We're revisiting a great episode with Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of PowerCurve, discussing their new AeroVista software. AeroVista uses drone inspection data to evaluate wind turbine blade damage and power production potential. Allen and Nicholas discuss how this technology enables strategic repair planning to maximize power recovery while avoiding unnecessary costs.



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Allen Hall: Welcome back to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and this week, we're going to go back in time to September of last year, where I sat down with Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of PowerCurve. And Nicholas and I discuss a new piece of software that PowerCurve has developed called AeroVista.



And AeroVista is a unique tool. It takes your existing drone images and then predicts the AEP for the turbine or the particular blade. A lot of operators that Joel and I have run across recently are interested to know what blades to repair based on the amount of damage. And we see damage from all over the world.



And there are blades that have very minor damage that you probably leave alone. There are some with very major damage and those you should obviously fix. It's the ones in between where you're not really sure. And this AeroVista piece of software is a predictive tool. It will help you design your campaign to repair blades during the warmer months.



So it's a very powerful tool and a and a well needed tool for the industry. So I thought it was time to revisit this episode with Nicholas Gaudern of PowerCurve. Enjoy.



Leading edge erosion is a massive power losing problem for most wind farms. Almost every wind turbine blade that has been in service more than two years has some level of leading edge erosion. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'm here with our guest, Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of PowerCurve.



In this episode, we are discussing leading edge erosion, how it reduces average energy production, and when to address it for maximum revenue generation. And just a brief background on PowerCurve. PowerCurve designs, manufactures and installs power upgrades for wind turbine blades that help their clients make their wind projects more profitable.



PowerCurve's Technology has been thoroughly tested and validated, and they continue to work closely with universities to refine it even further. And the upgrades have been installed on blades worldwide. Nicholas, welcome to the program.



Nicholas Gaudern:  Hi Allen. Really nice to be back talking to you. 



Allen Hall: So you have some new software tools at your disposal, and anybody that knows PowerCurve knows you guys are really good at aerodynamics to understand how blades produce power.



You wanna, you wanna describe what this little software breakthrough 



Nicholas Gaudern: is? Yeah, I'd love to. So, so what I want to talk about today is, is our new tool that we're calling a. It's it's an a p i, you can call it, it does something and you'll get some really insightful data back. Maybe just take a, a step backwards.



It's all about taking a, a data driven and an engineering driven approach to understanding the performance losses that you will get from damages and particularly leading edge erosion on a blade. So, We're about modeling those losses and telling you how you can deal with it. Yeah, 



Allen Hall: because there's a lot of information on the internet ...