GE Renewable Energy Introduces New Suite of Digital Wind Farm Apps
May 24 2016 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
- Five software applications built to
enhance annual energy production and improve wind farm
profitability
- Industrial wind apps include Energy
Forecasting for business strategy optimization, Wind PowerUp*
Services and Digital Plan of the Day to streamline site operations,
and Diagnostics & Prognostics for turbine-level asset
performance management
- All apps are built on GE’s Predix*
software platform and include cyber security protection for
operational technology
Today at the American Wind Energy Association’s WINDPOWER 2016
event, GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) introduced a new software
applications suite for its Digital Wind Farm ecosystem.
Offered as part of GE’s flexible service agreements, the apps
are compatible with the company’s new 2 MW and 3 MW wind turbines
and were developed to enhance annual energy production (AEP) and
improve wind farm profitability. The programs are built on the
Predix* software platform, the foundation for all GE’s Industrial
Internet applications, and include its specialized cyber security
protection for operational technology.
Anne McEntee, President & CEO of GE’s Onshore Wind business,
said “The Digital Wind Farm is changing the future of our industry.
We are actively working with our customers to develop new software
technology applications that generate more production, better
availability and ultimately higher profit across the lifecycle of a
wind farm.”
One such customer collaboration resulted in GE’s new Energy
Forecasting application. Developed in cooperation with Exelon Power
as a strategic way to improve wind farm profitability, the app
utilizes weather forecasting data to generate more accurate
financial modeling and better predict the next day’s grid supply
and demand fluctuations. It also offers real-time forecasting for
identifying production ramps throughout the day to improve
profitability for dispatchers and traders in PPA or merchant energy
markets.
Energy Forecasting was recently deployed for testing at four new
wind projects in the U.S., and Exelon expects the software will
deliver one-to-three percent of additional revenue per site.
In addition to business optimization, GE also unveiled two new
apps that help streamline wind farm operations. Digital Plan of the
Day is a scheduling application that improves operations and
maintenance efficiency for field service teams. The app combines a
variety of disparate data sets, including SCADA information,
diagnostic readings, weather conditions and even geolocation data,
to organize and prioritize daily maintenance schedules across a
site.
The second operations-focused app is the next generation of GE’s
popular Wind PowerUp* Services platform, which is now capable of
increasing a wind farm’s annual energy production by up to ten
percent. The newest version of PowerUp Services builds on GE’s
earlier capabilities in making small hardware and software
adjustments based on performance and reliability data, but now it
expands the concept by introducing an iterative tuning process to
monitor a site’s specific wind environment and lock in the
appropriate settings based on the most current information
available.
“When we initially launched PowerUp Services a few years ago, we
were using historical data to make hardware and software
adjustments that would yield up to five percent more AEP,” explains
McEntee. “We’ve now taken all that learning from the initial
version and put it back into our software development to speed up
the adjustment cycle and generate more value for our customers.
Today, PowerUp Services is capable of delivering up to the double
the AEP improvements of just a few years ago. That’s the benefit of
the Digital Wind Farm—it’s always learning.”
The final two applications in GE’s new wind software suite are
focused on asset performance management. The Diagnostics app uses
operating data for advanced anomaly detection analysis and then
incorporates that analysis into a detailed case management and
recommendation system. The Prognostics app uses operating,
maintenance and inspection data to project future operating
conditions and predict turbine component reliability.
By shifting from unplanned outages to predictive maintenance,
the Diagnostics and Prognostics apps can help wind farm operators
reduce maintenance costs by up to 10 percent.
Many of the new applications introduced today are already being
deployed with pilot customers, and they will be broadly available
as part of GE’s flexible service agreements beginning later this
year.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company,
transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions
that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized
around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through
which each business shares and accesses the same technology,
markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels
innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With
people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes
for customers by speaking the language of industry. www.ge.com
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