Our Services

Our Services

Realise Energy Services offer you a variety of professional, reliable and financially secure services – supporting your turbines with remote monitoring, scheduled and unscheduled operation and maintenance services and other elements of asset management.

Our Services

Remote Monitoring, Operation and Maintenance

Our key objective is to maximise availability by ensuring that operational issues are identified, diagnosed and resolved urgently, to protect revenues.

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Decommissioning, Repowering and Turbine Installation

Repowering is the process of replacing an existing wind turbine with a newer, more efficient and possibly larger wind turbine on the same site.

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New and Pre-Owned Wind Turbine Supply

We can offer clients a range of cost-effective yet high quality pre-owned wind turbines originally manufactured by Vestas.

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Retrofits and Optimisation

Improve wind turbine availability through planned and proactive maintenance, and efficiency improvments.

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Remote Monitoring, Operation and Maintenance

Realise Energy Services Operation and Maintenance Contracts provide Optimal ROI

Our key objective is to maximise availability by ensuring that operational issues are identified, diagnosed and resolved urgently, enabling the continued safe operation of the turbine, to protect revenues.

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Our three main types of service and maintenance contract, all of which include comprehensive 24/7 monitoring and unscheduled maintenance response cover are:

  • Standard – Yearly fee covers the scheduled annual service work carried out in line with manufacturer’s service protocols.
  • Standard+ – Yearly fee covers the scheduled annual service work carried out in line with manufacturer’s service protocols and all oils, consumables, wear parts and associated travel costs.
  • Premium – Yearly fee covers the scheduled annual service work carried out in line with manufacturer’s service protocols and all oils, consumables, wear parts, associated travel costs, together with unscheduled maintenance and all replacement parts up to an agreed value.

Contracts are available from a 1 year term to 10 year+ long term contracts that provide ongoing cost certainty.

All contract packages include:

  • Remote monitoring and control 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to maximise availability
  • Turbine fault response under a 48 – hour service level agreement
  • Telephone and email support 24/7
  • Reporting – individual work reports and annual performance
  • Waste removal and turbine
Reactive Maintenance Services

Realise Energy Services also offer the following range of services:

  • Blade inspection, repairs and adjustment
  • Statutory inspections
  • Major component repairs and replacement
  • Inspections
  • Project Management
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Decommissioning, Repowering and Installation

Repowering is the process of replacing an existing wind turbine with a newer, more efficient and possibly larger wind turbine on the same site. It is an opportunity to make your wind turbine site more productive and more efficient whilst continuing to follow the various subsidy rules.

Many turbines that Realise Energy Services operate were installed under the Fit or ROC schemes, and as a result, an uplift in income could be achieved through increasing your turbines generation potential.

To further improve efficiency, there are many system upgrades also suitable for older turbines when being repowered. Major components such as control systems can be retrofitted with more modern technology to improve turbine production and efficiency and minimise potential for downtime.

It is important to seek professional advice regarding any repowering project to ensure it meets with any Ofgem, planning or grid legislation. This is particularly important where existing sites were installed under the FiT or ROC schemes. Your accreditation could be at risk if you do not follow the correct guidelines.

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Pre-Owned Vestas Wind Turbines

Realise Energy Services has an enviable track record of providing reliable, class-leading wind solutions for its clients. To address the market conditions, we have partnered with the world’s leading pre-owned wind turbine providers to extend our portfolio of wind turbine solutions. We can offer clients a range of cost-effective yet high quality pre-owned wind turbines originally manufactured by Vestas.

Vestas, based in Denmark, remain a global leader in turbine manufacture. They have been building medium scale turbines at the 2225kW – 3MW size for over 4 decades. As the demand for more renewable energy increases, manufacturers are building larger turbines and have moved away from the medium wind sector. However, the quality and track record of their medium scale solutions remains unrivalled and Realise can continue to supply and support this scale of machine. The Vestas install base of medium turbines is unsurpassed and their European component supply chain remains active.

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What is a pre-owned wind turbine solution?

Similar to other precision engineered, long-life machines such as planes or ships, wind turbines that have been operating effectively for many years and regularly serviced can be inspected, refurbished in part or whole if necessary, and then re-installed. Access to their operational history makes them suitable for projects where clients seek a solution with lower up-front costs and an enhanced financial return with the reassurance of reliable technology with an extensive customer base.

Is a pre-owned turbine refurbished?

Realise can offer a range of options for pre-owned turbines:

  • “As is” – inspected, delivered and installed at a new site;
  • “Full Refurbishment” where all operational components are refurbished or replaced (plus a few components are updated at the same time); and
  • “Partial Refurbishment” option where only the main components are refurbished or replaced.

