Risk-based Asset Management

for Solar Farm

Loc Nguyen, Daniel Liang, Kelvin Tan

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Why Asset Management System?

Organization’s Goals: Performance, cost & risk management

Top-down and Bottom-up Gaps: Lack of structure system &

 Top managers mainly care about process
Big Gap

organization’s KPI  Structure system to fulfill gaps

 Site operators only care about between ground level and high level
equipment’s performance (asset health, risk, cost, etc.)

 Mid-level managers struggling on how  Process: no feedback loop for AM

to fulfil the gaps & justify top activities and improvements
management

 InvestmentAM activities: Maintenance, Refurbishment, Replacement

planning

Wind Photo
Farms Voltaic

Generation Transmission Distribution Consumer

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Asset Management Solution

Organization’s Goals: Performance, cost & risk management

Identify KPI & Build Organization’s Risk Framework & Appetize

 Finance, Reliability (e.g. SAIDI, SAIFI), Quality, Environment, etc.

Asset management Software

 Assess asset performance/health: remaining lifetime, maintenance time, failure probability
 Assess failure impact & risk on different KPI’s
 Control performance, cost, and risk

 InvestmentAM activities: Maintenance, Refurbishment, Replacement

planning

Wind Photo
Farms Voltaic

Generation Transmission Distribution Consumer

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DNV GL’s AM Solutions

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DNV GL’s Asset Management Solution

Risk &
Condition Criticality
Run to Fail Time Based Based Based
Repair/replace Maintain at a Maintain & Maintain or
on fail set interval replace based replace assets
on condition with highest
Replace at 40
year asset life risk and
greatest
importance

Most organizations
are in this range

DNV GL’s AM Solutions

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Condition-based Maintenance
Monitors Operational Stress to Find Potential Failures

Breaker “B” Operational

Monitor DGA interrupts
particle count Stress Event
numerous high
test every 12 Identified
current faults
months
Condition

Breaker “A”

Breaker “B”
Trigger non-
scheduled DGA
particle count -
tests
Breaker “B”
removed from
service and
refurbished

Time

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Risk-based Maintenance
Which Corporate
equipment is at the
Capital
Which Budgeting:
equipment should be greatest
Reliabilityrisk
Goalsof How can we spend our
replaced
Equipment O&M
and how to (SAIDI / SAIFI)
failure? maintenance
Budgeting
dollars
Replacement
justify to regulators? more efficiently?

Health Criticality Risk

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Risk-based Maintenance

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Risk-based Maintenance

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Risk-based Maintenance - Example of Risk bubble graph

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Assessment of Health and Risk of PV Plant

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DNV GL’s AM solution for solar

Long-term
RL & Risk
assessment
Big-data
based
short-term
failure
Site prediction
inspection &
Online
monitoring

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Online monitoring & inspection

Check monitoring data for consistency

• Datasheets and certificates of sensors
Online • Maintenance of sensors
monitoring Analyze PV plant production
by • Detection of local or temporary defects
SunHelm • Identification of steadily decreasing of constant
underperformance
Generation of action list
• Recommendation of immediate actions or on-site
inspection

Site • IR imaging and IV curve (IEC 60904-1, IEC 60891)

inspection • Visual inspection (IEC 61215)
• Insulation and Earth resistance (IEC 62446)
• Drone inspection & image analysis
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SunHelm by DNVGL 9 June 2016

Drone inspection for solar farm

DNV GL hosted Norway Prime Minister

Erna Solberg for an unveiling of the latest
product in its smarter operations services
for wind and solar farms.

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Big-data driven short-term failure prediction

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Assessment of Health and Risk of PV Plant

DC system
Inverter
(PV modules, combiner boxes, etc.)

RLmodule RLinverter

Inverter failure
Module failure risk
risk

Total failure risk

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What else are we doing for Solar?

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We are DNV GL

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Energy’s global service portfolio

Policy Production Transmission & distribution Use

Service areas Strategic topics

Power testing, inspections and certification Smart energy cities and smart grids

Renewables advisory services

Energy storage

PolicyRenewables certification
Production Use
Future transmission grids
Electricity transmission and distribution

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Solar

Energy Independent
Due diligence
assessment engineering

Technology
Project review & Performance
management Strategic evaluation
support
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Assisting companies in solving the energy trilemma

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 Risk-based Asset Management for
Solar Farm

Daniel Liang
daniel.liang@dnvgl.com

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