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Is Your Warranty Coming to an End? WindESCo can help!

End of warranty (EoW) analytics aims to have a comprehensive review and assessment of the conditions of wind turbine to identify potential issues impacting performance, reliability, structural integrity and compliance KPIs while the turbines are...

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Approaches to Data Driven Predictive Maintenance

In this first installment of our blog series: Building a Reliable and Scalable Predictive Maintenance Strategy, we'll introduce two approaches that...

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WindESCo Hits 64

WindESCo now runs 64 individual checks on our Customer’s SCADA to uncover turbine performance anomalies across the entire wind turbine system,...

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Uncovering Wind Turbine Performance & Reliability Anomalies using High Speed SCADA

WindESCo looks at high speed data to improve our performance analytic results of wind turbines. We have a recent customer that was concerned that...

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How is Climate Change Affecting Wind Energy Production?

There’s not a week that goes by that we’re not reminded of the impact and consequences of climate change. However, as we’re dealing with day-to-day...

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Spring 2023 Release Notes: Find, Fix, Measure

We are excited to announce some major updates to our Find, Fix, Measure™ (FFM) product that will help simplify the workflow for our customers. These...

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Continuous Optimization + Reliability are a winning Formula for Wind

Wind plant reliability is an essential aspect of any wind farm operation. Downtime due to equipment failure or maintenance can lead to significant...

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The US's $25 billion per year Repowering Opportunity

Repowering of wind projects in the US is set to attract $25 billion a year in spending by 2030. This potentially tens-of-GW market could be vital to...

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Inflation Reduction Act and Wind: A Look at Production Tax Credit Rules

Wind energy has become an increasingly important source of renewable energy in recent years, with many countries looking to expand their wind power...

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Increase Wind Turbine Energy Production through Mitigating Wake Effects

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Wind turbine wakes may damage your revenue — and your turbines.

The Wake Effect As wind turbines operate, energy is extracted from the inflow, creating a waked region downstream. As wakes propagate through the...

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Monitoring wind farm performance to increase annual energy production

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How WindESCo Improves AEP 3-5%

WindESCo Swarm™ is the world’s first commercially available, patented, solution for autonomous, cooperative control of wind assets. The first...

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Wake steering positions the turbine out of direct wind to improve ROI of a wind plant

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Wake Steering: a Swarm Application

WindESCo Swarm™ is the world’s first commercially available, patented, solution for autonomous, cooperative control of wind assets. Taking cues from...

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COP26 in Glasgow discusses our responsibility to slow global warming

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WindESCo's Role in Reaching NetZero

The past 10 years have been the warmest recorded temperatures on earth. Dangerous heatwaves, floods and wildfires are more frequent than ever before....

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Wind Industry expert explains how you can increase energy production by 3-5%

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WindESCo Swarm™ Q&A with Application Engineer

You asked and we answered. We received several questions from the audience during our launch webinar on October 26th. Time constraints didn't allow...

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Social wind turbines use yaw by consensus to increase ROI and AEP for the entire site

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Yaw by Consensus: a Swarm Application

WindESCo Swarm™ is the world’s first commercially available, patented, solution for autonomous, cooperative control of wind assets. Taking cues from...

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What is Murmuration?

Have you ever noticed a group of birds in the sky and wondered how they are able to fly in such deliberate and orchestrated patterns?

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WindESCo hosts webinar to discuss how to increase wind asset AEP by 3-5%

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Webinar: Introducing WindESCo Swarm™

Date: Tuesday October 26, 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Eastern Watch recording on the BrightTalk website

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increase ROI and AEP using high speed data on your wind plant

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Keep Your Plant Competitive With High-Speed Wind Data

Your wind plant's data hides valuable insights which, when unlocked, can be used to improve annual energy production (AEP) and drive revenue...

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How Europe Can Optimize Its €800 Billion Offshore Wind Investment

Europe knows that now is the time to harness the potential of offshore wind. In late 2020, the European Commission presented a strategy that aims to...

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How to Improve Wind Plant Performance with High Resolution Data

If you want to grow your wind plant’s revenue, you won’t be able to do it through O&M savings alone—improving wind turbine power performance, and...

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How to Grow Revenue through Wind Turbine Data

Your wind turbines may be producing lots of SCADA data, but are you making the best use of it?

