Join Windpower Monthly’s 2nd annual Wind Farm Data Management & Analysis Forum on 20-21 November to examine the key challenges concerning data management, analysis and interpretation. It has never been more important to capitalise on the full potential of turbine data in order to ensure costs are kept to a minimum and to increase profitability. Ensuring that your data is of consistent quality, and reducing gaps in datasets is growing to be crucial as O&M decision-making becomes more focused on performance and condition monitoring.
The Wind Farm Data Management & Analysis Forum will offer delegates an unparalleled opportunity to network with industry experts, and will enable you to:
- Learn how to standardise wind farm data supply and management when working with a variety of turbine types
Hear first-hand how to analyse and manipulate data to effectively predict turbine maintenance
Gain insight into what tools exist to manage large and rapidly increasing amounts of data
Discover what external data management devices currently exist, what you can learn from them and how cost-effective they are
Debate the issue of who should own the data and how to ensure OEMs and operators are contented
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WIND FARM DATA
MANAGEMENT
& ANALYSIS
Successful data management strategies
to reduce maintenance costs & improve
turbine performance
Now in its 2nd year, this award-winning* business event provides an
unparalleled opportunity to network with leading experts in using data to
improve wind data performance:
• Discover how to standardise wind farm data supply & management when working
with a variety of turbine types
• Hear first-hand how to analyse & use data to effectively predict turbine maintenance
• Gain insight into what tools exist to manage large & rapidly increasing amounts of data
• Find out more about external data management systems currently on the market,
what you can learn from them & how cost-effective they really are
• Get the latest thinking on who should own the data & why
Radisson Blu Hotel,
20-21 November 2012
Hamburg, Germany
Bob Sherwin, Nicola Atkinson,
Project Leader, Senior Technical Analyst,
IEC RES Group
Simon Trist, Kasper Van Lombeek,
VP Plant SCADA & Optimisation Solutions, O&M Engineer,
Vestas Belwind Book before 2 November &
Marc Eickershoff,
Product Management SCADA,
Dr. Rudolf Zauner,
Head of Operations,
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REpower systems SE Verbund Renewable
Mirjam de Boer-Postmus, Power GmbH
Head Operations Benelux, BU Wind Rui Maia,
Generation, Head of Operation & Maintenance,
Vattenfall Iberwind
Joanna McKenzie, Walter Bourgoin,
Wind Analyst, Manager Renewables Control Systems,
SSE Renewables ESBi
Richard Nichol, Volker Arlt,
Product Development Manager, Project Manager Central Engineering,
Vestas Nordex
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Successful data management strategies to reduce
maintenance costs & improve turbine performance
Day 1 Tuesday, 20 November 2012
08:30 Registration & Morning Refreshments • Data analysis for reliability engineering & O&M optimisation
– information required to perform reliability engineering & O&M cost
09:15 Chair’s Opening Remarks estimations in relation to the Event List
– OMCE Building Blocks to obtain wind farm performance indicators &
Simon Trist, VP Plant SCADA & Optimisation Solutions, accurate input for O&M modelling
Vestas • Using the processed data for maintenance modelling & performing
scenario studies
09:30 Achieving Greater Availability Through
Standardisation In Data Management 13:45 How Can Remote Communications & Data
Marc Eickershoff, Product Management SCADA, Control Be Improved?
REpower Systems SE Walter Bourgoin, Manager Renewables Control Systems,
• Standardisation in data structure & communication for easier reporting ESBi
– what is in place? IEC 61400-25 • Developing permanent & stable connections to wind farms remotely
– what needs further improvement? • Cables, GPRS & satellite connections
– outlook of future development of the standard – where does the cost reach parity with the quality?
