, the leading
Navigant Consulting
José Peñarrubia,
Director of Construction,
international wind power developer and
Steve Spethmann,
Acciona Energy Supply Chain Director, operator with 5514 MW installed globally?
5,514 MW installed globally Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation
Dr Karl-Heinz Mertins, Diarmaid Mulholland, General See the additional measures you will have to
Director Technology Operations, Manager, Global Wind Services,
Exelon Wind GE Energy
put in place to comply with the OHSA
735 MW installed John Vanden Bosche, guidelines to ensure worker health and safety?
Dan Juhl, Principal Engineer,
Chief Executive Officer, Chinook Wind Reduce the negative impact of poor design
Juhl Wind Courtney Faller,
117 MW installed Director of Operations,
by understanding the effect of early-stage
Jean Lemaire, TI-data construction upon long term operations?
Chief Operating Officer, Rich Norton, Manager, Asset
Akuo Energy Chairman, Management Procurement, Close the gap between breakdown and
e-begreen SC Electric Company
244.1 MW installed Doug Taylor,
repair to drastically reduce downtime and
John Yost, Business Development – lost revenue?
Vice President, Operations, Renewable Energy,
OSIsoft, LLC
E.ON Climate Renewables
North America
Develop a strategy that enforces a pre-
Eric Endreszl,
3870 MW installed Head of Training and Manager of emptive approach to maintenance through
Todd Karasek, Operations,
USCA
effective training?
VP of Environmental Health,
Safety Security, Jennifer States,
Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation Program Manager, Wind and Water
Turn a plethora of data into knowledge that
Kevin Borgia, Executive Director, Power Technologies, can be used to aid decision-making?
Illinois Wind Energy Association Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Sue Ellen Haupt, Scientific
Program Manager, Weather Todd Daniels,
Director of Operations,
Systems Assessment Program,
National Center for Atmospheric Sexton Companies Pre-Conference Workshop
Research Scott Hendricks, Project
Manager, Sexton Companies The Key Factors for
Clint Ramberg,
Director of Wind Access, Wind Project Success
Spider
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Hear from companies with more than 11.342 GW online • The Illinois Wind Association Others debate the additional
measures you will have to put in place to comply with Occupational
Safety Health Administration guidelines
• Exelon Wind explain how to deal with warranty expiration across a
diverse fleet of wind turbines • The National Center for Atmospheric Research provide an essential
update on the effect of meteorological variability on grid integration
• Acciona Akuo Energy/e-begreen discuss how you can reduce the
• 25+ Expert speakers discuss the latest thinking on the warranty exit
impact of poor decisions at the design phase by connecting
process, pre-emptive wind farm maintenance, wind park data
development and operations teams
management, condition monitoring, preventative maintenance,
• E.On Climate and Renewables explain what you need to do to SCADA, reducing wind farm capital costs and improving the
develop an OM strategy for the long-run performance and reliability of wind turbines and much much more

Who will you meet? Enhance your event experience with
You will meet the very people driving the
our fantastic training course:
OM technical and service providers
industry forward such as: Chief Operating
Utilities
Officers, Chief Technical Officers, Chief
Engineers, Chief Executive Officers and Transmission system operators,
Vice Presidents of Asset Management, planners, and reliability authorities
representing:
As well as:
Wind farm owners/operators
Energy analysts, environmental and Pre-Conference:
The Key Factors for
Wind project developers engineering consultants and industry
press
Wind power integrators and installers
Wind technology developers and
manufacturers – wind turbine
Wind power technology research and
development companies Wind Project Success
manufacturers, OEMs, wind Original equipment manufacturers 26 September 2011
component manufacturers
Uncover the key factors that contribute to project
success. Accessible to those with limited technical
THE LEADING WIND POWER GLOBAL SERIES: knowledge, new to or seeking to widen their view
of the sector, this course provides a comprehensive
Green Power Conferences' Wind Power Global Series and commercially-focused overview of the wind
provide excellent platforms to do business with the GLOBAL WIND
SERIES power business.
