Do you feel removed from the day to day management issues on site? How confident are you that your assets being actively managed to provide maximum value and in line with all compliance requirements?

We provide the resources and expertise to develop, run and manage your wind farms. Our experience helps you identify and manage risk, get the best service from your suppliers and ensure all technology improvements are considered and their economic effects understood. We will help review and prepare all monthly reporting, ensuring the right information reaches the right people at the right time. Particular attention is paid to asset performance and reliability, health and safety, compliance issues and industry best practice.

How well prepared are you for getting life extension or re-powering over the line? Even if you don’t intend to own your assets past the end of their design life, you can be sure that someone will have an interest in extracting a few extra years from them. The better you have prepared the more attractive your assets will be.
It is never too early to start planning for life extension, and BVGA can help guide you through that process.

We work with asset owners of all sizes, assessing their portfolios, providing independent, real world advice on their best life extension strategy. We visit your sites, engage with your team and review data on project history, performance and reliability, and use our experience of various turbine models.

Crucial to any analytical approach to calculating remaining useful life (RUL) is a comprehensive understanding of the wind conditions at each turbine. If you are starting your assessment late in the asset life, this part of the process can introduce the highest uncertainty. We enhance this with detailed site inspections, failure-modes and effects analysis (FMEA), a review of project history and an understanding of your approach to operations. Add to these a full review of consents, permits and licences, and any implications of you own commercial and political structures, and you have as complete a picture as possible of the risks and opportunities available to you for life extension.

We model the financial impact of options to establish your highest value options, taking into account ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ restrictions. We deliver a detailed plan identifying a range of intervention

We undertake due diligence on renewable energy technology and projects.

We have a strong track record of helping companies make robust, evidence-based M&A decisions, getting to the heart of the technology, organisation and market issues through focussed, knowledgeable, no-nonsense dialogue between senior staff. Understanding your needs and risk profile is paramount and we will work closely with you throughout the project.

Our technical expertise, market knowledge and financial modelling help you understand the risks enabling you to make the right decisions and getting the right deal for your renewable energy investments. Our involvement can range from high-level contract and reporting review, down to detailed analysis and work practices and post construction yield analysis (PCYA).We cover a lot of ground quickly in order to help you close the deal.

Even if budgets are being met, are your assets are really performing at their best? Could you get an extra 1% of energy out just by adjusting the wind vane calibrations? Are you actually sweating your assets too much and storing up problems a few years down the line?

By interrogating SCADA data, analysing technical reports, monitoring on-site business practices and checking against industry benchmarks, we will help you understand the details so that you can ensure you are maximising the value of your assets and obtaining best value from your suppliers.

By applying tried and tested business analysis tools, allied with our deep technical knowledge and experience of wind farm operations, we take pride in working in partnership with clients to develop the performance of their assets.

We can specify, recommend, implement and interpret condition monitoring, SCADA, lidar and other asset optimisation solutions, ensuring that you have the information you need to get the most from your portfolio.

We understand that operational teams have a demanding day job keeping on top of the ongoing challenges of operating a wind portfolio. We also appreciate that it can be a challenge for organizations to take a step back and assess the ever increasing pace of technologic developments.
We work with you to assess potential technology, to make sure any investment delivers a strong return. We deliver an independent, robust and rigorous assessment.

We will clarify the value and timing of introduction of new technologies into your projects. We have led major technology development projects from within renewable suppliers, so we know what is required, both technically and commercially, to make technology work.
We will develop roadmaps to help mitigate technology risks, identifying activities that are likely to have the biggest impact on the bottom line. We don’t just map possibilities – we help make the right things happen.

Is your portfolio growing? Are you increasing the technology base of your assets? Do you feel that you could be “doing more” in terms of analysis, efficiency and streamlining? Do you wonder how you compare with industry best practice?

We perform gap analysis across all parts of your business, from site management through to business strategy, and focus on helping you identify and implement change at all levels to ensure you maximise the value of your assets.

We apply a framework of industry best practices in terms of processes, levels of performance, technology and team capability. We work with you to systematically appraise where your own assets, operations and systems rank in terms of competence and functionality against this benchmark. This work allows you to assess their ongoing operations and to prepare for significant milestones and events such as end of warranty, end of service contract, repowering and life-extension.
Our heritage in detailed techno-economic studies to express the impact of change in terms of the project economics, allows you to make the best informed investment decisions.