The growing pressure on operators to squeeze every last megawatts out of their assets isn't new. But there are different ways of looking at asset management. An owner looks at what drives the profitability of the market. One wants to maximize the production because that production is what represents the revenue. And then, of course, as a management point of view one wants that asset to perform in the most efficient way. "The balance between production increase and the health …
European actors of the wind industry, onshore and offshore, will be reunited in Husum for the wind fair this september. Sereema will be present to introduce new developments of Windfit, sensor box for digital wind turbine performance optimization. Windfit technology is at the core of many topics brushed up during the fair, machine learning based yaw misalignment correction, blade ice detection, blade monitoring for performance optimization, lifetime preservation, etc... Book your meeting with us today to have your one-on-one fleet …
What is a CMS? A CMS (or Condition Monitoring System) is a system modern wind turbines have to monitor the reliability (or condition) of certain major components. This system consists of multiple sensors (usually accelerometers) that, when placed on particular locations within the turbine drive train, can provide a very precise diagnosis of the health of certain subcomponents. These systems are designed to provide alarms as soon as they detect that one component is vibrating differently, which can be an …
A new day has arrived for the wind industry because we are releasing some of our secrets! The Yaw Misalignment Revolution White Paper studies this performance issue in detail to reveal the effects on turbine performance and lifetime. A sneak peak awaits: The yaw system is the mechanism all modern turbines have to handle direction changes on the wind. As winds are not constant by nature, wind turbines always need to face the wind to keep generating electricity. In order …
Come say hello to us at Reuters Wind Operations Europe 2021 where our MD Mus Rezzoug will be speaking on a panel about "Building, developing and accelerating data strategy and analytical capabilities' of wind farms on the 18th of May at 10:15 AM European Standard Time. We are also delighted to be a Silver Sponsor for the event. Meanwhile, read our Q&A. What role does your company play in the European wind O&M space? Sereema stands out as a leader …
WindEurope #windtech21 is starting in a couple of days 🎬. Bruno Pinto and Aleix Torner Carrion on team SEREEMA will be on live 🎙 on day 2 of the very exclusive #Technology Workshop to talk about Control Strategies. Under the patronage of Simon Watson (TU Delft Wind Energy Institute), they will join Roberto Albertani (Oregon State University) and Niklas Requate (Fraunhofer IWS) in a session dedicated to optimal #yaw control, load curtailment optimization, #windturbine blade impact detection and lifetime fatigue …
Are Summer camps really necessary for wind turbines? Why should turbines remain under scrutiny during the summer? What’s the use when it seems obvious that wind is often on vacation as well? Summer vacations are almost over but we have some food for thought for next season! The advantages of keeping monitoring the turbines during the off season may be missing from your radar. According to Eurostat, around 18 to 19% of the annual wind electricity production is generated during …
Sereema secured an 800k€ investment in financing through a round of crowdlending. A couple of hundred eco-investors rushed to the Enerfip platform to support the project by subscribing bonds… enthusiastically closing the deal in a little less than 10 minutes! Back in 2018, Sereema had already successfully raised 400k, through a first crowdlending campaign with the green Enerfip financing platform. Having paid up the first round in full, the company decided to call yet again upon eco-investors to pursue its …
🥁 The 1st mapping of French startups with social, environmental and economic impact was unveiled this morning by BPIFrance Le Hub and France Digitale ⚡ We are proud to appear alongside the 727 startups that are growing the French #TechForGood and #Cleantech. Some numbers: 💚 727 French impact startups 🐣 5 years old on average 💼 17,802 permanent jobs 💸 9M€ raised on average (out of the 66% that have already raised funds), i.e. 4.4M€ in total! This mapping reveals …
Embedded Intelligence is the next engine growth factor for the automotive industry. Specialists estimate that in less than 10 years, the software element will represent 60% of the value of a vehicle, compared to 20% today. Is it so incongruous to imagine a similar evolution in the wind industry? The energy market is in deep mutation. The prices of renewable energies are constantly falling and cutting into the ROI. At Sereema, we took a bet that sooner rather than later, …
