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Building
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How Wind
EPCs are Driving
Down Costs

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Building
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How Wind EPCs
Are Driving Down
Wind Energy Cost

JENNIFER RUNYON, Chief Editor

While the all-in cost to build a wind farm has fallen

dramatically over the years, due in part to larger and
more powerful turbines that can harness more wind
energy for less money, the cost of building the projects

From shaving minutes off set-

up time to creating software to
pinpoint inefficiencies, wind companies
are always looking for ways to drive
down the cost of wind power.
themselves has also fallen but still has a ways to go.
Driving out waste in our industry is always at the
forefront of our minds, said Tim Maag, the Vice Pres-
ident and general manager of wind for Mortenson
Construction, one of the top wind EPCs in the United
States. Maag acknowledges that collectively the wind
industry has made a lot of progress in bringing down
costs but said that type of work is never done.

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Driving out waste is some-

thing that you never stop
working on.

First Standard-
ize, Then Improve
Maag said that early on
Mortenson developed stan-
dard work instructions for all
of the work it does building
a wind farm but that is only
the first step. Once the stan-
dard is in place, Mortenson
challenges all of its work-
ers to improve it and offers
them incentives like gift
cards or jackets as rewards
for good ideas.
We know if we engage
the craft workers, the peo-
ple doing the work, the people
that are closest to it, and chal-
lenge them to come up with a
better way of doing it, that the
sky is the limit, he said.
For example, Maag said
that sometimes making a
tweak to a process might
mean that a crew of five can
now do the work with only
four people and the fifth team
member can be assigned to a
different task. A tweak could
be in the form of the way a
certain tool is used in the
build process or a more effi-
cient sequence for getting the
work done, said Maag.
One innovation that
Mortenson is in the process
of creating is the ability to
use an algorithm to define the
Wind farm under
construction.
Credit: Mortenson
Construction.
best energy output with the least cost of construction.The com-
pany is working with Stanford University to perfect the system,
which looks at the placement of turbines, the output they will gen-
erate and then factors in construction costs. The algorithm might
show that moving a turbine a bit further a bit to the left or a bit
to the right could reduce the cost of construction significantly but
keep the wind resource the same.
So the algorithm will go in and automatically relocate the tur-
bines looking for the best energy output and the least cost of con-
struction to get them put there, he said.
Software for Operation Efficiencies
In addition to algorithms like the one that Mortenson is using
in partnership with Stanford, Maag said the company uses 3D
design software for all of its builds and that it can layer the
schedule on top of the design (the forth dimension) to give work-
ers an understanding of where the project needs to be at any
point in the future.
So using virtual design has been pretty cool, said Maag, add-
ing, of course that helps us sequence the work and look for the
most efficient way of building the project.
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(but not an EPC), also recent-
ly announced that it uses
operational efficiency soft-
ware from SirionLabs to help
drive costs out of its organi-
zation on the IT level. Siri-
ons enterprise software plat-
form uses automation and
advanced analytics to help
buyers and suppliers create
higher value and more suc-
cessful relationships, while
enabling effective manage-
ment of cost and risk in com-
plex services engagements,
said the company.
Vestas adopted Sirions
solution to give it better vis-
ibility and control over the
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The E1000 motion
compensated access system
has delivered efficiencies at
Germanys first commercial
offshore wind farm. Credit:
Ampelmann.
performance of its IT suppliers. The platform helps to mini-
mize financial losses and risk in contracts. SirionLabs said in a
press release that in addition to the significant hard Euro sav-
ings achieved through Sirions comprehensive 3-way invoice vali-
dation, the ability to monitor supplier performance at a granular
level helps give Vestas more control of its supplier engagements.
We realized cost-savings equating to 300 percent return on
investment in Sirion during the first year as it enabled us to iden-
tify discrepancies in our supplier invoices which would other-
wise go unnoticed, said Henrik Stefansen, Senior Director, Glob-
al IT Sourcing at Vestas in the release.
Innovating with Partners and on the Job
Ken Hilgert is Business Development Director for Blattner Ener-
gy, another major EPC provider for wind farms. He said in an
email that Blattner looks for innovative solutions to reduce cost
from its projects and finds those cost-saving opportunities by
