Case study

Better decision making for offshore wind power

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Opencast supported ORE Catapult, the Crown Estate and offshore wind farm owner/operators on SPARTA, a collaborative project to improve wind turbine operational performance by increasing safety, reliability and availability.

Challenge

Wind farms are not all the same: some locations are more cost-efficient than others. In addition, wind turbines also vary. Some deliver more power. Some require more maintenance. 

SPARTA – System Performance, Availability and Reliability Trend Analysis – brings together commercial operators (with concerns over anonymity and confidentiality) with the Crown Estates (who own the sea bed) and the government. All stakeholders are seeking the same thing: intuitive, secure data that helps them to make wiser investment decisions in the future. 

In this increasingly crucial sector (which is helping the UK to become more self-sufficient in terms of energy), knowing which equipment and which locations are performing best is of both commercial and of national interest. Hence the creation of this collaborative project designed to create an interactive analytics tool and platform for this key information.

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Response

Working in partnership with SPARTA’s technology team, our response was to structure the vast amounts of complex data being gathered into a web-enabled, user-friendly platform. We designed and project-managed the creation of this platform.
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Impact

We designed an application for analysing the data. Finally, leveraging our experience in the banking sector, we ensured that confidentiality and security issues were addressed, anonymising all data, except when viewed by authorised users.

"Our response was to structure the vast amounts of complex data being gathered into a web-enabled, user-friendly platform"

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