ABB Wind Services

ABB’s solutions and services enable your wind turbines to produce electricity every single day and night with unprecedented reliability.

With groundbreaking modernization and digital solutions, you can double the turbine lifetime and boost the Annual Energy Production. ABB’s base services ensure your turbines achieve the highest possible availability, giving you peace of mind.

ABB's global service network provides the expert support wherever you need it. Our field service engineers are on-site at each wind farm, ensuring your operations continue to run seamlessly.

Over 140 years serving our customers

Over 60 wind farms owners, operators and OEMs supported globally

Over 20 onshore and offshore markets served locally

At ABB we offer three categories of services for both convertors and generators

Base services

Modernization services

Digital services

Base services: ABB maintenance services maximize your turbine availability and help you achieve reliable energy output.

Converters offering in detail:

Name	Service description	Benefits
Spare parts and maintenance kits	All converter original components are shipped to you in 48 hours from a single source. Preventive and corrective hardware kits for the aged components.	Maximizing wind converter availability over the entire life cycle. Keep your converter performances at the target level. Easy installation on site.
Training	Theoretical and hands-on training for wind converters.	Enable you to operate and maintain your converters safely.
Workshop repair	Replace faulty & aging components in the power module and test them in ABB’s Drive Workshop.	Bring the entire power module back to its original performance.

Generators offering in detail:

Name	Service description	Benefits
Spare parts	Critical generator components are shipped to you in 48 hours from a single source. All other active spare parts are available on demand.	Maximizing wind generator availability over the entire life cycle.
Workshop repair	Workshop repair replace active parts with the latest technology.	Improved reliability Increased electrical availability

Modernization services: Most advanced hardware and software packages ever built to double the converter and generator lifetime and boost the Annual Energy Production (AEP). This is the perfect moment to embrace modernization and create more clean electricity.

Converters offering in details:

Name	Service description	Benefits
Workshop refurbishments	Replace old module’s and cabinet’s components with high-performance parts.	Higher robustness thanks to increased thermal cycling performances. Increased stability of the electricity production process when the system exceeds boundaries. Ensure spare part availability during the lifecycle of the converter.
Upgrades	Most advanced hardware and software packages: New Power module New Control HW and SW apps New components for the cabinet	Enable the wind farm to reach 40 years of operation Increased the power rate by up to 10%. Enhance system efficiency. Enable state-of-the-art cybersecurity. Enhance Annual Energy Production (AEP) via digital apps (by up to 3%).
Replacement	Indoor and Outdoor replacements for the complete converter: ABB 3rd Party wind converters	Extend the lifetime of the existing wind farm. Increase the power rating if needed. Easy installation.

Generators offering in detail:

Name

Service description

Benefits

Workshop refurbishment with upgrades

Generator refurbishment with electrical and mechanical upgrades enables optimized winding and slot geometry with increased thermal margins, enhanced cooling to reduce winding hot spots and bearing temperatures and extended operating envelope for higher power output.

Increases annual energy production by up to 5%
Increases equipment reliability
Fully interchangeable with ABB legacy units and generators from other manufacturers
Increases equipment lifetime through lower temperatures

Replacement and ABB Wind Generator Stock

A stock of tower-ready of ABB generators with 5-10 days of delivery times.

Third-party replacements enhance availability with proven generator designs, featuring stators built with high-efficiency electrical steel laminations, windings with an increased thermal class and superior insulation, and rotors equipped for efficient cooling and high overspeed tolerance.

Minimize the downtime with fast delivery and tower ready generators

Improved reliability

Increased equipment lifetime

Ratings can be adjusted, which helps meet grid demands— for example, by increasing reactive power output increases reliability

Digital services: Increase the annual energy production of your turbine via deploying data and simulations to predict and prevent turbine downtime

Converters offering in detail:

Name	Service description	Benefits
Simulations Twins	ABB's simulation model accurately reflects real-world scenarios, including all fault situations, by using the HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) system.	Save time and money by avoiding tests on the actual turbine Conduct tests under challenging conditions, such as phase jumps or multiple dips, which are difficult or impossible to perform on a real turbine
Converter eCMS	IoT device that collects the high-resolution data from the converter Prediction of the remaining useful lifetime of the critical converter components ABB experts provides actionable advice	Increase the Annual Energy Production Decrease the maintenance cost

Generators offering in detail

Name	Service description	Benefits
Generator eCMS in partnership with WindESCo	IoT device that collects the high-resolution data from the Generator Prediction of the remaining useful lifetime of the critical generator components	Increase annual energy production Decrease to maintenance cost
LEAP	LEAP assesses the condition of stator or rotor insulation by collecting historical maintenance and operating data to identify issues such as internal voids, delamination, localized high leakage, and aging of insulating resin, ultimately determining the insulation behavior and health of the generator.	Prevents unexpected generator failures Decreases the maintenance cost of the generator by better maintenance planning