Configure Availability

The purpose of this section is to show a user how to configure calculation of Availability. Availability defines how much time a wind turbine has been operating or is ready to operate (i.e. produce electric power) as compared to the whole time range. For more detail information, refer to Availability.

Availability Configurator plug-in will be required for performing the following configuration. For more detail information, refer to Configuring Plug-ins.

To configure Availability calculation, we need to create Availability and define for which Information Categories it will be calculated.

By default, there are two availability types: Technical Availability and Operational Availability. Apart from the mentioned availability types, we can create the other ones. Let's create availability named My Availability. To do this, follow the steps below:

in the Configuration section of Availability Configuration toolbar click ;
right click in the Availability Mappings area and select Availability;
let's name it My Availability;

Now we need to define for which information categories My Availabilitywill be calculated by taking the following actions:

this can be done either at the bottom in the grid by clicking the appropriate drop-down arrow and selecting one of the available options:

or directly from the graphical representation on the chart at the top by right-clicking the information category and selecting one of the options:

Select Available Time so the time during which the wind turbine was in this information category is calculated as available; Unavailable Time - the time during which turbine was in this information category is calculated as unavailable and Skip From Calculation - during calculation not to take into account the time when turbine was in this information category. Let's mark green the information categories FULL PERFORMANCE and REQUESTED SHUTDOWN;

apply the changes by clicking in the upper left corner.

You can also calculate the Availability automatically by following the steps described in Calculate Availability Automatically.

If required, you can create the availability adjustment. For example, if the wind turbine was in one information category for a certain time period, we can adjust that for the specified time period during the specified day it will be in another information category. Let's assume, that our turbine was in SCHEDULE MAINTENANCE information category for 2 days and we will adjust that for 2 hours during specified day it will be in Other Environmental information category. To do this, follow the steps below:

in the Configuration section of the Availability Configurator toolbar click ;
right click in the Information Category Adjustment area and select Information Category Adjustment;
in the Info Category Adjustment ConfigForm window select the controller for which this adjustment will be valid by selecting Unit 01 in the Controller drop-down list;
in the Information Category drop-down list select Other Environmental which we will used as adjustment;
in the Comment field type Because of low wind;
specify date and time period during which the turbine will be in this category. In our case, we enter 08/02/2016 02:34:24 PM in the Begin field and 08/05/2016 05:34:24 PM in the End field. Time can also be in the past or in the future;
click OK to proceed;

apply the changes by clicking in the upper left corner.

After creating the adjustment, it appears in the Information Category Adjustment area.

Now, based on this adjustment, we can recalculate information categories and availability for this turbine.

The next manual section efer to Configure Task Scheduler will provide you with the instructions on how to configure the Task Scheduler.