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GE Vernova pumps $1 billion into LM Wind Power, and KKR buys EDF’s US and Canada renewables arm. Plus CIP sweeps South Korea’s offshore auction and the CME plans wind derivatives across three continents. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter 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 YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now, your hosts. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Matthew Stead and Yolanda Padron. Rosemary is at GWO training this week. And we have an announcement about Wind Energy O&M Australia 2027. Matthew, you wanna give all the details?  Matthew Stead: Drum roll Um, very pleased to announce that WOMA 2027 will be at the East Pullman Hotel in Melbourne’s east, uh, not the other one, and, uh, 3rd to 5th of March. Um, the first two days will be two days of wind O&M, uh, conferences, [00:01:00] uh, and then the Friday will be a half-day, uh, training session. More information to come.  Allen Hall: Well, she’s not here, so we can probably just announce it, that Rosemary will be giving a terrific four-hour-long seminar on blades and blade repair, so you sign up now. Matthew, where do you go if you wanna just check out what’s happening at WOMA  Matthew Stead: 2027? Uh, well, actually, it’s woma2027.com.  Allen Hall: Uh, over at GE Vernova and LM Wind Power, there’s been a whole bunch of turmoil over the last couple of years if you haven’t been paying attention. Well, GE Vernova just injected about a billion dollars into that company. So although LM recently has shown very little in terms of revenue, it definitely had needed some capital injection in, uh, at least according to the Danish press, the number of employees at the Danish site is about 20 to 30. So it’s really a fraction of what it once was. But [00:02:00] it does seem like GE is paying off all its existing debt and then giving it a little bit of a cash infusion to keep it rolling. The question really is, is what is GE Vernova gonna do with that business now? Are they planning on keeping it? Are they trying to get s- to get it back to health where they can service the other, uh, OEMs that they manufacture blades for? Or is there a larger action that will happen in the near future? What do we think?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I’m really confused by this one. I mean, a cash injection just so that you’re not bankrupt on paper is, um, that’s just playing with money as far as I’m concerned. Or I’m not sure if it’s a US term, but, you know, shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic. It doesn’t– Does it change anything? Allen Hall: Well, uh, th- they made no announcements about closing facilities. The LM blade facility in North Dakota still appears to be making blades. There’s the TPI factories, which are going through a transition r- right now, appear to be making GE [00:03:00] blades. I, I assume Gaspé up in Canada is still making blades, at least that’s the story. If GE’s gonna rely upon LM to make blades, they’re gonna need to keep them open. Is, is this more of just keeping the factories open with a skeleton engineering crew and possibly moving the blade design group into the States? Is that– Or India or, or somewhere?  Yolanda Padron: And they’re still selling, right? They’re still selling blades. It seems like they’re still planning on manufacturing blades. Do we think that maybe- They’re just trying to avoid that whole TPI bankruptcy deal to not have to kind of scrap for parts?  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s a great question. I think TPI has been producing parts at high quantity, and some of the Things I’ve heard from the industry folk is that TPI is really busy in producing quality blades, and it’s like the bankruptcy transaction is not happening, which is great to hear because the [00:04:00]industry needs blades, and there’s a lot of repowering going on in the United States and a lot of activity in general, so they need blades. But does LM continue to be a part of that?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I mean, presumably the TPI, um, whole story only makes LM more important, you know, more important to have, uh, an additional manufacturer and, you know, providing, you know, options for the OEMs.  Allen Hall: It does seem like, though, the GE offshore, GE Vernova offshore is not a thing. Although I’ve heard a couple of rumors that, yeah, GE Vernova is offering some products for offshore, it doesn’t seem like their heart is in it. I can see that happening. So are they just trying to focus on onshore business, and that’s it for the time being? Just let it play out and, uh, wait until the elections in 2028? I know that’s gonna get me blocked on YouTube, but that, that does feel like what’s happening at the moment.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I reckon it looks completely like that.  Yolanda Padron: I mean, it also looks like they’re [00:05:00] just kind of trying to play everything a little bit more safe, right? So they are scaling up, but not as fast as they used to, so scaling the blade sizes. And then they’re– it seems like they’re, they’re having their FSAs cut quite a bit shorter than they used to, right? So are they maybe just trying to focus on, like, cash up front and just trying to play it safe until they can get their, their footing right again?  Allen Hall: Or is it focus on key customers? I could see GE Vernova actually doing that, that they have a history with certain operators worldwide, and they’re just gonna focus on producing and delivering for those customers. Because you don’t see a lot of announced orders for GE turbines. Vestas is announcing things practically every week. Nordex is doing something similar. Siemens once in a while. But what you really don’t hear anything from in any quantity at [00:06:00] all at the moment is from GE Vernova. When a company needs cash badly enough, even the crown jewels go on the block. And EDF, the French state-owned utility, has to fund the upkeep of 57 aging nuclear reactors and build six new ones, so it is selling. EDF has agreed to hand its US and Canada renewables business, EDF Power Solutions, to the private equity firm KKR. The business runs 5.6 gigawatts of renewable assets across the two countries. Late last year, EDF’s chief executive floated selling anywhere from half to all of the unit in a deal that could be, well, it’s reported to be about $4.2 billion. That’s the latest news I’ve heard. This is a big transaction. KKR is Canadian, right? And is a massive investment firm Uh, which I, I don’t think have a lot of wind at the moment. Uh, what is the [00:07:00] KKR play here?  Matthew Stead: I, I love this because this is, uh… So obviously I’m Australian, and Macquarie is a big Australian. So, um, Macquarie own a whole lot of wind farm, a whole lot of wind infrastructure. So I just see this as a wonderful g- you know, fight between KKR and Macquarie. And so KKR has a whole lot of, um, they o- they’ve got some, you know, stake in Australian wind farms. They’ve got some work, you know, through Europe with wind farms. So I, I, I think this is a good thing, just a bit more global competition and a bit more global growth. And I think it’s all coming from the data centers and, you know, the future increase in growth of, um, demand.  Allen Hall: Yolanda, EDF’s wind fleet is a variety of turbines, right? They have some GE, some Siemens. Anything else in their portfolio?  Yolanda Padron: I think they have a bit of Vestas there too, right? Is it something that we were saying? It’s– I think this is really interesting. Um, I know that there’s not– I mean, of course EDF is the latest, but there’s some [00:08:00] operators that seem to be, um, consolidating into a bit more of those just higher private equity firms, and it’s– Do we think that maybe this is the way that the US is going to lean towards? I know we talked a lot about leaning towards funding the data centers and maybe a bit more the behind the meter things. Uh, but do we think that maybe that’s the future of the US? There’s a couple of companies that kind of just own all the major infrastructures and then- A  Allen Hall: couple Canadian companies.  Yolanda Padron: And what does it mean for, like, asset management and stuff, like, that’s really, really different from what they’re seeing in their desks in New York and stuff, and just the larger financial models versus what’s happening on the ground, and how will they connect everything? Allen Hall: It’s a great question.  Matthew Stead: NextEra and Dominion, you know, things are only getting bigger. Scale’s, scale’s coming.  Allen Hall: Yeah. I wonder how much, uh, this transaction will have to go through regulators in the US, uh, because it scares me when you have a, a– such a [00:09:00] large foreign national company. There’s actually two involved in here, right? So you, you have a, a French company and a Canadian company trying to transact on, in the United States on a lot of assets. Uh, it probably won’t be that quick if there’s any oversight at all. I, I’m guessing that we’ll hear noise about it. So we’re, we’ll have to keep listening to all the news sources about it and, and telling our valued listeners what’s going on. Because there’s, uh, we know a whole bunch of people that work at EDF and like, love those people and are really concerned about what the future holds for them. I, at least it sounds like upfront that KKR is just gonna continue with operations, but I know, uh, uh, it’s a turbulent time, and if you work there, you, you hopefully things continue the way they’re, they’re supposed to because One of the things about EDF historically has been is that they’re really talented people, that they have hired well over time and that they know what they’re doing. And every time we, Weather Guard and [00:10:00] Yolanda and I’m sure Matthew have dealt with EDF quite a bit They are on top of what they’re operating. They know how their assets work, and they know how to manage them, and so you’d hate to lose those people in a transaction like this. It would decrease the value of the assets, I would say. Very interesting transaction.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. But, I mean, what if the counter, what if, um, this is all part of a, a growth strategy? You know, a growth strategy with wind, solar, and battery, you know, providing more power. So it might actually be an opportunity. So, you know, opportunity to do more and some more exciting work across all three disciplines. Allen Hall: Definitely so. Uh, but it’s a little early. The ink hasn’t dried yet on the contract. So while offshore market pulls back in general, in a lot of places like the United States, another one is racing ahead. In, in South Korea’s latest offshore wind auction, one name walked away with the lion’s share, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, CIP. The Danish fund [00:11:00] secured more than one gigawatt of the 1.8 gigawatts on offer, including the single largest project and the only floating wind winner. And the appetite was record-breaking. They had a whole bunch of developers trying to bid on this. You had about 3.7 gigawatts being bid in, more than twice of the capacity available. So for a country that only began competitive offshore bidding in 2022, that’s a few short years ago, that market is coming of age. This is a huge announcement by CIP, right? That, uh, they have bid into the system. They’re, they’re winning, and they’re bringing Siemens Gamesa to the table, which we haven’t heard a lot of Siemens Gamesa’s turbines being selected, but this is a massive order and really gonna help secure at least some portion of, of the Siemens Gamesa business. Matthew, you’re closer to it. In, in South Korea, are you seeing the South Korean industry being built within [00:12:00] the country, or are you seeing, uh, partnerships with surrounding countries like Japan? ‘Cause it doesn’t seem like when– and I’ve looked at some of the South Korea, uh, efforts. It does seem like they’re trying to stand up their own offshore built-in country plan. Is, is that the goal? You think Siemens is gonna end up building a, a factory in, in South Korea for some of these projects?  Matthew Stead: Maybe a couple of things. First of all, I have to apologize. I think, uh, we were talking the other week, and I, I, I sort of implied that floating offshore wind was dead, and I think we copped a bit of flack from that. But, uh, anyway, wrong, wrong on, uh,  Allen Hall: floating offshore is dead.  