integrating early with its clients.
Indeed, working with clients and partners is another key to
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finding innovative ways to
cuts costs and/or improve
processes. Mortensons Maag
gave an example of how logis-
tics companies must be able
to deliver taller cranes in
order to accommodate the
taller turbine towers that
have larger nacelles.
We have to work very
closely with the crane compa-
nies to make sure that there
are going to be machines big
enough to get to those eleva-
tions, he said.
Equipment company
Ampelmann manufactures
people and cargo trans-
fer solutions for the offshore
wind industry in Europe.
Friso Talsma, Business
Development Manager with
the company explained that
its fully motion compensat-
ed gangways exist to make
sure people can safely get to
work on an oil and gas plat-
form or an offshore wind
platform. Because they are
motion-compensated, the
gangways remain stable in
harsh marine environments
and are not affected by wind,
waves or currents.
The company recent-
ly announced that its E1000
motion compensated access
system, with a gangway
that transforms into a crane
boom, had performed more
than 12,000 people transfers
and 7,000 cargo transfers
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safely between an offshore support vessel and wind turbines
over a ten-month period. That increase in operational man-
hours on the maintenance program for the wind farm result-
ed in Ampelmanns contract being extended by Siem Offshore
Contractors.
Steven Vis, Operations Engineer at Ampelmann explained
that the company was able to find a more productive solution on
the job.
During this project, we came up with a solution to further
increase operational efficiencies. The manual pins were replaced
by hydraulic pin pushers, which reduced the change-over time
from people to cargo mode from ten to five minutes. The E1000
was then able to transfer both people and cargo within 20 min-
utes, he said.
Even though a five-minute reduction in the time it takes to
perform an activity doesnt seem like a huge innovation, reducing
the time involved in performing a complicated process by 50 per-
cent no doubt adds up over time.
Thinking Big, Really Big
Talsma said that Ampelmann has now formed an internal team
devoted to solving problems or creating more efficiencies within
the wind industry.
With that team we are developing innovations based on sys-
tems we already have or on new systems specially designed for
the wind industry, he said.
Mortenson has also formed several internal teams that are
focused on innovation, said Maag. The innovation challenge
asks teams of construction professionals to come up with some
of the boldest and the best ideas to tackle a problem within our
industry, he said.
There are seven teams working on the wind industry and
each one will come up with three ideas. Those three ideas will
then be narrowed down to one idea per team and each one will
be presented to upper management at the end of 2017. Morten-
sons upper management will then choose which ideas to pursue
for further development, potentially investing hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars to advance them, Maag explained.
Its really amazing to see the creativity of our team members
when you unleash them to think freely and to come up with ideas
like that, he said.
Im excited for the ideas Im hearing about already.
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Theres a clear The global energy storage industry will expand rapidly in
uptick in the next few years, as it moves to support solar and other
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Utility-scale storage will be a significant part of the ener-
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markets finding include an uptick in projects in the distributed sector, par-
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about 3.7 GW by 2025.
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storage, even fewer have pro-
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Energy storage is includ-
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limited under the program.
According to NREL, Calif. reg-
ulators last year amended the
program to reserve 15 percent
of total storage allocations
for projects < 10 kW, making
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who purchase the system can
earn a bill credit of about $32
per month.
Financing Expanding Beyond
Solar to Include Storage
The options for financing stor-
age in the U.S. are growing.
Solar loan provider Mosa-
ic, for example, offers U.S.
homeowners loans for storage
systems and last November
secured $550 million of new
loan funding capacity.
Homeowners also can
access loans from stor-
age providers. Adara Power
in March said it now offers
unsecured financing for its
residential energy storage
systems up to $64,000 with
terms up to 12 years. The
company also said that it
offers commercial business-
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on a term of up to seven years for between $20,000 and $1 mil-
lion. Large commercial installation loans are available through
Adara, with terms up to 10 years for up to $5 million.
