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R&D needs for O&M of wind turbines
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ECN
Wind Energy
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1-6-2003
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ECN-RX--03-045
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Conference Paper
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7
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Presented at: European Wind Energy Conference 2003, Madrid, Spain, 16-19 juni 2003.
Abstract:
Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of wind farms is usually anactivity which is carried out by industrial parties only. This paper
shows that in addition to the industrial developments, the results of
R&D efforts lead to a more structured approach of the O&M issue and
towards optimisation of the maintenance strategies of wind farms. In
general, optimisation of the maintenance strategy should result into:
reducing the direct costs for maintenance; reducing the downtimes; and
quantifying, controlling, and reducing the risks of O&M costs over the
lifetime. It is expected that offshore wind farms will benefit the most
from the R&D results. The following R&D topics related to O&M of wind
farms will be discussed in this paper:
- key figures for O&M of wind turbines (trends in costs, failures,
etc.)
- development of cost models for quantifying O&M costs and uncertainties
over the lifetime of (offshore) wind farms;
- feedback of O&M data for optimising O&M procedures and the
necessity of data collection over large populations;
- the added value and limitations of condition monitoring.
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