Take Back Control: OEM-Independent Wind Turbine Service
When you bought your wind turbine, you didn’t agree to be locked to one supplier for its entire operating life. Yet most owners are, tied to a single OEM for software, service, spare parts, and data, on the OEM’s terms and at the OEM’s prices.
Nordic Wind Technology exists to change that. Our OEM-independent wind turbine service replaces the proprietary controller software on your turbines with our own open platform, so you decide who services your fleet, where you buy parts, and what you do with your data. With 30+ years of controller expertise and 550+ installed solutions, we give the power back to the people who own the turbines.
What "OEM-independent" actually means
“OEM-independent” means your turbine’s operation no longer depends on the original manufacturer. You are free to:
- Choose your own service provider: Do O&M in-house or use any independent service provider (ISP) you like, not just the OEM.
- Access all your turbine data: Full, transparent access to events, alarms, warnings, and parameter settings, with nothing hidden behind an OEM licence.
- Source spare parts freely: Buy from the supplier that offers the best price and lead time, instead of a single-source OEM channel.
- Control your own costs: No more take-it-or-leave-it service contracts on ageing turbines.
Independence, engineered right into the product.
The hidden cost of OEM lock-in
As turbines move past their warranty period, OEM support often becomes the single biggest constraint on profitability. Owners face rising service contract prices, slow spare-parts availability for older platforms, restricted access to their own operational data, and, in some cases, turbines that can’t be fully optimised because the software is a black box.
For a turbine that may run for another 10–15 years, that lock-in compounds. OEM-independence removes the constraint at its root: the controller.
How NWT makes your turbines OEM-independent
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What you gain
- Wind Turbine Software: Depending on turbine model and site, owners typically see a 1.4%–5% increase in Annual Energy Production (up to 7% observed on some Suzlon turbines).
- Freedom of service: Run maintenance yourself or through any ISP.
- Full data ownership: Complete, transparent access to your turbine’s operational data.
- Spare-parts flexibility: Source competitively instead of single-sourcing from the OEM.
- Grid compliance: Reactive power management and Power Park Controller integration where required.
- Extended, profitable lifetime: Keep ageing assets earning well past end-of-warranty.