GE’s digital wind farm unlocks higher production for two wind farms in Japan

• 7 years ago (2016-08-29)
• David Flin

Asia 846 Renewables 751

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GE Renewable Energy announced that it has secured five-year Digital Wind Farm services contracts for two aging wind farms in central Japan.

Kinden Corporation’s 30 MW Shirama wind farm, a seven-year-old project near Osaka, expects the digital solution will increase the site’s annual energy production (AEP) by up to five per cent. A second contract, signed with Kandenko , is expected to deliver up to two per cent higher AEP for the 22 MW Chosi project, a 12-year-old wind farm near Tokyo.

Kinden Corporation’s 30 MW Shirama project near Osaka is made up of 20 1.5sle wind turbine units from GE. First commissioned in 2009, the site will also receive GE’s Prognostics and PowerUp* Services applications, implementing software and hardware enhancements that utilise a new blade clearance operation mode which will help the turbines run more efficiently and increase overall plant production by up to five per cent.