Operations not just investment
Our experience has taught us that many renewable assets - both generation and storage require operational excellence to ensure they get the best possible return. For smaller scale distributed energy builds, its important to have an operational as well as investment approach with developers to ensure that revenue is maximised. At birdwood we take an operational view to ensure that both output and costs are managed effectively from development, during construction and throughout operation to ensure that across the 30 year life of the asset, returns are maximised.
Our in house technical team monitors our sites centrally, using technology that can both alert us to an immediate maintenance issue, but learns over time the indicators that drive the fault and alerts us to the circumstances prior to failure. We are able to inform the local electrician or supplier that a control chip is about to fail, schedule the replacement, and ensure that production loss is minimised.
Operational excellence is about making sure we have the systems in place and the tools and information available so our team, algorithms, in house technical team and service delivery partners can react quickly to the problems that matter, enables us to remove costly unscheduled maintenance as well as achieve the full stack of revenue opportunities available.
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