The path to optimized wind turbine maintenance management
Innovative Maintenance Management
Specifically for Wind Maintenance
Notable Quotes
– Warren Buffett, February 29, 2012“Many more wind and solar projects will almost certainly follow.”
– Clean Edge News, March 13, 2012“Wind power (new installation capital costs) totaled a record $71.5 billion in 2011, up 18 percent from $60.5 billion the prior year, and is projected to reach $116.3 billion in 2021.”
– Windpower Engineering & Development, February 27, 2012“The wind turbine market has experienced a growth rate of about 28% globally and is expected to grow at an increasing double-digit growth rate.”
– Forbes.com, April 1, 2010“Rather than relying on intuition when pricing products, maintaining inventory or hiring talent, managers are using data, analysis and systematic reasoning to improve efficiency, reduce risk and increase profits.”
– Guy Nelson, Western Area Power Administration, November 2011“The ‘predictive maintenance’ strategy may be the most cost effective of all O&M strategies, because it reduces maintenance costs and breakdown frequency, increases machine life and productivity, and reduces spare parts inventories and the use of overtime.”
– Windpower Engineering & Development, February 27, 2012“Wind power, the fastest growing alternate source of energy, is witnessing a worldwide investment increase.”
– McKinsey Quarterly, October 2011“Large-scale data gathering and analytics are quickly becoming a new frontier of competitive differentiation.”
– The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), February 1, 2012“Mobile enablement. The single biggest improvement to field productivity is the introduction of mobile devices and applications that allow field engineers to access corporate knowledgebases and training videos in real time, making every engineer an expert on any product.”
– Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), August 30, 2012“The U.K.’s supply of wind-generated power is consistent enough to be relied on during peak demand periods, while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research.”
– National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), April, 2012“According to Wiser and Bolinger, O&M costs increase as projects age.”
– AWEA, 2012“By the end of 2012, over $50 billion worth of wind installations in the U.S. will be out of warranty, leaving the owner with the financial risk of providing cost-effective operation and maintenance.”
– Stanford study in USA Today, May 7, 2012“73% support tax breaks for wind and solar power.”
– Clint Wheelock, President, Pike Research (Press Release, October 13, 2012)“The DOD is positioned to become the single most important driver of the cleantech revolution in the United States.”
– Pike Research Press Release, October 12, 2012“’During the period from 2012 through 2020,’ the study concludes, ‘mining companies will invest a total of $82.5 billion in energy conservation measures and renewable energy technologies.’”
– Clean Edge, November 30, 2012“For the first time since it began integrating wind into market operations in 2006, actual wind output surpassed 10,000 megawatts in MISO, the regional grid operator for 11 states and the Canadian province of Manitoba.”
– Management Research Group, January 2013“O&M costs 20-30% of the total annual cost of a wind turbine”