Wind power market is emerging

Without hearing the order, the Fighting Competition on the wind power operation and maintenance market has already started. Host manufacturers, wind power developers, and large and small third-party operation and maintenance companies have all made moves and are in a situation of melee.

Regarding the prediction of the market size, there are many data, but the only certainty is that the market is huge and the participants are very interested.

Unlimited business opportunities After large-scale wind power construction, China's wind farm operation and maintenance market is increasingly emerging.

Up to now, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in China has approached 100 million kilowatts, while the installed target in 2020 is 200 million kilowatts—a huge installed capacity, which means a huge operation and maintenance market.

According to the judgement of the entire manufacturer Goldwind Technology, China's operation and maintenance market will be 280 GW by 2023. A recent report on the operation and maintenance of China's wind power market predicts that by 2022, China's wind farm operation and maintenance costs will increase to 3 billion US dollars / year.

"First of all, the domestic wind turbines now have an average annual increase of 10,000 units. Second, due to the low level of design and manufacturing at the time, the failure rate of wind turbines installed in the initial stage after several years of operation will be higher; All units have a warranty period, and their operation and maintenance are also being introduced to the market. In addition to routine maintenance of the unit, there are some problems caused by faults and quality that need to be solved. This market will grow in size.” China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association The Secretary of the Wind Machinery Branch, Sakae, analyzed it before his birthday.

As many owners requested that the whole machine manufacturer extend the warranty period of the fan, as of 2014, more than two-thirds of the put-in-operation fans in China are still under warranty. However, in the future, as the quality of new wind turbines increases and the age of old turbines grows, the scale of quality assurance fans will increase dramatically.

The above report predicts that from 2014 to 2016, there will be about 14 to 18 GW of wind turbines each year, and by 2022, a total of about 187 GW of wind turbines will have quality assurance. And this, for all market participants, there is a huge business opportunity.

“I think one thing is confirmed. This market is very, very large. And many owners have already brought O&M to the agenda.” Zest Meng, Vestas’ service director, stated that the owner’s goal is very clear: How to make your wind farm fulfill the promise of return on the original investors and investors. How to maximize the use of wind is the biggest challenge for wind power operation and maintenance.

In the market of wind power operation and maintenance, the natural advantages of wind turbine manufacturers cannot be eliminated. I am afraid that no one will be more familiar with the performance of the wind turbine than they are.

As exemplified by Zeng Simeng, for wind power generation, the planning of maintenance will have a particularly big impact on the entire production. If the maintenance schedule is not properly planned or planned, there will be great losses. Through the analysis of the data in the operation of the fan, manufacturers can often choose the right time for fan maintenance work, thereby minimizing the loss caused by downtime.

Vestas' accumulated 30 years of experience in the operation and maintenance market and its installed capacity of 60 million kilowatts of wind turbines are unparalleled in the fierce competition and maintenance market.

In order to be more successful in the operation and maintenance market, this wind power giant from Denmark also changed the original practice of providing only standard service packages, in China to launch a new tailor-made O&M service solutions and after-sales solutions. "If customers want to use their own resources for maintenance, Vestas can also provide more support in service management, service planning, supply chain support and the entire data sharing." Zeng Simeng said.

In addition to the launch of the service segment, manufacturers such as Goldwind, NGC, and Mingyang Wind also set up subsidiaries that specialize in operation and maintenance. For instance, Beijing Tianyuan Kechuang Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Goldwind Technology, has achieved revenue of 1.4 billion yuan in 2013, which is a unique example.

Three pillars, in fact, many large-scale wind power developers are unwilling to give way to this “substantially juicy” market. Most of them have their own independent technical service companies or operation and maintenance service divisions and are responsible for the wind power of the Group. Operation and maintenance business.

For example, Datang Group's Datang New Energy Testing and Research Institute, Longyuan Power Group Holdings's Longyuan Wind Power Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., etc. In addition to meeting their own needs, they can also provide regular operation and maintenance services for other wind farms.