Matthew Stead: Um, but um, you know, I’ve had a fair bit of interaction with, uh, South Korean, um, you know, Philippines, Japan, obviously. I think they’re all trying to get their industries up, but I, I don’t think they’ve got the scale So, you know, I think they, they really need like the Siemens Gamesas, the Vestas’s, um, to come in and, and partner with them. I just don’t think they’ve got the scale, you know, the, the [00:13:00] installed fleet, the industry to really promote it. And, you know, to get the economies of scale, they’re gonna have to pull in the big existing incumbents. So, you know, good on CIP for, for pulling this off.  Allen Hall: In terms of South Korea industry, I think steel is one of their strongest, uh, industries at the moment, and obviously shipbuilding. Those are the, that go hand in hand, so to speak. There’s a lot of steel in wind turbines, and particularly in floating offshore wind turbines. It would seem ripe for South Korea to get into that marketplace.  Matthew Stead: I’m not sure the intellectual property is in steel tubes. Um, I, I guess what I’m trying to say is the intellectual property is in the turbine nacelle and the blades and, um, you know, I, you know, correct what I said that, you know, obviously the steel and the steel manufacturing in South Korea is, is pretty amazing. Um, but yeah, they’re clarifying what I said before.  Allen Hall: So is this gonna turn into the leading floating project in the world? You know, Greenvolt’s gonna happen in the [00:14:00] UK. There’s some talk of things up in Scandinavia. But in terms of speed, will this be one of the leading candidates in t- in getting things in the water just because of the capability of South Korea to, to build at scale? I  Matthew Stead: think it’s really exciting. Yeah, I, I’m, I’m gonna watch very closely.  Allen Hall: I think this is gonna be amazing. I really do.  Yolanda Padron: I was gonna say, could you imagine, like, a, a turbine and a blade where everything is just perfectly manufactured or close to perfectly manufactured? I g- I went to one farm last week, and there were… I mean, it was in the States, and there were so many patches on new blades. I was just talking to the people in operations like, “What’s, what’s going on here?” You know? Uh, so it’s just really… I don’t know. This is exciting.  Matthew Stead: Do you think, um, they’ll build a blade factory, Yolanda? Do you think they’ll actually take on the blades? Yolanda Padron: I don’t know. Uh, I, I mean, it’d, it’d be great for them, I think, right? It’s a new area of business that they’re diving [00:15:00] into.  Allen Hall: If they don’t have to build the building at the port, I think Siemens would be willing to erect something near the shoreline. And in Korea, there’s a lot of major industry right on the shoreline. It would be relatively easy, I think. You know, ev- it sounds easy now because you’re not actually doing it. But in terms of, you know, building a blade factory on the coastline of United States versus doing it in South Korea, South Korea’s gonna be way easier to do that and at scale quickly. That, that one seems like a win-win. I d- if there’s any place on the planet that could do it quick besides the UK or, you know, Denmark, someone like Netherlands, someplace like that, Germany, it’s gonna be South Korea.  Matthew Stead: Maybe that’s a bet, you know. So prove me wrong again. My money at the moment is that Nacelles blades won’t be coming from South Korea. Allen Hall: Well, if they don’t come from South Korea, they’re gonna be on a South Korea-built ship. We’ll be bringing th- those [00:16:00] blades in country. That’s what will happen. So wind is getting its own set of financial instruments, which sounds weird, right? Wind is wind. It’s in a very legacy style industry. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is planning to launch wind derivatives across three continents, which are contracts that are tied to the grid in Texas, the markets in the UK and Germany, and just the Victoria state in Australia. So today, most weather hedging happens through one-off over-the-counter deals that are sort of hard to trade and thin on liquidity, so it’s not a commodity you can pass around. A standardized exchange-listed contract changes all that. A utility or a wind farm owner could lock in a hedge in about 15 minutes. The contracts would settle against independent data that models how much power the wind should have produced in a given place, likely supplied by [00:17:00] the Finnish firm, drum roll, Vaisala. Plans are not final, but they could go live within months. So they’re hedging on the wind. Does this sound like a smart move, or w- what are some of the consequences of this? Matthew Stead: I think it goes back to that volatility. W- when there’s volatility, people can make money. Um, you know, and a side note, that’s where, that’s where offshore wind comes in because it’s much more predictable. Um, you don’t get the same lulls with offshore wind. Yeah. So I, I, I love all these, these creative ways of, um, generating, generating demand, financial demand. Allen Hall: It can be played though, right? I mean, that’s one of the things about wind, ’cause each turbine is its own separate little power plant that all connect to a substation, so if you have bought a hedge and the substation goes kaput for 24 hours, you could lose your shirt. It does seem kind of risky, depending on what the scale is here. If you’re doing all of Texas or all of [00:18:00] Victoria, maybe that makes a little more sense, but yikes. That’s gonna be a rough market.  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, the market’s already open, right? Like, you can bid day ahead, um, instead of just real-time prices. But so this, this would be really interesting for owners, right? To be able to track that a lot better than just that gut feeling, which obviously I know people working in trading aren’t just going off of their gut feeling. I know it’s a very, very intense thing. Nobody go against me, please. This is very intense, and it’s better– They do a better job than I could ever do. They do great, 10 out of 10. But this– I think this is really interesting for those of us especially who maybe aren’t super in tune with what, uh, all goes into it. So being able to have something that helps you plan it a bit more for, you know, people like you mentioned earlier, the people that have their home batteries in Australia and are just working on the market itself and maybe [00:19:00] not– don’t have those 10, 20 years of experience of, of actually working on the market. So this is, this is exciting.  Allen Hall: Does that explain all the weather sources and the weather companies when we go to a wind, a larger wind or solar event that there does seem to be a lot of people offering weather insights? Is that what that’s about, is they can hedge? If you have a slightly better weather model, that would give you an advantage in this kind, kind– really kind of market? Is that the, the goal of all those weather firms?  Matthew Stead: Uh, absolutely. And, you know, we’re, we’re part of that because, um, ice, ice, um, you know, reduces power output, and ice forecasting and weather forecasting is, uh, really important in, you know, the Nordics, where you don’t want to be promising certain power and find you can’t deliver ’cause everything’s iced up. So, you know, we, we do work with forecasting companies to improve the, [00:20:00] uh, the quality, and it does have a mer-material difference on, on the financial markets.  Allen Hall: So is that something that we can all get paid for? by these weather companies and these, uh, forecast companies if we provide insights on lightning, so to speak, and icing, uh, is that a revenue chain for at least one of us? Matthew Stead: Absolutely.  Allen Hall: Maybe I like this more and more. I was, I was very hesitant of this exchange, thinking like, “Oh man, not a, not another highly leveraged situation with energy. That doesn’t sound smart.” But, yeah, if we can make a small fortune, Matthew, I think we should do it.  Matthew Stead: Fun fact, there was a flight from, um, yeah, from London to Australia the other week, um, and it’s a direct flight, you know, so 17 hours, and, uh, there was a change in the weather. So there was a change in the weather, and that aircraft didn’t have enough fuel to fly to Perth anymore, so it had to land in the outback of Australia.  Allen Hall: No. Did that happen?  Matthew Stead: Yep, because there was a [00:21:00] change in the weather.  Allen Hall: Are there just, like, kangaroos lined up in a runway shape to get the airplane on the ground? Or how do they– Is there a runway out in the outback that would accommodate a large… That’s a large airplane that’s making a London to Australia trip. Triple 7380? It  Matthew Stead: was a Dreamliner. Um, but, um, it, yeah, it landed in Kalgoorlie. So Kalgoorlie’s a mining town. Yeah, they’ve got, they’ve got big stuff in Kalgoorlie. Allen Hall: In this quarter’s PES Wind magazine, in which there is a whole bunch of great articles, a interesting article about grease. Grease not the country, although I would love to go visit Greece. Grease the lubricant that’s in all our bearings and keeps the world moving at any one particular time. Uh, Sh-Shell was talking about doing a lot of research on grease, and when poor lubrication, uh, happens, it’s one of the leading causes of bearing failure. And so when you see a bearing all tore up, usually the first indication is, is there’s something wrong with the grease. Uh, [00:22:00] so Sh-Shell and bearing maker SKF and the University of, uh, Twente joined forces to answer a deceptively simple question: How do you predict when grease inside a bearing will let go? Well, their answer comes down to film thickness. The microscopic layers of grease that keeps the steel from grinding on each other is the magic variable. The work won a major tribology award and is already feeding into, uh, some of the tools that operators use to schedule relubrication before a bearing fails. And It all comes down to lubrication. That’s the lifetime of a wind turbine. There’s so many pieces that are rotating and are heavily loaded with really complicated bearing surfaces. If you don’t have the grease right, it’s just not gonna work. And what’s happening at Shell is one of those pieces, and we’re [00:23:00] learning so much more. And as we, uh, evolve in the technology and become smarter about the molecules we use and how we use them, uh, this is gonna have a big impact. And I know, Yolanda, you’ve been up to– Well, you’ve been to a couple of wind farms recently. Do you s- see– still see huge grease problems that I usually see when I’m on site? Matthew Stead: Mm-hmm.  Yolanda Padron: I didn’t think that was an issue that was gonna go away anytime soon. But it’s good to know that, that there’s something being done about it that’s more revolutionary than just paying someone to clean the turbine every once in a while.  Allen Hall: And the contaminants that get into the greases are a huge problem, particularly where there’s any sort of sand, dust that climbs in. So keeping those joints clear and those rolling surfaces clear is a major effort. And knowing when to relubricate. And, and Matthew, you guys see pitch bearings and all kinds of problems up on blades that are lubricated that have run out of their lifetime early. It does seem like the first thing you see on particularly pitch bearings [00:24:00] is grease on the side of the turbine from them. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I think that’s– uh, there’s even a special code that the, the visual drone inspection companies have. They’ve got codes for, um, grease and so, yeah, exactly, that’s an early flag. But also dust. You know, sometimes dust from the inserts and from the bolts. Yeah. So it’s, yeah, interesting topic.  Allen Hall: Well, I, I think it’s one of the key pieces to keeping the turbines running. And I know if you travel a lot around wind turbines, the, the grease is the thing that the technicians always talk about, and there’s so many different tools to go out and look at these things. But lubrication, we gotta get to it. And, and Shell, and SKF, and a number of others are, are working at it to make, hopefully, our lives a little bit easier. So if you wanna go check out this article by Shell, go visit peswind.com and download a copy today. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on [00:25:00] LinkedIn, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. So for Yolanda, and Matthew, and an absent Rosie, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.

