WindESCo is rolling out its wind turbine monitoring technology at CEZ ‘s 600MW Fantanele-Cogealac wind farm in Romania.
The technology will deliver turbine performance and reliability improvements, reverse efficiency losses from ageing assets and increase annual energy production (AEP).
Commissioned in 2012, Fantanele-Cogealac is among Europe’s largest onshore wind farms and consists of 240 2.5MW GE units.
Chief generation officer, CEZ Romania, Liviu Gavrila, said: “Over the past decade our wind assets at Fantanele-Cogealac have helped us reliably serve our customers with clean renewable energy.
“WindESCo’s solution will complete the optimisation tools package implemented by our team across the years, allowing us to better manage and improve the performance of our assets.”
Understanding how power generation from ageing wind assets gradually declines over time and subsequently reversing that trend requires continuous, in-depth, and verified analyses across many individual turbines to generate maximum AEP recovering opportunities.
WindESCo’s solution works by analysing high resolution SCADA to deliver performance and reliability improvements, without the need for additional hardware.
It pinpoints anomalies affecting wind turbine performance through 60 or more continuous checks of the SCADA from every machine.
The software then provides recommendations and instructions to fix each anomaly including the financial and AEP impact.
Once fixes are completed, the system calculates and reports the performance improvements in both financial gain and additional MWh at the turbine, site, and fleet levels.