BENGALURU: Wind equipment makers may be gearing up for a tussle with project developers, as the latter abandon operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts with manufacturers to maintain wind farms themselves, saying they are dissatisfied with the performance of certain equipment makers. <\/p>\n
O&M contracts have traditionally been awarded to equipment makers, who get a substantial part of their revenue from such contracts, although it varies across companies. <\/p>\n
Renew Power, the biggest independent power producer (IPP) in the country, has just set up its own O&M unit. The unit hopes to gradually maintain all of its machines \u2013 those installed already as well as those to be commissioned in future \u2013 on its own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BENGALURU: Wind equipment makers may be gearing up for a tussle with project developers, as the latter abandon operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts with manufacturers to maintain wind farms themselves, saying they are dissatisfied with the performance of certain equipment makers. O&M contracts have traditionally been awarded to equipment makers, who get a substantial part of their revenue from such contracts, although it varies across companies. Renew Power, the biggest independent power producer (IPP) in the country, has just set up its own O&M unit. The unit hopes to gradually maintain all of its machines \u2013 those installed already as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}