Chris sits down with Salla Alajoki, Senior Manager at Vaisala, whose journey with Figure That Shift Out started in Finland with a podcast and grew into a decade of transformation. What began as two colleagues listening on repeat became a bold leap: traveling to Orlando to complete the full FTSO process in person But her story didn't stop there. She became one of the first certified FTSO coaches, bringing the work back to Finland. Over the past four years, she has coached nearly 20 colleagues, helping reshape leadership culture inside a global organization, and inspiring others to get certified themselves. This is what multiplication looks like: one leader finding clarity, and carrying it forward.

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Dagens gäst började sin karriär som aktiemäklare i slutet på 80-talet och gick över till att bli förvaltare på 90-talet. Först tog han över Handelsbankens småbolagsfond som var en populär flaggskepsfond och sen gick han över till SEB för att bygga upp ett nordiskt småbolagsteam. Därefter grundade han Origo Fonder år 2012/2013 och lanserade en hedgefond. Här berättar han om den resan, framgångar, motgångar och vägskälet han stod inför när storkunden lämnade.Stefan berättar om vad han tycker karaktäriserar ett kvalitetsbolag och vilka nyckeltal som är intressanta att hålla koll på, rent konkret. Dessutom får vi veta hur de hittar bolag till kortboken, bästa och sämsta affären, hur man hittar småbolagspärlor och en hel del case såsom Kalmar, Vaisala, Hanza, Freetrailer, Raysearch och mycket mer! Dessutom vill vi såklart veta hur de lyckats generera ett alfa på 550 bps per år (CAGR) sen 2014.Delikat lyssning på dig,NicklasHistorisk avkastning är ingen garanti för framtida avkastning. De pengar som placeras i fonderna kan både öka och minska i värde och det är inte säkert att en investerare får tillbaka hela det insatta kapitalet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcast del programa Imagen Empresarial transmitido originalmente el 24 de marzo del 2025. Conduce Rodrigo Pacheco. Los entrevistados de hoy: Entrevista: José Roberto Solano Pérez, Gerente de Análisis Económico, Cambiario y Bursátil en Monex Tema: ¿Qué impacto tuvo en los mercados la reciente decisión de política monetaria de la FED? ¿Qué esperar en el entorno económico y bursátil en las siguientes semanas, ya casi cerrando el primer trimestre del 2025? Entrevista: Alberto Cortés, director de Vaisala para América Latina y el Caribe Tema: Sustentabilidad e innovación: la clave para un futuro más eficiente

