AGENDA

Gain key strategies for maximising your asset values and immediately applying them to your work.

• How to balance cost efficiency with long-term asset value?
• Learn best budget practices for prioritising repairs and managing resource limits.
• How best model the financial value of energy versus the cost and timing of repairs?
• Offshore: Strategise to control rising costs and perform risk mitigation for bigger blade repairs.

• What does best practice look like?

• What information/data should be tracked?

• Should you do your own inspections - and how often?

• How to track the progress, quality and documentation of repairs

• How to manage warranty claims and get the most out of the FSA, through to extending warranty coverage and remediation post-FSA

Q&A - Your chance to pose questions to the speaker

• Case study: thermographic inspections in partnership with wind farm operators 

• How does infrared thermography for blades improve inspection?

• Latest field applications and progress of infrared thermography

Q&A - Your opportunity to ask questions directly to the speaker

• Existing inspection techniques: how are they progressing and what comes next?

• When is the best time for inspections and why use certain techniques?

• Baseline condition - when to inspect

• For what purpose are internal inspections particularly beneficial?

• Carbon fibre blades - more inspection needed and how do they benefit those types of blades performance? 

Q&A - Contribute to the discussion and put your questions to the speaker

• How can real-time data improve turbine monitoring? 
• Using accumulated data to track performance trends. 
• Monitoring and predicting damage growth over time. 
• Making sense of damage data to inform maintenance decisions. 
• Turning insight into action: how blade monitoring delivers real O&M savings? 

Q&A: Your chance to pose questions to the speaker.

Your chance to pose questions to the speaker

Rotor imbalance issues 

-What happens when they are unbalanced?

The sensitivity of blades to repairs and how fixing one issue can create new problems 

-How can you solve this ongoing problem? 

Inspecting unknown damage and non-traditional repairs 

Repowering and spare parts logistics  

- Should you have spares in storage?

- Budget for replacements

- Can you get a new blade?

This discussion is a great opportunity for the industry to have an open and productive conversation on how standards and working together can improve and help the wind industry to mature and prosper.

• How will this advance the industry, and can it be enforced?

• Producers, R&D, and operators - how to work together?

• Finding together best solutions for addressing common damage issues

Q&A - Contribute your perspective and ask questions to help you and the industry perform better!

• What are the challenges and opportunities of repowering?

• The economics of recycling and component reuse

• Advancing recycling methods for blades and other composite components

• How do regulatory and sustainability factors influence end-of-life planning?

• Recycling: Does current recycling capacity meet the industry's demand?

• Is there a market for the recycled material?

Q&A - Direct questions and insights from the audience

• Winter readiness, and ice mitigation - what solutions work best?

• Leading-edge protection done properly. What criteria and repair methods?

• How crucial is it to implement the latest LPS technology for blade performance? 

Q&A - Your opportunity to ask questions directly to the speaker

• Optimising repair methods: from lightning to leading edge protection 

• Data-driven fixes for higher quality and longer asset life

Q&A - A dedicated time for questions to the speaker

To close the event, we’ll gather for an informal discussion in the exhibition area. Grab a cup of coffee, generously sponsored by Socomore, join the conversation and exchange your final thoughts in a relaxed setting.

PANEL DISCUSSION:  How do you know that repairs were done well?

• What is a good repair?

• How to do the best repairs?

• What is the best way of marking?

• Expert advise on LPS - IEC standards, carbon blades, pultrusion repairs and more

• Repair vs Replacement, what types of blade issues or damages should not be repaired?

Q&A - Engage fully to ensure you gather all the valuable information