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1. IBM Energy & Utilities Solution for Wind Power
Optimizing Asset Management For Wind Farms
IBM powers the way forward in smart energy solutions
Growth Challenges Wind Power
Wind is turning into a powerful
energy game-changer. In the U.S.,
the fast-growing wind power business
is increasing total capacity by 30-50
percent annually, putting it on a
trajectory to generate 20 percent
of the nation’s electricity by 2030.1
Wind power is expanding worldwide
as well, where healthy double-digit
growth is expected this year despite
the general economic crisis.2
Yet, as fast as wind farms rise in
open plains and off shorelines, many
Highlights operators realize they’ve been slow
to implement asset management
 Lower costs through increased  Improve visibility and control systems to minimize downtime
predictive maintenance of wind operations by applying and maximize productivity of
 Minimize downtime and industry standards to aggregate their expensive wind turbines and
unplanned repairs data from multiple turbine machinery. Excessive and untimely
manufacturers into a single view repairs and upkeep threaten farm
 Increase revenue through efficiency and revenues. Worse still,
improved turbine availability and disparate management systems
wind farm production provide a limited view of wind farm
operations, hampering an operator’s
ability to make effective decisions
concerning operational efficiency.

2. Wind power enterprises — with both from Supervisory Control And Data
Technology Solution At A Glance
single and multiple sites — need to Acquisition (SCADA) systems, real-
• IBM Tivoli® Maximo® integrate functions and processes time historians, and maintenance
• IBM Cognos Now!
®
to optimize and properly maintain management systems, to bring
• IBM DB2 Database Management
® these large, expensive, clean energy together data into actionable
assets. Fortunately, there is a way information. This allows operators
• @hand Field Mobility System
to support today’s rapidly growing to reduce time spent correlating
• OSIsoft™ PI System® Infrastructure
wind power ecosystem, and IBM is data across disparate applications,
• SISCO Utility Integration Bus Adapter leading the way. enabling them to focus on the
operational efficiency of their
IBM Solution for Wind Operators wind farms.
IBM’s virtual 42-megawatt wind
Asset management by IBM is a
farm — complete with a couple dozen smart solution for today’s wind farms. Additionally, this solution applies
turbines, control room, maintenance Using digital technology, intelligent industry standards to aggregate data
shop and substation — can be viewed
sensors and analytics tools, the from multiple turbine manufacturers
as a smart energy alternative at the
IBM Energy & Utilities Solution Lab
IBM Wind Asset Management into a single comprehensive
in Austin, Texas. solution allows wind farm operators view. This visibility allows energy
to monitor, maintain, analyze and producers to use the data to make
improve their equipment and asset strategic decisions and lower the
performance in real-time. Wind costs of maintenance, track key
power producers now have the performance indicators, identify
technology to more effectively trends and help predict impending
predict and prevent equipment equipment breakdowns. The result
failures, increase asset availability, is a considerable reduction in
and extend equipment life — all in a operational and maintenance costs
scalable system designed to meet and increased asset availability
the requirements of the smallest and utilization.
wind farm to multi-farm portfolios.
Instrumented. Interconnected.
Leveraging a Service Oriented Intelligent
Architecture (SOA) platform and In virtual and real world wind farms,
The standards-based IBM Wind Asset
Management solution gives wind
the Solution Architecture for Energy IBM has demonstrated how an asset
operators the information required to (SAFE), the Wind Asset Management management solution can turn a
monitor the health of wind assets from solution integrates available conventional wind farm into a ‘smart’
multiple manufacturers.
operating and maintenance data, farm that runs more efficiently and

3. profitably. IBM’s total end-to-end All of this instrumentation and inter
Based on today’s growth levels, wind
solution utilizes a suite of proprietary connectedness generates the data power is one of the leading sources of
and Business Partner solutions. for proactive alerts and work orders, new power generation in the U.S. along
along with advanced analytics with natural gas.4
First, the turbines are instrumented and insight to make better asset
with sensors, so that these management decisions in near or
components can be monitored with real-time. In turn, the whole system
IBM’s Cognos® Now!, a business becomes more efficient, reliable,
intelligence monitoring solution. At a adaptive — in a word, smart.
glance, the Cognos Now! dashboard
gives operators a single view of the Smarter Farms Help Power a
health of the farm. Smarter Planet
On a macro scale, the planet stands
Field data from the instrumented to rid itself of billions of tons of carbon
turbines is brought together, or emissions with a clean, renewable
interconnected, into a comprehensive energy source like wind. But at the Wind farms have the potential to meet
data repository using SISCO’s UIB farm level, the wind power business the world’s growing need for renewable
and eco-friendly energy.
adapter. Should any abnormal becomes more profitable once you
reading be detected, an alert can be implement a Wind Asset Management
directed immediately to operators, solution. Because of newfound
who utilize the OSIsoft™ PI System® to efficiencies, you increase labor and
investigate the situation and begin a asset utilization. You reduce spending
troubleshooting process that results in on new equipment, lower inventory
a notification directed to the wind farm carrying costs, and save by increasing
maintenance team. planned maintenance services.
Inventory visibility is improved, along
Next, utilizing IBM Tivoli Maximo
® ®
with warehouse productivity. Based on
asset management software, a extensive studies, IBM estimates that
technician is notified of the service when all the labor and cost benefits
request and a work order is created are added up, wind farms deploying
and planned to correct the trouble an asset management solution stand
condition. @hand field mobility to realize a 20 percent cost reduction
software then allows the technician in operations and maintenance.3
to use a global positioning system
(GPS)-equipped field device to
find the correct turbine, diagnose
the trouble condition, repair it and
coordinate with operations to return
the turbine to service.

4. And that’s just the beginning. No matter the size of your wind farm. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2009
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American Wind Energy Association, 2008:
Another Record Year for Wind Energy
Installations, and the American Wind
Energy Association Annual Wind Industry
Report, 2008
2
“Wind energy market worldwide continues
strong growth,” Worldwide Wind
Association, June 23, 2009
3
IBM Business Value Analysis,
February 11, 2009
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