"Minua ei tämän kvartaalin tulos kiinnosta niin paljon kuin se, minkälainen vaikutus meillä on kymmenen vuoden päästä," Vaisalan hallituksen puheenjohtaja, omistajasuvun neljänteen sukupolveen kuuluva Ville Voipio sanoo. Vaisala on malliesimerkki yhtiöstä, jossa ankkuriomistajasuku pitää valtaa tiukasti käsissään. Yhtiöön mukaan lähtevän sijoittajan on paras luottaa pääomistajien näkemykseen siitä, miten yhtiötä tulee kehittää. Yhtiön äänivaltaosakkeet ovat suvun hallussa, ja pörssisijoittajille on tarjolla vain tapettipapereita. Sijoittajille lankeaa lähinnä rahoittajan ja riskinkantajan rooli. ”Omistaja ja sijoittaja saattavat olla vähän eri kapistukset. Näen sen niin, että omistaja on taho, joka voi ja haluaa ja kykenee ohjaamaan yhtiötä hyvin pitkällä aikavälillä. Sijoittaja on sellainen, joka löytää: tässä on kiva yhtiö, laitetaan tänne rahaa ja tämä tuottaa kivasti”, Voipio sanoo. Grillissä käsitellään omistajan ja sijoittajan roolia ja ennen muuta sitä, kuinka pörssiyhtiömaailmassa katsotaan vuosikymmenten päähän – jolloin ne kriisit, joita nyt pyritään ratkaisemaan, saattavat olla todellisuutta, jos ratkaisut eivät tepsi. Jälkimmäiseen asiakokonaisuuteen Voipio on oikea ihminen vastaamaan paitsi pörssiyhtiön hallituksen puheenjohtajana myös siksi, että hän opettaa Turun yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulussa työelämäprofessorina kestävää globaalia liiketoimintaa. Grillin äärellä Voipio antaa huutia ESG-reittauksille ja valitsee itselleen 50-vuotisjuhlajuoman. Marinadi-osiossa mietitään, onko yhtiön kotipaikalla sijoittajalle tuon taivallista merkitystä. "Monet eri toimialat ovat riippuvaisia jonkin maan taloustilanteesta ja sen muutoksista", S-Pankin osakesijoituksista vastaava johtaja Seppo Kurki-Suonio muistuttaa. Hän nostaa esimerkeiksi etenkin sähkö- ja kaasuyhtiöt, päivittäistavarakaupat ja pankit. Saman alan yhtiöitä myös klusteroituu samoille alueille. Marinadista selviää myös, kuinka sijoittajan on syytä ottaa maantiede ja poliittiset riskit huomioon. Marinadi-osio: yhteistyössä S-Pankki Ville Voipion luentosarja (englanniksi): http://www.youtube.com/@prof.sustainablebusiness2193