As Yueyuan Hong, Chief Engineer of Longyuan Wind Power Co., Ltd. stated, “Our aim is to provide technical support and technical services for Longyuan Group and even all of Guodian Group's wind farms or industries.” In fact, China currently exceeds the warranty period for wind turbines. % is left to the developer's own maintenance.

In addition, there are currently more than 90 third-party operation and maintenance companies active in the market. However, more than two-thirds of them have entered the operation and maintenance market within the past two years. The quality of service provided and the level of technology can be described as uneven.

Yue Junhong stated that after the operation and maintenance of wind power, the market can be divided into low, medium and high categories according to the technical level: the low end is the replacement of lubrication, cleanliness, and consumables, mainly by some small and micro third parties to do these tasks. The operation and maintenance of the network is an advantageous complement; the middle-end is maintenance, including technical performance testing, etc. In general, the operator is still doing it; while the high-end is the optimization of the business, including technological transformation, etc. In this respect, the manufacturer has his advantage. "But our company is also developing such capabilities to make up for deficiencies in the operation and maintenance of wind farms."

“As owners, we are most concerned about wind farms generating more electricity.” Xin Kefeng, deputy dean of the Datang New Energy Research and Development Institute, revealed that “as the wind turbines have more and more guarantees, we may also have diversified operation and maintenance. Nor does it exclude cooperation with third parties or manufacturers."

In fact, as the cakes in the wind power operation and maintenance market are getting bigger, third parties have grown up outside the wind farm developers and complete machine manufacturers—wind power developers, manufacturers, and third parties Utmost potential.

“The development with Chinese characteristics should be a manufacturer, developer, and professional and independent third party service organization to jointly meet the needs of the market after wind power.” As a third-party technical service company, General Manager Li Jingjia, general manager of Beijing Unicon Technology Co., Ltd. It is very much expected that such balance and existence should be a long-term one. In the face of this market, these three types of service companies each have their own characteristics, each has its own advantages, and all have room for survival and reasons.

“This market is not black and white but it is the complementary strengths of everybody. How can we achieve the optimality and make the cost of wind farm operation lower? This is the direction of development.” Zeng Simeng emphasized.

Disregarding the competition "Now this market is chaotic and the competition is disorderly. Everyone has not reached a consensus on the standard of service." Li Jingjia said that wind power machine manufacturers have experienced a brutal competition, but the result of competition is a certain To a certain extent, everyone is the victim. The current O&M market is repeating similar stories. For example, if you decide to check, you say 30,000 yuan, and I have 28,000 yuan. However, we rarely say how serious the connotation, guarantee, and commitment of the inspection are.

In this regard, Xin Kefeng also feels the same: There are no standards and specifications in the operation and maintenance industry. No one has come to evaluate the results of operation and maintenance, including whether the service life of the fan is affected by maintenance, the inspection is not in place, and the timeliness is in place.

However, General Electric believes that there are too many standards in the wind power operation and maintenance industry. “The owners have their own standards. The OEMs provide some standards from the perspective of their own products. The third-party independent service companies also put forward some standards.” Zhang Xiaoyan, general manager of GE Wind Energy Projects and Services, complained that the standards are too many and too complicated How can we simplify the complicated standards in the industry and integrate them into a uniform standard that can be complied with by any service provider? For example, in the aviation industry, a minimum standard can be set, and OEMs and repair shops can exceed this standard – that's your choice. .

She believes that the wind power industry needs to simplify complicated operation and maintenance to standards that are easy to implement and jointly abide by. "In this field, everyone wants a share, but if there is no uniform specification and threshold setting, it will be a waste of resources for the entire industry."

“We have been thinking about this issue. For the operation and maintenance company, the owner asks you to let you be a housekeeper or a babysitter. If you are a nanny, what does the owner ask you to do? This service model cannot be The owner creates more value, and being a housekeeper is at least a decade or even a lifetime. If all the third-party or other O&M companies can be the owner's stewards, I think the industry will do better. ” Ling Yun, Marketing Director of Beijing Xiehe Yunwei Wind Power Company said.