Technical Operations Management Wind: Your assets are our responsibility

Custom support for your wind farms with a focus on yield optimisation and operation in accordance with authorisation requirements

Your yields are safe with us

We optimise the yields of your wind parks and take care of all legal and technical requirements for cost-effective operation.

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.

MW wind energy under management in Europe

MW in Germany

wind turbines we currently manage in Germany

Technical operations management for your wind farm

Our long-term experience and continuous development of innovative system solutions is what motivates us each day: our technical operations management for wind installations offers more than just the standard. We not only ensure compliance with legal obligations using custom monitoring tools, but also actively use levers to optimise returns. We take precautionary, preventive actions to eliminate potential return losses at your wind farm. You can find out more about this unter InSite Pro and InSite Fit.

We also have comprehensive knowledge of all turbine types: from Nordex, Enercon and Vestas to Siemens Gamesa and many more - our experts have many years of experience with machines from all common manufacturers.

Our services for your wind park at a glance:
  • InSite Lite: Automated monitoring of authorisation requirements (bird protection, noise and shadow restrictions, sector management, ice shutdowns)

  • InSite Pro: Data-based wind turbine analyses evaluated by experienced engineers

  • InSite Fit: Monitoring the revenue from your wind turbines via live dashboards

  • Technical consulting: Processing and development of solutions for wind farm-specific issues that go beyond technical operations management (e.g., municipal participation)

More than just operations management – extended services

InSite Lite

Management of authorisation requirements

InSite Pro

Active performance monitoring and yield optimisation

InSite Fit

Revenue monitoring via live dashboards for financial KPIs

Technical consulting

from the technical operations department on specific specialist topics

Risk assessment

of your wind, PV and BESS systems according to TR7

Transformer maintenance

all necessary tests on transformers and transformer stations

Cyber security

Certified quality for greater safety

InSite Lite

Our basic package for existing customer mandates: seamless monitoring of all operational requirements relating to bats, red kites, shadow, noise, ice fall, and sector management, including monthly reporting. You will also receive monthly overviews of all Redispatch 2.0 and direct marketing curtailments for optimal credit checking, as well as a comparison of peak and flat-rate curtailments for annual evaluation of the best shutdown regime.

Example of yield increase through bat deactivation in Saarland

In the Saarland wind farm comprising of three Nordex wind turbines, we reduced yield losses by 54% through bat deactivation optimization. In this way, we achieved an annual yield increase of >1%, which already amounts to about 14,000 € per year in that wind farm.

Adolpho Heidenreich

Head of Technical Operation Wind

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.

InSite Pro Tool Set

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

InSite Fit

InSite Fit acts as the interface between technical and commercial operations management, providing, amongst other things, an overview of the revenue and value of the electricity generated by your wind turbines via live dashboards.

Technical Consulting

Technical consulting is integrated into your technical operations management and is handled by experienced operations managers. It includes the rapid processing of urgent, complex and lengthy issues that go beyond the scope of TBF services and relieves your asset management. You gain access to exclusive consulting services: experienced, creative and equipped with sufficient resources.

Wind farm management

We support you in drawing up tailor-made maintenance contracts for your wind farms

Draw up maintenance contracts with the manufacturer that are in your favour by using our data-based experience with your type of turbine to make decisions. We support you in asserting any warranty claims under the existing maintenance contract in a timely manner.

Achieve approved continued operation of your wind turbines until repowering or decommissioning!

We take care of market research for service providers, requesting and evaluating offers, compiling the necessary documentation/data for the certifier, selecting service providers to fulfil the requirements of the expert reports, and rectifying any deficiencies. If required, we will draw up a monitoring concept for you in consultation with the certifier. Benefit from the timely certification of the wind farm after 20 years of operation and secure extension options for maintenance contracts.

We save you time and money on your decommissioning project.

We draw up the required scope of services for the demolition, request and evaluate various demolition quotes, and conduct on-site appointments. In addition, we support you with the demolition concept and appointments with the authorities.

Legal topics

The electricity price cap makes a clear, plant-specific revenue basis essential. We consistently consolidate feed-in, market values, negative price hours and self-consumption, enabling reliable target/actual comparisons. In this way, we provide transparency regarding whether levies and balancing mechanisms have been applied correctly – and protect plant operators from unjustified revenue losses.

The Energy Security Act is based on actual market revenues – not on accounting distortions. We ensure that revenues, costs, self-consumption and exceptional operational factors are reflected fully and accurately. This makes it possible to determine whether genuine excess revenues exist – and provides a robust basis for regulatory, audit and clearing processes.

Let us take care of the high coordination and monitoring effort involved in BNK systems so that faults can be quickly identified and rectified.

  • Ongoing monitoring of the BNK system, including all interfaces

  • Maintenance management

    - Coordination with signal transmitters, wind turbine manufacturers and authorities
    - On-site reset of the system
    - Provision and plausibility check of status logs at the request of authorities

  • Improvement measures

Risk assessments

for wind energy and photovoltaic systems, as well as battery storage systems

Risk assessment is a central component of operator responsibility according to VDE 0105-100 and is mandatory for operators. It must be carried out before a system is commissioned and regularly reviewed and updated.

As a technical operator, we take care of the location- or activity-related risk assessment of your wind and PV parks and battery storage systems – in a practical, legally compliant and standard-compliant manner.

Transformer maintenance

All inspections – one partner

We carry out all necessary inspections of transformers and transformer stations.

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:

Downloads

ISO 27001:2022
ISO 9001:2015
GTC BayWa r.e. Operation Services GmbH

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