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Wind Farm Maintenance

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Unsthable
17 Jun 2025 16:04 Link
I am asking Andy for specifics information that should probably be in Documentation regarding the maintenance of Wind Farms. It is entirely possible that the information is already published and I have just missed it, but finding accurate information is unfortunately sometimes a challenge here.

I would like to know specifically in detail what the monthly requirements are for proper Wind Farm maintenance in terms of both products and employees.

In a post last year, Andy posted that the annual maintenance cost of a Wind Farm is:

(12) Wind Turbines
(450) Electric Power
(12000) Services
(18000) High Tech Services
(6000) Other Products

It was also listed that '320 workers and professionals are working at each windfarm and take care of the maintenance'.

Please verify that this is still accurate and specify what the 'Other Products' are as well as the breakdown of specific employee type distribution is for those 320 workers and professionals to allow for proper determination as to just how worth it (or not worth it) Wind Farm adoption is. Quick estimates based on your shared maintenance costs and assuming all employees are HT Engineers, the cost for the 'Other Products' would be considerably higher than for the Wind Turbines themselves based on the Cash Log data that I have from testing in my country.
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mrp8196
26 Jun 2025 11:59 Link
well here is my data 1 wind farm 1 wind turbine consumed. 162 mil revenue 134 mil costs 1150 power generated. Low quality wind farm
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Unsthable
26 Jun 2025 15:50 Link
Thank you for the input mrp8196, what I'm looking for is a little more in depth than the raw 1 WF : 1 WT that most people take for granted in figuring out their maintenance costs, since every bit of costs and profits matter I think its fair to have full knowledge of what goes into the process of WF ownership.

Here's an example breakdown from one of my countries.

1283 Wind Farms @ 230Q
Wind Turbines @ 122Q (75.50M market price)
Electric Power @ 230Q (97,680 market price)
Services @ 330Q (1,028 market price)
High Tech Services @ 329Q (1,616 market price)


Finance Index reported income - $360,304.89M
Finance Index reported cost - $184,476.22M

Actual income - (1283 WFs) * (1250 EP) * (2.3) = $360,304.89M
This is accurate as expected.

Actual expense assuming just 1WF:1WT - $118,177.13M
There is an additional $66,299.09M reported cost outside of the WTs.

Actual expense assuming the maintenance items Andy previously shared - (1283 WTs) + (48112.5 EP) + (1,283,000 Services) + (1,924,500 HT Services) + (641,500 mystery products) + (410,560 unknown type workers) = 118,177.13 + 10,809.15 + 4,352.45 + 10,231.87 = $143,570.60M

So right now with everything that is known, in my case there is $40,905.62M additional in costs without knowing specifically what those costs are paying for. All I know is that it is a combination of 410,560 employees and 641,500 unknown products. The breakdown of what those employee and products are is what I aim to know.