Deutsche WindGuard WindGuard North America Varel / Berlin /Bremerhaven, Germany Goderich, Canada info@windguard.de www.windguard.de Test- and Calibration Laboratory with Quality Management System according to EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Slide 1 Deutsche WindGuard GmbH Deutsche WindGuard Consulting, Varel Company profile Deutsche WindGuard Wind Tunnel Services, Varel Deutsche WindGuard Dynamics, Berlin Deutsche WindGuard Engineering, Bremerhaven Deutsche WindGuard Knowledge, Bremerhaven business start: 2000-12-01 number of staff members: 50 high qualified staff (physicists, engineers, technicians) with long year experience in wind engineering and R&D working fields: services in wind engineering area of activities: worldwide Varel, Berlin, Bremerhaven, Godrich (Ont. Kanada) WindGuard North America, Kanada Slide 2
Accreditation Quality Management System according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Test laboratory for Wind turbine power curve testing, Wind Measurements and Energy Yield Prediction by German Accreditation Office (DAP), Berlin; Under progress: Inspection of wind turbines Calibration laboratory for DKD-Calibration of wind speed measurement sensors by German Calibration Office (DKD), Braunschweig MEASNET-Accreditation for Wind turbine power curve testing and Anemometer Calibration Slide 3 Scope of Services in the different areas of wind energy Manufacturing & Installation Aerodynamics & research Dynamical Optimisation Commissioning / Technical inspections WT Performance testing Wind farm operation Technical management Technical inspections & tests ZOP/WP Technical Optimisation Data services Planning and development Tender / contract consulting Due diligence & banks engineering Feasibility studies Energy yield assessments Wind measurements Research & Studies Wind tunnel centre Anemometer calibration Studies Political consulting Slide 4
Clients Manufacturing & Installation Turbine manufacturers Rotor blade manufacturer Project developer Planning and development Project developer Investors Banks Financers Foreign aid organisations Wind farm operation Investment funds Wind farm owners/operators Utilities Manufacturer Research & Studies Federal ministries Project agancies Foreign aid organisations Turbine manufacturer Project developer Slide 5 Site and Energy Yield Assessment Conception of wind measurements Evaluation of power curves with respect to site and anemometer used Energy yield prediction under minimisation of uncertainties Detailed evaluation of prediction uncertainties Risk analysis Provision of bankable expertises Site classification according to IEC standards Slide 6
Project Due Diligence (Banks Engineering) Performance of project due diligence and of risk analysis for more than 200 projects, e.g. for Nord LB Bremer Landesbank Key Bank DZ-Bank Commerzbank Deutsche Immobilien Leasing (Deutsche Bank) KfW Macquaries Development of a risk management system for wind farm financers and developers Slide 7 Wind resource mapping and feasibility studies Slide 8
Wind Measurements High quality equipment, e.g. in Belgium, Chile, Colombia, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Mali, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Tunesia, Turkey, UK, USA Masts up to 135 m height Remote sensing with LIDAR or SODAR Calibration / test site for LIDAR Slide 9 Power Performance Measurements WT power curve testing and certification e.g. Enercon E-126, rotor diameter: 127 m, rated power 6.0 MW, (one of the largest turbines in the world) Scientific framework program for investigation of meteorological aspects and development of new measurement procedures Check and adaptation of power curves, assessment of power curves to be used for guarantees Slide 10
Technical Management by Deutsche WindGuard Number of wind turbines: 131 turbines are currently managed by Deutsche WindGuard In 24 wind farms and single sites With a total capacity of 293 MW 5 years successful operation of wind farm Quingdao, China Size of the turbines: 600kW to 6000kW Manufacturers: Enercon: E44, E70, E82 E126 Gamesa: G80 Nordex: N60, N62 Siemens / Bonus: AN1,3, AN2MW Repower: 5M Vestas: V42, V66, V80 Multibrid: M5000 Slide 11 Commissioning, Technical Inspection and Supervision technical wind farm commissioning repeated technical inspections wind turbine revision turbine inspection according to the recommendation Condition oriented operation and maintenance Slide 12
30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 v [m/s] Wind Farm Data Management WONDER turns your data into information Compatible to all WTG SCADA systems Unified data handling from different wind farms Storage of complete SCADA time series with fail safe backup system Storage and handling of complete wind turbine history and all technical features Unified analysis of energy production and fault messages Analysis of operational data Data access via WWW Slide 13 Wind Farm Analysis P [kw] power performance analysis (e.g. by means of SCADA-data, nacelle anemometry, wind farm power curve) analysis of wind turbine control evaluation of production losses survey of technical availability fault analysis optimisation Slide 14
Vibration Measurements on Wind Turbines Rotor unbalance testing Diagnosis of mechanical condition of mechanical drive train, rotor and nacelle (according to the recommendation Condition oriented operation and maintenance) Condition Monitoring Slide 15 Condition Monitioring and Vibration Testing Main bearing Gear box Generator rotor speed MP 1 MP 3 MP 6 MP 7 MP 8 MP 9 MP 2 MP 4 MP 5 Slide 16