Lightning struck wind turbines in the U.S. over 77,000 times in 2023 alone. Vaisala Xweather Insight experts detail how their advanced National Lightning Detection Network tracks each bold strike in real-time. Learn how wind farm operators tap into this data to optimize turbine safety and uptime during fierce storms. Visit their website: https://www.xweather.com/ and read the report! 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 special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. Vaisala just published his 2023 lightning report, and if you haven't seen it yet, better get online and check it out. One of the key items in that report is 77, 000 lightning strikes occurred to wind turbines in the U. S. in 2023. So we thought it'd be a pretty good topic for a podcast because we've, Joel and I have seen a lot of lightning damage across the United States and 77, 000 lightning strikes is probably one of the reasons why. And if you're not familiar with Vaisala, Vaisala is XWeather System, which is where that data comes from is in advance, whether intelligence platform provides businesses and organizations with accurate real time. Weather insights and a lot of sites that we go to, Joel and I go visit, have the XWeather system. And that system integrates data from multiple sources into a sort of a unified view and analyzes current and historical trends and generates hyper local forecasts using artificial intelligence. And as part of that XWeather system is the National Lightning Detection Network, NLDN. And we're going to use that acronym throughout this podcast. The NLDN is a network of over a hundred ground based sensors across the U. S. that detects cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning strikes in real time. That system is operated by VISLA, and it uses sensors to pinpoint lightning strike locations, polarity, amplitude, and other key characteristics like specific energy. And that network provides critical lightning data for early warning systems, research, and weather sensitive operations like wind turbines. With a detection efficiency over 90 percent nationally, the NLDN sets the standard for accurate real time lightning detection and mapping. Our guest today, we have two of them, Martin Murphy, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. And Martin has a degree in meteorology from Penn State and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Arizona. And he has worked with Vaisala and its predecessors for over 27 years. One of his focuses is on analysis and validation of lightning detection systems, and he's a co author of two patents related to lightning detection. Martin, welcome to the program. Martin Murphy: Thanks Allen Hall: And Hans. Hans is the Vaisala product manager for Xweather, and we've had Hans on the podcast before, and we see Hans at all the trade shows across the United States. So Hans, welcome back to the show. Hans Loewenheath: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Allen Hall: So guys, I want to dive in first into the NLDN. And since Martin's here, I want to understand Or explain to everybody what the system is, because we travel around the United States quite extensively, and we meet with a lot of operators, and when we say, did you check the NLDN, the National Lightning Detection Network, they kind of go, what? What is this thing? Joel Saxum: You get these glass,

