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 …
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 …
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 …
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!
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!
In today's world, wind farms have achieved technical availability of 99% which implies that wind turbines need less than 100 h per year of downtime. If wind turbines are available to produce electricity for 361 days out of the year, why should we care about performance? It is now widely accepted in the wind industry that one should acknowledge the fact that wind turbines are often operating in very unfavorable weather and site conditions with their operation being difficult to …
Great day for Team Sereema as we continue expanding our global footprint! Today we at Sereema installed Windfit boxes with 4 different clients in 3 different countries, both on AND off shore. Congratulations Total Eren, Finerge, Iberwind and EWE. Windfit thus reinforces its presence in Germany, Portugal and Greece and contributes to customer success with increased AEP through turbine optimization!
Jérôme Imbert, SEREEMA's CEO is your candidate to be sure that a mix of powers, skills and industry voices are heard and defended. 300 000 people work in wind energy in Europe today. Let’s promote this industry as a leading model for local, green and sustainable jobs. Time to share experience and purpose by being your voice. SEREEMA will speak for all the digital actors playing a key-role in the digital and automated transformation of the wind industry. Owners and …
June 15th celebrates Global Wind Day: a day when wind energy is celebrated, information is exchanged and adults and children find out about wind energy's power to transform the world. This year Sereema is proud to sponsor the Global Wind Day Quiz hosted by the guardians of wind energy in Europe : WindEurope. The event will be held at 5 PM CEST (GMT+2). We invite you and your family to join us this year in the virtual event in this …
Don’t miss us at WindEurope WindTech20 Technology workshop! Our CTO Bruno Pinto will be presenting today on from 13:00 to 14:10 on the Operational Assessment: Data-driven operations session. Tune in to learn about how #wind farms can optimise operations with independent and high frequency data.
Life after the pandemic should indeed not be the same. We have all been put in house arrest, and as we come towards the end of this reflection period we have realised that we as a species are resilient. For those of us in the energy sector, wind has consistently proven to be a viable challenger to O&G. Wind energy has resulted in cost and carbon savings both as it reached 44 dollars per kilowatt hour in 2020. But is …
Wishing a warm welcome to the 8 #Windfit community newcomers 👏🏼 Cubico, Elicio, Eurowatt, EWE, Innovent, Naturgy, Tenergie, Voltalia We're happy to see you join the family, now present in 12 countries 🇪🇸🇩🇪🇬🇷🇺🇸🇲🇺🇮🇹🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇪🇬🇧🇧🇪🇨🇭and celebrating 1GW of monitored #windturbines for performance optimization and lifetime preservation.
“Test it keep it”, could be the motto to sum up Windfit’s journey inside the fleet of European wind turbine operator Valeco’s. Windfit boxes generalized on Valeco’s fleet of wind turbines to pursue 100% optimization goal Valeco’s wind farms equipped with Windfit have shown results convincing enough to have Valentin Odoul and his team promote Sereema’s digital solution as one of their reference tool to optimize wind turbine performance. This performance-based strategy can be adopted as well on operating wind …
Sereema's influence on the social networks is growing. You are now over 500 from all over the world connected into the #Windfit Community on LinkedIn. Thank You! Follow us too
D-8 for WindEurope offshore2019 windpower event in Copenhagen. SEREEMA will attend and is eager to meet with you to discuss Windfit autonomous assistant solution for windturbine performance optimization and lifetime preservation for offshorewindenergy windfarms and projects. Book a meeting with our on-site team to get your customed farm's study and quote
The 7 final contestants have been announced last friday. They will benefit from an acceleration program sponsored by Climate-KIC The final jury will select the #Entrepreneur of the year during 2019CleanTechOpenGlobalForum in Paris on November 6th. The winner will represent France and pitch for its solution at the Cleantech Open Global Forum in California, USA. Good luck to PowerUp, WIND my ROOF, Néolithe, xRapid Group, K-Ryole, AFULudine and MyGreenGo. We are proud to participate alongside such great new cleantech promising …
