Wind-farm owners, many of them developers and utilities that have historically focused on building new projects rather than on maintenance issues, are finding this principle of "repair and optimize" increasingly relevant in this capital intensive industry.
As some IPPs struggle to raise financing for new projects, or simply seek to avoid the risk of making a major investments, some wind farms owners may consider the less risky and less capital-intensive process of upgrading their existing turbines through retrofitting.
Retrofitting is the intelligent way to make the most of your investments and maximize the profitability of ageing equipment.
As wind turbines age, they gradually lose energy efficiency. Thousands of the 3 million+ wind turbines across the globe may not be performing their optimum levels, mostly due to blade surface and leading edge degradation. As a result, the demand for optimizing wind turbine blade performance to regain lost efficiency is rapidly growing.
