Abstract
2011 Was a fruitful production year with less than expected downtime and slightly better weather conditions then the long-term forecast. All maintenance that needed doing has been performed as required and Belwind is lined-up ideally to go into the second year of production. The Belwind O&M organization itself was set-up in the mean time and runs professionally. Although we regret 1 LTI in 2011 we can state that overall safety is still priority number 1 and all works are performed only after strict HSSE assessments and approving of procedures.
In early 2012 we will further close-out the last remaining punch-list items and start-up the maintenance works on the foundations. With all lessons learned from the first operational year Belwind will adapt where necessary its maintenance procedures and strategies to further optimize the long term operationability of all assets in order to allow yield maximization over the full lifetime of the installations. Together with our internal knowledge build-up Belwind will further cooperate with institutes and platforms such as the MUMM and SIRRIS to will develop specialist knowledge on all influencing factors.