Adara said that it now qualifies for property assessed clean
energy (PACE) financing through Renovate Americas HERO
program.
PACE financing has increased in popularity based on its sup-
port for energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades that
are financed through local property taxes, and it also can be
applied to energy storage systems.
PACE in the U.S. currently is available for residential proper-
ties only in California, Missouri, and Florida, but commercial
PACE has been much more successful. Programs for commer-
cial properties now are operating in 19 states, according to PACE
advocacy group PACENation.
Residential PACE has been challenged because when a prop-
erty ends up in foreclosure and is sold, outstanding property
taxes and assessments that were unpaid, come off the top gov-
ernment always gets paid first, PACENation Executive Direc-
tor David Gabrielson said. So, the mortgage lenders, particular-
ly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they looked at PACE as a threat.
They agreed that it is legal, but they feel that it is an invalid use
of this taxing power, and they have been very resistant.
That resistance, he added, has limited the availability of PACE
for residential projects.
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Launched PACE
Commercial
Program
Launched PACE
Commercial
and Residential
Program
PACE Program Availability in the United States. Source: PACENation
According to Gabrielson,
any successful expansion of
residential PACE in the U.S. in
years to come will lie in prov-
ing its worth in the market.
Stakeholders need to be
collecting data and analyz-
ing data it is either going
to support our claims or its
not, he said, adding that the
theory is that PACE house-
holds should be healthier and
stronger; their homes should
be more valuable; and their
ability to make their mort-
gage and property tax pay-
ments should be solid.
This year will largely
determine whether were suc-
cessful in changing the per-
ception about PACE, he said.
That goal took a blow
in April when Republican
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OR MN
NH
WI NY
CT
MI RI
OH
UT
CO MD
CA DC
MO KY
AK
TX
FL
Source: PACENation
senators introduced the Protecting Americans from Cred-
it Exploitation (PACE) Act, which requires disclosure for PACE
loans. In an April 5 statement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called
PACE loans a scam.
Predatory green-energy lenders are changing state and local
laws to trick seniors into taking out high-interest rate loans for
20 years, along with liens on their homes, for technology that
could be obsolete in a few years, he said.
Gabrielson issued a statement in response to the bill, say-
ing PACE supporters are deeply concerned by the incendiary
attacks leveled against this innovative and successful policy
from some on Capitol Hill. He said that the PACE industry sup-
ports strong consumer protections at the federal level to safe-
guard homeowners, but that the legislation introduced in Con-
gress is a thinly disguised effort to kill PACE.
Gabrielson told Renewable Energy World that the future for
commercial PACE programs is more positive.
Commercial PACE is on much more stable and solid ground
because in the commercial realm existing mortgage lenders give
their consent to projects, Gabrielson said. Thats an important
option thats given to existing mortgage lenders. I see over the
next five years a steady, slowly accelerating expansion in com-
mercial PACE.
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Solar, Storage Finance
in Europe
While there are no existing
PACE-like programs currently
operating in Europe, there is
interest in this type of finan-
cial mechanism in the Euro-
pean Union, said Gabrielson.
He said that a group of
Europeans based in Spain
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There are, however, other
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The European market is very diverse and the types of subsi-
dy schemes vary widely, Julian Jansen, senior analyst for U.K.-
based research and consulting firm Delta-ee, said in an e-mail.
Jansen said that Delta-ee sees the greatest incentives and
potential support for storage in Germany, through a mix of low-
interest financing programs and state-based support programs.
In our view, other countries currently lag behind regarding
specific [energy storage] support programs especially for com-
mercial customers, he said. However, we do not see this as a
huge issue, in fact we believe that it is more important for regu-
latory barriers to be removed, rather than pushing for govern-
ment-sponsored subsidy and financing programs.
According to Jansen, Germanys support program KfW 275
has been pivotal in initially kick-starting the German residen-
tial and small commercial battery storage market. It is applica-
ble for storage systems that are combined with a solar PV system
< 30 kW. The program provides customers with a combination
of low-interest loans from the KfW Development Bank and an
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customers with several thou-
sand euros, which helps to
reduce the upfront cost barri-
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Cracking the PPA:

