ArcVera CEO Discusses Optimizing Wind Farm Performance and Viability

This episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast features an interview with Gregory Poulos, CEO of ArcVera Renewables, to discuss how the company's work is helping operators improve wind farm performance. We discuss wind resource assessments, wake modeling, repowering with new turbine technology, evaluating offshore wind resources, and accounting for risks like future nearby wind farm development. ArcVera helps make wind power more viable and cost-effective through services spanning a project's full lifetime, from initial prospecting to operations to eventual repowering decades later. Reach out to ArcVera and get your wind farm performing better! https://arcvera.com/contact/ 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 this special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. ArcVera Renewables is the leading provider of renewable energy technology services, including wind resource assessments, technical due diligence, project engineering, and O& M support. ArcVera's work in the wind industry is helping to make. Wind energy more affordable and reliable. The company's services are helping developers to build new wind farms and improve the performance of existing wind farms. As a result, wind energy is playing an increasingly important role in the global energy mix. In this podcast, we'll explore ArcVera's work with ArcVera's CEO, Greg Poulos. Welcome to the program. Gregory Poulos: Thanks for having me on, guys. It's great to be here. Hi, Allen. Hi, Joel. Good to see you again. Allen Hall: Yeah, so the last time we got together was in New Orleans at ACP, and that was a good time. That was a really crazy convention. I know since we have left there Joel and I work in the lightning space and you're in the wind in the wind space, actual wind, the productive part of the wind industry business. It's been a busy summer. I assume you guys have been busy with all the projects and all the IRA things have been happening, trying to evaluate performance of farms and what, where to put new farms and what's going on offshore. I'm really interested to pick your brain here. Gregory Poulos: Yeah all of those things globally. Absolutely. Allen Hall: ArcVera's been around for about 40 years at this point. Can you just give our listeners a brief introduction as to all the things you do around the wind industry? Gregory Poulos: Absolutely. So we work on on the wind side. We also work in solar and battery storage. But on the wind side, we work just as in solar and storage through the full project lifetime. So in wind there's a prospecting phase where A developer or somebody trying to create a wind farm is looking for a spot or they have a spot in mind and they need to know if it's going to be economic. It should they invest more in there in the development. So we help folks understand how windy a certain site may be using our vast experience and also advanced modeling tools. Some which we discussed at ACP um, a variety of other things, including our meteorological expertise about flow over complex terrain. There's a lot of free material out there that is inaccurate, and so we help narrow the band of to what the real answer is. Ultimately you have to measure on site and so you have to use lidar, sodar or meteorological towers most commonly offshore, they call them floating lidar or flidar but so we'll recommen...