Fall is Harvest season for Sereema with a record breaking of new clients for Windfit We are happy to welcome into the fold Arkolia Energies, CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône), cp. max Rotortechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Energiekontor AG, Falck Renewables SpA, Iberwind, John Laing, NTR plc, Quadran International - groupe Lucia, Vector Cuatro Group. Sereema strenghtens its hold in 7 countries (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Portugal, Ireland, Mauritius). Windfit gains grounds as a performance optimizer. The autonomous assistant revolutionizes …
A swirling wave of thanks to all the participants of #Windfit Users day in Montpellier. With the fast pace of innovation, we want to make sure users are getting the more out of the service. This year's first event focused on presenting the main features from the star Rotor Imbalance detection to the yaw Misalignment measure; also introducing the future ones such as daily independent performance index thanks to the added wind sensor on Windfit box. Also discussed best practices, …
Do you know that 40% wind turbines have a rotor imbalance worth correcting to optimize performance and gain AEP? Our solution **Windfit can instantly and autonomously detect it for you. If you want more info, go talk to our partner CP.MAX and meet Benjamin Holthaus during HUSUM Wind fair on their stand Hall 1 Stand C02
When Rotor aerodynamic imbalance impacts your wind turbine performance... Windfit is there to help. How? Let us share a client's case where Windfit detected a sudden increase of the aerodynamic imbalance (1). At the same time, a significant plunge of the turbines power curve was observed (2) on the Windfit web portal results. Our client called their O&M ENERCON who, based on Windfit's diagnosis, went on site to check the zero angle of the blades and found a 3° pitch …
Windfit rotor imbalance diagnosis have been confirmed by experts on site on a regular basis. Lately CP.Max Rotortechnik went on a windfarm in Italy on one of our client's request to proceed with iterative pitch adjustements on Vestas V90-3.0 MW turbines after Windfit detected high rotor aerodynamic imbalance levels. Windfit results were used to accurately and precisely follow the intervention. In this case, Windfit showed that after the 1st pitch adjustment, the imbalance level increased instead of decreasing. In the …
Sereema as the voice of wind energy and wind power in renewables in France, alongside the president of Occitanie Pyrenees Mediterranee Region. This has reached another level as Jerome Imbert, Sereema's CEO, has been elected last week as board member of DERBI's, a competitiveness cluster to accelerate innovation in energy production. Looking for the slightest margin of power production available has become a major play to reach the ambitious goal of wind power part in renewables in France and Europe. …
Today Windfit has issued its 1 millionth automated diagnosis. 1 million cheers for reaching the millionth fully automated rotor imbalance diagnosis. The equivalent of 1 million on site expert measures processed automatically for a small fraction of the price. Windfit is an all-inclusive solution that turns data into actionable results for wind farm operators. Windfit detects, alerts and corrects. Come and see us in Bilbao, stand 1D-60, from April 2nd to 4th, to celebrate our 1 millionth result and see …
It's a good day for the Windfit community!! Windfit® 02 is now available to equip wind turbines and offer even more solutions to correct underperforming wind turbines and preserve the lifetime of the assets. Global expedition has started and the sensor boxes are now sent all over the place to better detect, alert and correct issues on wind turbines. The newest additions to the all-inclusive solution to optimize performance of wind turbines promises to go one step deeper in the …
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Want to know what happens when operators and O&Ms have a facilitated relationship? 1,5% AEP gain happens Step 1: Windfit detected a rotor imbalance and sent automatic notification to wind farm operator Step 2: Asset Manager calls ENERCON O&M team on Feb 4th Step 3: ENERCON O&M team went on site on Feb 5th, confirmed the pitch offset and applied corrective action resulting in immediate 1,5% AEP gain for the operator Kudos to ENERCON for their reactivity.
