Life Extension

Lifetime upgrade

Adding 10 years of income

The Life Extension program consists of monitoring and structural upgrades that can guarantee the availability of your wind turbines until year 30, giving greater control over operation and maintenance costs and streamlining the cost of energy.

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Are you interested in our Life Extension service program? Please contact our service team.

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Service category

Upgrade

Experience since

2014

Life time increase

+10 years

Customer benefit

Lifetime

Key Facts

Safety and availability of the upgraded turbine until year 30, ensuring 10 additional years of income
Full control over operation and maintenance costs in years 20-30, increasing the net asset value
The Life Extension program is available for aging Siemens Gamesa fleet and some third-party wind turbines

Recommended for

All Siemens Gamesa 660 kW, 850 kW, and 2.0 MW wind turbines

Products for aging fleet

Energy Thrust

Power Curve Upgrade

Power boost function

Overhaul program

Reconditioning of major components

Bring the latest design improvements to your existing fleet

This service guarantees the safety and availability of the upgraded turbine until year 30, for 10 more years of income and greater control over costs.

Adding to the upgrade we recommend a long-term service contract to keep operational costs steady as well as a tailored investment and financing plan to optimize the cash flow.

Expertise supported by monitoring and diagnostics

Siemens Gamesa joined the advisory council for the EU-sponsored SafeLife-X project, developing solutions for minimizing the ageing of industrial infrastructure.

Siemens Gamesa's Life Extension program is underpinned by analysis of the fatigue and re-engineering of the 660 kW platform's structural parts, the 28,000 wind turbines monitored by our service engineers, and their own expertise. This know-how is rounded out with a monitoring and diagnostics system that identifies abnormal behavior by parts affected by cumulative fatigue. This means we can develop high-spec solutions and tailor them to our customers' needs across the 850 kW and 2.0 MW platforms, and even to wind turbines made by other manufacturers. Life Extension is just one in a range of solutions designed to reduce the cost of energy in existing wind turbines and improve the business case of our customers.

About the EU SafeLife-X program

Aging fleet highlight products

Overhaul upgrade

Turbine Overhaul modernizes aging turbines, using today's technology to replace all their major electrical components and electronics.

Reconditioning of major components

Blades, gearboxes, and generators can last longer by reconditioning or replacement with the latest technology. We subject each component to bench tests at full load to guarantee an extended life, thereby enhancing the turbine’s performance while reducing risk and maintenance costs.

Increasing output with Energy Thrust

The Energy Thrust solution enables older wind turbines, updated with the latest state of the art technology, to perform like new ones. Wind turbine performance is improved, increasing annual energy production by up to 5%.

Energy Thrust Service

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If you’re interested in becoming a client

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If you’re an existing client

Our experts are on hand to help with any questions you have. Email us, or login to our customer service portals. Here you’ll be able to monitor configuration, production, and agreements for your wind power plants, and find relevant news from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.

Wind Dialogue

This customer service portal enables you to monitor configuration, production, and agreements for any wind power plant supplied by former Siemens Wind Power.

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Customer Portal

Customers of former Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica products can access an intuitive repository of reports and management tools to improve the efficiency of their wind turbines and wind farms on the following platform:

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If you want to know more about our other services

This service offering is part of a comprehensive portfolio that we have compiled over three decades of wind service tradition. At Siemens Gamesa, turbines and operational services come from a single source to make it easy for you to get the maximum performance out of your wind power plants.

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