Properly planning predictive and reliability-centered maintenance

摘要

Wind-power generation facilities must maintain reliable and dependable high-voltage systems and substations to maintain profitability. Grid reliability agencies, both national and regional, require maintenance testing. With the testing, it is good practice to ensure collector systems, transformers, and substations are all operating properly to avoid downtime and maintain consistent output. Some wind plants have chosen to stay online for extended periods and just wait until an outage occurs. However, availability and production are critical for generation facilities and a failure in the high-voltage system can take down the entire wind plant, not just one turbine.