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Energy plays an important role in the business
Continuity is key on the Politiek family’s dairy farm. With nearly 300 dairy and dry cows and five milking robots, work never stops. The milking robots are operational 24 hours a day so that the cows can be milked independently at various times throughout the day.
Energy plays an important role in the business. The Politiek family has had a BW80 wind turbine for about three years now. The location is favourable due to the good wind conditions; the dairy farm’s high electricity consumption makes on-site generation an attractive option too.
There’s one thing that the Politiek family expects of the turbine above all else:
“It just has to keep turning.”
The dairy farm needs a lot of energy
A modern dairy farm uses a lot of electricity. The five milking robots are operational day and night and other equipment on the farm requires a constant supply of power as well.
The BW80 generates some of this electricity for the farm. The combination of high energy costs and the option to feed electricity back into the grid made wind energy an attractive option for the business.
However, reliability is just as important as the yield achieved. A wind turbine only generates electricity if it is operational and continues to generate power.
The family doesn’t want to add the turbine to its daily workload
The Politiek family’s primary focus is the dairy farm. The cows need looking after, the milking robots have to be operational 24/7 and the day-to-day work has to go on as usual too.
The wind turbine needs to support the business and not create extra work.
The Politiek family was looking for a company with technical expertise, good accessibility and the ability to respond quickly when problems happen. The family found out about Rengineers through the grapevine.
Building confidence via fast service
The Politiek family says that the importance of good service really becomes clear when a problem happens.
A problem with the BW80, for example. The family sent Rengineers a message saying that the turbine had stopped.
“Ten minutes after sending a text message, the turbine was working again.”
Fast support response times prevent unnecessary downtime. An engineer doesn’t need to be sent out straight away in every situation. Sometimes, a problem can be assessed and resolved remotely.
The fast response times give the Politiek family confidence in Rengineers.
The same principle as with the milking robots
Operational reliability is important in a number of parts of the dairy farm.
The five milking robots are operational 24 hours a day. The cows can go to them to be milked whenever they like, at various times throughout the day. So, a problem with a system like this needs to be resolved quickly.
The same principle applies to wind turbines. The system has to be operational and generate electricity whenever the wind blows. So, the Politiek family wants to be able to rely on technical support whenever they need it.
The family says that its experience of Rengineers has been unproblematic above all else:
“The turbine is actually really unproblematic.”
Generating energy without any extra stress
The BW80 is part of the Politiek family’s day-to-day operations. It contributes to the energy that the business generates and has to be reliable.
The family doesn’t want to take time out of their day to spend on technical aspects of the wind turbine. An efficient system should operate in the background.
Rengineers provides support whenever the family needs it. Its fast response times and technical expertise ensure that problems are dealt with as quickly as possible.
This gives the Politiek family the energy security it wanted.
The Politiek family: “The turbine just has to keep turning.”
