Improved Blade Analytics with Megan Rotondo of ONYX Insight

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Is it just us or does this show feel more info-packed than usual? The US may or may not see blackouts this summer, and either way, Australia could be the place to look for answers. Rosemary explains why rooftop solar is cheaper Down Under than it is in the States, and describes some chemical-free battery storage options. Joel says we need to stop calling it battery storage. Megan Rotondo of ONYX Insights shares much insight into just how difficult it is to establish standards in the wind turbine industry. More data is good, but even "all" the data may not deliver standards in all operational issues. Rotondo also describes just a few of the variables that affect maintenance and operational issues. Hint: Risk tolerance plays a part in every decision. Visit ONYX Insight here - https://onyxinsight.com 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! Uptime 118 Megan Rotondo: we also have a product called AI hub, which kind of takes in a multitude of data is a little more focused on answering, you know, answering the question of once you have the data, you have an alarm now, what do you do? Kind of trying to close that loop. So trying to bring in. Multitudes of data for various components and track, you know, the repair cycle and learning from looking into the damage or alert or alarm that you're getting for your wind farm. Allen Hall: Welcome to the uptown podcast. I'm your co-host Allen hall. I'm here with Dr. Rosemary Barnes and Joel S and we got a very packed show today, probably our best show ever, actually, but we're gonna talk about why we keep hearing that some blackouts are looming in the United States and what we think might be some contributing factors and possibly how we can fix that. Joel Saxum: And then that will flow as well into. Our presidential administration engaging the defense production act to inject half a billion dollars or so into the renewable. Industry to get it moving a little bit Allen Hall: faster. And then I have a, a guest on mega Rotondo from OnX insight. We have a, a really in depth conversation about blades, blade, design, and predictive blade failure. Rosemary Barnes: And we're gonna talk about a new factory being opened up for an alternative storage technology alternative to lithium iron they're compressing CO2, and they've just opened their first battery facility in Sonia Italy. Allen Hall: All right. First topic. Blackouts in the United States. So there's a lot of discussion on the news channels. Allen Hall: And even, especially online, there's going to be blackouts in certain parts of the United States, or at least that's a prediction. And the discussion point seems to be laid around two things, climate change and renewables. Solar and wind being the two primary ones, not hydro. Okay. So the there's a, there's a sort of consensus brewing because of the political nature of what's happening in the states at the moment that solar and wind are gonna take down the grid. Allen Hall: Very similar to what happened in Texas during the ice storm. But in this is the hotter side of that. This is a summertime case. And so I, Joel, I think at Joel, you had poked at me about this. So I went and did a bunch of research and I went to the online resources where there's actual data and it's, it's a complicated mix. Allen Hall: If you can imagine a country as large as the United States has 300. 30 ish, million people and the electrical grid for such a large country. It's gonna be a combination of factors and it's not universal. It's not solar and wind. But I think some of the,