The world’s first benchmarking platform for offshore wind farms, SPARTA (System Performance, Availability and Reliability Trend Analysis), is actively seeking to expand the system’s coverage to offshore wind farms beyond the UK as it marks its first full year of operations by publishing the SPARTA Portfolio Review 2016.
The SPARTA Portfolio Review 2016, launched today (Tuesday 28 March), provides some key insights from the offshore wind farm performance and maintenance data gathered by the system, which covers 93.7% of the installed capacity of UK operational offshore wind. These include:
“Following a successful pilot phase and first full year of enduring operations, SPARTA has demonstrated how crucial industry collaboration and benchmarking is in continuing to drive down costs and increase production from offshore wind farms,” said Adrian Fox, Chair of the SPARTA steering group.
“Industry members are now working to widen membership and reporting outside of the UK, enabling them to undertake deeper insight and analysis and make more informed decisions regarding offshore wind farm management.”
The SPARTA platform aims to support improvements in the availability, reliability and performance of offshore wind assets, which will drive efficiency improvements, sector innovation, and investment and development. Operational data is collected across 76 key performance indicators at system level (from blade to onshore substation), analysed and reported upon monthly, allowing individual performance to be benchmarked against the industry and acted upon by members.