Event Overview
The conference itself is TBM Group’s 7th edition of what has been one of the most popular tailor made conferences, fully dedicated to Wind & WTG Onshore Operations, Maintenance & Life-Cycle Management. It is an event that brings together professionals and industry experts from the Global Wind industry, including: Wind Turbine manufacturers (OEMs), Wind farm developers, owners and operators, various solution providers, university professors, R&D Centers and regulatory bodies.
The conference highlights the newest industry advancements, best practices, and future trends shaping the landscape through inspiring presentations, engaging panel discussions, cutting-edge case studies and networking opportunities.
Why This Event Now
30,000 wind turbines around the world have already entered the second half or they are very close of reaching end of life of their 20-25-year design life, already having long since fallen out of standard manufacturer warranties. The turbines now increasingly attracting the attention of O&M technicians are bigger, heavier, taller and much more complex than their predecessors. The rise in installations from 2010 was accompanied by significant shifts upwards in nameplate capacity, tower heights, rotor-blade lengths and operating reliability. This enabled wind development at sites previously considered economically unviable on the grounds of, among other things, low wind speeds and extreme temperatures, remote and hard-to-access locations, hilly and forested terrains. The O&M sector’s challenges will grow alongside the expansion in the number of turbines it services, and their technical demands. The next generation of Multi MW onshore machines, with rotor diameters of at least 150 meters, mounted on 160-metre towers, pose a number of questions for future maintenance regimes. The cost and availability of cranes with sufficient lift and height capacity to replace, say, a gearbox, is a key priority for operators.
Key conference presentations:
– Strengthening partnerships between owners and OEM’s
– Tower & foundation end-of-life
– Strategies for O&M beyond design life time. Reliability estimation and prediction
– O&M Contracts Under Stress: Claims, Liability, and Performance Enforcement in Real Operations
– Late-Life Wind Asset Management: Life Extension, Risk-Based O&M & Investment Decisions
– What are operators expecting from the next generation turbines
– AI transformation in Operations / AI Use Cases that are actually in use
– Benefits of usage of refurbished and remanufactured spare parts
– Cybersecurity
– Structural Health Monitoring – AI Acoustic Diagnostics System in operation
– Biodiversity and bird protection systems
– How and when to focus on the life time cycle of the WT in different ages, like: 1-5 / 5-10 / 10-15 and 15-20 years
– Wind Turbine Underperformance
– The challenges of changing maintenance schemes (In-house to subcontractor back to OEM or vice versa)
– Leading edge erosion in blades and preventive methods
– Virtual testing and digitalization
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SPEAKERS
Sonia Lileo (PhD)
Head of Asset Management
Fu-Gen, Sweden
Faisal Eissa
Director of Asset Management
Infinity Power, Egypt
Paula Perez
Senior Wind Engineer
Nuveen Infrastructure
Geoff Hoffheinz
Managing Director, Chief Engineer
Nuveen Infrastructure
Juho Lumia
Head of Diagnostics & Prognostics
Nordex Energy, Germany
James Barry
Chief Executive
Renewable Parts, UK
Hanna Berg Vollan
Technical Manager
Fortum, Norway
Greg Thomas
Independent Consultant – Wind Turbine Drivetrain (Gearbox) & Services Engineering
Skyview Renewables, Spain
Sébastien Lemaire
Director of Operations AWEO
Akuo Energy, France
Kapil Kumar
President - Asset Management (Renewables)
BluPine Energy, India
Neerav Nanavaty
CEO
BluPine Energy, India
Ennio Di Palma
Asset Performance Director
Red Rocket, South Africa
Dr. Lars Osterbrink
CTO
LATODA, Germany
Simon Bagasha
Facility Manager
Red Rocket, South Africa
Matthias Vittinghoff
Key Account Manager Service CEU & EEU and Global Lead THRIVE Partnership Agreements
ZF Group, Germany
