ERG and ONYX Insight enable in-house monitoring of European wind portfolio
Italian renewable energy producer ERG has signed a five-year deal with ONYX Insight to use their cloud-based analytics platform fleetMONITOR to increase component lead times and reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs.
The software has been rolled out to over 250 wind turbines in Italy, Germany and France, aiming to support ERG with optimising O&M of its fleet.
According to ERG, the energy producer has used the software’s data processing to transform its legacy condition monitoring system (CMS) data acquisition to enhance in-house diagnostics.
It has also reportedly afforded ERG the capability to self-monitor turbine health across its mixed fleet using one platform.
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Data analytics and engineering firm ONYX Insight supported ERG through the setup and configuration of the fleetMONITOR software and is continuing to assist with in-depth training.
Sven Thiesen, European sales & engineering director, ONYX Insight, stated: “We look forward to helping more wind farm owners across Europe extract additional value from their investments while streamlining their operations. The software subscription model is fast changing the landscape in wind energy O&M, so it is crucial that independent service providers remain agile to meet customer needs.”
Europe’s wind sector is becoming increasingly diversified, with the portfolios of mixed fleets containing multiple turbine models of different ages. According to ONYX, this has challenged traditional O&M practices.
The use of legacy CMS that provides inadequate data and inefficient failure detection has also complicated the picture for wind farm operators. This is particularly true as they look to scale up their predictive maintenance programmes.
According to ONYX, successful analytics requires high-quality data and failure detection to deliver the most accurate results, but this is often lacking with outdated CMS.
