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We take responsibility for your renewable energy installations

Custom support for solar and wind farms, as well as battery storage systems, with a focus on yield optimisation and reliable technical operations management

Your yields are safe with us

We optimise the yields of your solar farms, wind parks and battery storage systems and take care of all legal and technical requirements for cost-effective operation.

As an experienced service provider, we offer operators and investors future-proof and comprehensive technical operations management – modular or as a complete package if desired.

We assume risks that lie within our sphere of influence and proactively take care of the increasingly complex requirements for the operation of your energy farms.

Proximity to our customers means everything to us

Professional project management, centralised monitoring, on-site service teams, and proven processes and structures: on the technical side of things, all this ensures that you can count on high availability and optimised yields for your renewable energy system.

BayWa r.e. assigns a contact person to you who will deal with all your concerns and provide reliable, professional, and tailored support whenever you need it.

Our services for your plants

InSite Pro

With the InSite Pro toolset, we analyze your wind turbines precisely according to your needs. Whether analyzing performance curves, temperatures, yields, or reviewing all wind turbine downtime, we continuously adapt to your requirements.

Technical excellence through our Performance Unit

The Performance Unit consists of a team of experienced and talented engineers who analyze your wind farms from the ground up. We cover the entire value chain: from detecting underperformance to dealing with the OEM. We discuss all findings with you in quarterly meetings.

The following services are included in the InSite Pro toolset:

Performance in the performance curve

  • short and longterm performance analysis

  • Performance degradation

Performance in availability

  • Taxonomy

  • Heat monitoring

Performance in the grids

  • Reactive power monitoring

  • Grid compliance according to SDL & TAR medium and high voltage guidelines

Performance in yields

  • TR10 site value monitoring (optional)

  • Wind index correction & P50 revaluation

  • Capture rate, monthly & rolling

In detail:

Identification of underperformance by analysing operating data:

Whether incorrectly set night-time reductions, power reduction due to ice build-up or pitch angle errors, BayWa r.e. InSite software monitors your system operation and energy output continuously, punctually and accurately. Possible degradation of your wind turbines over time can also be detected, e.g. through rotor blade soiling, etc.

Never stop benchmarking! Performance comparison of wind farms:

BayWa r.e. InSite Pro Taxonomy enables a comprehensive comparison of individual or multiple wind farms, helping evaluate the performance of your turbines in the widest possible context. In contrast to performance curve monitoring, we now also analyse the performance of your turbines with regard to all downtimes. Our analyses of over 20 years of operating data and a wind portfolio of 2.5 GW provide valuable insights for a comprehensive risk analysis with the aim of minimising yield losses, downtimes and error rates. These analyses also enable you to evaluate sustainable investment decisions and increase the efficiency of your wind farms.

On the methodology: here we have clustered the status codes of all the relevant WTG manufacturers on an RDS-PP basis in order to create comparability between all WTG manufacturers and types. When major components fail from a statistical perspective, whether the bathtub curve of damage over the service life of a wind turbine really exists, which manufacturer suffers from the most converter damage – all these findings and many more can be derived from this.

Detect faults early and prevent downtime

InSite Pro will report thermal anomalies in all relevant wind turbine components. Our machine learning approach is always complemented by the expertise of our experienced engineers. Our goal is to detect temperature deviations more accurately than the wind turbine itself. Due to the size of our portfolio, we are also able to carry out comprehensive temperature benchmarking with identical wind turbines.

Ensure grid compliance and avoid unnecessary losses

We analyse whether the wind farm is being operated in accordance with grid connection conditions and responding to the grid operator's target values. We also check whether the grid operator is claiming any unauthorised reactive power (increased yield losses or electricity procurement) and how reactive power operation affects the active power supply or the power curve of the wind turbine.

This means custom solutions that always focus on reducing the loss of earnings from your assets. Yields suffer particularly as a result of bat-related shutdowns. Thanks to extensive analyses, we can implement targeted measures to reduce these losses by up to 54%.

Additional services:

  • Electricity price brake: calculation and transmission of all relevant data, at that time.

  • Retrofits: detection of a possible increase in the performance curve after commissioning retrofit measures by the OEM

The site value must be determined every five years for installations that are remunerated in the tendering procedure in accordance with the EEG 2017 and subsequently. We offer you a regular estimate of the site quality and the resulting value to be applied (“EEG remuneration rate”) in any period from commissioning to the present day, so that you can better plan provisions and financial effects. The site quality is calculated automatically according to the corresponding status categorisation (in accordance with TR10).

Certified quality for greater safety

Your system data is safe with us. In addition to KRITIS, our information security management system (ISMS) is certified to ISO 27001. We are audited even more frequently for this optional certification than for the statutory Kritis regulation.

The advantages of ISO 27001 certification include the testing of:

  • IT security: ability to recognise threats at an early stage and prevent them

  • Information security: continuous improvement of the quality of information security processes

  • Customer data: protection of confidential and personal (customer) data from misuse or loss

  • Successful in-house implementation: increased awareness through values that are practised in the company and promote information security

  • Compliance: adherence to external and legal regulations

  • Risks: minimisation of business and liability risks

In addition, we can offer our customers an already established package that meets all the requirements of secure data communication for your wind and solar plants:

BayWa r.e. SystemSafe

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