Pareto — Wind Farm Unplanned Downtime
Lost generation hours by failure mode across a 42-turbine wind farm, computing that 4 of 12 modes account for 80.7% of 8,310 downtime hours and that gearbox bearings alone carry 38% of the fleet's outage time.
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title "Wind farm unplanned downtime by failure mode — 2027 YTD"
unit downtime hours
period "2027 YTD"
threshold 80%
other-below 1.5%
note "42 × 3.6 MW turbines; lost generation valued at about £1.9 M"
"Gearbox bearing" 3180
"Pitch system fault" 1820
"Generator winding" 965
"Converter IGBT" 742
"Yaw drive" 486
"Blade leading-edge damage" 371
"Main bearing" 244
"Transformer trip" 178
"Anemometer / sensor" 121
"Hydraulic leak" 94
"Grid protection trip" 67
"Lightning strike" 42