Inspection, Maintenance and Refurbishment of Hydropower Plants

Innovative approaches to the operations and maintenance (O&M) of hydropower facilities are needed to ensure optimal performance. Poor operations and maintenance through a lack of investment, inadequate training or outdated approaches, can cause high outage rates, performance losses and increased operating costs. This can lead to lost energy production, reduced revenues and in some cases result in safety and environmental concerns.

Choosing whether to maintain or upgrade hydropower plant components can be difficult. Poor original equipment reliability can force changes, but often a detailed cost-benefit analysis is needed to make decisions. Understanding how others have tackled this process can help ensure success at your plant. Risk-based approaches allow an efficient prioritization based on highest risk, cost reduction and fast risk identification.

The VGB expert workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of maintaining hydropower assets and aims at transferring knowledge in order to benefit from innovative and newly developed approaches and technologies. This workshop will mainly highlight the following topics:

• Innovative technical aspects about generators and lifetime extensions
• Application of measuring and testing instruments
• Experiences with the application of test standards and monitoring systems

You will learn from experts of leading manufacturer companies about their newest developments and opportunities for the maintaining of your hydropower fleet. This may help you in decision-making and in finding O&M strategy solutions in your company.

There will be enough time for detailed discussions and for answering questions.