WindESCo Swarm System Steers Wind Farms to Higher Power

WindESCo's Intelligent Swarm system maximizes wind farm output with revolutionary wake steering technology. VP of Products, Danian Zheng, and Director of Software Engineering, Pete Bachant, share their success story at the Milford I&II Wind Farms in Utah with Joel and Allen. WindESCo - https://www.windesco.com Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.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!  WindESCo Allen Hall: Welcome to an exciting bonus episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, where we explore the latest innovations in the wind industry. I'm your host Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, along with my co-host Joel Saxum of Wind Power Lab. In this episode, we'll be discussing the WindESCo Swarm System, a proprietary software platform designed to optimize the performance of wind turbine farms. The Swarm system uses advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to provide real-time data analysis and farm optimization, helping the wind industry operators and owners maximize the productivity and profitability of their wind farms. We'll take an in-depth look at how the Swarm system works, is key features and benefits and real-world examples of how it's being used to improve windfarm performance. Joining us today to discuss the WinCo Swarm system is Danian Zheng. VP of products at WindESCo and Pete Bachant, Director of Software Engineering whether you're a wind energy operator, investor, or just simply interested in the future of clean energy, this episode is for you. Danian and Pete, welcome to the program. Pete Bachant: Thank you, Allen. Thank you, Joel. Thanks for having us.  Allen Hall: So today we, we see a lot of operators that are really struggling to maintain a profitable farm. They're being squeezed from every possible side. And, WindESCo, you guys have been around since 2014 and have worked with a number of operators. What are you hearing from operators today? Danian Zheng: So the biggest thing we hear is the, without PTC, a lot of people cannot even get profit at all, especially for the older farms. And then the income of those IPPs we call them, are really under pressure because of the High cost of the turbine side and the, and the maintenance side, and also high cost from the weight loss from the site. Allen Hall: Wow. And, and if we don't do anything to correct this, what happens? Do some of these operations eventually shut down because they're just losing money? Absolutely.  Danian Zheng: You, you can see farms, they're really only getting PTC as their margin out of the revenue and the day, typically after 10 or 12 years when they lose their PTC or the production tax credit. Economic money, then you have zombies, sides just running there, nobody wants. Wow.  Allen Hall: Okay. So our discussion today is really in important then because the Swarm system helps bring some power back into their pocketbooks. And I, I, I. I wanna understand exactly what Swarm is. I've read a lot about the, the trade study with the Milford Wind Farms in Utah, which was fantastic by the way. But I, I need a little more information. Like, h how does this system work? What does it do? How do operators implement it? Can you give us a, a brief description of  Danian Zheng: that? Definitely. I'll try first and then I'll leave some of the more high end stuff to Pete for Pete to us also. So it's very high level.