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December 2018

Newsletter VALEMO #11

EDITORIAL

We’ve been waiting for a while for the first freezing days to deliver our last newsletter of the year for a comfortable reading nearby the fireplace. With the end of 2018 arriving, VALEMO is pleased to announce the launch of the 8th maintenance base located in Guadeloupe (French Caribbean islands) and aimed at the first hybrid plant equipped with energy production and storage technologies overseas.We take the opportunity of this newsletter to wish you all a very happy and successful ending year. Let’s book the next appointment early 2019 with still nice stories to tell about Renewable Energy increase into the electrical mix. 2019 promises to be an intense and busy year with the first offshore wind farm in French waters within sight, VALEMO news should therefore be interestingly rich…

VALEMO is attending Forum Energaïa, from 11th to 12th december in Montpellier and will be pleased to meet you there! Come and have a chat with us on our stand F28.
Also VALEMO will take part of "Pitch Innovation" dedicated to offshore floating wind turbines on Wednesday 12th from 9:30 to 12:00am.

FOCUS: Energy loss due to yaw error

VALEMO regularly brings to light its last case studies. You can find here a full record of the topic "Evaluation of energy loss due to yaw error".

Pitch VALEMO Colloque National Eolien

//REPORT

From VALEMO Reims operation base

Operation and Services

14 operated wind farms (20% VALOREM-owned farms)

15 wind farms with services

2 technical supports

Meeting with Alexis Suinot – Technical support in Reims

What was your training and what has been your training path?

I have an Industrial Maintenance BTS, plus an Advanced technical maintenance Licence degree. I have started my professional life in different companies, apart from wind energy (electric heaters, distillery), then I joined General Electric as a service technician for wind turbines for 2 and a half years. GE trained me, including for works-at-height. I joined VALEMO in January 2015 working for technical support in Reims.

What are your main tasks?

My missions consist more in service delivery than maintenance for turbines. It means mostly blade inspection, lidar installation, preventive maintenance for substations, and also interventions for met mast and support for vibration analysis. We work as well for operation department for the biannual inspections with operation managers. My tasks are very diverse, there is no routine. It is really stimulating to work for different interventions and to share missions with professionals with different backgrounds. Each new mission is a breath of fresh air.

What is your favourite task ?

The Reims-based agency is specialised in technical audit missions. These missions, for which our turbines technical experience is the most valuable, are my favourite ones, especially for the significant autonomy they require. I particularly enjoy being responsible and autonomous.

VALEMO provides personal protective equipments suitable for the risks involved

Inverters in solar energy plant’s substations produce powerful high frequency sounds. Ear protection helmet protected VALEMO technicians against this noise but made complicated communications between technicians and VALEMO remote control in the substation.

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VALEMO upgrades its informatic system

In 2019, VALEMO will face some important challenges: operate the first windfarm in Guadeloupe (French island) with multi-megawatt wind turbines, putting into service about twenty solar and wind farms with different direct sellers.

Read more…

VALEMO Guadeloupe:now 8 maintenance bases to provide support as close as possible to renewable energy plants!

Our two new caribbean co-workers from Guadeloupe, after a 2-month intensive training in mainland France, are back and join our third technician, present locally since the end of construction work.

The team, now complete since October 15th, is ready to take charge of Sainte Rose plant and its :

– 8 turbines (2MW Gamesa G90) (commissioning in progress)

– delivery station

– power generators for safety in case of cyclones

– energy management system

Next step will concern practical training on turbines for a better technical knowledge of the machines.

We wish them success to meet the challenge of such a project, the first of its kind in Guadeloupe!

New job at VALEMO:Operation technician

Real support to the operation manager, the operation technician assists him on a daily basis for tasks less demanding. Thus, the experienced operation manager (often more than 10 years) can dedicate himself to its fields of expertise. This new organization allows a quick reaction when a temporary work overload occurs resulting from, for instance, damages on site. The operation manager can focus on problem solving while limiting current issues to fall behind. This work organization aims to the skill improvement of young recruits and VALEMO’s know-how transmission within the operation department.

With these new recruitments, there are now 13 professionals in charge of operation and optimization of more than 600 MW (wind, solar and hydroelectric energies)!

Human resources // New recruits

4 service technicians :

– Michel Pavy

– Kevin Panga

– Manuel Martineau

– Antoine Dumas

2 operation technicians :

– Marine Paris

– Guérin Fleurier

MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Actualités

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