Wind farm BoP

Author: Francesco Miceli

  • With a fair wind – something interesting to read this summer (if you like wind farms)

    If you are reading this blog,  chances are that you are somehow interested in wind energy. And if you are looking for a good, interesting book on this topic I would suggest you to start from here: With a fair wind (full disclosure – I’ve written the chapter on Civil Works). It is a book…

  • Time is never enough: Early Works

    Early Works, sometime also called Preliminary Works, Limited Notice To Proceed or something similar, are a common project strategy that is currently more frequent than ever before. Basically, it means that some field works, engineering tasks and/or procurement activities are done before that the EPC contract enter into force. EPC contracts have usually a long…

  • Piled foundation for wind turbines

    I’ve noticed last week that the blog has no post on piled foundation and decided to write a couple of words on the topic on a flight back to Hamburg. Piled foundations is a broad term that include several technical solution aimed at increasing the bearing capacity of the soil when design requirements such as…

  • Where do I go from here? Careers path in the renewable industry.

    This post is about my personal experience with possible careers path in the onshore wind industry – what are the easy and the not so easy movements. I believe that the main concepts would be applicable to similar industries, such as Solar or Offshore. It’s applicable to medium and big size companies organized in a…

  • Google: powered by wind

    One interesting fact that you might not know is that the Big G (that is, Google) decided several years ago to power 100% of its activities using renewable energy. They reached their objective in 2017: what is surprising is that they started only in 2010, with a wind farm in the USA. Basically the strategy…

  • Serrations: how to reduce those noisy vortexes

    Every now and then a new technical solution appears in the wind energy business and it’s slowly implemented in the new wind turbines. A good example is the use of trailing edge serrations – not really a new idea (it has been around for several years) but a simple solution that it’s spreading and gaining acceptance…

  • Everything fine? Defects Notification Period

    The Defects Notification Period (DNP) is a certain number of day counted from the date of completion of works that allow the customer to notify defects to the Contractor. In the Wind Energy business is usually 12 months, but in principle can be longer (2 years, 5 years, etc.) or shorter. There are also situations…

  • Nabrawind Technologies self erecting tower

    Some years ago I posted an article about a self-lifting wind turbine tower. The idea was to use using heavy lift strand jacks already available in the market to lift the concrete sections of a wind turbine tower. It’s a project developed by Esteyco, a Spanish engineering company. Well, I just discovered that it’s not…

  • Looking for a tender manager BoP

    Looking for a Tender Manager specialized in Turnkey (EPC) wind farms. Ideally expert in wind farm Balance of Plant (roads, foundations, MV cables, substation) and technical and commercial negotiations for all BoP scope of supply. Apply on Linkedin or here: https://nordex-jobs.dvinci.de/cgi-bin/appl/selfservice.pl?action=jobdetail;sid=2ctve7ap88m7y3oy;job_pub_nr=06A416E2-A75E-454C-AB00-5062D288C634;p=homepage;job_pub_type=extern;

  • The quest for scale: mergers and acquisitions in the wind industry

    Mergers and acquisition are not a recent phenomenon in the wind business. My former manager Luis Miguel still remember vividly the merger in ’97 between Nordtank Energy Group (NEG) and Moerup Industrial Windmill Construction Company (Micon) – and the subsequent merger between NEG Micon and Vestas in 2004. While in ’97 I was still enjoying…