DAY 1

7.30 am Registration Begins

9.00 am Conference Begins

Section 1: The state of O&M in the North American wind industry

9.00 am

Chairman’s address

Dan Shreve, Director, MAKE Consulting

9.15 am

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future of O&M

Moderator: Dan Shreve, Director, MAKE Consulting

Panelists:

• Blaine Sundwall, Director of Wind Operations and Maintenance, Iberdrola Renewables USA
• Jeff Wiener, Sales and Commercial Director, GE Wind Services
• Todd Karasek, EHSS Director, Suzlon Wind Energy
• Dave Luck, Director, O&M Business Development, enXco Service Corporation

9.45 am

Regulatory requirements: now and into the future

Kuru Kuruvilla, Senior Product Manager, Renewable Systems Product Line, GE Energy

10.15 am

Health and Safety requirements – OSHA is catching up

Grayling Vander Velde, EHS Professional, EHS Field Support, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS)

10.45 am – 11.15 am  Networking Coffee Break

Section 2: Outlining the benefits and challenges of different O&M strategy options for your wind fleet

11.15 am

Maximizing Your Turbine Investment: OEM Maintenance

Steven M. Richards, Director, Service Sales, Vestas Americas

11.45 am

The benefits of outsourcing working to 3rd party service providers

Dave Luck, Director, O&M Business Development, enXco Service Corporation

12.15 pm

Evaluating the suitability of 3rd party service providers

Cathy Syme, Senior Project Manager, Garrad Hassan

12.45 pm

Do you really know your O&M provider? And are your core business objectives protected?

Gregg Flobeck, Director, Business Development, SkyClimber Wind Solutions

Chuck Murlin, Insurance Specialist Brower LLC

1.15 - 2.30 pm Networking Lunch Break 

Section 3: Getting practical - Best practice maintenance strategies explored

2.30 pm

Strategies for New Unit and Installed base Operations and Maintenance

Jeff Wiener, Sales and Commercial Director, GE Wind Services

3.00 pm

CASE STUDY: Best practice in house maintenance

Blaine Sundwall, Director of Wind Operations and Maintenance, Iberdrola Renewables USA

3.30 pm

Save valuable time & money with effective spare parts management

Micah Nichols, O&M Manager, Cielo Wind Services Inc 

4.00 pm

Keep your turbines’ performance at an optimum level by switching from reactive to predictive maintenance

 

Jay Mashburn, Senior Managing Consultant, IBM Global Services

4.30 pm – 5.00 pm Networking Coffee Break

5.00 pm

The inside track on real wind characteristics and forecasting challenges

William Mahoney, Program Director, Research Applications Laboratory National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

5.30 pm

Maximize your wind farm production with the proper upkeep of the electrical system

Eric Beckman, PE, Field Engineer, National Switchgear

6.00 pm

Theory and Practice of Gear Oil Cleanliness

Kevin McKenna, Industrial Product Technical Advisor – Americas, Exxon Mobil

6.30 pm End of day 1 – Chairmans Close and Networking Drinks Party

DAY 2

9.00 am Conference Begins

Section 4: Getting more from your turbines - How to reap the benefits of performance optimization and efficient staff training

9.00 am

Improving the Effectiveness of Preventive Maintenance through Predictive Data Studies

Bridget McKenney, Wind Reliability & Analysis Database Lead, Wind & Water Power Technologies Sandia National Laboratories

Salvatore A. Della Villa, CEO Strategic Power Systems, Inc.

9.30 am

Turning data into information for predictive maintenance

David Bell, Vice President, Application Engineering, SmartSignal

10.00 am

Optimizing field operations for turbine management and worker safety

Mike Loos, Chief Technology Officer @hand Corporation

10.30 am

The Importance of an efficient HSE program to your wind farm operations

Mike Fisher, VP Operations, Wood Group Renewable Energy Services

11.00 – 11.30 Networking Coffee Break

11.30 am

PANEL DISCUSSION: Staff recruitment: Have confidence in your work force

Moderator: Dan Shreve, Director, MAKE Consulting

Panelists:

• Blaine Sundwall, Director of Wind Operations and Maintenance, Iberdrola Renewables USA
• Grayling Vander Velde, EHS Professional, EHS Field Support, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS)
• Keith Plantier, Program Manager, Texas Wind Energy Institute TSTC
• Tom Sutton, Mechanical Specialist, Wind Turbine Technician Academy, Kalamazoo Valley Community College

12.00 pm

Optimize your O&M with the latest in blade design and new technology

Robert Burger, Vice President Service Americas LM Glasfiber

12.30 pm

An Integrated Approach to Gearbox Reliability

Francisco Oyague, Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

1.00 pm

Effects of drive train component selection on wind farm O&M costs

Robert Ciszak, Advanced Engineering Leader, GE Drivetrain Technologies

1.30 pm – 2.30 pm Networking Lunch Break

Section 5: Identify and solve core component breakdowns in your turbines

2.30 pm

CASE STUDY: Mitigate gearbox and main bearing failure by understanding your turbine

Hal Romanowitz, Chief Operating Officer Oak Creek Energy Systems

3.00 pm

CASE STUDY: The challenges of analyzing the cost effectiveness of Condition Based Monitoring

Jeff Gibbons, Technical Director, AES Wind Generation

3.30 pm

Condition monitoring plus – filling the gaps

Douglas Adams, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Systems Integrity Purdue University

4.00 pm

Using advanced Computer Modeling for O&M strategy, reliability and cost predictions

Jean Lemaire, Project Director, Akuo Energy USA