Optimizing Wind Power Performance

Optimizing Wind Power Performance27- 28 September 2011, Summit Executive Center, Chicago, United States

As $40 Billion worth of equipment comesout of warranty, is your firm ready to:

� Hear from Acciona Energy, the leadinginternational wind power developer andoperator with 5514 MW installed globally?

� See the additional measures you will have toput in place to comply with the OHSAguidelines to ensure worker health and safety?

� Reduce the negative impact of poor designby understanding the effect of early-stageconstruction upon long term operations?

� Close the gap between breakdown andrepair to drastically reduce downtime and lost revenue?

� Develop a strategy that enforces a pre-emptive approach to maintenance througheffective training?

� Turn a plethora of data into knowledge thatcan be used to aid decision-making?

Developing an O&M strategy for long-term peak performance

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Wind Project Success 26 September 2011

Eduardo Perez,Vice President, Operations, Wind Capital Group

862.1 MW installed

José Peñarrubia,Director of Construction, Acciona Energy

5,514 MW installed globally

Dr Karl-Heinz Mertins,Director Technology & Operations, Exelon Wind

735 MW installed

Dan Juhl,Chief Executive Officer, Juhl Wind

117 MW installed

Jean Lemaire,Chief Operating Officer, Akuo Energy & Chairman,e-begreen

244.1 MW installed

John Yost, Vice President, Operations, E.ON Climate & RenewablesNorth America

3870 MW installed

Todd Karasek, VP of Environmental Health,Safety & Security, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation

Kevin Borgia, Executive Director,Illinois Wind Energy Association

Sue Ellen Haupt, ScientificProgram Manager, WeatherSystems Assessment Program, National Center for AtmosphericResearch

Clint Ramberg, Director of Wind Access, Spider

Peter Wells, Chief Operating Officer, Upwind Solutions

Bruce Hamilton, Director, Energy, Navigant Consulting

Steve Spethmann, Supply Chain Director, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation

Diarmaid Mulholland, GeneralManager, Global Wind Services, GE Energy

John Vanden Bosche, Principal Engineer, Chinook Wind

Courtney Faller, Director of Operations, TI-data

Rich Norton, Manager, AssetManagement & Procurement, S&C Electric Company

Doug Taylor, Business Development –Renewable Energy, OSIsoft, LLC

Eric Endreszl, Head of Training and Manager ofOperations, USCA

Jennifer States, Program Manager, Wind and WaterPower Technologies, Pacific Northwest NationalLaboratory

Todd Daniels,Director of Operations, Sexton Companies

Scott Hendricks, ProjectManager, Sexton Companies

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“I can only encourage people to attend Optimizing Wind Power. Itwill be the perfect place to start collaboration!”

(Jean Lemaire, Chief Operating Officer, Akuo Energy & Chairman, e-begreen, Speaker, Optimizing Wind Power Performance 2010 and 2011)

Hear from companies with more than 11.342 GW online

• Exelon Wind explain how to deal with warranty expiration across adiverse fleet of wind turbines

• Acciona & Akuo Energy/e-begreen discuss how you can reduce theimpact of poor decisions at the design phase by connectingdevelopment and operations teams

• E.On Climate and Renewables explain what you need to do todevelop an O&M strategy for the long-run

• The Illinois Wind Association & Others debate the additionalmeasures you will have to put in place to comply with OccupationalSafety & Health Administration guidelines

• The National Center for Atmospheric Research provide an essentialupdate on the effect of meteorological variability on grid integration

• 25+ Expert speakers discuss the latest thinking on the warranty exitprocess, pre-emptive wind farm maintenance, wind park datamanagement, condition monitoring, preventative maintenance,SCADA, reducing wind farm capital costs and improving theperformance and reliability of wind turbines and much much more

You will meet the very people driving theindustry forward such as: Chief OperatingOfficers, Chief Technical Officers, ChiefEngineers, Chief Executive Officers andVice Presidents of Asset Management,representing:

� Wind farm owners/operators

� Wind project developers

� Wind power integrators and installers

� Wind technology developers andmanufacturers – wind turbinemanufacturers, OEMs, windcomponent manufacturers

� O&M technical and service providers

� Utilities

� Transmission system operators,planners, and reliability authorities

As well as:

� Energy analysts, environmental andengineering consultants and industrypress

� Wind power technology research anddevelopment companies

� Original equipment manufacturers

Who will you meet?