Fernando's areas of focus are new markets in urban mobility, environmental monitoring and climate change adaptation with a particular focus on future air mobility and aviation. In this episode, he talks more about Vaisala's work to-date when it comes to weather and environmental monitoring in aviation, and then how it can play a key role in the emerging Advanced Air Mobility market. Fernando talks about Vaisala's particular systems, which can benefit the aviation sector, and its aviation weather management solutions, configurable for any airport, geography and climate. As other weather factors for eVTOL aircraft include wind and extreme temperatures such as icing, Fernando discusses the key challenges these pose and key considerations companies need to look out for in order to be as efficient as possible.

In Allen's part of the USA, an escaped emu that was on the loose! We then discuss an investigation into a wind turbine collapse at the Akmene wind farm in Lithuania, which was caused by a malfunctioning sensor that provided incorrect data to the turbine controller. The root cause analysis took several months, and the wind farm was shut down until the issue was resolved. Shifting to policy news, the podcast analyzes the UK's latest CfD auction round which awarded 1.5GW of onshore wind capacity across 24 projects in Scotland and Wales. Offshore wind was absent from this round due to limited funding availability and inflation concerns. In the US, Equinor and BP are seeking to renegotiate offshore wind PPAs for their Empire Wind and Beacon Wind projects off Massachusetts unless they can achieve a 6-8% rate of return. On the technology front, we discuss a PES Wind Magazine article from Vaisala about how lidar systems can measure turbulence intensity to improve wind farm performance. Mounting lidar systems on turbine nacelles provides hub-height data to anticipate incoming wind conditions. To close, we cover news that EDF Renewables will repower Africa's oldest wind farm in Morocco, doubling its capacity to 100MW with new Siemens Gamesa turbines. 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!  PES Wind - www.peswind.comPardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: All right, Rosemary, in my neighborhood of Massachusetts, there was an escaped emu and it was on the loose for two weeks in the neighborhoods and they finally, they finally captured this thing. It was roaming around scaring local residents. And in fact, the, the local animal control officer said, Hey, be careful because emus are dangerous. But they did capture the emu. He would have been left behind by a former owner who moved out of state. And just left the emu behind and the new owners of the property were willing to help cooperate to kind of capture the emu. So the emu will have a new home with a local species expert and I assume that local species expert is in Australia. So you're getting another emu, Rosemary. Because Massachusetts is not the right place for those things. Rosemary Barnes: Oh, all right. That, that hurt, that hurt my ears as an Australian. Can we just clear one thing up? It's emu, emu. It's not an emu, it's an emu. You, you Americans, you know, like you don't get to take an Australian animal and give it your own, your own name. Just respect, respect the emu. Allen Hall: Well, you're getting a new friend in Australia. I'm going to send that emu right back. Enefit Green along with GE have been looking at an incident or accident that happened at the Akmene wind farm in Lithuania back in May. And they've been conducting a series of evaluations over the last couple of months, where they finally have come to a conclusion and, looked at the findings and determined that this wind turbine fell over and it's, it's about a, I think it's a five megawatt machine fill up in Lithuania. And there was 14 wind turbines total that the root cause analysis revealed that a malfunctioning sensor provided incorrect data to the turbine controller, resulting in excessive stress on the tower structure and the subsequent collapse of the turbine. So that sounds like, to me, everybody, a single point failure in some GE turbines, and they didn't turn it back on until, actually, this week, until they got it all figured out.

