The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast


Latest Episodes

Transforming Wind Turbine Inspections with Voliro’s Contact-Enabled Drones
April 10, 2024

Allen and Joel talk to Laurent Zimmerli, Vice President of Customer Experience at Voliro. Voliro is a Swiss company that creates drones and robotics to transform the industrial inspection and maintena

East Coast Offshore Wind Procurement Strategy, Dan-Bunkering Addresses U.S. Refueling Issues, Massive Employee Cuts at LM Wind Power
April 09, 2024

A collaborative approach is being taken by Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts to procure offshore wind projects in the region. Dan-Bunkering is providing a solution to challenges posed by th

GE Vernova Goes Solo, Macquarie Invests $50B in Offshore Wind, Mingyang Plans for Scottish Manufacturing, Avangrid Offshore Project Approved
April 08, 2024

General Electric splits into GE Vernova, GE Aerospace, and GE Healthcare, Macquarie Asset Management's Corio Generation invests $50 billion in offshore wind, Mingyang plans a turbine manufacturing fac

LM Wind Power Cuts 700 Jobs, Closes Blade Factory in Turkey
April 05, 2024

LM Wind Power announced the closure of their blade production factory in Turkey that employed 700 people. In Denmark, LM Wind Power appears to be cutting highly-qualified engineering and support staf

Standardizing Rain Erosion Testing Results with Wind Power LAB’s Rocky Software
April 04, 2024

Rocky, a cloud-based software developed by Wind Power LAB is helping to standardize the analysis of rain erosion test data for wind turbine coatings. By precisely annotating damage progression in test

Wind Energy Europe Update, Invenergy’s Build-Transfer Model, RTSYS’s Offshore AI Wildlife Detection
April 02, 2024

Joel gives an update from Wind Energy Europe in Bilbao. Developers like Invenergy are building renewable projects and transferring ownership to utilities after completion - what is the advantage? Are

LASSIE: Innovative Lightning Detection for Wind Farms
April 01, 2024

Allen Hall interviews Anders Rpke, CEO of Wind Power LAB, about their innovative software product, LASSIE. LASSIE helps wind farm operators detect and mitigate lightning damage to their turbines by a

Nordex Invests in Turkey, C.I.P. Invests in Philippines, Singapore Prepares for Energy Transition
April 01, 2024

Nordex invests $1.1B in Turkey's wind industry, Singapore plans to invest $3.7B in clean energy transition, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners invests $1.9B in offshore wind farm in the Philippines.

Optimizing Wind Farms with AC883’s Innovative Solutions
March 27, 2024

AC883's Lars Bendsen chats with Allen and Joel about their LiDAR systems for turbine alignment, drone inspection services including ultrasonic blade scanning, and expansion into internal turbine inspe

Does the Massive WindRunner Plane Make Sense? Plus CLS Wind’s Innovative Assembly System
March 26, 2024

Allen, Rosemary and Phil debate whether WindRunner, a huge airplane proposed to transport wind turbine blades offshore, makes sense for the industry. Plus they discuss an article from the latest editi