2050+ attendees from companies across the entirewind power value chain including:Utilities: RWE • Vattenfall • E.ON Climate &Renewables • Dong Energy • ScottishPower Renewables • Centrica • SSE • EDPRenovaveis • Eneco • Statkraft • Statoil •ENBW • RWE Innogy • RWE npower • EestiEnergia • EDF • Electrabel • InternationalPower- GDF Suez • Areva Renewables •Korean Southern Power Company

Developers:Mainstream Renewable Power • SeaEnergyRenewables • Belwind • IberdrolaRenovables • Acciona Energy • Cape Wind• NaiKun Wind Energy • Deepwater Wind •Fishermen's Energy of New Jersey • NRGBluewater Wind • La Compagnie Du Vent •Evelop • Apex Offshore Wind • enXco •New Jersey Board of Public Utilities •Terna Energy • Eolfi • Acciona Energia

Investors:Morgan Stanley • Citigroup • Goldman Sachs •RBS • BNP Paribas • Fortis • RBC CapitalMarkets • Santander • Dexia • Rabobank •European Investment Bank • EBRD • EnergyCapital Partners • Global Capital Finance •Bayerische Landesbank • KfW • EKF • NIBCBank • Hg Capital • Platina Partners • SiemensProject Ventures • Marubeni Corporation

OEMs, Suppliers & Service Providers:Siemens Energy • Siemens Transmission &Distribution • Gamesa • Vestas • REpower• Mitsubishi Corporation • Enercon •Goldwind • GE Energy • Bard Engineering• Nordex • Alstom • Fluor • DNV • ERM •Garrad Hassan • Hansen Transmission •Lahmeyer International • Clipper •Ramboll • SGS • Sinovel

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Leaders: 115+ leading utilities, developers and wind farm owners havegiven case studies

Productive: Over 2050 high-level executives have attended our windevents with over 55% Board-level/Director level

Geography: Participants from over 45 countries have attended our windpower series to date

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Pre-Conference:

The Key Factors forWind Project Success 26 September 2011

Uncover the key factors that contribute to projectsuccess. Accessible to those with limited technicalknowledge, new to or seeking to widen their viewof the sector, this course provides a comprehensiveand commercially-focused overview of the windpower business.

In particular the course discusses:

• The various economic and cash flow parameters,including levelized cost

• The critical location and wind farm planningfactors, including scale and layout

• Criteria for the selection of technologies,including turbine trends, operating ranges andstructural limits

• Field data from wind farm operations, and theimplications for O&M within lifecycle costs: whatcan go wrong, what does and how often?

• The interface with the grid, including problems of curtailment

• Recommended routes to mitigate ongoingoperations and maintenance challenges

• Optimizing wind power performance in a post-warranty environment

About your trainer: Professor Robert Latorre hasbeen involved in power plant and marineengineering for the past 30 years. He has beeninvolved in a number of energy related onshore andoff-shore projects and currently teaches OceanEnergy Harvesting at the University of Maryland MScprogram in Sustainable Energy Engineering.

For more details, please visitwww.greenpoweracademy.com or call +1 971 228 0308

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“Excellent. Quite markedly the quality of thecontent in the formal presentations was

outstanding” (FW, Mainstream Renewable Power, Wind Power Finance and Investment

Congress 2010, London, 6-7 July 2010)

Day One: 27 September 2011

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:00 Opening address from the chair Bruce Hamilton, Director, Energy,

Navigant Consulting

A Fresh Take on O&M

09:15 Out the Gate Optimization • Planning – EH&S, Equipment – Warranty – Spare Parts Program – Budgets • Stakeholders – Who are they? – Determine specific contacts. – Build relationships early – Understand needs/limits of stakeholders • Communications-Protocols – Develop procedures – Face-to-face meetings – Challenge contractors • Summary – First 2 years of O&M most critical – Create base-lines or benchmarks – Increase Life-Cycle of equipment – Optimize Production/Revenue

Eduardo Perez, Vice President, Operations, Wind Capital Group

09:45 Designing an O&M Strategy for the LongRun

• Making the decision between outsourcing and maintainingoperations in-house

• Managing the end of the warranty process and getting themost out of OEMs

• How will O&M strategies evolve post-warranty?

