S5 - GE 2-3.X

Enhance GE 2-3.X operations through collaboration with your peers

14 Nov from 12:00 to 14:50

Introduction

The GE 2-3.X user group is by far our most frustrated one. Our members are asking their turbine manufacturer technical questions and getting responses from legal people. Its uncertain times for GE 2-3.X owners. Speaking to some top directors among O2O WIND members there is no clarity for if GE is about to withdraw from Europe, Asia, and South America, and even our US-based members are frustrated. This calls for collaboration.

Your moderator for this roundtable

Dragos Sopoglu, Engineering Department Manager - CEZ Group

CEZ Group operates the biggest GE 2-3.X wind farm in the world, and Dragos is their most knowledgeable guy on GE operations. Usually, these turbine-specific owners' meetings are hosted by O2O WIND, but for Madrid, we have asked our dear members to help us.

A big thank you to CEZ!

Join our GE 2-3.X operators

We have invited the 16 energy companies listed below, collaborating within our GE 2-3.X user group, to Madrid. Among themselves, they own 1011 GE 2-3.X turbines, including the following models: GE 2.5-100/103/116/120/127, GE 2.5xl, GE 2.72-116, GE 2.75-100/103/120, GE 2.85-100/103, GE’s 3.2-130, GE 3.8-130, GE 3.6/3.8/4.0-137, GE 4.2-117 models.

They are, of course, interested in including more GE 2-3.X operational know-how in the group. On the Owners Roundtable 2024, we then offer the opportunity for non-members who own GE 2-3.X turbines to join GE 2-3.X owner-2-owner collaboration.

GE 2-3.X challenges

Are these the kind of challenges you are expected to solve for your GE 2-3.X operations?

  • Pitch Bearings - The Achilles heel of GE 2.5 XL Turbine

  • Blade Bond Line Cracks

  • Gearbox Elastomer Dampers and rubber hoses worn out

  • Main Shafts Bearings premature wear

  • Hub area issues: blade bearing seals, pitch motors, pitch batteries, corrosion / sheared bolts of the spinner cover, water ingress in the controller box.

  • Winergy generator failures.: serial manufacturing defect noted

  • Power Cables Joints overheating along the tower

  • Cracks and blowholes in azimut break discs

  • Main bearing breakdown

  • 20 % generator failures at our site

  • Pitch Motor Failures

  • Blade Bearing Lubrication issues for 2.5 XL series

  • Cable joint overheating issues and measures

  • TPI Blade - Trailing Edge Blade crack. Hardware Mitigation.

Joining this discussion with your GE 2-3.X peers 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.

  1. Before the event - submit your top challenge.

  2. At the event - discover your peers' challenges, have input on yours and discuss solutions.

  3. 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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