The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Derek Gong from Oskefer Consulting, joins to discuss drivetrain failures, OEM handoff gaps, and missed SCADA warnings. Reach out to Derek on LinkedIn.

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A 1,000-turbine European reliability study finds pitch systems, controllers and power converters fail most often. Plus why failures climb in year nine and an offshore farm blind to lightning.

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Allen covers a Vestas turbine on a 199-meter hub in Bavaria, Dominion’s 44 turbines up at Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, an OECD report on Chinese subsidies, and Nordex’s push to keep non-Western turbines out of Europe.

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Jacob Kronborg, founder of Kronborg Consult, joins to discuss blade factory quality, carbon pultrusion repairs, serial defects, and LEP.

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Octopus Investments buys Golden Plains stage two for over A$2 billion. Plus, the blade defects new owners miss in due diligence, internal inspections, and the hosts’ conference hotel pet peeves.

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