Here’s a surefire way to annoy your coworkers: Pick something most people believe, say it ain’t so, and prove it! Data scientists are particularly good at that kind of irritation. It comes with the domain, of course. Their job is to see what others miss or dismiss what others take for granted. It’s a feature, …
Renewable Energy
Forecasting, especially the future
“It’s difficult to make predictions,” said Niels Bohr, “especially about the future”. This remark strikes as funny, almost oxymoronic. After all, what else is there to predict, except the unknown future? However, the famous physicist had a point. His quip encapsulates our age-old frustration in our quest for foretelling the future.We need to know the …
How AI predicts turbine component breakdowns: Predictive Maintenance Part II
In part one of our Predictive Maintenance series, we talked about the philosophies and history of maintenance (Click here for Part I). The second part of the series focuses on wind turbines and includes examples of how Kavaken’s solution identified a possible major component breakdown in advance to avoid production loss and equipment costs totaling …
Kavaken’s Predictive Maintenance Part I
Maintenance philosophies can be classified into two categories. These are reactive and proactive maintenance. As the name indicates, reactive maintenance is unplanned; it simply takes corrective actions as equipment exhibits fault symptoms that humans can sense or break down. Proactive maintenance can also be broken down into two categories: 1. Preventive maintenance (PM) 2. Predictive maintenance (PdM) …
Power Curve Analyzer
Keep an eye on wind turbine performance and detect anomalies via baseline power curve The wind turbine power curve contains vital information regarding the turbine efficiency and health, but the simplified power curve displayed on the SCADA system loses this data information in translation. “The Power Curve contains the key to how much revenue your …
What is Kavaken?
Kavaken empowers renewable energy asset owners with artificial intelligence to overcome the challenges they are facing Renewable energy asset owners face decreasing revenues, aging assets, and increased downtime. At the same time, their assets generate a significant amount of data that can help them overcome these challenges. However, they lack the capabilities to exploit these …
Borusan EnBW reduced balancing costs with Kavaken
“We have been working with multiple providers for more than 5 years. Thanks to Kavaken’s solutions we have achieved the highest accuracy in our production forecasts in all of our plants.“ Tuna Guven, Assistant General Manager, Operations at Borusan EnBW “Kavaken’s product enabled us to reduce balancing costs and save on operational expenses.“ Emre Okuyan, …