Lightning is a leading cause of death for wind turbine technicians. The risk of lightning strikes for wind turbine technicians is even greater during the summer months, when thunderstorms are more common. Allen discusses the lightning dangers with Vaisala lightning experts Hans Loewenheath, Product Manager for Xweather Lightning at Vaisala, and Ryan Said, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. The Vaisala Xweather system detects lightning in real-time and provides near instantaneous alerts to technicians in the area. These alerts allow technicians to get to safety before tragedy strikes. When thunder roars, go indoors! Vaisala Xweather - https://www.xweather.com/Vaisala Annual Lightning Report - https://www.xweather.com/annual-lightning-reportVaisala Interactive Lightning Map - https://interactive-lightning-map.vaisala.com/Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - 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!  Vaisala (1) Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, host of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Our guests this week are Hans Loewenheath Product Manager for Xweather Lightning at Vaisala. And Ryan Said, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. If you're not familiar with Vaisala, Vaisala is a global company specializing in environmental and industrial measurement solutions. Founded in 1936 and headquartered in Finland. Vaisala has grown to become a leading provider of reliable and accurate instruments, systems, and services for a wide range of industries and applications. Ryan and Hans, welcome to the program.  Ryan Said: Thanks for having us. Hi. Happy to be here.  Allen Hall: Just reading some news stories this week unfortunately of people attending to a soccer field. I got hit by lightning and, and they were clearly out in, in a time when it wasn't raining, right? This is sort of the clearer lightning strike scenario. There's, there's thunder off in the distance, but they don't think twice about it. And next thing you know, you're in an ambulance going to a hospital and then, and the wind turbine technicians. I think the case is so much more risky because if you're up in a turbine or around turbines, turbines are lightning magnets for the most part. And you don't have a lot of advanced  Ryan Said: warning. That's right. Lightning is chaotic and unpredictable. There's really no safe place to be outside when there's a thunderstorm nearby. A lightning can even strike several miles from the thunderstorm core. There are general guidelines in place that reflect this unpredictable and unsafe environment. The National Lightning Safety Council has a motto when thunder roars go indoors and advise not to return outside for at least 30 minutes after lightning passes by. So for these reasons, it's really important to be aware of your environment and surroundings in particular. Be able to track thunderstorms in real time, right?  Allen Hall: What is a safe position? If you're, if you're around a wind turbine, where are you gonna go? Is the vehicle enough?  Ryan Said: Usually the safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a modern building. The electrical wiring and plumbing. Serves as a Faraday cage, or it safely guides the electrical energy from a lightning flash that hits the building through these wires into the ground. Now, of course, you don't want to be touching any of these wires or, or plumbing during a thunderstorm. If you can't get to a modern building,

James Ariza es CEO de ANXOR. Anxor Ingeniería es representante de Megger en Nicaragua, distribuidor autorizado de equipos VAISALA y otras marcas reconocidas para el sector eléctrico. Conoce la historia completa de James Ariza en esta edición de Maestros del Escalamiento junto a Daniel Marcos.                                                  INFO FINAL  Conoce más de James Ariza en: LinkedIn   Conoce más de ANXOR en: LinkedIn Sitio Web   Conoce más de EO en: LinkedIn

Teppo Kuisma works at Vaisala Xweather and has a vast experience from established companies, tech startups and consultancies and has spent several years in Silicon Valley. Vaisala Xweather's global marketplace of precise environmental data is used to develop such things as autonomous driving and renewable energy production. Learn more! Have you already joined the Data Insiders community?

We are closing this cycle of Quality Sense with a very interesting guest... Maaret Pyhäjärvi, has more than 25 years of experience in software testing, and is constantly sharing her knowledge and helping others. She has experience organizing conferences around the world, meetups, and more. Maaret is currently working at Vaisala as a Principal Test Engineer. In today's episode, we talked about the challenges of organizing and attending conferences, and we dived into the topic of exploratory testing. How to define it, the challenges of building trust around exploratory testing, and more. So for the last time this year, get comfortable, grab a snack and enjoy!