• How to efficiently report live data at first & second communication levels
10:00 Improving The Quality Of Supply To Ensure – process flow between different communication channels
• How to deal with the difficulties of integrating data from various site
Reliability locations into one live system
Dr. Rudolf Zauner, Head of Operations, – different data structures & protocols for data transfer
Verbund Renewable Power GmbH – accommodating out-of-sequence data
• What type of data needs to be collected to have a clear picture of
turbine’s performance 14:15 Advancing Turbine Health Diagnostics:
• Creating consistency in flow of data
– what are the gaps & how do they occur? Challenges & Solutions
• Achieving the best possible estimation of data during reporting Rui Maia, Head of Operation & Maintenance, Iberwind
• How to supply & measure higher frequency data • Best-practice methods to manage condition reporting for both
• Integrating environmental data into turbine data management mechanical & electrical components
– weather & wind forecast – drive train, blades & electrical components
– tidal periodicity & seabed fluctuations – how the information fits into SCADA & other existing systems
• Integrating SCADA & CMS systems to implement holistic diagnostic
10:30 Morning Refreshments & Networking analysis & reporting
11:00 Better Understand Turbines By Turning Data 15:00 Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
Into Useful Information 15.30 Improving Failure Forecasting & Predictive
• Data volume strategy: reducing the data you adhere to vs. using the
breadth of available tools & managing large amounts of data better Maintenance For Different Turbine Types
• Relating SCADA data to turbine health Mirjam de Boer-Postmus, Head Operations Benelux,
– how to validate turbine condition information BU Wind Generation, Vattenfall
– correlating historical data with the real-time production data • How to use CMS tools to improve forecasting
• Calculating turbine production & availability – accurately predicting when failures will occur
– how power curves are applied in the production levels calculations • Which prognosis methods & techniques are currently used
– performance vs. time-based availability using SCADA • How to accurately predict failure & plan maintenance
• Relating condition monitoring data to power production levels – managing the margin for error
• Making the most of data by further data mining on Enterprise Resource • Assessing which additional data collection & analysis systems can be
Planning level used to better forecast maintenance
– how is the data used by O&M & Finance departments?
16:15 Tools & Strategies For Creating The Most
11:30 Data Storage: Handling Increasingly Large
Informative Turbine Health Reports
Amounts Of Data • Understanding & categorising fatigue & failures
Joanna McKenzie, Wind Analyst, SSE Renewables – identifying the best way to clearly & accurately present the warning
• Best-practice management of historic turbine performance databases signs
• Combining time series data & related information using one centralised • Can showcasing trends identify deteriorating components?
software application landscape • Analysing best-practice turbine health statements in the context of
• Key consolidation & storage methods to cope with growing amounts of standardisation
data – synchronising charts & graphs for turbines components report
• How to extract archived data in the most user-friendly manner – visualising information from multiple wind parks of different sizes &
technologies
12:00 Networking Lunch • Comparing the best available reporting software systems on the market
13:15 Data Collection & Analysis As Input For O&M
If you would like to join this session please contact Heather Smith on
Cost Modelling hs@windpowermonthly.com or +44 (0) 208 267 4785.
René van de Pieterman, Researcher Wind Energy Systems, ECN
• Structuring of raw data for O&M purposes
– operational wind farm data as input for O&M cost modelling; ECN’s 16.45 Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of Day 1
Operation & Maintenance Cost Estimator (OCME) approach
– assessing the need for structured data collection
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Day 2 Wednesday, 21 November 2012
08:30 Delegate Sign-In & Morning Refreshments • Automatic detection of changes in wind turbine performance
– the Change-point Analysis method
09:10 Chair’s Opening Remarks – suitability of the method for large data sets
– results of applying the method
Simon Trist, VP Plant SCADA & Optimisation Solutions, • Application these methods in automated monitoring and alerting
Vestas
12:00 Analysing Nordex Integrated Monitoring
09:15 SCADA Enterprise Systems: Current Status &
System (NiMS) To Assess The Benefits Of An
Future Developments
Simon Trist, VP Plant SCADA & Optimisation Solutions,
Integrated Approach
Vestas Volker Arlt, Project Manager Central Engineering, Nordex
• Using a combination of Condition Monitoring & SCADA data acquisition
• Which measurements does the system analyse & with what purpose?
to determine turbine health
• What are the best existing systems to date & how are they being
• Evaluating an integrated system to monitor different parts of the turbine
developed further?
using standard components
– cost vs. function of the systems
• Creating one pool of information for easy analysis to quicken failure
– flexibility to meet individual needs & requirements
diagnosis time
• What are the new technology & program updates & what new problems
• Advantages of flexible data management for CMS & SCADA data
will they tackle?
• Building a web based interface: the challenges & solutions
• Integrating SCADA with other hard & software solutions on the market
12:30 Networking Lunch
09:45 Creating Harmonisation Between Seven Wind
Farms, Five Turbine Types & Three Turbine 13:30 Who Should Control the Data?
Manufacturers For A 200MW Wind Portfolio Ulrich Langnickel, Head Of Renewables & Distributed Generation,
Martin Elliott, Senior Associate Engineer, BVG Associates VGB PowerTech e.V.