The price and warranty offered varies for each option.

Realise can offer a range of pre-owned Vestas turbines to suit customer requirements. V27, V29, V39, V42, V44, V47, V52, V66, V80 and V90 can be sourced.

Turbines can operate at their original capacity or, in some cases, be de-rated to suit site-specific requirements.

A range of tower sizes are available for each model but are subject to availability.

Key benefits of Vestas pre-owned turbines:
  • Deliver an enhanced return on investment for clients
  • Provide financially viable turbines for sites with high infrastructure costs
  • Detailed and professional inspection and where necessary, refurbishment process
  • Associated O&M contract delivers Realise Energy Services operation & maintenance support
  • Total package delivers cost-effective, de-risked turbine solution to maximise return on investment
Inspection & refurbishment

Pre-owned turbine solutions from Realise Energy Services are where possible sourced directly from existing wind farms with service and maintenance histories, transported to a specialist facility where turbine components undergo thorough inspection, repair or replacement where necessary and then testing prior release to Realise Energy Services.

Associated O&M Contract

Realise Energy Services have an enviable track record of providing a reliable and responsive operation and maintenance services for Vestas wind turbines.

Retrofits and Optimisation to improve wind turbine availability

Realise Energy maximise availability through:

  • Planned and proactive maintenance through a comprehensive service and maintenance agreement (See Remote Monitoring, operation and maintenance)
  • Efficiency improvements – turbine settings, electrical design, component upgrades
  • Better use and analysis of data to identify issues and solutions
  • Ensuring your turbine is set up correctly for your site conditions

Key services offered include:
i. Control System Retrofits
ii. Wind Turbine Data Analysis and Performance Assessment
iii. Grid Fault Analysis

 

i. Control System Retrofit

Realise Energy Services have partnered with leading European control system manufacturer, DEIF Wind Power Technology, to offer a range of turbine retrofit solutions designed to optimise turbine efficiency, maximise turbine performance and increase production of your wind turbine.

With an impressive background in turbine control system design and manufacture, DEIF offer a comprehensive range of wind turbine retrofit control solutions including wind farm & pitch control technology and turbine control strategies.
Realise Energy Services’ DEIF-trained technicians are now able to assess your turbine and then design, model and install a bespoke DEIF solution tailored specifically to your turbine. This can optimise production with increased functionality and reduced wear and tear ensuring improved turbine performance and availability.

We can offer clients a range of cost-effective, yet high quality retrofit solutions manufactured by DEIF who have a proven track record across a global fleet of hundreds of Vestas turbines supported with our locally based operation and maintenance and turbine monitoring services.

Key Benefits:
  • Increased income
  • Reduced maintenance costs (subject to O&M contract type)
Benefits achieved through:
  • Higher availability and less downtime
  • Improved efficiency
  • Increased Annual Energy Production and performance
  • Reduced maintenance costs over the lifetime of the turbine through reduced wear and tear and by replacing outdated parts with new technology
  • Extended turbine lifetime
  • New management system (SCADA) interface
  • Automatic reset of alarms
  • Full control of turbine parameters
  • New intelligent power and speed control
  • Derating strategies to avoid stops
  • State-of-the-art turbine control software

 

ii. Wind Turbine Data Analysis and Performance Assessment

Realise Energy Services can retrofit state of the art supervisory control and data acquisition software (SCADA) and turbine control solutions which enable better monitoring and operation of turbines – ensuring more consistent performance and availability.

A comprehensive data analysis process enables us to accurately monitor and evaluate turbine efficiency and availability, by producing graphical and numerical comparisons across the fleet of turbines which we maintain.

Our engineers are trained to analyse power curves and make site specific adjustments to ensure that turbine performance and availability is optimal for your site.

 

iii. Grid Fault Analysis

Resolving grid quality issues that might affect turbine performance.

A weak grid can result in significant downtime and increased wear on turbine components.

We use fault analysis to analyse the quality of the grid connection and incoming supply to the turbine. Realise Energy Services are able to liaise with the Distribution Network Operators on your behalf and assist in resolving grid quality issues that might affect turbine performance.

Realise Energy Services can offer a range of other services and new technology to improve availability:

  • Preventative maintenance – e.g. blade cleaning and re-coating
  • Blade pitch adjustment and calibration
  • Anemometer and wind vane calibration
  • Installation of correct cables and components
  • Cable condition inspection
  • Moving meter positions
  • Changing parameters to suit site specifics
  • Upgrading controllers and software






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