leading wind power industry leaders and attract major
utilities, developers and investors, who attend to gain
strategic intelligence, exchange ideas and do business. In particular the course discusses:
• The various economic and cash flow parameters,
including levelized cost
GLOBAL REACH:
• The critical location and wind farm planning
Leaders: 115+ leading utilities, developers and wind farm owners have factors, including scale and layout
given case studies
• Criteria for the selection of technologies,
Productive: Over 2050 high-level executives have attended our wind including turbine trends, operating ranges and
events with over 55% Board-level/Director level
structural limits
Geography: Participants from over 45 countries have attended our wind
power series to date • Field data from wind farm operations, and the
implications for OM within lifecycle costs: what
can go wrong, what does and how often?
2050+ attendees from companies across the entire • The interface with the grid, including problems
of curtailment
wind power value chain including:
Utilities: Investors:
• Recommended routes to mitigate ongoing
RWE • Vattenfall • E.ON Climate Morgan Stanley • Citigroup • Goldman Sachs • operations and maintenance challenges
Renewables • Dong Energy • Scottish RBS • BNP Paribas • Fortis • RBC Capital • Optimizing wind power performance in a post-
Power Renewables • Centrica • SSE • EDP Markets • Santander • Dexia • Rabobank •
Renovaveis • Eneco • Statkraft • Statoil • European Investment Bank • EBRD • Energy warranty environment
ENBW • RWE Innogy • RWE npower • Eesti Capital Partners • Global Capital Finance •
Energia • EDF • Electrabel • International Bayerische Landesbank • KfW • EKF • NIBC
About your trainer: Professor Robert Latorre has
Power- GDF Suez • Areva Renewables • Bank • Hg Capital • Platina Partners • Siemens been involved in power plant and marine
Korean Southern Power Company Project Ventures • Marubeni Corporation engineering for the past 30 years. He has been
Developers: OEMs, Suppliers Service Providers: involved in a number of energy related onshore and
Mainstream Renewable Power • SeaEnergy Siemens Energy • Siemens Transmission off-shore projects and currently teaches Ocean
Renewables • Belwind • Iberdrola
Renovables • Acciona Energy • Cape Wind
Distribution • Gamesa • Vestas • REpower Energy Harvesting at the University of Maryland MSc
• Mitsubishi Corporation • Enercon •
• NaiKun Wind Energy • Deepwater Wind • Goldwind • GE Energy • Bard Engineering
program in Sustainable Energy Engineering.
Fishermen's Energy of New Jersey • NRG • Nordex • Alstom • Fluor • DNV • ERM •
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Day One: 27 September 2011 OSHA Health and Safety Requirements
08:30 Registration and coffee 12:00 Update on OSHA Compliant Training Programs
• Mechanical and operational requirements
09:00 Opening address from the chair • Accident, incident and near-miss reporting and investigation
Bruce Hamilton, Director, Energy, and TRIR (total reportable incident rate)
Navigant Consulting • Site safety audits, requirements and the impact on cost
• Additional equipment, first aid and safety

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Ensuring safety in a high-voltage environment
A Fresh Take on OM Moderated by:
Kevin Borgia, Executive Director,
09:15 Out the Gate Optimization Illinois Wind Energy Association
Panellists include:
• Planning
– EHS, Equipment Eric Endreszl, Head of Training and Manager of
– Warranty Operations, USCA
– Spare Parts Program Todd Karasek, VP of Environmental Health, Safety
– Budgets Security, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation
• Stakeholders 12:45 Networking lunch break
– Who are they?
– Determine specific contacts.
– Build relationships early Connecting Planning Development to Operations
– Understand needs/limits of stakeholders
• Communications-Protocols 2:15 Design, Build and Construction and its Effect
– Develop procedures on Operations
– Face-to-face meetings • Understanding how you design and build from an OM point
– Challenge contractors of view
• Summary • Construction to maximize production
• The importance of engaging OM expertise at the beginning
– First 2 years of OM most critical
of a project
– Create base-lines or benchmarks
– Increase Life-Cycle of equipment José Peñarrubia, Director of Construction,
– Optimize Production/Revenue Acciona Energy
Eduardo Perez, Vice President, Operations, 2:45 Developing a Lean Wind Farm
Wind Capital Group Or how the integration of wind resource, reliability,
availability and OM from the start, achieves superior
09:45 Designing an OM Strategy for the Long performance and lower risk.
