Here you will find resources related to Operations & Maintenance categorized by the following:
Balance of Plant / Energy Storage / Fleet-Plant Performance Assessment / NERC-Regulatory Compliance / Operating Practices and Programs / Solar O&M / Turbine Components
Balance of Plant
Electrical Collection and Transmission Systems for Offshore Wind Power (NREL, March 2007)
NREL’s Balance-of-System Cost Model for Land-Based Wind (September 2019)
E-ISAC Wind Farm Security White Paper (June 2020)
Energy Storage
Benefits from Energy Storage Technologies (November 1983)
Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project: Technology Performance Report #2 (Southern California Edison, 2015)
Energy Storage Opportunities and Capabilities in a Type 3 Wind Turbine Generator (NREL, September 2016)
Residential PV-Energy Storage Testing Collaboration with SunPower (NREL, November 2016)
Hybrid Utility-Scale PV-Wind Storage Plants for Dispatchability and Reliability Services (May 2018)
When Solar+Storage Make Sense (NREL, June 2018)
Grid-Scale Battery Storage FAQ (September 2019)
Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects (LBNL, July 2020)
Fleet-Plant Performance Assessment
Wind Turbine Reliability: A Database and Analysis Approach (Sandia, February 2008)
National Wind Energy Reliability Database (June 2008)
Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) Database: Wind Turbine Reliability Benchmark (October 2011)
Data Collection for Current U.S. Wind Energy Projects: Component Costs, Financing, Operations, and Maintenance (January 2012)
Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark (September 2013)
Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) Database: Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark (September 2013)
Oscillation Damping: A Comparison of Wind and Photovoltaic Power Plant Capabilities (NREL, July 2014)
Array Effects in Large Wind Farms (NREL, February 2019)
Benchmarking Anticipated Wind Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Wind Industry Professionals (LBNL, September 2019)
2018 Cost of Wind Energy Review (NREL, December 2019)
Hurricane Eyewall Winds and Structural Response of Wind Turbines (January 2020)
How Does Wind Project Performance Change with Age in the United States? (May 2020)
Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Solar Industry Professionals (June 2020)
Wind Power Market-Value Enhancements through Larger Rotors and Taller Towers (LBNL, July 2020)
System-level Performance and Degradation of 21 GW of Utility-scale PV Plants in the United States (July 2020)
Wind Technology Data and Trends: Land-Based Focus, 2020 Update (LBNL, August 2020)
Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition (LBNL, August 2020)
Understanding Out of Warranty Reliability
NERC-Regulatory Compliance
NERC Briefing: Reliability & Compliance Trends (March 2017)
NERC CIP Compliance for Wind Plants (June 2019)
Reliability Guideline: Improvements to Interconnection Requirements for BPS-Connected Inverter-Based Resources (NERC, September 2019)
BPS-Connected Inverter-Based Resource Modeling (NERC, April 2020)
Second Joint Staff White Paper on Notices of Penalty Pertaining to Violations of Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards (FERC/NERC, September 2020)
Operating Practices and Programs
Establishing an In-House Wind Maintenance Program (DOE, December 2011)
Installation, Operation, and Maintenance Strategies to Reduce the Cost of Offshore Wind Energy (NREL, July 2013)
Wind Power Project Repowering: Financial Feasibility, Decision Drivers, and Supply Chain Effects (December 2013)
Active Power Controls from Wind Power: Bridging the Gaps (January 2014)
UVIG O&M Users Group Wind Operating Practices Guidebook (December 2016)
Re-thinking plant operation and control –maximizing profitability over the plant lifetime (February 2019)
Flow Control Leveraging Downwind Rotors for Improved Wind Power Plant Operation (NREL, August 2019)
Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States (January 2020)
Avangrid Renewables Tule Wind Farm: Demonstration of Capability to Provide Essential Grid Services (March 2020)
Offshore Wind Electrical Safety Standards Harmonization: Workshop Proceedings (NREL, June 2020)
Solar O&M
One-Axis Trackers – Improved Reliability, Durability, Performance, and Cost Reduction (NREL, February 2008)
A Performance and Economic Analysis of Distributed Power Electronics in Photovoltaic Systems (NREL, January 2011)
Southern California Edison’s Solar Rooftop Program (EPRI, October 2012)
Feasibility Study of Economics and Performance of Solar Photovoltaics at the Former Bethlehem Steel Plant Brownfield Site in Lackawanna, New York (April 2013)
“Grid-Friendly” Utility-Scale PV Plants (First Solar, August 2013)
Acciona Solar Technology Performance Evaluation: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report (January 2014)
Industry Perspectives on Advanced Inverters for U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Systems: Grid Benefits, Deployment Challenges, and Emerging Solutions (NREL, September 2015)
Advanced Grid-Friendly Controls Demonstration Project for Utility-Scale PV Power Plants (NREL, January 2016)
End-of-Life Management Solar PV Panels (IRENA and IEA, June 2016)
Feeder Voltage Regulation with High-Penetration PV Using Advanced Inverters and a Distribution Management System: A Duke Energy Case Study (NREL, November 2016)
Optimal Sizing of a Solar-Plus-Storage System For Utility Bill Savings and Resiliency Benefits (NREL, November 2016)
Demonstration of Active Power Controls by Utility-Scale PV Power Plant in an Island Grid (NREL, February 2017)
Demonstration of Essential Reliability Services by a 300-MW Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant (NREL, March 2017)
1,200 MW Fault Induced Solar Photovoltaic Resource Interruption Disturbance Report (NERC, June 2017)
2017 Solar Eclipse Report (CAISO)
Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States (LBNL, 2019)
Patience is a Virtue: A Data-Driven Analysis of Rooftop Solar PV Permitting Timelines in the United States (LBNL, June 2020)
Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Solar Industry Professionals (LBNL, June 2020)
Model of Operation and Maintenance Costs for Photovoltaic Systems (NREL, June 2020)
Benefits and Costs of a Utility-ownership Business Model for Residential Rooftop Solar Photovoltaics (LBNL, August 2020)
Utility-Scale Solar Data Update – 2020 Edition (LBNL, November 2020)
Turbine Components
Gearbox Reliability Collaborative Project Report: Findings from Phase 1 and Phase 2 Testing (June 2011)
Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability Collaborative Workshop: A Recap (February 2016)
Quantification of Roller Sliding Energy in Wind Turbine Gearbox High-Speed Shaft Bearings (NREL, February 2019)
Roller Sliding in Wind Turbine Gearbox High-Speed-Shaft Bearings (March 2019)
Increasing Wind Turbine Tower Heights: Opportunities and Challenges (NREL, May 2019)
Investigation of Roller Sliding in Wind Turbine Gearbox High-Speed-Shaft Bearings (NREL, May 2019)
Uptower Investigation of Main and High-Speed-Shaft Bearing Reliability (NREL, May 2019)
Innovative and Recyclable Thermoplastic Wind Turbine Blades (July 2019)
SCADA Data Modeling for Wind Turbine Gearbox Failure Detection Using Machine Learning and Big Data Technologies (NREL, January 2020)
Investigating Core Gaps and the Development of Subcomponent Validation Methods for Wind Turbine Blades (NREL, February 2020)
Highlighting the Impact of Yaw Control by Parsing Atmospheric Conditions Based on Total Variation (NREL, March 2020)