Description

Every year from now, up to 20,000 turbines around the world will be entering the second half of their 20-year design life, already having long since fallen out of standard manufacturer warranties. The turbines now increasingly attracting the attention of O&M technicians are bigger, heavier, taller and much more complex than their predecessors. The rise in installations from 2009 was accompanied by significant shifts upwards in nameplate capacity, tower heights, rotor-blade lengths and operating reliability. This enabled wind development at sites previously considered economically unviable on the grounds of, among other things, low wind speeds and extreme temperatures, remote and hard-to-access locations, hilly and forested terrains.

During this event we’ll cover

• Maximizing energy production through the incorporation of cutting-edge technologies
• Best-practice in predictive wind blade maintenance
• Exploring options for wind turbine life extension scenarios
• Achieving operational efficiency and O&M cost reduction