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Windfall Call with Gabino Ramon Mejia of AC Energy

Check out our interview with Gabino Ramon Mejia, who heads up AC Energy in the Philippines. Gabino and Ed Wagner, WindESCo's CRO, have a candid chat...

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Webinar on April 14 at 3:30 pm Eastern

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Webinar: Finding Untapped AEP at Existing Wind Farms

Date: Wednesday April 14, 2021 Time: 3:30 PM Eastern Cost: Free of charge Register at the ACP Website

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GWEC Releases 2021 Global Wind Report

2020 was a record year for the global wind power industry, but a new report published by GWEC suggests installation of new wind power capacity must...

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Are your turbines underperforming? Here’s how to get help.

Contributed by Jonathan Kossuth, Director of Analytics at WindESCo Your wind turbines may be underperforming, though you may not realize it....

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Poll Data Shows SCADA Data Is Underutilized

In February 2021, WindESCo and A Word About Wind hosted a webinar on Accelerating Wind Energy Performance. Event panelists represented multiple sides...

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OEMs Block Wind Turbine Optimization, Featured in North American Clean Energy

Wind plant operators face many challenges: low energy prices, hefty maintenance costs, investor pressure, and tight-- if existent-- margins. And...

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poc-fatigue

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4 Ways to Avoid POC Fatigue

Have you considered running a POC to test a turbine optimization solution at your wind plant? In our latest video, watch Sam Tasker, VP of Sales for...

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A Trusted Third-Party Partner Not Only Finds Problems, but Delivers Solutions

Since wind turbines are produced by numerous OEMs, there is no standard interface for data storage and communication. This leaves project owners to...

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Why Lack of Data Standardization Is Slowing Digital Innovation in the Wind Industry

The lack of data standardization in the wind energy industry is slowing digital innovation. Operators are spending an immense amount of time...

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5 Takeaways from WindESCo's Webinar: Are Power Curve Upgrades Worth It?

As a wind plant owner or operator, you have implemented or considering implementing various power curve upgrades for your turbines. We recently held...

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Energy Improvement Assessment Using Machine Learning to Model Power Output

In this video, we’ll be wrapping up our search for an energy improvement assessment methodology that is accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible.

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Energy Improvement Assessment With Side-by-Side Analysis

Welcome back to our series looking at methodologies for assessing the energy improvement from wind turbine upgrades. In previous videos, we’ve shown...

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Energy Improvement Assessment With LiDAR, Spinner Anemometer, or Met Tower Power Curve Tests

Welcome to the next installment in our search for an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible method to assess the energy improvement from wind...

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Why Nacelle Power Curves Can Be Misleading for Energy Improvement Assessments

In our last video, we laid out the basic requirements for a successful methodology to assess the energy improvement from wind turbine upgrades:...

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How to Correct Yaw Misalignment

We've spent quite a bit of time discussing yaw misalignment. Our past blogs have addressed what yaw misalignment is, the different types, how it can...

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How Does Yaw Misalignment Affect Power and Loads?

We've previously discussed yaw misalignment in-depth: what it is, what causes it, and how to measure it in your wind project. Today we'll be diving...

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WindESCo | What Is an Energy Improvement Assessment?

In every wind plant, operators are looking to maximize turbine performance to increase their AEP and their top-line revenue number. There are...

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Top 4 Ways to Detect Static Yaw Misalignment

One of the most common issues that wind farm operators face is static yaw misalignment. Because this problem is invisible to the turbine controller,...

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What is the Difference Between Yaw Misalignment and Incorrect Nacelle Position?

For any wind project, your turbines must face into the wind as often as possible to maintain optimum energy output. However, there are quite a few...

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What Are the Causes of Yaw Misalignment?

Wind farm operators are well aware that yaw misalignment can significantly reduce turbine power output. However, despite knowing and understanding...

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What Is Yaw Misalignment?

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What is Yaw Misalignment?

One of the obstacles to maximizing operating margins for wind projects is the impact that yaw misalignment has on optimal turbine performance. So...

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WindEd Intro

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Can You Optimize Turbines Under an OEM Full-Service Agreement?

When it comes to wind project operation and management (O&M), there are several strategies that project owners may follow. The distinction between...

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