The 2021 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting will be held online with the Opening Plenary Session scheduled for Monday, March 15. Members-only roundtable sessions will begin mid-March and conclude at the end of April.

Below you will find the schedule of sessions, along with corresponding registration links for each. As we add additional roundtable sessions they will be included below.

If you have any questions, please let us know at info@esig.energy.

Opening Plenary Session

Performance Analytics for Wind and Solar
Monday, March 15: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern)

During the Opening Plenary, four industry experts will speak about their experience in solar and wind performance analytics. Peter Burgess from EDF Renewables will speak about solar analytics. He has led the development of solar analytics for EDF, and will discuss motivation for looking at solar performance, failure modes, metrics to measure, sources of data, and examples of findings. Eric Eggleston of Con Edison will speak about wind analytics he has developed, including how to correct nacelle transfer functions, identifying bad pitch performance, and high wind cut out and power curve corrections. Phil Gauthier from EDF Renewables will discuss the understanding and optimizing performance of wind assets in cold climate conditions including cold weather packages, ice operational modes and de-icing/anti-icing solutions. The session will wrap up with Mark Young from BlackRock, who will speak from an owner and equity investor perspective on the state of performance analytics in renewables, and discuss his experience with software offerings. There will be time for an engaging Q&A with our speakers at the end.

Presenters:

Peter Burgess, Solar Engineer
EDF Renewables

Eric Eggleston, Performance Reliability Engineer
Con Edison

Phil Gauthier, Fleet Engineering Manager
EDF Renewables

Mark Young, Director, Renewable Technical Operations Americas
BlackRock

Registration is open to all O&M Users Group members, ESIG members, and invited individuals.

REGISTER HERE

Closing Plenary Session

Episode II: The Science Behind Performance Analytics for Renewable Energy Plants
Tuesday, April 27: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern)

In the Opening Plenary Session, EPISODE I: Performance Analytics for Renewable Energy Plants, we explored how wind and solar plant owner/operators use performance analytics. During Episode II, we’ll explore the science and technology behind performance analytics.

Join us to hear speakers from Avangrid, Clir, Ensemble Energy, ServusNet Informatics, Power Factors and others covering topics varying from validating anti-icing solutions and performance upgrades, to establishing the right data strategy to reduce financing and insurance costs.

Presenters:

Leveraging Data Strategy to Lower Financing and Insurance Costs
Gareth Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, Clir Renewables

Use of Higher Frequency Data in Identifying Yaw Misalignment, Pitch Issues and Sub-interval Issues
Dariush Faghani, Senior Engineer, Power Factors

Des Farren, CEO, ServusNet Informatics

OpenOA – An Open-Source Framework for Operational Analysis of Wind Plants
Eric Simley, Research Engineer, NREL

Registration is open to all O&M Users Group members, ESIG members, and invited individuals.

REGISTER HERE

Roundtable Sessions

The heart of the meeting consists of manufacturer-specific roundtables for users group members only. The format consists of open discussions, moderated by Roundtable Chairpersons, centered on a specific wind turbine, solar, or energy storage model and component. The Roundtables provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users, who share their information, knowledge and experience.

Participation in the Roundtables is limited to employees of ESIG member organizations that own, operate, or maintain wind generation equipment.

Below you’ll find a list of the roundtable sessions currently scheduled. These online sessions are scheduled to last two hours. 

• • Siemens – Friday, March 19 (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Matt Brzezinski, Pattern Energy; Dushyant Tank, Pattern Energy
  • Clipper – Monday, March 22 (1:00 – 3:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Dan Jones, Minnesota Power; Wes Slaymaker, WES Engineering
  • GE 2x – Wednesday, March 24 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Eric Eggleston, ConEdison; Matt Snow, Invenergy
  • Mitsubishi – Monday, March 29 (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Chair: William Whitney, Leeward Energy
  • Gamesa – Wednesday, March 31 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Chair: Lindsay Galbraith, Patriot Renewables
  • Balance of Plant – Monday, April 5 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Matt Allsup, Innergex; Matt Kessel, RWE Renewables; Todd Montevideo, Madison Gas and Electric Company
  • Solar – Wednesday, April 7 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Anthony Morabito, DTE Energy; Chris McNalley, Consumers Energy
  • Suzlon – Monday, April 12 (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Soonen Ahua, Exelon Wind and Solar; Mike Brown, Clearway Energy
  • Vestas V82/Legacy – Friday, April 16 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Chair: Derek Mayon, BP
  • Vestas V100+ – Monday, April 19 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Chair: Chris Hogg, Xcel Energy
  • GE 1x – Wednesday, April 21 (1:30 – 4:00 p.m. eastern) REGISTER
    Roundtable Co-chairs: Chris McNalley, Consumers Energy; Marcus Schriner, DTE Energy

As we schedule additional roundtables, those details will be distributed and posted on Groups.io.