Wind energy

Apave supports all stakeholders in the wind turbine facility market, helping them respond safely to all the challenges related to their activity, by means of:

• Cutting-edge expertise and seasoned field experience combined with thorough knowledge of current regulations
• An objective opinion thanks to our third-party status
• A single point of contact throughout all your projects to facilitate communication and streamline exchanges
• Expertise covering the entire life cycle of wind turbine facilities (design, construction, tests, operation, modifications, renovation and deconstruction, upgrading) and training of staff working on site

• Administrative and technical management of applications for preliminary authorisation of projects (feasibility study, ecological inventory, environmental assessment, implications of the water law, acoustic modelling, etc.)
• Risk analyses (ICPE [classified installation for environmental protection] site, conduct hazard studies) 
• Sizing of facilities to optimise performance and prevent risks
• Quality Monitoring: Quality Control process and process monitoring
• Feasibility study
• Ecological inventory
• Environmental assessment
• Acoustic modelling
• Training: Build with acoustic and environmental performance requirements
• Qualification tests on wind turbine blades and transformers by our subsidiary Sopemea

Your challenge: controlling costs and deadlines while ensuring safety on the site and of the environment

• Technical Inspection during Construction
• Carbon footprint
• Design analysis
• Operating instruction sheets
• ARF ETF lightning
• Health & Safety in the design and construction phase
• Inspect fitting of electrical conduits
• Environmental monitoring of the construction site
• Lifting adequacy assistance
• CE compliance of machines (RNA)
• Training: Understand the rules of lightning and surge protection, handling and lifting CACES® [safe operation certificate], electrical qualification, Workplace first-aider (SST), Working at height
• Health Safety Environment (HSE) / SPS Coordination
• Infrastructure monitoring via Ap'Structure

Your challenge: ensuring technical and regulatory compliance, as well as technical and environmental performance

• Compliance verification (ENR compliance certificate)
• Acoustic measurements
• Check of plug circuit
• Electrical installations VI 
• CONSUEL
• installation of anchoring devices
• Suitability for lifting
• Check before lifting and commissioning
• Training: Electrical qualification, CACES [safe operation certificate], handling and lifting, Workplace first-aider (SST), Working at height

Your challenge: assessing the condition of the facility and carrying out the necessary maintenance work

• Operational safety study
• Electrical installations VP
• Ageing of HV cables
• Ageing of dielectric analysis / SFRA transformers
• High voltage relay tests
• Periodic check of lifting and anchoring devices
• Preliminary check (return to service lifting)
• Ultrasonic bolt tightening test
• Vibration test / END verticality check on drums (ACFM, etc.)
• Certification: System (ISO 9001 / ISO 19443), Environment (ISO 14001), Health & Safety at Work (ISO 45001), Human (skills), Equipment (Qualification via CbyApave)
• Training: Working at height, Workplace first-aider (SST), electrical qualification, isolated worker, Live working, Maintaining a lightning protection facility
• Inspection and modeling by drone

• Support for site renovation (assistance to the contracting engineer, LNE certification, polluted sites and soils)
• Advice on industrial waste
• Waste survey before demolition
• Waste analyses
• Training: Understand the challenges and constraints of a polluted site and soil 
• Health Safety Environment (HSE)/SPS Coordination