Seminar: How to Monitor and Follow-Up Turbine Manufacturers - on Service, Production Data and Availability

11, June, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden

With increased competence you would be able to get your turbine manufacturer to become more efficient, making the right priorities and optimize your profitability

The majority of wind farms owners run their wind farms operations through completely outsourced contracts, mainly through the turbine manufacturer. It is the Turbine Manufacturer who has the practical responsibility for operations – and also the practical knowledge.

The paradox is that you should have the competence to ensure that your profit is maximised while they have the hands-on practical knowledge.

The ambition with this seminar is to give you a very compact overview from leading profiles who has a long experience of running wind farm operations through outsourced contracts.

Learn:

• How could you follow up with turbine manufacturers  – with which regularity and on which KPIs?
• How to gain control by properly reading the TSA and SA?
• On which facts presented from the OEMs should you have certain follow-up questions?
• Which cost structure and key figures for cost is a good bench mark ?
• How to manage the defects notification process within the TSA or EPC contract
• Understanding availability from the owner and OEMs - refer to the IEC standards
• Understanding the error codes and how these tie into the availability calculations
• What are the performance measures are in your contract - good wind industry practices etc
• Production performance - power curves, equipment - meeting with your OEM and sharing the findings of these analysis reports.
• How often to meet with your OEMs
• Using a balance scorecard process to drive the correct behaviours with the OEMs
• Which costs will you most likely be able to reduce?

The turbine manufacturers claim that their contracts are so comprehensive because they want to state all of their trench runs and ensure to avoid them in the future. In the same ambition we want to make this seminar just as comprehensive so that you as an owner should avoid most trench runs.