John Yost, Vice President, Operations, E.ON Climate & Renewables

10:15 Asset Management Beyond the Turbine • Why is Asset Management important? • Preventive Maintenance versus Condition Based Monitoring • What Asset Management strategy is most optimal? • The O&M impact of your electrical infrastructure • Assessing ROI of your O&M dollars

Rich Norton, Manager, Asset Management & Procurement, S&C Electric Company

10:45 Networking refreshment break

Dealing with Warranty Expiration

11:15 Preparing for a Post Warranty Scenario Acrossa Diverse Fleet

• Understanding the business objectives: owner-specific KPIs • Reviewing realistic options: brand-specific pros and cons • Applying a strategic supplier selection process: vested

outsourcing • Building an organization: “People, Parts, and Paperwork”

Dr Karl-Heinz Mertins,Director Technology & Operations, Exelon Wind

11:45 Interactive Q&A session

OSHA Health and Safety Requirements

12:00 Update on OSHA Compliant Training Programs • Mechanical and operational requirements • Accident, incident and near-miss reporting and investigation

and TRIR (total reportable incident rate) • Site safety audits, requirements and the impact on cost • Additional equipment, first aid and safety • Ensuring safety in a high-voltage environment Moderated by:

Kevin Borgia, Executive Director,Illinois Wind Energy Association

Panellists include:

Eric Endreszl, Head of Training and Manager ofOperations, USCA

Todd Karasek, VP of Environmental Health, Safety &Security, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation

12:45 Networking lunch break

Connecting Planning & Development to Operations

2:15 Design, Build and Construction and its Effecton Operations

• Understanding how you design and build from an O&M pointof view

• Construction to maximize production • The importance of engaging O&M expertise at the beginning

of a project

José Peñarrubia, Director of Construction, Acciona Energy

2:45 Developing a Lean Wind Farm Or how the integration of wind resource, reliability,

availability and O&M from the start, achieves superiorperformance and lower risk.

• The link between short-term design/development issues andlong-term profitability and O&M aspects

• Short-term thinking doesn’t lead to long-term dividends • Tools available allowing to visualize and quantify long-term

aspects of the performance of a wind farm • How to relate performance of a wind farm asset and its

organizational structure and technical design • Deploying a systems approach and aligning development

with O&M

Jean Lemaire, Chief Operating Officer, Akuo Energy& Chairman, e-begreen


3:45 Overcoming Setbacks & Restrictions in thePlanning Stage

Todd Daniels, Director of Operations, Sexton Companies

Scott Hendricks, Project Manager, Sexton Companies

4:15 Taking a Pre-emptive Approach toMaintenance and Ensuring Staff are On Board

• Defining a pre-emptive strategy: what is and what is nottolerable in terms of down time?

• The importance of turbine history and root cause analysis incontributing to efficient maintenance

• On-boarding staff: how do you ensure that they are thinkingand acting pro-actively?

Panellists include:

Dan Juhl, Chief Executive Officer, Juhl Wind Eduardo Perez, Vice President, Operations,

Wind Capital Group John Yost, Vice President, Operations, E.ON Climate

& Renewables

5:00 Questions from the audience

5:15 Closing remarks from the chair and end of day one

5:30 Networking drinks reception

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“This year's conference was outstanding and gave attendees themost up to date information on the emerging U.S. offshore wind

industry, the challenges it. I highly recommend it” (RG, PSEG Global and Garden State Offshore Energy, Offshore Wind Power

Congress, Boston, 1-2 February 2011)

tDay Two: 28 September 2011

09:00 Opening address from the chair John Vanden Bosche, Principal Engineer,

Chinook Wind

Commercially-Driven O&M

09:15 Streamlining Inventory Management andLogistics

• Reducing time to repair • Find out which components fail most often and which cannot

be stored on-site • How much is downtime being extended by unavailable parts? • Audit results (logged after events) • Quality (inspection ratings, how many are necessary and

how often?) • Economics of maintenance: – How much income should be set aside for long-term

maintenance? – Balancing maintenance of ageing equipment with profit-

generation – Capital-intensive parts

Peter Wells, Chief Operating Officer, UpwindSolutions

09:45 Reducing Blade and Tower Repair Costs withSuspended Access Platforms

• The importance of safe access solutions • Disadvantages & challenges of current access approaches • Best ways to evaluate workers' safety training programs • Training requirements for Suspended Platforms • Cost-effective blade and tower access methods that can

save time and money • Specific mobilization, installation and operating benefits to

increase productivity

Clint Ramberg, Director of Wind Access, Spider

10:15 When does Outsourcing Make Sense for yourBusiness?