Offshore site assessment studies, mainly on grid connection advise and participation in the planning of offshore wind farms Assessment of wind farm projects Slide 17 Offshore technical management development of offshore concepts offshore inspections consulting in offshore operation Slide 18
Studies and advising R&D, Studies, Political Consultation Advisor to the Federal German Ministry for Environment (BMU) for Revision of the German Renewable Energy Law Power Performance: further development of wind turbine power performance testing and description in the frame of measurements at the Enercon E-112, E-126 (sponsor Enercon) study on power performance comparison of all major WT types (sponsor WT manufacturer) Anemometry: cup anemometer classification for a major anemometer manufacturer to specify the quality an to gain comparability Offshore Wind Energy (for BMU, German Wind Energy Association, Greenpeace): further development of wind energy international activities and experience of the utilization of wind energy ecological influences of offshore wind farm grid connections Slide 19 Wind Tunnel Center DKD Calibration WT Since: 2003 Varel, Germany Aeroacoustic WT Since: 2007 Bremerhaven, Germany Icing WT Since: July 2009 (planned) Varel, Germany New Calibration WT will be ready by end of 2009 Source: fmi.fi Slide 20
Classification and calibration of anemometers (Wind Tunnel of Deutsche WindGuard) accreditation by German Calibration Office (DKD) classification of anemometers according to IEC 61400-12-1, (e.g. open field testing) Development of new anemometers and wind measurement techniques operation of own certified wind tunnel Slide 21 Accustically optimised Wind Tunnel for rotor blade development Wind Speed range: 0 75 m/s / 0 40 m/s Area: 5 m² / 11m² Measurement length: 12m Noise level: 60 db at 40 m/s Power: 960 kw (1.920 kw) Objective: Optimisation of rotor blade profiles, wind farm design, aerodynamic and aero-acoustical research Slide 22
Wind Tunnel Overview Turning Vanes with Sound Absorber, Corner 2 Turning Vanes with Sound Absorber, Corner 3 6 Fans Inverters Flow Straightener Honneycomb and Mesh WT 2 Turning Vanes with Sound Absorber, Corner 1 Test Section WT 1 Collector Nozzle 2 Nozzle 1 Settling Chamber Turning Vanes with Sound Absorber, Corner 4 Slide 23 Country, in which Deutsche WindGuard is working: Europe: e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK outside Europe: e.g. Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Mali, Pacific Region, Senegal, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, USA, Venezuela, Yemen Slide 24
International Projects Columbia Wind farm JEPIRACHI (20MW) Advisor in project development to utility of Medellin Power curve verification USA Wind measurements Wind potential study Imbalance and rotor blade testing China Technical management wind farm QINGDAO energy yield assessment Training Taiwan wind farm planning (450 MW) Consulting for grid operator Brazil wind measurements Chile Wind measurements Wind farm development Turbine installation Senegal Project approval Wind measurements Mali Wind measurements Layout calculations Wind- Diesel-Network 2MW Tunesia Feasibility Study Consulting for 160MW Wind programme 8 Wind measurements and Potential analysis Turkey Wind measurements energy yield assessment Yemen Project approval India Project due Diligence Tubine dynamic testing Australia Turbine testing Pacific Training Indonesia 12 wind measurements energy yield assessment Wind potential maps Feasibility Study Slide 25 BTC - Business Technology Consulting Industrial Sectors / Company Growth Sales Manufacturing industry Utilities Telecommunications Automotive Public sector Logistics Employees Furniture industry Retail BTC location BTC projects Consumer products Slide 26
BTC - Business Technology Consulting Utility applications Power-system control GIS solutions Data processing, web applications, SAP integration, geo-marketing, mobile solutions ERP and CRM with SAP Slide 27 BTC - Business Technology Consulting Wind Farm Center - Overview Online system monitoring resource planning and resource allocation technical control and wind asset planning Specific User Applications Wind Farm Center Control Room Wind Farm Center Manager Wind Farm Center Cockpit Backend Systems Wind Farm Center Control System Wind Farm Center Resource Planning Wind Farm Center Performance Management Database Wind Farm Center Process Database and Life Cycle Record Slide 28
BTC - Business Technology Consulting Wind Farm Center - BARD BARD Engineering GmbH, Emden Project size: 400 MW (80 x 5 MW) Platform with substation to be manned with O&M teams (40 people) At least one vessel for O&M on site BARD owned self-elevating installation vessel Slide 29 BTC - Business Technology Consulting Wind Farm Center alpha ventus Contractors: EWE, E.ON, and Vattenfall First offshore farm in Germany Project size: 60 MW (12 x 5 MW) 6 x Multibrid M5000 6 x REpower 5M, Platform with unmanned substation Slide 30
Technical Services of Deutsche WindGuard Periodic inspection Logistics Investigation of damages Machine expertise Valuation Expert evidence Technical management Supervision Condition tracing Safety Unbalance Blade pitch Dynamic Loads WT measurements Technical Services Organisation of O&M Service Normal repair Large repair Power curves Vibration analysis (CMS) Technical consulting Contracts Project evaluation WT technology Slide 31