Is that bug splatter or impact damage? Is that a crack or just some dirt? Is that lightning protector damaged? What repairs does that blade need and what would the ROI be on those repairs? And how can you tell without the significant expense and putting human lives at risk? For the wind industry, actionable turbine blade intelligence is the invisible key that unlocks a new level of efficiency, safety, and infrastructure longevity. And with the....
We have reached a point where most businesses are aware of, and accept as truth, renewable energy’s environmental and financial benefits. Until recently, however, renewable’s upfront investment was too great for many organizations to even consider implementation. The availability of onsite solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), where developers absorb all of the initial costs in exchange for “ownership” of the power generated, has create....
The horizontal single-axis tracker (HSAT) has evolved commercially since the 1980’s, when 357 MW of solar thermal electric “tube-and-trough” HSAT CSP power plants were constructed in California’s Mojave Desert. Fast forward ten years, when HSAT commercialization ramped up for PV applications. In some cases, the decision matrix regarding PV fixed-array versus tracking-array began to favor tracking, largely due to the high cost of ....
The owner of Stone Edge Farm (SEF), a premier boutique winery in Sonoma, California, wanted to develop a microgrid with assets that could not only bring its carbon footprint down to zero, but go beyond that to become a net generator of zero-footprint energy to its neighbors. Their goal was to demonstrate what was possible. SEF was looking to implement multiple battery technologies in ways that would be ideally suited to the optimal microgrid u....
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