Bjorn Hedges, Chair of ESIG’s Wind, Solar, and Energy Storage Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Users Group, joined us to share his vast experience as Plant Manager of two wind sites in Washington - Harvest Wind Project and White Creek Wind I. In this episode, you'll get Bjorn's insight into hiring, working in wind power, arc flash safety, how wind power tech has changed over the years, COVID-19's impact on the wind industry and much more. Learn more about ESIG here.

Bjorn manages both the Harvest Creek wind site and White Creek I. In addition to his work keeping 132 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy 2.3MW wind turbines running, he's passion about his work with ESIG.

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Transcript | EP38 - Bjorn Hedges, ESIG Chair & Wind Farm Plant Manager, on Site Safety, Wind Power Jobs & More

All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is episode 38. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. I'm joined here by a lightning protection expert. Allen hall, Allen, how are you, sir?

Allen Hall: [00:00:55] Hey, great, Dan - boy, a really fascinating interview with Bjorn Hedges, uh, who has been in the wind turbine industry for quite a number of years now, and is also involved in the ESIG group, uh, which is really fundamentally changing the way that wind turbine operators.

Do their business. And is that, that sets up a community of operators that can share information about their particular situations and make the industry better. So not only is he very knowledgeable about wind turbines and how they operate and how the intricacies of running a turbine, but he's also involved in a sort of a volunteer basis of spreading the good news.

So it's really great to have him on the show.