Renewable Energy Projects
and Energy Storage
Overcoming challenges associated with adding
energy storage to existing solar and wind farms.

BECKY DIFFEN AND NELLI DOROSHKIN, McGuireWoods

Colocating energy storage with renewable generation resourc-

es seems like a natural partnership to reduce the intermitten-
cy of renewable generators. Several projects have been built
across the country combining storage with wind or solar proj-
ects. While the co-location of such facilities can yield many
benefits, there are a number of legal and practical issues that
need to be considered when deciding to acquire and co-locate
storage facilities (particularly battery projects) with existing or
new renewable generation.
The primary issue with co-locating a storage project, par- or solar project and the ser-
ticularly with an already operating wind or solar project, is vices provided by the bat-
considering how the storage add-on will affect the renew- tery, but other projects keep
able development. From an implementation standpoint, con- the storage project as a sepa-
structing or setting up a storage facility next to existing rate resource, which can sig-
renewable generation can disrupt the existing resources per- nificantly complicate matters.
formance. The operating project will likely need to be taken For example, if the battery
out of service for at least some of the construction phase of the charges from a solar project
storage project, which will impact revenues and contractual such that the off-taker no lon-
performance obligations. ger receives that power, how
Further any existing power purchase agreement (PPA) or does that affect the PPA obli-
offtake agreement will need to be modified to account for per- gations? And in either case,
formance changes due to the co-located storage. Sometimes what happens when the bat-
these agreements are amended to include the storage project, tery takes power off the grid?
so the off-taker now receives both generation from the wind Who is responsible for that

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 Solar PV plant.
Credit: First Solar.

cost? Thinking through and documenting all the different gener- state of the transmission grid
ating and charging scenarios is a complicated task that requires may also have changed from
technical, business, and legal teams to all work together. the time when the initial
studies were performed, and
Interconnection, Taxes and Insurance a change to the project could
In addition to cracking open the PPA, interconnection upgrades trigger network upgrades that
may be necessary when installing co-located storage, as well previously were not required.
as significant meter upgrades to measure the power going in Developers must ensure
and out of the various components of the project. If storage and their existing property rights
solar are to be installed together, then the interconnection stud- allow for the new co-located
ies can be done at one time and one comprehensive interconnec- storage facility. If a solar or
tion agreement can be entered into. However, if storage is to be wind lease was entered into,
added to an existing project, new studies may be required and does it also grant the rights to
the interconnection agreement may need to be amended, or an install a battery system? Does
entirely new interconnection agreement may be required. The the tax abatement agreement

