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SkySpecs SkySpecs offers a suite of Operations & Maintenance solutions including fully automated wind turbine blade inspections that are repeat- able, precise, and take less than 15 minutes. Horizon is their asset management platform, allowing multiple stakeholders to collaborate and make the best decision about their assets every time. Their engineering services include risk assessment and auditing, root cause analy- sis, and blade services, and are run by a team of expert blade analysts and engineers ready to tailor projects to their customers’ specific needs. www.skyspecs.com TECHEOL Renewable Energy Technical Services TECHEOL is a company specializing in wind turbine O&M services, providing preventive and corrective maintenance, major component replacements, up-tower drive train repair, and blade repair as well as performance optimization. Since 2007, its management team had established solid business relationships with wind farm owners in Canada, USA, and Mexico. www.techeol.com WECS Renewables WECS Renewables provides wind energy, commer- cial solar, and storage products for new construc- tion and for long term O&M. Electrical, mechani- cal, and hydraulic solutions. For 35-years, WECS has been providing components exclusively in the North American renewable energy industry from conception to repower. www.wecsrenewables.com Remote Monitoring Campbell Scientific The WMS100 provides precision measurement capabilities in a rugged, battery-operated package. It consists of a measurement and control data logger, communications hardware, and power supply. Standard operating range is -13°F to 122°F (-25°C to 50°C); an optional extended range of -67°F to 185°F (-55°C to 85°C) is available. Building on a Campbell Scientific data logger platform yields a versatile, robust, and accurate MET system. The WMS supports nearly all sensors used in the industry. The WMS100 supports sensors at any height, junction boxes, down- tower cabling, and many other customer-specific measurement configurations. www.campbellsci.com Leosphere, a Vaisala Company Leosphere lidars measure and assess wind in both the development and operational phases of a wind farm, onshore and offshore. The Windcube is a reference remote sensor in the wind industry, providing accurate wind measurements up to 656ft (200m). Scanning Windcube systems are versatile, high-preci- sion instruments offering a range from 328ft to 2.17 miles, 3.7 miles, or 6.2 miles (100m to 3.5km, 6km, or 10km) as well as multiple scanning pattern choices. The Wind Iris is a nacelle-mounted lidar for turbine perfor- mance verification. The Wind Iris Turbine Control delivers reliable wind data hundreds of meters in front of the rotor plane enabling increases in capacity and opportunities to reduce wind energy LCOE. www.leosphere.com Olympus America, Inc. Olympus provides a portfolio of innovative test, measurement, and imaging instruments. Technologies include remote visual inspection, ultrasound, phased array, eddy current array, x-ray fluorescence, industrial microscopy, and optical metrology. Their products include ultrasonic flaw detectors and thickness gages, videoscopes, borescopes, microscopes, XRF analyzers, advanced nondestructive testing systems, and a large selection of industrial scanners, probes, software programs, and instrument accessories. www.olympus-ims.com AREPA AREPA provides technical equipment resto- ration and reinstatement solutions. They strategically restore and reinstate damaged equipment to help prevent business inter- ruption, lost productivity, and decreased revenue potential. www.arepa.com Safety Equipment | Fall Protection 3S Lift The Climb Auto System is wind’s new climb assist, improving health and safety, and reducing the cost of ownership. The Climb Auto System is a single technician (rated at 310lbs) ladder-mounted lift that completely eliminates the physical and mental strain of climbing. It features safety control switches on both handles, a remote mode for the easy transport of tools, and collapsible pedals for rapid evacuations in the event of an emergency. It offers an independent fall arrest systems for personnel and the Climb Auto System. The Climb Auto System can be easily retrofitted to any new or existing wind turbine ladder, often in only 8 hours. It has certifications from CE, UL, ANSI, OSHA, and more and has been installed in over 30,000 towers worldwide. The Climb Auto System is a safe and cost-effective way to ascend a tower and lets technicians keep their minds on the job and not on the climb. www.3SLift.com Phoenix Contact Phoenix Contact’s new wind turbine ice-detection system reduces power production loss and increases safety. The self- powered sensors used in this system transmit ice thickness and temperature information wirelessly from blade surfaces, without drilling or wires. A single receiving unit is installed in the turbine and receives information from sensing units, which are distributed over the surface of each blade. These sensing units are easy to install during regular blade inspec- tions. Detection in a stopped rotor state allows automatic restart to minimize power production loss. The system also measures the direct surface temperature for precise heating control with blade de-icing systems. www.phoenixcontact.com/wind Restoration AmePower AmePower is an ISO9001 certified engineering company specialized on delivering customized solutions to improve the efficiency and reliability of high-power electronics systems found in wind turbines, PV inverters, EVs, marine propulsion, and many other applications. Their area of expertise includes GTO to IGBT technology conversion, IGBT system upgrades, and form/fit/function custom converters. Their equipment is manufactured in USA, complying with buy America. Their services include repair and overhaul of old/obsolete high- power converters, contract manufacturing, retrofit/ technology upgrade, pre-designed inverters, in-house testing, and engineering capabilities. www.amepower.com/wind-power North American Clean Energy 51