GE has achieved a major milestone by increasing the output of the wind farms delivering up to 20 percent increase in profit per turbine.
The company has implemented PowerUp, a customized software -enabled platform that will increase a wind farm’s output by up to 5 percent taking into account environmental conditions.
For an average U.S. wind farm operator using GE’s 1.5-77 turbine, a 5 percent increase in energy output translates to up to a 20 percent increase in profit per turbine, according to GE.
When PowerUp is activated, a GE software program performs a complete before-and-after wind farm power performance analysis, validating the performance improvement.
By adjusting performance dials that include speed, torque, pitch, aerodynamics and turbine controls, PowerUp seeks to maximize the power output of a wind farm.
PowerUp is part of GE’s Brilliant wind platform, which harnesses the power of the Industrial Internet to analyze tens of thousands of data points on a wind farm every second, driving higher power output and creating new revenue streams for customers.
PowerUp is available for turbine models across GE’s installed base.