Annual Power Engineering Exchange (APEX) Southern 2012

The Programme - Flyer


APEX PAPER WINNER 2012

Bayleigh Baird, Merdian Energy Ltd

Bayleigh has been working as a graduate engineer for Meridian Energy since early 2011. To date she has worked on Meridian’s wind farms and hydro stations across New Zealand on a variety of projects and with different teams including the wind, reliability and strategic engineering teams. She is currently based in Twizel, working for the tactical engineering team. Bayleigh completed her mechanical engineering degree (first class honours) at the University of Waikato in 2010.

West Wind - Wind Farm End of Warranty Inspections

Thorough inspections were carried out in 2011 on all 62 2.3 MW wind turbines at Meridian’s West Wind wind farm. These inspections were done in response to a decision made by Meridian to bring servicing and maintenance of the wind farm in-house, an unusual decision in the wind industry. The inspections were carried out at the end of the turbine’s two year warranty period (provided by the turbine OEM) and their purpose was to identify any defects or signs of future issues that might be covered under the warranty purchased when the wind farm was built. A number of defects were found during the inspections that had not been picked up by condition monitoring. These have now been fixed under warranty, thereby avoiding damage through early detection and saving Meridian in maintenance costs during the first years of running the wind farm.


Presentations

 Bayleight Baird  

 West Wind - Wind Farm End of Warranty Inspections                                                           

 Jono Brent  

 Disaster Recovery - Lessons Learnt from a Contractors Perspective

 Stephen Butler  

 Challenges & Considerations for Incorporating Offshore Renewable Energy Sources

 Sohrab Faramarzi 

 Shaking & Switchboards - The Resilience of Bromley

 Nigel Harwood

 Power Pole Stability - Power Pole Stability

 Wardley Howard

 Engineering Multivendor IEC 61850 Solutions

 Andrew Lapthorn 

 IEC Young Professionals Workshop

 Neale Maples 

 The Micro-Hydro Generator as a Teaching Resource

 John O'Donnell  

 Learning from Christchurch Quakes

 Carter Poudel 

 Protection Testing and Maintenance- How Would We Know

 Olly Powell 

 Advances in Silicon Solar Cells

 Ash Ronald 

 AEL LV Maintenance

 Hamish Williams 

 Waitaki Mechanical Protection Slide Show

 Marc Yeung 

Kawerau Generation Export Enhancement Investment Proposal

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