Wind farm operations

Wind farm operation is a low cost operation. The power resource is beyond control. To excel in this business you need to operate leanly, collaborate for accuracy and efficiency and apply work processes and standards that allow you to streamline and benchmark. When wind farms go offshore this is even more important. BazeField takes the concepts of “Integrated Operations” from the oil business into wind farm operations.

As chosen by Statoil

Statoil will use BazeField to secure a fact based way of operating Statoil’s wind farm operations as safe and efficient as possible.

BazeField will at first be implemented at Havøygavlen, where Statoil is the part owner of 16 wind turbines. At Havøygavlen in Måsøy municipality in Northern Norway Statoil is carrying out the world’s northernmost wind power project. The wind power project includes 16 wind turbines with a total annual electric power production of around 120 Giga Watt hours (GWh), corresponding to the annual consumption of 5,000-6,000 Norwegian homes. With an average annual wind speed of more than nine metres per second, this is one of the most suitable areas in Europe for wind power production.

Mapping out industry work processes

Baze Technology, Statoil and Statkraft have joined forces under the leadership of the consultancy CPI to map out the value chain, critical processes and fact based way of working for their wind farm operations. Valuable contributions are given by SINTEF and the Dutch ECN Wind Energy. BazeField® integrates into the organisation to fully support this way of working, giving as safe and efficient operation as possible.

Operations according to value chain

Work Process oriented

BazeField covers all aspects of the value chain in operating multiple wind farm sites in collaboration with central support teams– all combined in one coherent package.

Measuring performance

All processes are measured against planned targets and used as steering parameters for the operations.

Turbine vendor independent

A wind turbine is a generic object in BazeField, based on IEC 61400-25 definitions. All turbines are represented coherently and dashboards and displays are preconfigured. This allows for swift and efficient implementation and configuration at the customer sites.

• Extremely user-friendly interface
• Collaboration through voice, video and desktop sharing
• Real-time database replicated to collaboration centre
• Role based information stream
• Decision tracking and history log
• Meeting manager
• HSEQ module