Big Data Europe consortium successfully completed the 3rd Workshop in the energy sector on the 28th of November, 2017 in Amsterdam, within the Wind Europe Conference and Exhibition 2017. The workshop provided a key opportunity for stakeholders in the wind energy sector to be updated on the latest developments related to BigDataEurope’s platform and pilot case and discuss future possibilities with BDE platform. Also BDE was presented in conference poster session and at CRES exhibition area (1E83). The workshop was attended by 34 stakeholders from industry, academia, service providers, research institutes and engineers.

The workshop was introduced by Mr Mark van Stiphout (Deputy Head of DG ENER C.2) with a review of EU R&I priorities on Energy and Digitalisation. BDE project was presented by Prof. Maria-Ester Vidal (Fraunhofer IAIS), the technical details for the platform by Mr Ivan Ermilov (University of Leipzig) and the energy pilot by CRES.

The speakers from the energy community represented major developers such as VATTENFALL and TERNA, academia and institutes (University of Brussels, QWI Lab), and service providers (ALTSOL, ARESSE and WoodGroup). The workshop content was condensed and of quality keeping the high interest of the audience. The following discussions mainly focused on the future use of BDE platform and the research prospects.

Big Data Europe consortium schedules the third workshop on big data in the energy sector on the 28^th of November, 2017 in Amsterdam, within the Wind Europe Conference and Exhibition 2017. Join and have the opportunity to learn how advanced data management and analytics and Big Data tools can enhance asset management, condition monitoring and research along with an in depth presentation of the Open BDE platform.

Attendance: Free (no ticket for the conference or the exhibition is needed for entering the workshop)

Venue: Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Elicium 2nd floor Room D203 (see map)

REGISTRATION

Agenda

13:00 – 13:10 Welcome & Introduction

• Introducing attendees, workshop goals
• BigDataEurope: Scope and opportunities (BDE Consortium)

13:10 – 13:25 Review talks

• EU Research & Innovation priorities on Energy and Digitalisation (Mr Mark van Stiphout, Mark VAN STIPHOUT, DG ENER C.2, Dep. Head of Unit)
• Big Data in Energy domain (BDE consortium, CRES)

13:25 – 14:30 Asset management and Big Data

• Cloud based Wind Analytics (Mr Masoud Asgarpour, Team Lead Analytics, VATTENFALL)
• Wind Farm monitoring with advanced analytics (Mr Peter Clive, WoodGroup)
• Options for Wind Farm performance assessment and Power forecasting (Mr Athanasios Kyritsis, Analyst, ALTSOL/TERNA)

14:30 – 15:10 BDE Open Platform

• BDE Platform: components, application fields, how to install and use (Dr Ivan Ermilov, Researcher, University of Leipzig)
• Round table discussion for Big Data tools and BDE platform use

15:10 – 15:20 Coffee break – networking

15:20 – 16:40 System monitoring and Big Data

• Big Data in Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring (Prof Jan Helsen, Drivetrain monitoring and Big Data coordinator, OWI Lab)
• Data management challenges in WT testing and monitoring (Mr Gorka Gainza, Engineering Manager, ARESSE)
• BDE Pilot case for Wind Turbine condition monitoring research (BDE, Mr F.  Mouzakis, Head Wind Turbine Testing, CRES)

16:40 – 16:55 Round table discussion

• Future data management and analytics needs in Wind Energy
• BDE platform prospects: development, application and maintenance
• Future research opportunities
• Scheduled Webinar

16:50 – 17:00 Summary, Outreach & Farewell

17:00 End 

BDE was presented at the 4th EDITION WIND POWER BIG DATA AND IOT FORUM held on the 8th – 9th November 2017 in Berlin, Germany. 

The event was attended by more than 100 delegates representing the leading manufacturers (i.e. VESTAS, SIEMENS, GAMESA, SUZLON, Goldwind etc), major operators (VATTENFALL, TERNA, E-ON, DONG etc), academia (UCLM, University of Birmingham, DTU etc) service providers (Uniper, Innogy, Envision, Catapult, Sgurr, DNV, UL-DEWI etc), component manufacturers and institutes.

The event covered a variety of topics all related to the data management and analytics challenges that the industry faces today in five sessions:

• The future of Smart Wind Turbines
• Wind Power Resource Assessment and Forecasting
• Harnessing the Power of Big Data
• Benchmarking and Performance Optimization
• Advanced Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance

The discussions were focused in the field of:

• the potential use cases of Big data & IoT in renewable energy
• what tools and methods are required for benchmarking in order to get tangible results
• the impact of Big data & IoT on operations/business models due to digitalization & analytics
• how to implement the technology to asset management
• real challenges to face in CMS (Condition Monitoring Systems based on SCADA Data) implementation
• uses of machine learning algorithms for turbine performance monitoring and improvement of the yield of a wind turbine
• predictive maintenance techniques 
• challenges of power forecasting for wind farm portfolios
• integrated solution for data management for an operator of several wind farms

CRES presentation, in Advanced Condition Monitoring session onthe 9th, included a short overview of the available Big Data Tools, the outline of BigData Europe project, the BDE platform and components and the pilot cases in system monitoring. Focus was paid in the opportunities that BDE platform can offer and to the forthcoming webinars and workshops.