The importance of control monitoring systems in wind parks maintenance

摘要

The objective of every wind energy producer is to reduce operational costs associated tothe production as a way to increase profits. One other issue that must be looked carefullyis the equipment maintenance. Increase the availability of wind turbines by reducing thedowntime associated to failures is a good strategy to achieve the main goal of increaseprofits.As a way to help in the definition of the best maintenance strategies, condition monitoring systems (CMS) have an important role to play. Informatics tools to make the condition monitoring of the wind turbines were developed and are now being installed as a way to help producers reducing the operational costs. There are a lot of developed systems to do the monitoring of a wind turbine or the whole wind park, in this paper will be made an overview of the most important systems.