Gamesa's end-to-end offering in the wind turbine manufacturing business is complemented by comprehensive range of operation and maintenance services provided by over 2,500 highly-qualified professionals equipped to respond to the need for optimal availability and returns on the 16,300 MW under maintenance.

• More than 39 Regional Operating Centres on 25 countries in Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the UK, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania), Turkey, the US, Mexico, Asia (China, India and Japan), Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt), Costa Rica, Honduras, New Zealand, Brazil and Sri Lanka which guarantee proximity and permanent availability of the wind farms under maintenance.
• Remote control facilities in Spain, the US, Italy and Germany which enable operators to view turbine operating parameters in real time and take steps to maximise availability.
• A logistics network of central and regional warehouses with a stock of spares (guaranteeing spare part availability in the shortest possible time) to feed a total of 366 on-site stores at wind farms.
• An engineering department which analyses new product performance and designs and implements the necessary adaptations to maximise results in operation.
• Proprietary tools for wind farm management and monitoring.
• Incorporation of the MEGA proprietary weather forecasting system; based on over six years of development and experience, it provides very accurate 7-day forecasts so as to optimise maintenance schedules and tailor them to periods of low wind; and a satellite-terrestrial network with global coverage.

In the last few months, the services area has focused on three core objectives: reduce total operating costs, increase wind farm performance, and improve wind turbine availability.

To attain those goals, the division has undertaken the following initiatives:

• Continuous improvement of reliability in the G8X-2.0 MW and G9X-2.0 MW platforms to raise availability to 99%.
• Deployment of the repair circuit, for both major and small components, in the main geographic regions.
• Optimisation of preventive maintenance programmes through the use of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques.
• Application of predictive maintenance to minimise corrective maintenance on major components.
• Implementation of a new partnership approach with suppliers and subcontractors, leveraging and internationalising experience in operations.
• Development of technologically advanced solutions for older models to adapt them to new regulations and improve maintenance costs for the remainder of their operating lifetime.
• Development of solutions to improve efficiency in all wind turbine models.