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allow storage to be added,
and how does that affect the
property taxes or payment
in lieu of taxes that was pre-
viously agreed to? New per-
mits or amendments to exist-
ing permits may also be
required. A developer should
not just assume that it will
be a simple amendment to
add on storage. Particularly
for solar projects, which may
be located closer to residen-
tial areas, a stand-alone solar
project may be acceptable but
the aesthetic impact of a trail-
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authorities. In addition to any local siting and/or environmental
permits, some states may require additional regulatory permits
and registrations.
A storage developer should also examine options for expanding
existing insurance policies to cover the new storage facility. This
may require a modification to the facilitys cybersecurity insurance
policy as well as a general review of any new technology risks
associated with the storage facility. The risk portfolio of a building
or trailer full of batteries (many of which are made with potentially
explosive materials) is quite different from a solar project.
Despite the potential investment tax credit eligibility of a co-
located storage project, the restrictions around the credit sub-
ject the project to recapture risk, which may limit the projects
financial attractiveness. Stand-alone storage projects already face
significant financing challenges due to factors such as technol-
ogy risk, regulatory uncertainty, and project size. As discussed
above, co-locating a project adds to the potential risk. Combined
with rapid advances in storage technology that place downward
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Sun rising on wind farm.
Credit: Blattner Energy.
pressure on prices, this can
result in low market will-
ingness to invest in a colo-
cated project. Often, a fully
wrapped engineering, pro-
curement, and construction
contract, with a strong war-
ranty (including credit sup-
port) behind it, is needed to
receive financing for co-locat-
ed storage projects. Develop-
ers should be sure to address
all of the foregoing issues, as
each will be reviewed critical-
ly by potential investors and
other project participants.
This is not to say that wind,
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solar, and storage projects should not be co-located. In the right
location and with the right offtake and use cases, these types of
projects can be economic and beneficial to the power grid. The
key is for developers to not assume a battery system should be
installed at a wind or solar site instead, careful analysis of the
technical and economic aspects of the project should be performed
to ensure the best location is a co-located site, and this analysis
should include consideration of the timing, legal, and economic
impact of the issues set forth in this article.
Finally, when new solar and wind power plants are being pro-
posed and negotiated, it would be wise for developers to consider
including a provision about adding energy storage to the project
within the PPA and the interconnection agreement so that down
the road, should these opportunities arise, the complications will
not outweigh the benefits.
Becky Diffen and Nelli Doroshkin are attorneys with McGuire-
Woods Energy Industry Team.
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Around the World with Bioenergy,

Hydropower and Geothermal
Lots of firsts in the baseload renewable
energy sector this month from a UK
airport using bioenergy, tidal energy in the
Philippines and geothermal in Canada, heres
a quick check-in on whats happening in the
baseload renewable energy markets.

JENNIFER RUNYON, Chief Editor Gatwick Is First Airport in

the World to Turn Category 1
Unlike the intermittent wind and solar power, baseload renew- Waste into Bioenergy
ables are able to produce power with little fluctuation due to In March, DHL Supply Chain
weather. Bioenergy, geothermal and hydropower technologies and Gatwick airport formally
are able to provide power around the clock and do not depend opened a new waste manage-
on the sun shining or the wind blowing. Heres a look at whats ment plant, becoming the first
happening in these important renewable energy sectors. airport in the world to turn

Category 1 waste.
Credit: DHL.

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airport waste, such as food and

packaging, into energy.
The 3.8M (US $4.7M) waste-
to-energy plant turns Category
1 waste and other organic waste
into energy to heat Gatwicks
waste management site and
power the sites water recovery
system. When in operation, the
plant could save the facility up to
1,000 (US $1250) in energy and
waste management costs per day.
Category 1 waste is defined
as food waste or anything And island in The
mixed with it, such as packag- Philippines. Credit:
ing, cups and meal trays from
Envirotek.
international transport vehi-
cles. Through the plant, waste
is turned into a dry-powdered organic material, used as fuel to In related news, PwrCor
heat the site and dry the waste for the next day. said that it has initiated a pro-
DHL Supply Chain already manages inbound deliveries at Gat- gram with ConEd to develop a
wick Airport through its logistics and consolidation facility on pilot project based on its Pwr-
behalf of the airports 150 partners and retailers. The develop- Cor engine, which employs
ment of the new waste management plant is also in sync with waste-heat-to-power tech-
Deutsche Post DHL Groups recently announced commitment to nology. The engine captures
reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by the year 2050. waste steam condensate and
converts it to electricity before
Waste-Heat-to-Energy in Turkey, New York, and California it is disposed of in the munici-
Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) company said its 65 pal sewer system.
HRS ORC unit, which converts waste heat to energy will be installed By capturing the steam con-
at theDzcecam Glass Plant in Dzce, Turkey. The unit, designed densate, PwrCor says that its
for 6.2 MW nominal capacity,will convert the off-gas waste heat technology delivers electric
from the two float glass production lines into electric power. It is power to the building and also
expected to be online in early 2018. cools the hot water, eliminat-
The heat recovery system configuration includes a set of thermal ing the need to purchase water
oil boilers (one for each line) with a heat carrier circuit to convey to temper the over-hot conden-
the heat from the exhaust gas to the ORC unit. The two waste heat sate before it can be disposed
boilers, in parallel with the existing quenching tower system, will of in the sewer system.
produce thermal oil up to 315C. The hot thermal oil (heat carrier) The company is also
transfers thermal power to the ORC turbogenerator working fluid, exploring how its technology
which then expands in the turbine to convert incoming thermal could be used in conjunction
energy into electric power by means of an electric generator. with geothermal power.

