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EDF Renewables North America and ONYX partner on predictive maintenance

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EDF Renewables North America, an independent power producer and operations and maintenance services provider, and ONYX InSight, a predictive analytics and engineering firm in the global wind energy industry, are partnering to deliver a lower cost of energy on more than 1500 wind turbines in North America.

The cooperation aims to deliver increased accuracy in predicting mechanical issues with wind turbines and fewer false positives when forecasting failures. It is set to reduce turbine operational expenditure for EDF Renewables and increase asset availability.

EDF Renewables integrates siloed data streams from multiple turbine technologies, fitted with different condition monitoring system (CMS) hardware and other relevant data stream inputs. ONYX will combine these data streams into one CMS hardware agnostic platform – ‘fleetMONITOR’. This cloud-based solution allows stakeholders in the business to monitor the health of wind turbines on a series of dashboards, enabling transparency and more streamlined processes.

 

As part of the technology rollout, several large wind farms will be fitted with ecoCMS, ONYX InSight’s advanced sensing technology. This is a disruptive technology which collects triaxial acceleration and temperature data via Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors for expanded coverage of the turbine drivetrain. Given this enhanced sensor capability, these wind farms will also have rotor balance monitoring.

In parallel with the predictive maintenance implementation, the companies entered into an engineering services agreement whereby ONYX InSight will provide additional resources for improving turbine operations.

Read the article online at: https://www.energyglobal.com/wind/04062020/edf-renewables-north-america-and-onyx-partner-on-predictive-maintenance/

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