Book a meeting with us here O&M strategies to guarantee the future profitability of your operational assets. Sereema will be among the community to share insights into current and future O&M activites. Meet with Jerome Imbert, CEO, who, as a selected member of the supply chain producing innovative solutions to the challenges of O&M, will join key decision makers from the widest range of European asset owners, investors and operators to introduce Windfit. Autonomous solution to correct wind turbines under-performance …
Happy New Year!! Wishing you good health, personal happiness and spectacular success. May 2019 bring many opportunities your way and turn all of your dreams into reality & all your efforts into great achievements. Sereema's team
La Transition Energétique passe par la sensibilisation de la nouvelle génération aux technologies digitales innovantes qui permettent d'optimiser la production des énergies renouvelables. Merci au Bic de Montpellier d'avoir invité Sereema à en être le porte-parole devant les étudiants de Master Energie de l'école des Mines d'Alès. Bruno Pinto, en charge de la R&D au lab de Sereema, a exposé les avancées technologiques digitales de Windfit dans le domaine de l'éolien. "Grâce à un simple boitier embarqué sur la turbine, …
Sereema has just signed a contract to equip its first wind turbines in Italy. Situated in the Southern part of the country, this new windfarm opens up a 5th country for Windfit to settle in Europe. After France, Germany, the UK and Greece, Italy is one more European country to adopt the digital expert box to optimize the performance of wind turbines, increase their AEP and preserve their life time. To learn more about our solutions, visit our tech center …
Toujours en quête de perfectionner ses résultats et diagnostics, Sereema a profité des compétences expertes de son partenaire R&D toulousain l’IMFT pour tester la précision et la finesse de ces capteurs en laboratoire. « Nous avons simulé les conditions sur site en soufflerie pour recréer les différentes configurations sur lesquelles Windfit est installé. L’un des avantages de notre solution est qu’elle est agnostique et peut s’installer sur n’importe quel type d’éoliennes, quel que soit le mât utilisé par le turbinier, …
Enjoy a brand-new user interface and oversee your wind turbines and wind farms performance at will remotely. To sign in on the website, no need to change anything, just type in your log in and password. The different features monitored by Windfit will now be visible on the left of your screen, tabs one below the other to show results in a clearer and more effective way. Brighter, more practical and better organized, your page displays Windfit's automated diagnostics, ranging …
Are you ready for WindEnergy Hamburg – The global on & offshore expo ? As a new WindEurope member, SEREEMA's team is all packed up to showcase additional features and a brand new #Windfit box design in Hall B2, Booth 441.4 Last chance to skip the line and book a meeting with our experts before the show starts by clicking here
See Windfit innovative independent digital expert solution for wind turbine performance optimization at WindEnergy Hamburg in Hall B2, Booth 441.4. Skip the line and schedule your one-on-one with SEREEMA’s staff right now
Windfit® as a diagnostic & optimization toolbox for O&M operations at ERG France ERG France decided 2 years ago to follow in the footsteps of their Italian mother company in partially internalizing O&M activities. They tackled this side of operating wind farms on their own, establishing a dedicated department within the company and setting up two maintenance centers in the northern part of France. Sereema, recently awarded “Start-up of the year” by French eco mag “l’Usine Nouvelle”, is a befitting …
Thanks to the 400 eco-savers who are already trusting Sereema by investing their money in the crowdfunding campaign with Enerfip. Merci aux 400 éco-épargnants qui ont déjà fait confiance à Sereema en investissant leur argent à travers la campagne de crowdfunding sur EnerFip. They're still a few days left to join them and contribute to the Windfit project. Il reste encore quelques jours pour les rejoindre et contribuer au projet Windfit. Click here to hop along in the adventure of …
Sereema, récemment élue Start-Up Energie de l’année aux Trophées de la Transition Energétique à Paris, en présence du Ministre Nicolas Hulot, se développe et mise sur sa croissante à l'internationale. Spécialisée dans l’IoT appliqué à l’optimisation des performances et rendements des parcs éoliens, la jeune entreprise fait ici sa première campagne de crowdfunding auprès de la plateforme Enerfip, dédiée aux projets énergies renouvelables. Pour souscrire, ça se passe sur le site d'Enerfip à partir du jeudi 21 juin.
The French IoT company specialized in optimizing wind turbine performance and the German independent energy expert firm have begun 2018 by signing a MOU. Read about all the details by clicking here
Windfit® expands its deployment in Greece Goritsa Wind Farm is located in Central Greece, at Thiva Municipality, Viota Prefecture. It consists of 13 Vestas Wind Turbines (both V117 & V90). Windfit® has already been installed at the Ptoon wind farm in Greece since October 2017. The installation of these new Windfit® boxes will be carried out by Vestas O&M team themselves. “Sereema is proud of the vote of confidence Total Eren showed by expanding our partnership, expressed Jerome Imbert, CEO. …
Thank you to RES Team for their testimony : "Nous élargissons notre collaboration avec l'entreprise SEREEMA ! 6 machines du site de Cuxac (11) viennent d'être équipées du boitier Windfit pour améliorer les performances des machines. Ni la neige, ni les -5°C n'ont effrayés nos équipes (Johan Reynaud et Enzo Perelli) pour installer le système ! "
It all happened in 2017... here's a graphic summary of Windfit® by Sereema last year. Stay tuned for the first draft of very good news to come in 2018.
Sereema is proud to have been selected to present its work there. If you want to learn more about "Combining IoT and Big Data Analytics to improve Wind Farm Performance", we'll share with you at this venue. #windenergy #windpower #ENR #eolien #windeurope #IoT #BigData #Windfit®
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The team at Sereema wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year. Thank you for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to working with you in the years to come.
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