Case Study: Bharat Light and Power achieves real-time wind farm performance and predictive maintenance with OSIsoft PI System

Ensuring Peak Wind Turbine Performance For Energy Generation

Bharat Light & Power (BLP), a 2010-founded operator of 200 MW of renewable projects in India, faced the common challenge of remote wind farms: limited real-time visibility into asset health and unpredictable generation. Failures such as gearbox breakdowns could trigger long replacement timelines and massive losses—illustrated by a case that contributed to as much as 60% of annual revenue loss—highlighting the need for predictive intelligence and faster operations management.

BLP built Orion on the cloud-based OSIsoft PI System and offers it as a managed service to provide 24/7 monitoring (Pulse), automated reporting (Publish), predictive alerts (Cognito) and energy forecasting (Predicto). The integrated OT–IT platform delivers role-based visualizations and predictive maintenance capabilities that reduce downtime, improve operational efficiency by 10–15%, cut revenue loss from failures, and—if scaled across India—could materially increase access to power.

Bharat Light and Power

Balakrishnan G. Iyer

Chief Development Officer