• Knowing what to specify for the system requirements vs. trusting the • Who is the owner of the data?
SCADA supplier to inform what is needed – who should be in control of the data & why?
• Examining the costs – who is responsible for the quality of the data?
– external & internal budgets • Negotiation of the data supply
– visible & hidden costs – which data should be included in the contract?
• Access to data: understanding the challenges beyond the technical • How can the parties work towards one goal to improve turbine reliability &
– exploring the availability & reliability of source data production levels?
– filling in the gaps, the benefits of manual editing compared with auto fill
• Analysing the acceptance criteria for testing & ensuring like-for-like 14:00 Delegate Discussion: End Of Warranty:
comparison
• Foreseeing challenges post handover: testing the transparency of routine
Transition To A New Data Management
data processing System
– spotting exceptions • Assessing the risk of taking on full service at the end of the manufacturer
– transitioning from “hands on” to “light touch” approach warranty
– evaluating the quality of data supply throughout the warranty contract
10:15 Morning Refreshments & Networking – conducting full turbine diagnostic analysis before taking over O&M
– estimating the costs of future maintenance
10:45 Analysing External Data Management • Data management transition strategies:
– case studies demonstrating effective warranty exit process
Systems & Their Integration Into Established • Costs associated with a change of information management
& New Wind Parks infrastructure
Jessica Cameron, Asset Analyst, Natural Power
Graham Gow, Head of Operational Systems, Natural Power 14:40 Using SCADA Data To Assess Turbine
• Overview: what data measurement & analytical systems exist today Performance
• Are operators’ requirements well targeted & flexible?
Nicola Atkinson, Senior Technical Analyst, RES Group
– building a strong vision of what the needs & wants are
• Intensive analysis examining developmental factors in relation to data
• Achieving the best value for high quality software & hardware system
management
installation
• Exploring causation of failure in order to find underlying principles in
• Pros & cons of integrating external & internal applications into one system
regards to wind turbine data analysis
• How does post-construction performance compare with pre-construction
11:30 SCADA-Based Condition Monitoring & estimate?
Automated Detection Algorithms • Trending turbine performance using KPIs
• Monitoring turbine behaviour
Michael Wilkinson, Engineer, GL Garrad Hassan – are the turbines behaving as expected?
• How to maximise the value of data already collected in turbine SCADA – has a control setting changed?
systems to predict impending turbine failures and detect changes in
performance and controller behaviour
15:10 Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
• SCADA-Based Condition Monitoring
– how this compares to traditional ‘high-frequency’ Condition Monitoring
– a review of the different approaches available
– which sub-systems are most suited to SCADA-Based Condition
Monitoring?
– case studies highlighting the value of this tool
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Thursday, 22 November 2012
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15:40 When To Use Farm & Nacelle-Based Lidar To
Assess Performance
Rozenn Wagner, Scientist, DTU Wind Energy
• Measurement height: turbine nacelle tilts & their affect on lidar beams
• Wind speed measurement accuracy: verify the wind speed measurement
as well as the measurement range
• Wind direction: the difference between yaw error situation & horizontal
wind shear
16:10 IEC Standard: Currently Applied Rules &
Further Standard Developments
Bob Sherwin, PT 61400-26 Project Leader,
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• What is the current status of IEC Standard on data collection systems?
– what needs to be addressed to reflect industry needs
• Challenging the IEC standard on time- vs. performance- based availability
measurements
– what are the parameters & how do they need to be altered to reflect
reality?
Separately Bookable Workshop
• Park performance testing: what are the right parameters to be used &
standardised?
– what is a definition of wind speed in the context of the entire park & Richard Nichol,
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– correlating data among turbines to reflect overall & individual
Manager of Product Development, Data Acquisition &
performance Management, Plant Solutions, Technology R&D,
– correlation output power & input wind speed for the entire park Vestas
• Standardising technological advancement in the area of performance
testing & wind farm monitoring 09:00-12:30 (Registration begins at 08.30)
• Investigating the financial gains derived from standardising data
management processes in the IEC
Which data should you specifically use during
16.50 Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of Day 2 calculation of the power curve output?
• How to make sure the data is complete & reliable
• Methodologies applied to power curve measurements
• What is not covered in the IEC standard
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• How useful are the farm & nacelle based lidar for assessing
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• Theory vs. reality: can rules be applied to imperfect wind farm
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