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The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

De: Allen Hall Rosemary Barnes Joel Saxum & Phil Totaro
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  • Uptime is a renewable energy podcast focused on wind energy and energy storage technologies. Experts Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum and Phil Totaro break down the latest research, tech, and policy.
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  • Monitoring Solutions for Aging Wind Turbines: eologix-Ping

    Monitoring Solutions for Aging Wind Turbines: eologix-Ping
    May 23 2024
    Allen Hall and Joel Saxum interview Matthew Stead, co-founder of eologix-Ping, about the company's growth, industry challenges, and their innovative sensing solutions for aging wind fleets. They discuss the benefits of eologix-Ping's acoustic sensing, lightning detection, and blade monitoring technologies. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with co host Joel Saxun. We are in Minneapolis for the 2024 American Clean Power with the co founder of eologix-Ping, Matthew Stead. Matthew Stead: Thank you, Allen. Allen Hall: Matthew, welcome back. Matthew Stead: Thank you. It's great to be here. I actually was here with you a year ago. Allen Hall: Oh, that's right. In New Orleans. Yeah. So it has been a year since the merger of eologix and Ping. So a lot has happened over that time year's time span? Matthew Stead: Absolutely. Allen Hall: Uh, we should touch upon that. I want, first want to get your opinion of what this convention has been relative to New Orleans last year, what your thoughts were, what the interfaces have been with your customers. What'd you think? Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think industry's growing, fleets getting older, design issues, Every month, every six months, every twelve months, there's more and more challenges we're seeing, and I think that was reflected in the discussions we had here. Joel Saxum: I think you're getting that, it's just being communicated, right? Yeah. Hey, we have this problem, what can you do to fix it? I sat with someone last night at dinner and they literally just said I've got this. I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to do that. Who can do that? I said nobody can do all three, but this company can do this and this. I said, Pingmealogic can monitor for this and we can, you can do this for this. And there's some gearbox stuff for that. So people are looking for solutions for their plaguing problems. And I think that is exactly what you said as the fleet ages, right? It was before everybody was just like trying to catch up. And now you're getting engineers into places. We do talk to a lot of people that are hiring engineers. Hey, this person's brand new to our team. Whether it's from the insurance side, asset owner side, even ISPs. I talked to an ISP. Hey, we got a great new blade engineer to help bolster our ability to repair blades. It's oh, that's fantastic for you guys as well. So more engineering help. And that's just giving more bandwidth to the basically the stakeholders in industry to solve these problems. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we're all here to help. Joel Saxum: Yeah. For sure. This is the place for it. Allen Hall: We have seen a lot of engineers this week with specific problems. Mostly blade problems, occasionally bearing problems, even though it depends on the platform. There's some platform with a lot of bearing issues at the moment. And we have seen a narrowing down of the possible solution companies. And that's what I noticed this week. The number of drone companies has really diminished robot companies way down. It's around pretty much left, right? Because there's so dominant in that market space. And then when it comes to acoustic sensing, remote sensing, continuous monitoring, that's the logic's ping at the minute because of the, Really gets down to cost,
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  • Revolutionizing Wind Assessment with First Airborne

