Analysis on Solar or Wind Power Company Operations

This report provides an analysis of the day-to-day operations of a solar or wind power company, including its relationship with LB5230 and its sustainability efforts. It also offers an overview of the company and its main activities.

ANALYSIS ON SOLAR OR
WIND POWER COMPANY
OPERATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Wind power is predominately utilizing the wind and thus converting it into energy for the
generation of electricity. Pacific Hydro is the Chinese-owned organization being established in
1992 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It generally incorporates a wide range of
projects that relates to hydro-electricity as well as wind projects and have a range of wind
turbines and wind mills.
This report gives a brief about overview of the company, day to day operations of
company, relationship between company and LB5230 and sustainability within company.
MAIN BODY
Overview of the company
The Pacific Hydro is basically on of the renowned solar and wind organization which has
its headquarter in Australia and thus provides a range of customers as well as services to their5
clients. In the year of 2014, the company has acquired nearly 25000 sq ft of the industrial unit
align with land as well as warehouses that has allowed them to extend their services on the wide
geographies. It generally has around thousand of the products in their stock that are from the
leading manufacturers ad along with this has the showroom that displays around thousands of
items. It is basically the Chinese owned company that was being established in the year 1992
and thus found its position in the Australian stock exchange. The company mainly operates the
renewable energy projects that was initially before its opening strategy its wind farm in the year
2010. Along with Australia, the company also operates in the Brazil as well as Chile. The
company has remain active within carbon market in terms of production as well as trading of the
credits of carbon (Eser and et.al.,2016). In the year 2012, this company started its operation
within Victorian market. The Pacific Hydro was in the year 2016 re-branded to Tango energy.
There are range of power stations that are being owned by this company. Among the wind
stations, it has its own wind farms by the name Codrington farm, Portland wind project,
Challicum wind farm. Talking of the water stations, it consist of Eildon Pondage station, Drop
Hydro, William power station, Lake power station. It generally operates and functions a
diversified as well as high quality portfolio along with the installed capacity and volume around
1 GW+ in Chile, Brazil as well as Australia (Feng and et.al.,2016). It is recently developing the
considerable number and quantity of projects of that will have around 2 GW potential capacity.
Pacific Hydro mainly has the well-known record of development, identification as well as

operation within renewable energy. Along with this, it also provides the important in-house
expertise and suggestions across is various international operations.
Day to day operations of company
Solar power is basically the transformation of energy into electricity from sunlight either
through photovoltaic directly or indirectly by utilizing the concentrated solar power and its
combination. Wind power on the other hand is generally the utilization of wind for providing
mechanical power via wind turbines for converting electric generators for the main purpose of
milling as well as pumping. Operating these wind turbines ad well as wind farms is one of the
most important operation of Pacific Hydro and is constantly involved in generating electricity
and its sources through the use of these wind mills. Its wind mills consist of wind turbines that is
connected with electric power transmission networks. The company daily generates a
considerable amount of electricity by running these turbines and thus converts the kinetic energy
into mechanical energy (Ma and et.al.,2015). The mechanical energy which is generated is then
used for wide range of tasks like grinding, pumping water etc. The company every day make use
of the wind turbines which helps them to generate electricity not only for the city but for the
entire country and nation. The wind turbines of Pacific Hydro basically consist of the propeller
blades which moves in the opposite direction of the moving air and thus through this movement,.
A energy is generated which is then converted into the form of electricity through a generator.
The turbines turns blades that let on spins the shaft which is connected to the generator and
hence leads to the generation of electricity. Every day, the efficiency of the wind turbines of
Pacific hydro results in the generation of around 10% electricity and thus their everyday
operation includes continuously using the windmills as well as wind turbines to generate the
energy that can be later on used for a wide range of operations. These wind turbines mainly
produce around 50kW electrical power that is then supplied to the entire Australia and reduce the
dependencies of people on different electric powers. The wind turbines of Pacific Hydro are of
varying size as well as have different power ratings (Mao and et.al.,2015). Its largest turbine
consist of the blades which stands around 20 buildings high. It produces the immense amount of
electricity that is enough to serve nearly 1400 homes. Besides this, its utility-scale turbines have
size between 50-750 kilowatts and thus generates the large amount of energy. Thus their day to
day operations depends on these wind turbines.

