Boosting Turbine Performance Through Electrical Insights: ABB WindESCo Collaboration

In this episode, Allen and Joel speak with ABB's Daniel Gerber, Senior VP, Global Product Group Manager Wind, System Drives and WindESCo's Founder and CEO Mo Dua about their companies' new partnership. They are combining ABB's capabilities in wind turbine electrical systems with WindESCo's optimization software platforms. This collaboration aims to help wind farm operators monitor the health of electrical components to reduce downtime and maximize energy production. Plus, we discuss pilot projects planned for 2024 to demonstrate the value of jointly leveraging ABB's converter expertise and WindESCo's analytics. Reach out to Windesco and ABB! 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 back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I am Allen Hall and I'm here with Joel Saxum, and we have some really interesting guests today. We have Daniel Gerber, Senior Vice President, Global Product Group Manager, Wind System Drive from ABB, and he's based in Zurich, Switzerland. And also Mo Dua from WindESCo. Mo is the founder and CEO of WindESCo, which is based in Massachusetts, my, my state. And the reason we're talking here today is because there has been a minority stake in WindESCo from ABB. And when this news release popped out a couple of months ago now, I thought, man, this is a great alignment. Finally, the wind industry is doing something on the electrical side that is interesting, because everything we hear is on the mechanical side. It's all about blades, leading edge erosion, how the gearboxes are breaking, how everything's leaking oil. But the, a lot of the improvements that are going to happen in wind energy and in the production side are going to happen because the electrical control system and the converters and everything downstream are working properly and doing what they should. And this is where WindESCo and ABB come in together. So Daniel and Mo, welcome to the program.