Monday, January 12

11:30 am
Registration Opens
Location: Presidential Foyer
Lunch will not be provided
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1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Welcome & Introduction
John Dunlop, Senior Technical Services Engineer, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Program Chairperson: Phil Stiles, Director, Operations and Maintenance, Acciona North America
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1:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Overview Safety Issue Update
Bryan Fennell, HSSE Manager, BP Alternative Energy
Safety Status of the Wind Industry

• Current OSHA Interest of the Wind Energy
• Current Regulatory Changes Effecting Wind Energy Projects
• AWEA’s Role in Wind Energy Safety

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1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
The U.S. Financial Landscape and its
Impact on Asset Management

• How can assets be operated through lean financial times?
• How should operation organizations prepare themselves when
  financial conditions find a new level of normalcy?
• The importance of not cutting funds on preventative
  measures during this time
• Do’s & Don’ts in hard times

Edward Zaelke, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Break
Location: Presidential Foyer
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Availability Trends in the US Wind Power Market
Joe Stevens, Vice President, Independent Engineering Group,
Garrad Hassan America, Inc.
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3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Tribology & Reliability
Moderator, Thomas Jonsson

• Reliability improvements
• ocus on the gearbox standards & its importance
• Lubrication issues

Bill Needelman, President, Filtration Science Solutions
Michelle Graf, Product Manager, Hydraulic, Industrial Gear Oil,
and Grease, The Lubrizol Corporation
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5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Networking Reception
Location: Palm Court
Sponsored by: Knight & Carver Wind Group

	Tuesday, January 13

7:30 am
Registration Open
Location: Presidential Foyer
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8:30 am – 10:00 am
SCADA Data Mining and Overall Plant Performance Verification
Moderator, Eric White, Director of Engineering, AWS Truewind, LLC
Plant Performance and SCADA Data Analysis Overview

• Plant performance in North America: Operational Considerations
• SCADA analysis and condition monitoring system evolution
• Areas of opportunity

Gordon Randall, Senior Technical Advisor, DNV Global Energy Concepts, Inc. Turbine and Project Performance – What We Know and What We Don’t

• North American project performance relative to expectations: current knowledge
• Specific causes and quantification of energy shortfalls
• Ongoing research into turbine and project performance – what the industry needs

Sara Tyler, Senior Wind Analyst, Shell Wind Energy Inc.
Benchmarking the Operational Performance of Wind Assets

Bob Lee, Manager – Integrated Solutions, Matrikon Inc
Effective Remote Asset Monitoring

• Closing the Data Analysis Gap – Converting data to information
• Software Equipment Condition Monitoring
• Improve asset availability, reliability, maintainability, utilization and forecasting

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10:00 am – 10:30 am
Break
Location: Presidential Foyer
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10:30 am – 11:00 am
AWEA Policy Update
John Dunlop, American Wind Energy Association
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11:00 am – 11:45 am
NERC Compliance Updates
G. Michael Curley, Manager GADS Services,
North American Electric Reliability Corp.
Measuring Wind Turbine Performance – The New Wind Turbine Database

• New database for tracking wind turbine outages and statistical performance

Jim Holsclaw, The Structure Group
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12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
Location: Celestial Ballroom ____________________________________________________________
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Technicians Wanted Immediately:
Who is Preparing Wind Energy Workers?

• Where to find high skilled wind energy workers
• Why the industry needs to guide the education and training programs
• Partnerships bring added value to your bottom line

Dr. Susan J. Wolff, Chief Academic Officer,
Columbia Gorge Community College
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2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Forecasting Performance Update
Dr. Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer, AWS Truewind, LLC

• Impact of wind generation and value of wind forecasting
• Current performance of state-of-the-art wind forecasting systems
• Challenges and opportunities for improving wind forecasts

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2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Break
Location: Presidential Foyer
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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
O & M Best Practices Panel
Moderator, Thomas Jonsson

Kenneth Cohn, Founding Partner, Second Wind, Inc.
New Remote Sensing Tools for Performance Measurement and Optimization of Wind Turbines

• Single point v. full rotor span wind measurement
• Measured v. extrapolated wind shear
• Wind Veer
• Applications to understand and improve performance

Don Roberts, Project Engineer, DNV-Global Energy Concepts
Lessons Learned from End-of-Warranty Turbine Inspections

• Recommendations for specific systems and components to investigate
• Inspection and sampling strategy
• Timing and preparations for inspections

Jeff Duff, Vice President, Airstreams Training Services
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4:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Wrap-Up Session
Program Chairperson: Phil Stiles, Director, Operations and Maintenance, Acciona North America

	**NEW** PAPER "LESS" WORKSHOP

In an effort to be more environmentally friendly, AWEA is excited to announce that for the first time, the AWEA Wind Power Asset Management Workshop will be going paperless for the session handouts. What does that mean? We will not be distributing the session handouts on-site at the workshop in hard copy format. No more bulky binders or wasted paper from printing hundreds of copies. Instead, attendees will have access to electronic copies of all speaker bios, presentation materials, and handouts online before, during, and after the workshop through the following 3 methods:

Before the meeting:
Registered attendees will receive an email announcing when the workshop materials are available. You may print them out in advance at your convenience or download them to your computer if you would prefer.

Onsite:
A limited number of printing stations will be available where you can print the handouts you need, or download the presentations to your laptop so you can follow along in the workshop sessions. Attendees will also receive a blank notepad so you will still be able to take notes during the sessions.

After the meeting:
Handouts will be available to workshop attendees online until January 19. That way you can continue to access them after you get back to your office.

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More detailed information will be posted in the coming weeks.

(Program schedule and topics subject to change without notice.)

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