The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP51 – Wind Turbine Blade Heating – How Does it Work? with Lasse Hietikko of WICETEC
March 10, 2021

Lasse Hietikko, Business Development manager at WICETEC, joined us to talk about the big problem of wind turbine blade icing, and how their WIPS wind turbine blade heating systems can prevent it. In Texas, the lack of foresight for potential freezing c...

EP50 – 3D Printed Wind Turbine Bases: Are They The Future? with COBOD Founder Henrik Lund-Nielsen
March 03, 2021

Henrik Lund-Nielsen, founder and General Manager of COBOD International joined us to talk about their company's 3D printing construction technology, and specifically how it might be used in the future to help wind turbines grow taller.

EP49 – Did Wind Power Actually Fail Texas? Can Turbines Work in Cold Weather? Plus, Big Off-Shore News
February 24, 2021

The power outage disaster in Texas in February of 2021 proved to be a calamity with multiple variables to blame and countless fingers to point. But with many conservatives claiming wind power a failure...is this really so?

EP48 – Paul Dawson from EOCYCLE on the Future of Distributed Wind
February 17, 2021

Paul Dawson, VP of Business Development from EOCYCLE, joined us to talk about the distributed wind sector of the market. Small wind turbines have a large market, with studies identifying 49 million potential sites that could benefit from and support a ...

EP47 – 2021 Wind Energy Trends & Tech to Keep Tabs on Plus the NEW Vestas V236 15MW Turbine
February 10, 2021

What's exciting in 2021? What trends and new technology will continue to grow? What innovations should we look forward to? In this roundup episode, Dan discusses a few of his projected trends and interesting pieces of tech in 2021,

EP46 – Byron Martin & Dan Morgan of Teknologize Talk IT & Cybersecurity For Wind Farms
February 03, 2021

The IT and cybersecurity experts from Teknologize sat down with us to discuss the needs of both modern and aging wind farms. Byron Martin, CEO and Daniel Morgan, CTO, discussed the major problem of upgrading older software systems to modern standards a...

EP45 – Vestas V150 Blade Problems Plus The Physics of Blade Transport
January 25, 2021

Vestas V150 wind turbines have had failures and blade quality control issues lately, and we chat about what this means for the company, including their recent shut down of 150 wind turbines with suspected quality control issues.

EP44 – Nicholas Gaudern of Power Curve Explains Blade Aerodynamics & Power Curve Upgrades
January 20, 2021

Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of Power Curve, joined the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast to discuss his company's performance upgrades for wind turbines. After analyzing a blade using a laser scan, Power Curve recommends an ideal placement of either vortex generato...

EP43 – Angela Krcmar of Firetrace on Fire Suppression Systems for Wind Turbines
January 15, 2021

Angela Krcmar, Global Sales Manager for Firetrace International, joined us on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast to discuss the relatively unknown danger of wind turbine fires. A fire occurs in 1 out of every 2000 wind turbines, on average,

EP42 – Dainis Kruze from Aerones: Leveraging Robotics in Wind Turbine Maintenance & Cleaning
January 04, 2021

Dainis Kruze from Aerones joined us to talk about their unique robotic technology that today is servicing, cleaning, repairing and inspecting wind turbines all over the world. Aerones' robots originated from their time at Y Combinator,