DSPTCH: Revolutionizing Wind Farm Management

Allen Hall and Joel Saxum interview Alex Jones, co-founder of DSPTCH, about the app's evolution from a wind farm locator to a comprehensive operations management and IRA compliance tool for renewable energy. They discuss new features, prevailing wage and apprenticeship tracking, industry adoption, and how DSPTCH improves efficiency and safety in wind farm operations. Visit https://dsptch.app/ or download at https://dsptch.app.link/. 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 to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. When we first discovered the software app DSPTCH, Joel and I used it to find wind farms but DSPTCH is so much more than a wind map today. DSPTCH is now widely used by operators for managing projects, handling forms, timesheets, apprenticeship tracking, and so much more. Our guest is Alex Jones, co founder and president of DSPTCH. Alex, welcome to the show. Alex Jones: Yeah, thanks for having me. Allen Hall: So I. Went back into my DSPTCH app and got access to the online computer version of the DSPTCH app and was just astounded at all the advanced features you've added roughly over the last year. I think I, I picked up the app when we were in New Orleans at ACP and. it to full fine wind farms, particularly with technicians on site that didn't know where their own wind turbines were. So it was really helpful there, but you want to talk about some of the things you guys are doing now? Alex Jones: Yeah, for sure. This year at OMS, we launched a new product the safety side, we call it oversight and it really just gives asset owners and EPCs, really anyone who wants to come in Yeah. The ability to manage that site, add points put in emergency documents, emergency contacts. And we've really gone long on that front. So we had one of our clients and utility partners reach out and they were making flyers for DSPTCH for fire departments, EMS, so on and so forth. And we were like, okay explain what you're doing. And we've turned that into a product now, and we've seen a huge surge in local first responders, emergency teams getting on there's been a few Incidents recently in the industry and then you add in tornadoes and wildfires and all these other things. So people are looking to map. Hey, I want to know where my tornado shelters are. I want to know local emergency response teams phone numbers for emergency contacts and then even things like helicopter landing points. So we now support adding all of those things to the map and then updating any information like about the site itself, adding documents, those sorts of things. And so we've really seen that take off and become a part of site orientation for a number of asset owners and so on. And it's evolved into a pretty neat safety tool. Joel Saxum: Yeah. I was thinking about this I'm speaking from the mind of a traveling wind turbine technician, right? Cause this comes from my oil and gas past every site you go on every O& M building you visit. They hand you your sheet of paper. This is your ERP, your emergency response plan. This is where the, the tornado shelter is. This is where the O& M building is. Here's the closest hospital, all these different things. Now you have a living one that's in your phone. Every technician has their phone on them all the time. That's just a given, right? So then, and if there is a massive update,