Digital Wind Operations Optimization from GE Renewable Energy Enhance the performance and efficiency of your people and machines to drive outcomes
Operations Optimization Business Challenges Solution: Operations Optimization In Renewables, in order continue growing as a share of overall generation, it all comes down to 2 things: driving down the levelized cost of energy and managing the impacts of an inherently unpredictable fuel source. Executives must prioritize new investments in alignment with the best business opportunities, which often entails changing the operating model of parts of their fleet. Managers focus on meeting daily operations within budget. If the head of operations can t see the real availability of a farm to meet demand, then money is left on the table. Arming people with the right data and powerful analytics can improve the return on existing assets and deliver smarter operational results over time. Digital Wind Operations Optimization is designed to help wind farms tackle operational issues, meet business demand, align people and systems, and maximize AEP while still reducing cost and downtime. Operations Optimization isn t just about decreasing costs and increasing AEP it s about redefining the future. Now energy generation leaders can align operation priorities to business strategy at scale across their fleet. Operations Optimization delivers results regardless of OEM. Operations Optimization delivers proactive recommendations by analyzing internal data, historical operational data, or external information in order to inform key resources, reduce production costs, and enhance flexibility. From site managers to CEOs, every level can tap into consistent visibility across systems, getting insight to act towards optimal operational excellence. Operations Optimization is a cloud-based suite that provides Key Performance Indicator (KPI)-focused analytics to multiple levels of the customer s organization. This enables a consistent view of operations, allowing better and faster decision making. It s built on credible data and advanced analytics, and improves the performance of power plants. Operations Optimization not only shows organizations where they re performing today, but provides recommendations on operational changes that will influence a more positive outcome over the long term. Real customer results: Turbines Optimized Customers / Wind Farms Around the World Estimated TWh and value (USD) of additional generation Number of sites using Digital Plan of the Day
Operations Evaluation It is imperative for the executive team to align the organization from the boardroom to the fleet and drive to strategic objectives. Operations Evaluation provides high-level performance metrics with assignable targets and alarm levels to drive improvements in performance, operational flexibility, and system reliability in order to achieve an overall improvement in return on assets. Operations Evaluation Functions Delivered: Performance Indicators can better understand the current operating conditions of the fleet in order to align to operating models and business objectives such as performance, operational flexibility, and system reliability to drive improvement. Benchmarking can establish and compare ideal baselines for performance, availability, reliability, dispatch, and financial performance. This visibility into (near) real- time operations of each farm compared to expected operating conditions or to similar farms in the fleet help central operational teams make better decisions across the entire system. *Customer results are not indicative of guaranteed outcomes.
Fleet Excellence Fleet Excellence is a cloud based software product for asset managers of renewable energy portfolio, that allows them to meet their project production plan by providing visibility into production losses of actual vs. expected, insights and root cause analysis for the losses and recommendations for tactical and strategic actions to address them and increase revenue. Features Fleet Excellence product provides visibility, insights and tactical and strategic actions through the following features: Ability to upload expected production and expected resource plans Drill down capability from Fleet to Site to Turbine for: Production loss assessment of actual vs. planned production Lost production walk through IEC standard categorization Root cause analysis based on production loss category Recommended actions to address category based production loss Customer KPIs Addressed by Operations Optimization Related Products PowerUP: Increase Annual Energy Production through software enhancements that shift the power curve to maximize output from turbines. Use WFV to see potential AEP increase given site specific conditions. Already have PowerUP? Wind Fleet Excellence can show the increase in AEP from your PowerUP installation. PulsePOINT: Transfer unplanned maintenance to planned maintenance through PulsePOINT s anomaly detection analytics. Use Wind Fleet Excellence to track new anomalies and recommended resolutions in real time and communicate back to the PulsePOINT team experts. Benefits Provides means to account for every lost MWhr of production Reduce Production loss based on IEC through actionable recommendations Provide actionable performance, availability, curtailment Loss insights Production loss risk management based on Down Time Availability, Curtailment, Performance and other IEC categorization. Technology Multi-generational application powered by the Predix* platform Advanced proprietary analytics that: Reconcile actual asset performance against expectations Provide performance, operability & parameter based analysis and actionable insights Identify outlier turbines based on operation and availability Flag changes in performance and deliver root causes and actionable insights Incorporates data from multiple source including SCADA and resource data Incorporates actionable insights from APM products for availability.
Customer Benefits Operations Optimization helps customers: Easily track metrics and identify performance deviations on the fleet, site and turbine level Improved site efficiency: less time spent compiling tasks, creating reports, managing spreadsheets, and planning your day Measure incremental AEP gains with an uncertainty of less than 0.5% UP TO 5% INCREASED AEP WITH UP TO 10% DECREASE IN PLANNED COST $600K PER WIND TURBINE GENERATOR (WTG) IN FIELD SERVICE PRODUCTIVITY PowerUp Wind PowerUp* Services is a customized platform, combining software and hardware-enabled technologies, to increase wind farm output. Features Real-time enhancement of wind farm production levels based on turbine-specific environmental, operational and economic conditions. Ability to learn and optimize operations based on historical performance data Secure wind farm connection to the Industrial Internet thanks to Predix*-ready gateway device utilization Simplified project evaluation, using an outcome-based validation approach to calculate gains in annual energy production Pipeline of new adaptive controls features in development to further enhance performance gains Benefits Increase annual energy production of your wind farm by up to 10% Cost is based on validated performance improvements with GE s flexible, outcome-based commercial offering (OPEX, CAPEX) Measure incremental AEP gains with an uncertainty of less than 0.5% Technology Detailed loads, reliability and performance analysis utilizing historical SCADA data to lock in turbine settings from an iterative tuning process for fine-tuned wind turbine operation and enhanced energy production Predix* platform software analysis of each asset s configuration, performance and operational history along with environmental conditions of the site to determine the potential increase in annual energy production using digital twin technology.
Digital Plan of the Day Digital Plan of the Day (DPOD) is a full reliability-centered maintenance application intended to improve site operations and profitability. By consolidating work activities, optimizing daily schedules, maintaining historical records, and automating standardized reporting, the application simplifies daily site operations, while reducing operating costs and increasing worker productivity. Features Consolidated task management, providing single source for all tasks Automated scheduling algorithm for optimized daily planning Integrated ESCADA and Diagnostics to provide automatic unplanned task creation and visibility into real time turbine status (integration contingent upon purchase of those products) Simplified summary of key data needed for daily operations, including 24-hour weather, performance metrics, etc. Standardized reporting and communication for stakeholders and technician dispatch. Benefits Improved site efficiency: less time spent compiling tasks, creating reports, managing spreadsheets, and planning your day Smart planning: Consolidate tasks for better visibility Enhanced production: Prioritize maintenance decisions with turbine specific production forecasts Technology Multi-generational application powered by the Predix* platform Incorporates tasks and data from many sources including SCADA, PulsePOINT*, punchlists, emails, and weather to manage all site tasks Advanced planning algorithm analyzes site-specific attributes, including production forecasts, turbine locations, and crew availability to recommend an optimized schedule for each day that maximizes efficiency and production
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