🏢 The company Sereema is a young disruptive international cleantech player of the energy transition. Our goal is to help wind energy gain momentum and competitiveness. Sereema builds Windfit, a connected solution for wind turbine optimization and monitoring. This solution includes an on-site sensor with 2G/4G cellular connectivity, a data analysis backend and a user portal to check diagnostics and alerts. 👩💻The mission Integrated into a diverse team (developers, electronics, data analysts), you will work on the user portal, our …
As wind turbines extract energy from the wind (in order to generate electricity), the wind flow behind the turbine is strongly perturbed, reducing the available energy on the wind. The wind speed decreases and the turbulence increases. Imagine how a water stream changes when we place an object floating on it? The same thing happens to the wind, even though in this case it’s a lot less visible. This change on the wind flow is what we called the wake …
A sneak peak into the most exciting online event of the season. Sereema"s MD Mus Rezzoug is going to speak today at 10:15 AM! Join us at the Reuters Wind Operations 2021. How does data help managers make the right decisions: streamlined data processing will feed investment asset or maintenance managers with comprehensible info to help them make the right decisions. The key value for asset managers isn’t in the data itself, but all the info that could be automatically …
Sereema is happy to sponsor the awaited Reuters Event: Wind Operations Europe 2021. It is expected to unite the full wind value chain, bringing together Europe’s Utilities, Independent Power Producers, Investors, OEMs, ISPs, Asset Managers to learn, collaborate network across wind O&M and asset management industries. Our Managing Director, Mus Rezzoug will also be a key speaker on an expert panel that will answer questions like: How to build a strong data-driven strategy to optimise maintenance activities, minimise downtime and …
Embedded Intelligence is the next engine growth for the automotive industry. Specialists estimate that in less than 10 years, the software dimension will represent 60% of the value of a vehicle, compared to 20% today. What about wind turbines? AI, big data and deep learning analysts are weaving the next technologic edge. Wind power has been gradually catching up as data / software is becoming an omnipresent and inevitable ally throughout the wind farm life cycles. Today, all available information …
Celebrating SEREEMA’s 6th anniversary, PES Wind: a leading wind industry magazine, thought it would be a good time to ask our CEO, Jérôme Imbert, to tell us about digital and asset management strategies from the beginning, how it is now and moving forward. "Data was frustrating for everybody and dealing with wind industry asset managers was a front row seat to the large volumes of information they treated on a daily basis and at the same time how blind they …
Article written by Mus Rezzoug: In a recent discussion, a French IPP CEO explained to me that he had no problem finding funds for hundreds of million euros per year to develop his new wind and solar farms projects. Across the Dover Channel in Scotland, offshore attractivity is so strong that the maximum amount offshore developers could pay for a seabed lease has shot up from £10,000 to £100,000 per km2! Wind industry has access to an abundance of funds …
ERG and Sereema have been successfully collaborating for 3 years now to improve performance on wind farms under Windfit monitoring. Here, we share one of the typical findings where the cause of the underperformance was linked by Windfit to a rotor aerodynamic imbalance. The system was then used to follow-up on the correction brought up by Vestas. On one of the turbines, the 3 blades were found to be misaligned from its 0° mark by up to 1°. Realignment had …
Hold your horses and get ready to discuss the evolving nature of asset management in the wind industry with Sereema. Instinctively, you want to believe that peak turbine profitability can be achieved with your current asset management strategy. We invite you to challenge yours and make room for improvement if there's any to find. How could you shape your asset management strategy to increase returns, and can the digital transformation of wind help you achieve this goal? Join us on …
As climate change becomes mainstream, more and more corporations have signed on to greening their activities. Market signals also indicate that retail investors in particular have an appetite for supporting corporations that are less about greenwashing and more about actual commitments. Mounting pressure to adapt corporate policies to ESG compliant may be working. 2020 saw the American giants: Google and Amazon signing some of the largest PPA deals in history, with 1.6GW across 18 projects and 650MW for a single …
Despite the context of a global pandemic, record high orders of over 15GW were ordered in 2020, says Wind Europe. This is one more fact confirming the trend of heavy investments attracted by the wind energy sector in the last few years, with numbers announced for the coming years being even more staggering. The race for new capacity concerns both large utilities (that are gradually becoming as big, or even bigger than the traditional Oil & Gas majors) and "Smaller" …