Optimizing Wind Farms with AC883’s Innovative Solutions

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

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 inspections using drones. AC883 continues bringing new wind turbine technologies to North America and allowing wind farms to keep producing energy. Reach out to Lars! [e-mail] Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'm here with my co host, Joel Saxum. And we brought along a friend, Lars Bendsen of AC883. We're still in San Diego, so we're a long way from Canada, where AC883 is based. Lars is always full of information about what's happening in the wind industry and what's happening on the repair side and the technology side. Because he's been involved in wind since the dawn of wind, pretty much. Lars, welcome back to the program. Thank you. So there's a whole bunch of things going on right now. We're at ACP OMS. We've been together all week. You had a ton of traffic to your booth. A lot of customers trying to sign up for repairs this season and learn about all the new technology that's going on. You want to just talk to what you're seeing? Lars Bendsen: Yeah, I'll try to do that. Thank you for having me on. We we seem to be getting busy. Yeah. There's a ton of interest for our blade program, which differs clearly from the rest of our good colleagues, the way we're approaching it. Yeah. We are building a new website because we have so many offerings now. We need to be more, we need to be more clear in our communication. Joel Saxum: Confirmed new website. We just confirmed it. Lars Bendsen: Confirmed, Yeah. And AC83, that name will remain, but it could be the set AC83 wind repair, wind whatever something. We're going to rebrand that a little bit because it can be a bit confusing. Okay. Because we have so many offering in. As an ISP part, but also as a new technology provider, which is the DNA of the company. That's how we started. Joel Saxum: Right, so let's talk blade repair real quick. You guys it's mid February right now. Usually when we start to see tenders come out from the big operators or even smaller operators, they come out in November and December if they're on the ball. Yeah. If they're on the ball because you want to get your blade repair, basically capacity ready for that next season, because there's, we all know there's a limited amount of it capacity in the Yeah. And in Canada, your season's really short, so you're like end of May to mid October. Lars Bendsen: Maybe It is mid May to worst case scenario end of October. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, people want have us out of the door and end of September if they can. Joel Saxum: Yeah. So if you, if the, so what it looks like right now, are you see, did you see a lot of tenders come through in the Canadian market? Lars Bendsen: There's a ton of ten, not, there's a ton of rough cues out there, but it seems like the decision has not really been made. Hasn't been made yet? Some have not. And a bit of a mystery to us, why it's dragging out. We know our colleagues have not gotten it either, it's not because we haven't gotten the work. Yeah. It simply hasn't been awarded. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Which is odd, because it's like, we're coming on the end of February, so there's really only You know,