• The link between short-term design/development issues and
Run long-term profitability and OM aspects
• Making the decision between outsourcing and maintaining • Short-term thinking doesn’t lead to long-term dividends
operations in-house • Tools available allowing to visualize and quantify long-term
• Managing the end of the warranty process and getting the aspects of the performance of a wind farm
most out of OEMs • How to relate performance of a wind farm asset and its
• How will OM strategies evolve post-warranty? organizational structure and technical design
• Deploying a systems approach and aligning development
John Yost, Vice President, Operations, with OM
E.ON Climate Renewables Jean Lemaire, Chief Operating Officer, Akuo Energy
10:15 Asset Management Beyond the Turbine Chairman, e-begreen
• Why is Asset Management important? 3:15 Networking refreshment break
• Preventive Maintenance versus Condition Based Monitoring 3:45 Overcoming Setbacks Restrictions in the
• What Asset Management strategy is most optimal?
• The OM impact of your electrical infrastructure
Planning Stage
• Assessing ROI of your OM dollars Todd Daniels, Director of Operations,
Rich Norton, Manager, Asset Management Sexton Companies
Procurement, SC Electric Company Scott Hendricks, Project Manager, Sexton Companies
10:45 Networking refreshment break 4:15 Taking a Pre-emptive Approach to
Maintenance and Ensuring Staff are On Board
• Defining a pre-emptive strategy: what is and what is not
Dealing with Warranty Expiration tolerable in terms of down time?
PANEL DISCUSSION

• The importance of turbine history and root cause analysis in
contributing to efficient maintenance
11:15 Preparing for a Post Warranty Scenario Across • On-boarding staff: how do you ensure that they are thinking
a Diverse Fleet and acting pro-actively?
• Understanding the business objectives: owner-specific KPIs Panellists include:
• Reviewing realistic options: brand-specific pros and cons Dan Juhl, Chief Executive Officer, Juhl Wind
• Applying a strategic supplier selection process: vested Eduardo Perez, Vice President, Operations,
outsourcing Wind Capital Group
• Building an organization: “People, Parts, and Paperwork” John Yost, Vice President, Operations, E.ON Climate
Dr Karl-Heinz Mertins, Renewables
Director Technology Operations, Exelon Wind
5:00 Questions from the audience
11:45 Interactive QA session
5:15 Closing remarks from the chair and end of day one
5:30 Networking drinks reception

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Optimizing Wind most up to date information on the emerging U.S. offshore wind
industry, the challenges it. I highly recommend it”
Power Performance (RG, PSEG Global and Garden State Offshore Energy, Offshore Wind Power
Congress, Boston, 1-2 February 2011)

tDay Two: 28 September 2011 12:00 Building an Expert Knowledge Base to
Optimize OM
09:00 Opening address from the chair • Understand Cause: assemble and analyze all available
John Vanden Bosche, Principal Engineer, historical data to identify the most critical turbine failures
Chinook Wind and to examine the root causes of those failures. Instead of
analyzing the statistical trends of when components and
Commercially-Driven OM turbines fail, this analyzes why components fail and how
they lead to turbine failure.
• Identify Conditions: with knowledge of Cause, utilize
09:15 Streamlining Inventory Management and Artificial Intelligence and Neuro Fuzzy logic to spot
Logistics correlating patterns in historical data. This identifies
• Reducing time to repair conditions that exist when the critical failures are still
• Find out which components fail most often and which cannot preventable, and enables an operator to develop a cause-
be stored on-site based condition monitoring system.