Relationship between company and LB5230
The LB5230 basically encompasses three aspects which are supply chain, value chain
and the operation management. Talking of the value chain, it is highly imperative in Pacific
Hydro and thus helps the company to manage their overall operations. The primary activities of
the the company which forms the main part of value chain, Pacific hydro forms the great relation
with their suppliers where the raw material as well as inputs are sought for beginning the
production of electricity. Besides this, the operations of the company consist of processing the
raw material and thus managing the entire operations of packing, assembling as well and testing.
The outbound logistics of the company which helps them to establish its position in market are
the marketing ans sales. Pacific hydro produces a high quality products for their clients which are
being promoted their sales department and hence helps to take brand message to the wider
audience (Popp, Liebl and Zaeh, 2017).
The supply chain of Pacific Hydro have a profound effect on its position and the overall
performance. Its supply chain forms an important link between processing the raw material and
delivering the products and services to customers through the suppliers. The various products of
Pacific Hydro like inverters, wind turbines, generators, blades, storage batteries are being
supplied through a highly established supply chain. The supply chain The supply chain forms the
integral part of the company where the organization utilizes various advanced technology to
integrate its activities and thus supply the products to the clients and other businesses. Pacific
Hydro makes use of ESI+ which is electronic supplier integration which helps them to form a
link between the company as well as suppliers. This digital technology leverages the entire
process ranging from purchase to the generation of invoice receipt. Besides this, it helps the
organization to enhance the data flow and thus make the overall process more efficient and
transparent (Bansal, 2017).
Along with the value chain and supply chain, the operation management of Pacific Hydro
is highly efficient and thus their main focus remains towards improving the quality of their
products like wind mill, wind turbines etc. Thus, in order to achieve this, company makes use of
various techniques a well as methods like lean products, TQM which helps them to reduce the
amount of waste during production and hence deliver world-class products to their clients and
customers. The operation process of the company involves converting the input which contains
materials, labour etc. into the output which are products and services like windmill, wind

turbines, generators etc. This whole transformation process utilizes the different methods which
eventually adds value to their product and thus helps to measure the overall performance.
Sustainability within company
The Pacific Hydro is highly involved and is continuously working towards making its
entire process and methods sustainable enough to reduce the pollution. The company is
constantly engaged to make protect the environment and thus contribute t a great extent towards
the entire environment. The basic approach of the company is to leverage the various economic,
social as well as environment practices of the business for delivering long run value to
shareholders, customers, employees, partners and the whole environment. Through their
environmental portfolio, the company not only promotes greener environment but is highly
focussed towards promoting safety and education to their employees (Gomez-Exposito, Conejo
and Canizares, 2018). For example- the company have a well-through training and development
programme in which they provides a range of vocational education and training to the secondary
school people and graduates on the importance of wind turbines, process of electricity generation
etc. Besides this, the company has the long term goal to comply to various environmental
standards thus in view of this, Pacific Hydro has redesigned its electricity markets for ensuring
considerable investment within sustainable system. Along with this, the company is continuously
providing their endless efforts for reducing the emission of carbon from the running of wind
turbines and wind mills. Pacific Hydro has from past few years has reduced its emission of
carbon to more than 5% and have reduced its intensity.
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized that wind power is mainly utilized to convert the power of wind
into electricity which can then be used for various purposes like pumping etc. The day to day
operation of the organizations mainly encompasses the working on various wind turbines which
has blades that rotates opposite to the wind. This converts potential energy into kinetic energy
and thus results in the generation of electricity. The organizations have a well through supply
chain where they make use of the technology to promote efficient delivery of the products like
wind mills to the customers.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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