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Our approach to product feedback

Here at Power Factors, we take product feedback extremely seriously. We believe that listening to our customers, team members, and prospects - by taking their ideas on board - is a sure-fire way to build better products.
We use your feedback to identify the most important features, ideas, pain points, and opportunities so that you can get more value from our products as efficiently as possible.


The benefits of giving us your product feedback

If you take the time to submit your product feedback to us, it means that you have a direct say in how our products develop over time. It means that your ideas are valued and listened to, rather than filed away and ignored.
Ultimately, it allows us to work with you to build the best products we possibly can.

What happens to your product feedback

Our product teams meet regularly with the CSMs, to go through new ideas. Once we have verified that an idea isn’t already available in the system, and seems like a good idea, we change the status to Accepting Votes. Then more people can vote, prioritize, and give us information. This allows us to gauge demand, gather use cases, and establish impact & value.

If we decide to implement an idea, the status will change to Planned or In Development. When it’s done, the status will change to Delivered. Anyone who has submitted or voted on a specific request will be notified when the status of the request is updated. We will always provide an explanation as to the nature of the status update.

Unfortunately, not all requests are in line with our vision and strategy, so sometimes we reject them. When this happens, the status will be changed to Archived and we’ll add a note to let you know that it won’t be delivered.


How we choose what to implement

When we plan a release, we use many factors to help decide which suggestions to implement, including:

  • Customer feedback - there are many ways we listen for your feedback:
    formal customer interviews and other research activities
    events like conferences and trade shows
    comments and votes on issues here in Greenbyte & BluePoint Influence
  • CSM team insights - our CSM team knows which issues are the most challenging and most common for customers.
  • Product analytics - we track how users move through the system, which helps us understand how existing features are being used.
  • Product strategy - our long-term strategic vision for the products.
If you reach out directly to our support or customer success teams, they'll be able to look up the ideas for you, but they won't have any additional information or provide an estimate for when your item will be reviewed.


Custom applications

Sometimes you need functionality that is specific to your needs and not necessarily useful for other customers or in line with Power Factors strategic goals. These special requests are addressed through custom applications, which can be developed by you, using the Greenbyte API, by third-party partners, or by Power Factors for an additional fee. If you are interested in having a custom application built, contact your CSM.



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  1. Possibility to include curtailments to time-based availability calculations

    Would it possible to add a feature that in the time-based availability calculations we would be able to include curtailments in the calculations. Meaning that if a turbine is curtailed to 50% during an hour, the turbine will have availability of 50% during that hour. I assume that this is not anyhow possible at the moment?

    14 votes

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  2. Degraded operation formula for contractual time based availability

    When an turbine implies degraded operation instead of complete shutdown (not full power when it can) the degraded operation factor shall be classified as degraded downtime for the relevant degraded Wind turbine and in accordance with the availability formula.

    Example: Turbine A is operating with cooling issues, therefore the turbine can operate but not on full power, meaning it is curtailed out of safety. In normal operation the turbine is able to produce 4Mw, due to the temperature issue it can now only produce 2Mw. This means that for the time of degraded operation, the turbine availability is 50% instead…

    8 votes

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  3. Make it possible to upload the Default Power Reduction Mode Allocation List from Vestas to manage curtailments

    Vestas turbines with PPC uses Power Derete Internal codes that in Greenbyte is called Curtailment mode signals. These signal indicate a curtailment event that could have direct impact on the contracual availibility depending on how they are categorized. What the signals indicate and how they should be catecorized are listed in the Default Power Reduction Mode Allocation List.

    The only way to get the Greenbyte system to take this signals into account in the contractual availibity right now is to create an alert and link that alert to one of your curtailment satuses. It not very optimal (with a growing…

    5 votes

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  4. o Service hours/allowed scheduled maintenance cannot be count into the contractual availability.

    Each contract is different and a common detail in a service contract like a maximum allowed number of maintenance hours (not taken into account for the unavailability) is not possible in Greenbyte.
    Therefore the numbers in the greenbyte report must be recalculated by the number of scheduled maintenance in order to calculate the contractual availability.

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  5. Proper calculation of time-base availability when data is missing

    As off today, if 10-minutes data are missing for some reason (scada issue for example), then this period is just not taken into account for contractual availability calculation and for system availability calculation. This is an issue because in many case, when accessing the turbines, the maintenance technicians will shut down the communication to prevent remote restart of the turbine, and this loss of communication will also trigger wrong availability calculation.
    We expect time-based availability to be based on the period duration, not the 10-min data being there or not, and during data losses, the turbine should be considered available.…

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  6. Select Availability Category Within Task

    When creating a task there is an option that may be selected that is labeled "Affects Downtime". If this option is enabled, the availability contract categories should appear and one should be assigned to the task.

    This would be useful for sites that are utilizing tasks to coordinate site work.

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  7. Add additional equations for calculating Energetic Availability based on specific OEM contracts

    It would be extremely useful to be able to create custom availability contracts that use different methods for calculating lost production and energetic availability.

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