S2 - Managing O&M Costs
13 Nov- From 12:50 to 14:40
Introduction
Wind farm operations can be divided into three major categories: Managing costs, Increasing availability, and Increasing output from available turbines. In this roundtable discussion, we return to the first of these three: Manage costs. Having a clear understanding of which activities will generate which costs and performance is your best starting point. You and your peers all have different categories of assets, different business models, different site conditions, different turbine models, etc. This means that you all have different approaches and a lot of experiences to share in managing costs. This will be a healthy exercise to meet, compare how costs are managed, and share experiences on successful compromises on having costs go down and production go up.
Your moderator of this roundtable
Javier López Nieto, Global Head of O&M (excl US) - Onshore Wind and Solar at Iberdrola
Iberdrola is a global leader in renewable energy. Managing costs is a huge task, and it is always interesting to add some smartness to this. Usually, these turbine-specific owners' meetings are hosted by O2O WIND, but we have asked the wind asset owners to help us in Madrid.
A big thank you to Iberdrola!
Is this your cup of tea?
Are these the challenges you are expected to develop in your professional role?
How to categorize your assets to get a better overview - old, new, during warranty, post-warranty, in-house or outsourced service, etc
How is Life Cycle Cost of Energy defined and monitored in your company?
How we define and focus on costs throughout the life cycle
How do you balance between cutting O&M costs or increasing availability?
Looking at the least performing wind farms - which priorities do we have to improve results?
What can be done differently during development and contract negotiations to reduce O&M costs?
Should we do scheduled maintenance above or below the vendor manual?
Lowest hanging fruit or first costs to cut using CMS in predictive maintenance
How predictive should predictive maintenance be?
Different business models (OEM, ISP or in-house) have different cost structures, so it is important to know how to navigate and reap possibilities.
Joining this discussion with identical peers from other WTG owners will give you a broader understanding, an expanded network and valuable insights.
Your top challenge – directly included
This roundtable is based on real and current challenges held among the participants. You will have direct input on your top challenge and insights into your peer’s top challenges.
Before the event - submit your top challenge.
At the event - discover your peers' challenges, have input on yours and discuss solutions.
After the event - receive a summary of the findings from all roundtables, providing valuable insights for all.
Once you have registered your team, each individual will receive a link to select roundtables and submit their top challenges. A dummy is shown at this link.
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