Weather Guard Lightning Tech
A Practical Guide to Solving Your Wind Farm Lightning Problems
‘Tis the season for lightning problems in much of the world. Trust us, these action items will help reduce damage, and put you in the best position when it’s time to file a claim.
The exclusive article, Solving your wind farm’s lightning problem: a practical guide for operators, appears in PES Wind 3-2025. The magazine is free! Download the article or the entire magazine here to check your wind operation’s readiness.
Lightning strikes are responsible for over 60% of operational blade losses and 20% of wind turbine downtime and the problem is only getting worse.
Unfortunately, many operators do not realize how much business interruption and maintenance funding is consumed by lightning problems until they
review the numbers in detail. And reviewing those numbers can be extremely time-consuming and also discouraging.
The article explains how to (relatively easily) collect internal data and explains how that data helps you evaluate whether a lightning mitigation solution is cost-effective. Just as importantly, the article shows that collecting that data also strengthens your case when seeking budget approvals or negotiating
with insurers.
PES Wind articles are designed to help operators make the most of their assets, from optimal performance in the early days to life-extending upgrades.
Read the article here – these two pages will help you understand lightning problems, and more importantly what to do about them, right now.
Explore this and other articles in the latest PES Wind here.
https://weatherguardwind.com/a-practical-guide-to-solving-your-wind-farm-lightning-problems/
Can’t swear that this is true but hoping so.
We must never forget.
The more visibility and the more frequent reminders we can get on this catastrophe in U.S. history the better.
It’s almost funny when we hear that California is a socialist state, or a police state (due to our environmental restrictions), or that people are leaving in droves to go to Texas or Florida. When I come across people who say this, I wonder: have you ever actually been to California?
Do you know that the garden-variety 3 BR, 2 BA house here lists at about $1.2 million, where, if it were moved to, say, the Midwest, it would be worth perhaps $2500,000? Why do you think that could possibly be? Maybe the law of supply and demand doesn’t apply to the Marxist part of the nation?
Perhaps it’s because Californians are offered fantastic economic opportunities. We develop and implement ideas that improve the lives of everyone on Earth, and that we profit greatly from our undertakings.
Something for the MAGA crowd to consider.
The main way governments create wealth is by educating people so that they can become productive members of society. They also build roads and airports and maintain law and order so that honest businesses can thrive.
Anyone living now who believes that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are creating wealth for anyone but themselves is a total fool.
A ton of people bought into the concept expressed here in the mid-20th Century, but no semi-intelligent person today believes that tax breaks for billionaires/trillionaires generates a nickel for the common person.
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