Operational Intelligence for Energy Networks presentation by - Frank O'Connor, servus net at the IEA Task 26 Cost and Value of Wind Energy seminar.

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Operational Intelligence for Energy Networks
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ServusNet develops and supplies operational intelligence software to
distributed energy networks. Our web-based solution collects large volumes
of equipment and enterprise data, generates key technical and commercial
performance metrics and delivers focussed decision-support capability
directly to operations and planning personnel.

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Reliability Data: Standardization of Data Collection for Wind Turbine
Reliability and Maintenance Analyses (approved by IEA, October 2011, 2012-2015)
Operating Agent Organization
Division Energy Economy and Grid Operation
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES)
OA Representative
Paul KÜHN
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES
Koenigstor 59,34119 Kassel, GERMANY
Phone +49 561 7294-351
mailto:paul.kuehn@iwes.fraunhofer.de
Responsible National (Irish) Expert
Frank O’Connor
ServusNet Informatics, Mahon, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 21 7304649
mailto:frankoconnor@servusnet.com

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Task 33 Aims
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Summary
IEA Wind Task 33 addresses data collection and failure analysis in the
wind energy sector. Task 33 aims to use reliability data to support improving
reliability and optimizing O&M procedures of wind turbines through the use
of reliability data.
Aims
• Provide an open forum on failure and maintenance statistics on wind
turbines for the purposes of exchanging experiences from individual
research projects
• Identify research, development, and standardization needs for collecting
and reporting reliability data.
• Develop an IEA Wind recommended practice for collecting and
reporting reliability data

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Participants
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Country Institution(s)
China
Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA);
Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
Denmark
Aalborg University; The Technical University of
Denmark (DTU) Wind Energy
Finland Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Germany
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy
System Technology (IWES)
Ireland ServusNet Informatics
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TU)
Norway
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU);
SINTEF Energy Research
Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology;
Vattenfall
USA Sandia National Laboratories
• Kickoff-Kassel (November 2012)
• Trondheim (March 2013)
• Albuquerque(September 2013)
• Stockholm (May 2014)
• China (January 2015)

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Working Groups
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IWES

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Experiences
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Some general observations
• there is an extensive interest in confident reliability data,
• there already exists a variety of reliability databases,
• nearly all initiatives use different codes, different structures of wind turbines and components,
• interesting data on events and cost are missing in most cases, only five databases contain cost
information,
• international standards concerning terminology and communication are unavailable,
• the various reliability databases have poor interoperability and results cannot easily be shared or
compared.
Twenty eight noteworthy activities or initiatives on reliability from nine countries. Not all of them are
particularly related to wind energy, four are related to conventional or nuclear power stations, oil and
gas offshore platforms, and bulk power systems thirteen were wind related. These were investigated
and compared to each other and information from the other initiatives was used to find methodologies,
standards in use, and examples of concrete types of data collected. The data was provided differently
by experts, technicians, or operators and by far in most cases on a voluntary basis.

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Reliability Data: Standardization of Data Collection for Wind Turbine
Reliability and Maintenance Analyses (approved by IEA, October 2011, 2012-2015)
http://www.ieawind.org/task_33.html
OA Representative
Paul KÜHN
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES
Koenigstor 59,34119 Kassel, GERMANY
Phone +49 561 7294-351
mailto:paul.kuehn@iwes.fraunhofer.de
Responsible National (Irish) Expert
Frank O’Connor
ServusNet Informatics, Mahon, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 21 7304649
mailto:frankoconnor@servusnet.com
Thank you!

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