• Is outsourcing an efficient and cost-effective solution? • When does outsourcing make sense and which functions

should you outsource? • Evaluating service and availability guarantees from a

commercial perspective • How mature are market solutions? Panellists include:

Steve Spethmann, Supply Chain Director, SuzlonWind Energy Corporation


Data Management

11:30 New Trends in Wind Farm Monitoring and DataManagement

Based on new capabilities to monitor the "heart beat" of anentire fleet of turbines and Operations Centers that collect,store, visualize, and analyze real time data, this discussion willexplore the latest trends in operational data management fromwind turbine equipment and how data collected and analyzed isbeing used to predict failures and prevent catastrophic loss.

• Direct controller integration to data management providesfull spectrum of operational data

• Automation in analysis of operational data with theintroduction of neural networks and trending statistics

• Fault detection and diagnosis have moved from techniciansin the field to engineering at operations centers, improvingefficiency

• Addition of storage capabilities such as batteries, pumpedstorage, and new storage technologies

• New equipment such as Synchrophasors provide a newdimension to power quality

Doug Taylor, Business Development – RenewableEnergy, OSIsoft

12:00 Building an Expert Knowledge Base toOptimize O&M

• Understand Cause: assemble and analyze all availablehistorical data to identify the most critical turbine failuresand to examine the root causes of those failures. Instead ofanalyzing the statistical trends of when components andturbines fail, this analyzes why components fail and howthey lead to turbine failure.

• Identify Conditions: with knowledge of Cause, utilizeArtificial Intelligence and Neuro Fuzzy logic to spotcorrelating patterns in historical data. This identifiesconditions that exist when the critical failures are stillpreventable, and enables an operator to develop a cause-based condition monitoring system.

• Develop Remedies: with knowledge of Cause and Conditionsin hand, create corrective maintenance actions to mitigateconditions that lead to failure. Solution requires workflowintegration to actually avoid the failure and deliveroptimized O&M value in a real world setting.

Courtney Faller, Director of Operations, TI-data

O&M Tech Focus

12:30 Advances in Condition Monitoring and WindForecasting for Better Efficiency

• The importance of condition-based monitoring to mitigatethe costs of design defects

• Latest technological advances in SCADA (Supervisory Controland Data Acquisition) and impact on ROI

• Large-scale challenges and costs of condition monitoring –why should we use it?

• How can you analyze and interpret data effectively whendealing with multiple sites and turbines?

Diarmaid Mulholland, General Manager, Global WindServices, GE Energy

1:00 Networking lunch

2:30 Understanding Meteorological Variability andHow it Affects Grid Integration

• Variability in meteorology and the way it affects wind farmoperation

• Modelling variability • Value of Wind Power forecasting • Point forecasts versus regional forecasts • The need for forecast systems to include multiple approaches • Case studies of ramp events

2:30 Sue Ellen Haupt, Scientific Program Manager,Weather Systems Assessment Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research

3:00 Jennifer States, Program Manager, Wind and WaterPower Technologies, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Evolving Your O&M Strategy

3:30 Looking at wind farm O&M as an investmentdecision

A keynote that will appeal to any O&M manager, decision-maker or analyst working for OEMs, third-party serviceproviders or wind farm owners

• Understand the fundamental drivers of O&M costs • Analyze the hidden link between revenues and O&M costs • Discover how advanced computer models can help you plan

O&M costs and spending over different time horizons andclose the gap between strategic thinking and operationalplanning/budgeting

• Make better-informed O&M decisions: quantify how the risktolerance you allow in your O&M strategy affects yourexpectation for availability and O&M costs

• Explore how O&M cooperation between operators may helpreduce costs, mitigate risks and increase profits

Jean Lemaire, Chief Operating Officer, Akuo Energy & Chairman, e-begreen

4:00 Closing remarks from the chair, end of conference and refreshments

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