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" …
25,31€/MWh that’s the lowest ever average bid price for onshore wind in Europe. It’s coming out of Spain last week, after a first auction held under the new government rules. Although many players were served, one can only wonder about the Spanish exception. Kind of reminiscing of an auction a couple of years back, for an offshore wind farm in The Netherlands. Awarded at 42 €/MWh, the conjectures had spread like fever about the whys and hows. So, can Spain …
The company Sereema is an innovative company specialized in wind energy and energy transition. Sereema produces Windfit, a monitoring and optimization solution for wind turbines. This solution includes a 2G/4G connected box (designed in-house), calculation servers, automatic alerts and diagnostics that can be consulted online. The internship We are looking for an intern in full-stack or back-end web development to integrate our diversified DEV team (developers, data scientist, electronics engineers) and strongly R&D oriented. You will participate in the development …
The company Sereema is an innovative company specialized in wind energy and energy transition. Sereema produces Windfit, a monitoring and optimization solution for wind turbines. This solution includes a 2G/4G connected box (designed in-house), calculation servers, automatic alerts and diagnostics that can be consulted online. The internship Within the Sereema Lab and integrated in a diversified R&D team (developers, data scientist, electronics engineers), your mission will consist of: Analyze different types of operational data of the wind turbine: power produced, …
The company Founded in 2015, Sereema is an innovative clean greentech that makes wind energy globally competitive to accelerate the energy transition. Sereema develops and markets a SaaS solution, combining IoT and data processing on the Cloud, to automatically generate results for optimizing wind turbine performance and boosting wind farm production. A precursor to the introduction of digital technology in wind power, our Windfit solution, which has been on the market since January 2017, is already used in 13 countries …
Sereema showed no signs of stopping, come what may in 2020. That is unlikely for us to change too, with brand new projects in store that we are excited to share with you. Until then, here's our highlights from the previous year!
At Sereema, we have produced very own Santa this year. So here is Santa Greg bringing you and your team and family holiday cheer with the Windift Christmas Tree. We hope that you enjoy this time cozying up to the fire and spending getting much needed R&R with family and friends. Merry Christmas to you all!
The Windfit users community is growing! Time to wish a warm winter welcome to our latest newcomers Enel Green Power, TERNA ENERGY, Mirova, Energieallianz Bayern GmbH & Co. KG, CGN Europe Energy, Energie Burgenland, EDP Renewables, EDF Renouvelables. The playground is getting bigger, and SEREEMA's team is eager to tackle the challenges awaiting wind turbine performance optimization and lifetime preservation hand in hand with our new prom!
How to detect a rotor imbalance Why is rotor balance important? The rotor blades are one of the key components (if not the most important) of wind turbines to convert kinetic wind energy into electricity. The blades are highly loaded components, with most of these loads being transferred to the rest of the turbine components. These, however, can become excessive for the turbine if the rotor suffers from a poor balance quality. Additionally, an imbalanced rotor can reduce the power …
Sereema is launching a brand new feature for our beta testing: Wind Resource Assessment. Independent and high frequency measurements from Windfit’s ultrasonic anemometer are computed and presented to you in a unique and easy to use dashboard. You can scroll through the historical data to study the seasonal changes in wind resource and compare them against your monthly changes in production. Bruno Pinto introduces his team's latest product development "Our goal is to help our users understand any changes they …
The emergence and development of innovative digital solutions in the wind energy industry is a strong and inevitable trend. Given the gradual disappearance of feed-in tariffs and the implementation of reverse auction systems are giving the market a different dynamic, with the main consequence being a significant drop in the resale price of electricity. Average prices have decreased by 50% in the last 8 years, directly impacting the wind farms Return On Investment (ROI). For asset managers to get a …
Another addition to the Sereema Bunch, in the Lab #Team. Jonathan Tremesaygues is joining the greentech side of the force with his fullstack developer super powers. Windfit's code lines are dancing in joy and we're so very happy to welcome him and his many talents 💻🐍🎮🎻🏔🥾🎨 (especially his cooking skills but shhh it's a secret 🥘👨🏻🍳). Bienvenue dans l'équipe!
Sereema is excited to be presenting in the home of the Spanish wind industry (virtually) at the International Summit on the Operational Analysis of Wind Farms 2020 this Thursday, November the 19th. Our very own wind expert Aleix Torner will be speaking about how wind turbine optimization through high frequency data collection and analytics can help wind farm operators increase the AEP of their assets. Learn more about how our Spanish clients such as Cubico Sustainable Investments, EDP R and …
Windfit is getting ready to stand out in extreme cold weather and have its winter cloak protection to endure the harshness of first frostbites! Wind turbines located in colder climates face additional challenges such as: Accumulation of ice on wind turbine blades resulting in reduced performance; Expensive and difficult for O&Ms to do on site inspections. With such challenging conditions, it can be reassuring to have a solution like Windfit that can remotely monitor performance and alert asset managers for …
The Energieallianz Bayern (EAB) is an association of municipal utility companies. In addition to technical and commercial management, EAB's park management also includes wind park optimization and asset management. They chose to rely on Windfit solution to remotely check under-performances on their fleet. The automated digital solution determines the cause of power loss on each equipped turbine and checks the results of corrective actions performed to make sure that the machines are performing at their best. "A machine can be …
Wondering how Windfit can double up as a LIDAR? What's a yaw misalignment? When your turbine is not facing the wind appropriately, its yaw is misaligned, leading to loss in production and increased turbine loading. When the yaw is misaligned, the machine "thinks" it's facing the wind while in reality, the wind comes sideways. This gap is what explains the loss of production. In order to extract the maximum energy from the wind to produce the most of electricity possible, …
Offshore wind is steadily growing, with more than 20 GW installed in Europe alone. Climate change is accelerating the need for swift transition to renewables as well, and the European Commission agrees. The ambitious target to achieve 450 GW by 2050 in order to keep temperature rises below 1.5°C is pushing offshore wind farms to the front of the line in order to meet the demand. But how can we make sure that offshore windfarms aren’t just available but operating …
Sereema continues to blaze the trail as we expand our turbine brand base! With the latest installation on ENO turbines in Germany, we now equip 13 different brands, including the top 5 Western manufacturers of 2019, Vestas, GE, SiemensGamesa, Nordex and Enercon. The Sereema team is delighted about this phenomenal performance and is happy to report that this year alone, we have equipped 479 turbines!