GLOBAL WIND ALLIANCE
THE GLOBAL
We first featured the Global Wind Alliance within our Quo Vadis conference article held in Belfast late in 2011 then a followed up in a more in depth feature on their philosophy and aspirations in the last edition.
COLLABORATION The main principal of the Global Wind Alliance, as the name would suggest, is collaboration.
SIMPLE CONCEPT The concept is simple. Alone, each company can only offer a part of the solution that global customers require; but by collaborating with others, who can offer complementary products and services, they can compete and win work on a global stage that would otherwise be unobtainable.
We continue their important work by concentrating this edition’s feature on The Danish Wind Power Academy, one of their member companies.
WIND ALLIANCE
...AND THE STORY CONTINUES...
DANISH WIND POWER ACADEMY A turbine’s efficiency is heavily dependent on the expertise of its technicians. When they lack the appropriate
level of skill, they risk causing excessive downtime and unnecessary costs. Hence having fully trained and competent technicians is important. However since different turbines have different operational requirements, a catch-all training model will not suffice. For a course to be successful, it needs to take into account both the specific demands of the turbine and the participants’ existing levels of know-how.
INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED TRAINING SOLUTIONS The Danish Wind Power Academy (DWPA) was founded in 2004 and today is a market-leading provider of individually tailored training solutions. Its instructors together provide over 60 years of practical ‘hands-on’ experience from a wide range of turbine type and it has developed an innovative educational concept for technical personnel at all levels.
STRONG INDUSTRY LINKS With strong links to manufacturers and owners, as well as sub suppliers from the industry, the DWPA strives to always be at the cutting edge of industry developments, and prides itself on knowing the needs of the client inside out.
“We start by acquiring a customer’s operational data, including event logs and error reports,” says CEO Carsten Andersen. “Then we will build up a training programme around the operational conditions of those turbines on that particular day.”
TRAINING CONCEPT DWPA’s training concept is based on a five-pronged model. In the first phase, a technician’s existing knowledge is assessed and the client’s expectations are set out.
Secondly, DWPA examines technical documentation to gain an overview of the turbine’s function.
This leads seamlessly into the third phase, in which the client and instructor collaborate to draw up a programme of study. The key phase is the training itself, which combines group work with individual tasks and while due attention is paid to the theory, clients can also benefit from practical training.
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