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Tidal Energy in Southeast Asia is interested in developing geothermal heating and cooling
Singapore-based cleantech solutions in Ontario and offering those solutions to homeown-
investment company Envi- ers. There are two key drivers for the companys interest. First,
rotek, working with an inter- Ontario has aggressive carbon-reduction goals and second, there
national team of experts, suc- is a significant heating load in the region.
cessfully deployed a 62kW Ontario is already using a good chunk of renewables and the
SCHOTTEL Instream Tur- province shut down the last of its coal plants in 2014. However,
bine (SIT) in the waters off the the heating load is still met mostly with gas, propane and oil.
Sentosa Boardwalk in Singa- Moving to all-electric heating does not make sense across the
pore, showcasing the viabili- board because of the cost implications but geothermal is very
ty of tidal energy in the region. attractive to us in meeting the energy needs of the region, said
Based on the trial, the compa- Girdhar in an interview.
ny intends to develop commer- The company plans to target the new construction market first.
cial tidal instream projects in Because it is a regulated company, Girdhar explained that
Southeast Asia with an initial Enbridge could rate-base the up-front cost of installing the geo-
focus is on the Philippines. thermal loops underground, spreading that cost over a much lon-
With more than 7,000 ger period than homeowners could do on their own.
islands, many of which are iso- If we can put it in our rate base, we can spread that over 40
lated communities that still years so that brings the cost down significantly, she said, add-
have limited access to elec- ing because natural gas is so much cheaper youve got to use
tricity, a significant opportu- every means at your disposal today to bring that cost [of geo-
nity exists in the Philippines thermal] down.
to harness the power of the Girdhar estimates that there are approximately 40,000-50,000
oceans to provide a reliable new housing units constructed in Ontario annually.
supply of energy. Most of these So getting a small portion of them initially just to demon-
communities use diesel gener- strate the technology, the market, and get user acceptance and
ators to provide electricity. Due then grow from there, we think over the next 10 years it should
to high costs of fuel, transpor- become quite viable, she said.
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years when converting from mineral-
based oils.
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Operators should look for synthetic
lubricants engineered with a balanced
formulation a mix of high quality
base oils with robust additives.
To help further minimize HMIs,
operators should optimize how often
they service equipment and that
means understanding how the equip-
ment is performing.
Used oil analysis is a fundamen-
tal lubrication service that helps oper-
ators understand real-time lubricant
and equipment performance as well
as identify potential pain points. Most
importantly, these services, which
lubricant suppliers can provide, can
help teams identify high-level trends,
allowing them to tailor maintenance
programs to prevent downtime.
Lubricant suppliers are good part-
ners. For example, they can help ana-
lyze equipment operating conditions,
specifications, and OEM recommen-
dations to best identify the right prod-
uct mix for equipment, namely which
greases and oils should be used.
Operators can also work with a
suppliers team of field engineers to
identify and execute technical servic-
es such as used oil analysis or gear
oil flushing services. Further, sup-
pliers can provide training to help
ensure the staff is knowledgeable and
informed on the latest lubrication
best practices.
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