FEATURE SPONSOR INSPECTION, REPAIR & MAINTENANCE
Only an holistic approach will optimise performance
Last year the wind industry set a new record for annual installations. Globally, over 51GW of new wind generating capacity was added according to statistics from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The record-setting figure represents a 44% increase in the annual market.
CHANGING TIMES
As the industry is undoubtedly maturing and government policy across the world shifts in response, we see a number of conditions driving down cost – Contracts for Difference in the UK, subsidy reduction, competition from other energy technologies and a global drive towards grid cost parity.
With more modest financial yields and changes in asset ownership structures, for example the increased involvement of pension and infrastructure funds in the wind power sector, comes the requirement for a much more pro-active approach to operational asset management to meet the demands of more sophisticated owners and the need to really drive optimisation.
MAXIMISING FUTURE VALUE We must use our increased knowledge and understanding together with improvements in technology and innovation to maximise the future value of our windfarm assets by thinking smart. By demanding a higher level of information, improving our ability to interpret this data and having the ability to intervene, enables the potentially game changing knowledge-based predictive management of windfarms to ensure the assets we already have are optimised for maximum efficiency and output.
INDEPENDENCE
To ensure the industry stands on its own two feet, we must always innovate and find new ways to improve this pro-active management approach to ensure maximum returns for investors and to ultimately drive down the cost for consumers.
PERFECT SOLUTION
Combining today’s standard practices of site management, compliance and inspection, repair and maintenance with performance analysis and integrated systems, smart interpretation of data, predictive maintenance programmes and cost and KPI-led systems where the owners and investors are in control, Natural Power have developed the perfect solution for long-term, total asset management.
Neil Douglas
Director of Asset Management Natural Power
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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