• How much is downtime being extended by unavailable parts? • Develop Remedies: with knowledge of Cause and Conditions
• Audit results (logged after events) in hand, create corrective maintenance actions to mitigate
• Quality (inspection ratings, how many are necessary and conditions that lead to failure. Solution requires workflow
how often?) integration to actually avoid the failure and deliver
• Economics of maintenance: optimized OM value in a real world setting.
– How much income should be set aside for long-term Courtney Faller, Director of Operations, TI-data
maintenance?
– Balancing maintenance of ageing equipment with profit- OM Tech Focus
generation
– Capital-intensive parts 12:30 Advances in Condition Monitoring and Wind
Peter Wells, Chief Operating Officer, Upwind Forecasting for Better Efficiency
Solutions • The importance of condition-based monitoring to mitigate
the costs of design defects
09:45 Reducing Blade and Tower Repair Costs with • Latest technological advances in SCADA (Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition) and impact on ROI
Suspended Access Platforms • Large-scale challenges and costs of condition monitoring –
• The importance of safe access solutions
why should we use it?
• Disadvantages challenges of current access approaches
• How can you analyze and interpret data effectively when
• Best ways to evaluate workers' safety training programs dealing with multiple sites and turbines?
• Training requirements for Suspended Platforms
• Cost-effective blade and tower access methods that can Diarmaid Mulholland, General Manager, Global Wind
save time and money Services, GE Energy
• Specific mobilization, installation and operating benefits to 1:00 Networking lunch
increase productivity
Clint Ramberg, Director of Wind Access, Spider 2:30 Understanding Meteorological Variability and
How it Affects Grid Integration
10:15 When does Outsourcing Make Sense for your • Variability in meteorology and the way it affects wind farm
Business? operation
• Is outsourcing an efficient and cost-effective solution? • Modelling variability
PANEL DISCUSSION

• When does outsourcing make sense and which functions • Value of Wind Power forecasting
should you outsource? • Point forecasts versus regional forecasts
• Evaluating service and availability guarantees from a • The need for forecast systems to include multiple approaches
• Case studies of ramp events
commercial perspective
• How mature are market solutions? 2:30 Sue Ellen Haupt, Scientific Program Manager,
Panellists include: Weather Systems Assessment Program,
Steve Spethmann, Supply Chain Director, Suzlon National Center for Atmospheric Research
Wind Energy Corporation 3:00 Jennifer States, Program Manager, Wind and Water
Power Technologies,
11:00 Networking refreshment break
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Data Management Evolving Your OM Strategy
11:30 New Trends in Wind Farm Monitoring and Data 3:30 Looking at wind farm OM as an investment
Management decision
Based on new capabilities to monitor the heart beat of an
A keynote that will appeal to any OM manager, decision-
entire fleet of turbines and Operations Centers that collect,
maker or analyst working for OEMs, third-party service
store, visualize, and analyze real time data, this discussion will providers or wind farm owners
explore the latest trends in operational data management from • Understand the fundamental drivers of OM costs
wind turbine equipment and how data collected and analyzed is • Analyze the hidden link between revenues and OM costs
being used to predict failures and prevent catastrophic loss. • Discover how advanced computer models can help you plan
• Direct controller integration to data management provides OM costs and spending over different time horizons and
full spectrum of operational data close the gap between strategic thinking and operational
• Automation in analysis of operational data with the planning/budgeting
introduction of neural networks and trending statistics • Make better-informed OM decisions: quantify how the risk
• Fault detection and diagnosis have moved from technicians tolerance you allow in your OM strategy affects your
in the field to engineering at operations centers, improving expectation for availability and OM costs
efficiency • Explore how OM cooperation between operators may help
• Addition of storage capabilities such as batteries, pumped reduce costs, mitigate risks and increase profits
storage, and new storage technologies Jean Lemaire, Chief Operating Officer,
• New equipment such as Synchrophasors provide a new Akuo Energy Chairman, e-begreen
dimension to power quality
4:00 Closing remarks from the chair, end of conference and refreshments
Doug Taylor, Business Development – Renewable
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