Wind Farm Monitoring And Control Conference 2014

Registration And Refreshments

Chair's Opening Remarks

Karl Merz, Engineer,  Sintef

Widening Wind Farm Control To Optimise Overall Performance

• The Iberwind portfolio and future plans

• Iberwind's internally developed SCADA system

• Integrating machine monitoring information into standard SCADA systems
• Wind Farm power and voltage output control
• Performing reliability analysis

Achieving Widened Wind Farm Control In Offshore Situations

• Building a monitoring tool for more accurate offshore supervision
• Collecting offshore turbine data from multiple OEM products
• How best to amalgamate multiple data sets for control room supervision

• Assessing the balance between operational returns from assets and long term maintenance strategy

Networking Break And Morning Refreshments

Tapping Into The Full Potential Of Your Wind Farm

• Yaw misalignments and the general poor assessment of wind turbine performance because of the nacelle anemometer

• iSpin technology

• ROMO Wind products and services

Brian Soerensen, Managing Director,   Romo Wind A/S

Rating Turbines For Optimal Power Output

• From wind turbine control to wind farm operation

• Active wake control solution

• Wind farm power increase and load reduction

Networking Lunch

Remote Monitoring For Better Turbine Health

• Remote monitoring to boost yield and reduce cost
• Maintenance optimisations and the role of remote monitoring
• Integrating remote monitoring into O&M strategy

Condition Monitoring Algorithms For Improved Turbine Use

• What can state of the art technology in condition monitoring currently achieve?
• How to overcome challenges to the improvement of remote monitoring

• The future path of condition monitoring

Networking Break And Afternoon Refreshments

The OWA FLIDAR Experience Of Wind Measurement

• The FLIDAR roadmap to viable commercial deployment
• Validation campaign for effective operation in offshore environments
• Efficacy of FLIDAR in primary wind data collection

Turbine Mounted Lidar For Performance Measurement, Optimisation And Control

• Applications of turbine mounted lidar: turbine performance measurement, turbine performance optimisation and turbine control

• On-turbine lidar mounting options: nacelle mounting, spinner mounting and blade mounting

• A digression – floating lidars

• The outlook for turbine lidar

Chair's Closing Remarks 

Close Of Day 1