Report on Wind Turbine Subsystem Reliability - A Survey of Various Databases (Presentation)

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI ID:1090149

Sheng, S.

Wind industry has been challenged by premature subsystem/component failures. Various reliability data collection efforts have demonstrated their values in supporting wind turbine reliability and availability research & development and industrial activities. However, most information on these data collection efforts are scattered and not in a centralized place. With the objective of getting updated reliability statistics of wind turbines and/or subsystems so as to benefit future wind reliability and availability activities, this report is put together based on a survey of various reliability databases that are accessible directly or indirectly by NREL. For each database, whenever feasible, a brief description summarizing database population, life span, and data collected is given along with its features & status. Then selective results deemed beneficial to the industry and generated based on the database are highlighted. This report concludes with several observations obtained throughout the survey and several reliability data collection opportunities in the future.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Program
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1090149
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR-5000-59111
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
DATA COLLECTION
DATABASE
RELIABILITY
WIND TURBINE
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