Discover how WEST is tackling the challenge of bat mortality at wind energy facilities with our innovative digital solution, Optimized Smart Curtailment (OSC).
OSC provides wind turbine curtailment algorithms, developed from machine learning techniques, tuned to site-specific patterns of bat risk and power production. Our solution empowers wind energy facility operators by providing options specific to your objectives, each with associated costs and benefits, to ensure bat mortality is reduced below management targets, while simultaneously optimizing power production.
The OSC approach differs from other smart curtailment strategies in that we use machine learning techniques to integrate a facility’s wind regime and power curve directly into the algorithm fitting process, further optimizing the benefits of a curated curtailment strategy.
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• Cost-effective Solutions: Unlike acoustic-activated curtailment systems that require a lifetime of hardware maintenance, OSC uses machine learning techniques, acoustic or thermal video data, and turbine SCADA data to produce thousands of tailored algorithms. This means no long-term on-site equipment to monitor and maintain.
• Algorithms Tailored to Your Project: OSC uses site-specific bat risk models to design algorithms that optimize power production without compromising bat conservation. From the thousands of algorithms that WEST OSC provides, we analyze and present a number to choose from based on your project constraints and objectives.
• Innovative Data Approach: By using machine learning to integrate wind regime and power curve data, OSC creates custom curtailment strategies that reduce unnecessary power production losses during low bat activity periods.
Reach out to our experts (Rhett Good, Paul Rabie, Amanda Hale, Michael True) or learn more about OSC here: https://west-inc.com/optimized-smart-curtailment/
