French energy consultancy Eoltech has won repeat contracts with local customers to help monitor wind farms totalling 500MW in France.
The consultancy will deploy its Irec Index with the aim of refining monitoring at 24 wind farms in the country.
Eoltech said the index will enable its clients to “check the consistency of their fleet’s output against the available wind resource to detect potential turbine performance discrepancies”.
The Irec-Index takes into account at least four distinct and independent sources of wind data at each location, the company said.
The data provides reference indicators by region, providing information to operators wishing to optimise the energy performance of their wind portfolio, it added.
Eoltech chief executive Habib Leseney said: “By combining several independent sources, the Irec Index approach can filter out inconsistent sources and increase the robustness of the results while ensuring that a high correlation level with production data is maintained.”
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