Paul Dawson, VP of Business Development from EOCYCLE, joined us to talk about the distributed wind sector of the market. Small wind turbines have a large market, with studies identifying 49 million potential sites that could benefit from and support a turbine. EOCYCLE has two models that are fit the power needs of small businesses, with a specific focus on farmers who can benefit from generating their own electricity and reducing or eliminating dependence on the grid.



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Transcript - EP48 Paul Dawson from EOCYCLE on the Future of Distributed Wind



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I'm Allen hall. I'm Dan Blewett and this is the Uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection, and ways to keep your wind turbines running.



welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. No Allen Hall today, he'll be back with us in a couple of weeks, but we have a great guest today. Paul Dawson vice president of business development from EOcycle. It we'll be here with, uh, with us for a great conversation. So our talk today is about distributed wind.



EOcycle is a distributed wind company. They sell their flagship, uh, wind turbine is the EO25, a 25 kilowatt model. That can provide power for about 10 to 15 homes, but they're not really in the residential market. They're really in the small business market, specifically targeting lots of farms in the Midwest and in other areas where a small wind turbine is going to work.



So distributed wind is an interesting segment of, uh, the wind energy market. We want to talk to someone about us. We could get a feel for. You know, the, the, the smaller space that GE and Siemens Gamesa investors really aren't paying much attention to. So, you know, if you, if you float around social media, uh, Twitter, YouTube, you'll see lots of really interesting designs, uh, whether it's these traffic vertical turbines, which is a new prototype out of Turkey or any of these little things where we're trying to capture excess energy, you know, wave a wave is a thing, right?



We're trying to find ways to squeeze more energy out of the world, essentially in so small wind is sort of like mid rain solution for that, right? It's not this tiny thing that's going to do one kilowatt a year. It's, it's a pretty significant solution for small businesses. Um, and farms is, is one of their main target markets.



So Paul is a, a wind energy lifer. He's been in the industry for the past 15 years. Uh, currently again with EOcycle as vice president of business development. But he's also worked for, uh, switching gears. Uh, he was the director of business development and sales for Northern power systems. And he was also the global sales manager of energy systems to name a few, so really great conversation.



And I think you're really gonna enjoy it on distributed wind. So without further ado, let's jump to our conversation with Paul Dawson.



So thanks for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it. Great to be here. So let's jump right into it. Uh, you know, EOcycle, I kind of mentioned this on our last podcast. I think the distributed wind sector is really interesting.