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New LiDAR Arrived

May 31, 2017

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The newest LiDar added to the OE fleet arrived last week and has been deployed at the NFWC

New Office Construction Update

May 30, 2017

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ACI plans to pour the back porch this week, scheduled for Thursday

Concrete 101 Training offered

May 25, 2017

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Dr. John G. Everett, PhD, PE is offering a technical training session, Concrete 101,  scheduled for Wednesday, May 31 at 7:00am. 

This is intended for Field Engineers, Technicians, others likely to be working with concrete, and anyone else who is interested.  Attendees should print and review the Concrete 101 handouts (see below). The documents are also saved under Dropbox-Library-Other Presentations-Concrete 101 JGE 20170531.

Foundation Design Drawings
Concrete 101 Handout

Dr. Everett strongly encourages attendees to find answers to (at least) Questions 1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 15, and 17 from “Foundations, Concrete, Rebar 20170421” (which is the Concrete 101 Handout) before the seminar.  Other questions may be addressed as time permits

April Production Report – 2017

May 24, 2017

Production was just over the P50 forecast.

​Goldwind maintenance was completed at WTG 1. Maintenance for WTG 2 and WTG 3 to be finished by the end of May.

Production was just over the P50 forecast.

Goldwind completed their 1 year maintenance.

Production was over the P50 forecast.

There were no maintenance events and very little downtime.

A new addition to the production report postings, the Fleet Report, shows the performance of each project, the wind resource measured in the previous month, the maintenance downtime, and availability, as well as the measured power curves.

Total fleet production for the month of April was 5,775,356 kWh and all projects except Ball and Whirlpool performed above the P50.

Please reference the Fleet Production Reports Summary training video located under Training > Operations & Maintenance on the Intranet if you have any questions regarding the information included in the Fleet Summary.

Production was under the P50 forecast.

​Goldwind completed their 1 year maintenance at Z1.

Production was under the P50 forecast.

​Goldwind complete their 1 year maintenance at W1 and W2. 

NFWC Ball 1.0
Fleet Summary
Cooper Farms
NFWC Whirlpool
MPC Harpster
Haviland

Skunk Tank Upgrade

May 24, 2017

VERY IMPORTANT… if you have ever used the original Skunk Tank computer, please take note.

We have purchased a new Skunk Tank and it is currently being set up to replace the original computer.  In preparation of taking the old Skunk Tank computer offline, we have moved all of the desktop files to Dropbox.  All files that were on the desktop are now in Dropbox (OEE)\IT – General\Skunk Tank Desktop.

Please look through these files and save them to the appropriate location if it is information that will be needing in the future.  If it is not removed by Tuesday, May 30th, then it will be deleted.  If any questions, please check with the IT Dept.