    Revolutionizing Wind Assessment with First Airborne
    May 22 2024
    We're joined by Boaz Peled, co-founder and CEO of First Airborne, to discuss their groundbreaking technology that revolutionizes wind resource assessments. First Airborne's cloud-based anemometer system, suspended from a remotely controlled drone, allows highly accurate measurements of wind speed and direction across existing wind farms, significantly improving the efficiency and optimization of wind turbines. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. Our guest today is Boaz Peled the co founder and CEO of First Airborne, an innovative company that is revolutionizing wind resource assessments. First Airborne has developed a cloud based cutting edge anemometer system that is suspended from a remotely controlled drone, allowing highly accurate measurements of wind speed and direction at various heights and locations across an existing wind farm. The groundbreaking technology is poised to significantly improve the efficiency and optimization of wind turbines. We're excited to have Boaz join us to discuss First Airborne's unique solution and his insights on leveraging drones and advanced sensor technology to enhance wind energy production. Boaz, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. This is going to be an interesting discussion because First Airborne has some new technology, and in wind energy, you don't see a lot of sort of earth shattering technology, but this is one where it's a power producer, right? In the wind business, we're here to produce power. The power comes from the wind. We need to know as much about the wind as we can. Problem is if you have an existing wind farm with a couple of met towers it can be hard to discern what's happening on a complex site. That's where First Airborne comes in. And would you just briefly describe what your product is? I gave a little summary and introduction, but it's unique. Boaz Peled: The best way to think of First Airborne's technology which we call Windborne by the way, it's actually very easy to explain for wind power people. Because what it is a windmast, but it can fly. So it's a flying windmast. Imagine your windmast just grew wings and started flying any way you'd like to within your wind farm. And back to the question of complex terrain. I think I'd suggest that is simply let's say one kind of exotic application. But the question, which wind is hitting my turbine? Is I think the most maybe sought after question in wind power. And if you have a flying wind mast, you position it anywhere you like for any for this turbine or the next, and you'll get that answer. Allen Hall: Because once they've done a site survey, and usually there's a pre survey done before the wind turbines are installed, that survey is pretty good. Depending how old that survey is, that survey may be 20 years old. It could be that old, right? And things change. And the one that happens mostly in the United States, Joel has pointed out numerous times on the podcast, is there's another wind farm installed in front of your wind farm. And another wind farm in front of that one. So the winds you are now receiving are not what you had initially planned on. And then trying to understand what those winds are and how to maximize production in that environment is almost impossible without your kind...
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  • Siemens Gamesa Struggles, RWE & Nordex Thrive, DOE Invests in Floating Wind

    Siemens Gamesa Struggles, RWE & Nordex Thrive, DOE Invests in Floating Wind
    May 21 2024
    In this episode, Allen, Joel, and Philip discuss Siemens Gamesa's leadership changes and quality issues, the strong financial performance of Nordex and RWE, and upgrades to UK wind turbine testing facilities. They also cover the christening of the first American-built offshore wind service operation vessel, the EcoEdison, and the DOE's selection of five floating wind technologies for the Flow Wind Prize readiness competition. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: All right, Lego lovers a Canadian man has combined his love of Lego and Star Wars, shocker, to build the 75, 000 piece Millennium Falcon in a record breaking time of, Joel, take a guess. Joel Saxum: How much coffee did he have first? Allen Hall: Red Bull. Joel Saxum: I'm gonna say Allen Hall: That's not too far off. Phil, what's your guess? Philip Totaro: Six? I don't know. Allen Hall: Seven hours, 36 minutes and 37 seconds. Ivan Wu of Markham, Ontario earned the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to build a Lego Star Wars 75, 000 piece Millennium Falcon. It's 10, 000 pieces an hour. That's insane. How did that, Phil, can your fingers move that fast? Philip Totaro: 10, 000 pieces an hour? Only when I'm typing Intel store research. Allen Hall: You get the bags, right? And the bags are all just mixed parts, right? And they say, you open up the manual and it says, open up manual one out of six. And then you open bag one and six, and then you have to, that's three pieces a second. How do you tell your spouse Hey, I'm I really need to buy the 75, 000 piece Millennium Falcon to set a Guinness Philip Totaro: World Record. Sorry to stereotype, but this guy does not have a spouse. Joel Saxum: But it only took seven hours of his life, so Seven hours of peace and quiet. Yeah, but how much training did it get to that point? Allen Hall: See that, Joel, that's the ultimate question. I was thinking the same thing. That guy worked on that for weeks. Joel Saxum: How many times has he built that thing? He's trained like an Olympic athlete. Seven hours was the record winning attempt, right? He's probably done it a hundred times or more. Canadian winters are long. They are, and now they're the world champions. There you go. Allen Hall: Vinod's Philip, who will take over as CEO of Ascension. Seaman's Kamesa on August 1st, which happens to be my birthday, by the way, plans to conduct a thorough review of the company's onshore and wind turbine development process. I hope so, because that's desperately needed at this point. Philip believes that the current two year development cycle may be insufficient for onshore turbines leading to inadequate testing and quality control issues that have played. Siggins Gamesa's newest onshore turbines, and in that he means the 4x and 5x machines. By comparison, offshore wind turbine platforms have usually a five to seven year development cycle. Philip is suggesting that the onshore industry needs to slow down a little bit and work on a supply chain. to get rid of some quality concerns. Now that all sounds great, right? But everybody's waiting for Siemens Gamesa to get back into action again. And they're thinking, or at least they're still saying by 2026, they're going to break even. And they're going to get rid of these quality concerns. And now, Phil, something has to happen within Siemens Gamesa, right? We haven't seen many changes internally.
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