Articles about wind turbine blade maintenance and how it affects performance, AEP, and blade longevity. Expert advice and descriptions of upgrades, lightning protection, diagnostics, and basic turbine maintenance.
After more than six years performing wind turbine blade repairs on ropes and platforms, Alfred Crabtree founded Blade Repair Academy, a controlled training environment to bring up new blade repair technicians.
Safety tips from the field! Wind turbine technicians working in cold weather freezing conditions need warm clothing, food, lots of extra batteries and they should avoid steel toe boots. Learn more in this practical guide.
Lightning strikes are occurring at a much higher rate than initially predicted by the IEC 61400-24 standard. Here’s what to do now to protect your wind turbines.
In rare instances, when lightning does tremendous damage, experts may say “it’s force majeuere.” But we know lightning is just air – so what really matters in turbine lightning protection?
Only 1-3% of lightning strikes to wind turbine blades result in wind turbine blade lightning damage – some catastrophic, some not worth repairing. Find out how to minimize your losses and understand when repairs are really needed.
It’s springtime in the northern hemisphere, which means more lightning strikes to wind turbines. Most of the time they can handle the strikes, no …
The outlook for wind turbine technicians remains strong in 2023, and wind techs have opportunities for growth and promotion.
The Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) in the USA has been a powerful tool for asset owners to ensure the favorable financial health of their projects – and it’s driving repowering projects. To date, more than 75% of the 138GW of operational capacity in the United States has taken advantage of the PTC, and a total of 102 individual project phases have been repowered in the USA.
Trends and news from the 2022 WindEnergy Hamburg show. Making blade maintenance more affordable, and how manufacturers and engineers are responding to data overload.
Petzl is in business of providing fall protection and rescue equipment for many industries, including wind energy. We recently discussed safety at heights with …
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