Rosemary Barnes and Allen Hall had a great time at American Clean Power 2022 in San Antonio, TX! They sat down down with Matthew Stead, CEO of Ping, to introduce the latest Ping monitor updates for icing, damage detection and lightning! Kenneth Carter, Editor of Wind Systems Magazine, gave the podcast duo the latest news and insights from the exhibition floor. Nicholas Gaudern , CTO of Power Curve ApS, announces their collaboration with SkySpecs which allows operators to leverage drone images to determine AEP losses - this is a game changer! Don't miss these interviews...



Check out the latest from Ping at https://pingmonitor.co



Wind Systems Magazine is available here - https://www.windsystemsmag.com



Power Curve ApS is here - https://powercurve.dk



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Allen Hall: Welcome back to uptown podcast. I'm your co-host Allen hall. Rosemary and I were down in San Antonio and American clean power. Association's clean power, 2022 conference and exhibition. And why we're on the show floor. We had three outstanding interviews. And so we're gonna bring you those interviews to catch everybody up on all the, the comings and goings of clean power 2020.



Allen Hall: First off is Matthew stead. Who's the CEO of ping and Matthew describes some of the new improvements that are going into the ping system. Our next guest is Kenneth Carter. He's the editor of when's systems magazine, and he can, he provides us some insights on all the comings and goings on the show floor that week.



Allen Hall: And then last but not least is Nicholas gardener. The chief technical officer of power curve and power curves has been working with sky spec. On a new system to look at the damage to a, a blade, a leaning edge erosion those kind of pieces of damage, and to determine what the AEP loss would be from. Bugs, dirt, debris, leaning, edge erosion, blade damage.



Allen Hall: They all have an influence on AEP. And instead of just guessing at it now, Nicholas and the team at power curve are actually gonna take those drone scans and combine it with all the knowledge they have a blades and be able to predict what the AEP loss is. And is it enough to really matter? Do you need to fix it or just let it go?



Allen Hall: That's that's a really good addition to the, the teoledge of blade. So these three interviews are, are really interesting. It's worth the time to, to sit through all three they're about 15 minutes each. So as we recover from clean power, 2022, you can relax and enjoy some really good guests on the uptime podcast.



Allen Hall: Rosemary and I are here at ACP 2022 in San Antonio with Matthew stead from Bing. Welcome Matthew. 



Matthew Stead: Thanks Alan. 



Rosemary Barnes: Thanks Rosie. Thank you. We're the Australians outnumbering you today. Yeah, it's two 



Allen Hall: to one, right? It's usually it's usually the numbers are reversed typically. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's so we've been walking the floor.



Allen Hall: Everybody's been walking the floor today. Kind of checking out all the activities that's going on. There's a 



Matthew Stead: good number of people here. It's huge. It's massive. Yeah, it it's big. It's 



Rosemary Barnes: overwhelming. In fact, . 



Matthew Stead: It, 



Allen Hall: it is. Yeah, no, I think you're right. It is a little overwhelming. We've been to a couple of conferences this year.



Allen Hall: Nothing anywhere near this size. And as Rosemary has been pointing out, there's just, there's solar, there's batteries. There's all kinds of monitoring systems today.