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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/
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I’m not sure it’s as simple as this, insofar as Bush 41 and 43 weren’t criminal sociopaths.
I happened to be driving through Manhattan on the very day that Colin Powell was addressing the United Nations just a few miles away and claimed, and I think honestly, that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction,” and must be stopped by a U.S. military invasion.
Contrast that against what we’re doing in Iran. Fifteen years ago, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), included Iran, the P5+1 nations (the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany), alongside the European Union made an agreement in which most of the developed world agreed that Iran must not have a nuclear weapon.
That stood firmly in place until Trump’s latest war crime, which is costing lives and choking the world economy, solely to defend our president’s neuroses.
The Brennan Center at NYU’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices. The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent.
Does that stop liars like Mike Lee from spreading disinformation of the subject? Of course not.
There is no judgement day. There is no Saint Peter standing in front of the Pearly Gates discerning good from evil and acting according.
That’s a lucky break for Mike Lee.
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