Thunderstorms are common this time of year, so we're focusing on lightning in this week's episode. Present in every storm, it's a weather threat that sometimes gets overlooked. Chris Vagasky is a meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala, one of the leading weather instrumentation manufacturers worldwide, known throughout the weather industry for their lightning detection hardware and network. He joins the Lee Weather Team to explain the science and dangers of lightning, including wildfires. They also debunk some of the myths about lightning and discuss the best ways to stay safe. "When thunder roars, go indoors"...and listen to this electric episode! About the Across the Sky podcast The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team: Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's National Lightning Safety Awareness Week! This week Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and Solutions Manager for North America at Vaisala, Inc. back to the podcast to discuss all things lightning including safety tips and what outdoor activities make you most vulnerable to a lightning strike. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on 'Everything Under the Sun', Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and Solutions Manager for North America at Vaisala, Inc. Chris joins the podcast to talk about his latest paper "One Strike, You're Out: Lightning during Professional Baseball Games" looks at the significant risk of a lightning-related incidents at Major League Baseball games. Then, Jonathan Webb, CEO and Founder of AppHarvest joins Dean to discuss using conventional agricultural techniques with cutting-edge technology to improve access for all to nutritious food, farming more sustainably, and building a home-grown food supply. AppHarvest is building some of the largest indoor farms in the world to grow non-GMO, chemical-free produce to be sold to the top 25 U.S. grocers.Plus a look at the forecast for the weekend and week beyond with AccuWeather Meteorologist, Brian Thompson. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. While a lot of words were said, it remains to be seen whether the political will exists to defend democracy. Will we keep anti-majoritarian rules like the filibuster in place? Will we continue to support a Senate that grants disproportionate power to white, rural states and districts? What will this year's elections bring?  COVID rages and it appears our institutions are pretty much throwing in the towel.  In a what-the-what news…lightning increased dramatically around the North Pole. According to CNN, “Vaisala, an environmental monitoring company that tracks lightning around the world, reported 7,278 lightning strokes occurred last year north of 80 degrees latitude, nearly twice as many as the previous nine years combined.” The Pennsylvania Farm Show is this weekend!  Don't want covid?  Do go.  It's that simple because masks and vaccination cards won't be required as Omicron is ripping the lands.  Doug Mastriano is launching his campaign for Governor tomorrow.  Get ready everybody. The Pennridge School District makes more moves to discriminate and whitewash history now that the extremists have full control of the board. The board ordered the removal of the book, Heather Has Two Mommies, due to its radical message that “it doesn't matter how many mommies or how many daddies your family has … the most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.” Check out Cyril's interview with the book's author, Lesléa Newman, in his latest column. And then there's moves to prevent critical discussion on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. Teachers were sent a note instructing them to “not wade into” discussion of January 6. Instead, they should stick to “business as usual.” We should recall that Bucks County had more people attend the insurrection than any other county - and the Pennridge School Board president, Joan Cullen, was one of them.  Looks like the Executive Director of Upper Bucks County Technical School. Jeffrey Sweda, is being given the boot after the board overseeing the school's Joint Operating Committee charges him with “persistent negligence in the performance of his duties, willful neglect of duties, and/or willful failure to comply with school laws and directives.” The charges include buying a $999 log splitter for his personal use, stealing pavers from the school, cutting security cameras to the loading dock, abusing co-workers, and more. Station Eleven.

Guest: Chris VagaskyIntroduction: The joy that fills sports fans' hearts as they loudly sing, “Take me out to the ballgame…” is almost palpable, but one thing that may not come to their mind is the threat lightning poses. We've seen the images of lighting bolts racing across the sky as fans hunker down in their seats, and this reminds us how deadly this phenomenon can be. Meteorologist Chris Vagasky, who is the Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, has dug through the data and found some shocking statistics for some of the league's most popular stadiums. We'll break down who's most at risk for lighting and discuss how his research is being used to improve MLB's weather safety policies. Get your peanuts & join us for the discussion...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on "Everything Under the Sun", host Dean DeVore welcomes back AccuWeather Senior Long Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok to chat about the 2021 Summer Forecast and where we stand midway through July and a look ahead to Fall 2021. Then, we take a look back at some of our favorite interview segments over the last few months. First, we revisit our talk with Dr. Steven Cliff of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about preventing vehicular heat stroke. Then we speak with Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala to discuss which state has overtaken the Sunshine State with more lightning bolts. Finally, we wrap up with a trip to the campground with Toby O'Rourke, CEO and President of Kampgrounds of America to learn about the rise and resurgence of camping in America. It's all this week on "Everything Under the Sun"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Vagasky, Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, explains to Tonya Hall how lightning detection networks operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, Florida has been known as the lightning capital of America. However, recently released data from Vaisala, indicates that there may be a new lightning capital. This week, Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala to discuss which state has overtaken the Sunshine State with more lightning bolts. Then, Rob Harper, Director, Retail Operations from Ziebart joins Dean to discuss how to protect your vehicle from Cicadas. The highly-acidic bugs could spell bad news for your car’s exterior. It's all this week on 'Everything Under the Sun'! Download the new AccuWeather app today, available now in the App Store on iOS and in the Google Play Store - https://accuweather.onelink.me/dZpv/49183895 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lundi 19 avril 2021, SMART TECH reçoit Louis de Gouyon Matignon (fondateur, Toucan Space) , Pierre Beyssac (cofondateur, Gandi / eu.org) , Margaux Didi (Analyste scientifique, Bioxegy) , Régis François (Sales manager, Vaisala) et Sylvain Duranton (fondateur et directeur monde, BCG Gamma)

Guest: Chris VagaskyIntroduction: The joy that fills sports fans' hearts as they loudly sing, “Take me out to the ballgame…” is almost palpable, but one thing that may not come to their mind is the threat lightning poses. We’ve seen the images of lighting bolts racing across the sky as fans hunker down in their seats, and this reminds us how deadly this phenomenon can be. Meteorologist Chris Vagasky, who is the Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, has dug through the data and found some shocking statistics for some of the league’s most popular stadiums. We’ll break down who’s most at risk for lighting and discuss how his research is being used to improve MLB’s weather safety policies. Get your peanuts & join us for the discussion...

We invited two experienced people from our customer Vaisala: Toni Lehtimäki and Kari Heikkilä to talk about the development, deployment and technology stack of their Design system. Eficode has also developed a design game that lets you map out your design and development process. It’s called Digital Product Building Toolkit, and you use it to improve your company’s capabilities for creating digital products and services. The game is open source under creative commons license, and you can download it from the Eficode website at: https://hubs.ly/H0JGgN10 -Design and build digital services sustainably: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdBC0 -Read success Design and UX stories from all industries: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdPJ0

Tuilevaoa'ana Taofua Rocky Pilitati is Samoan, born and raised in Wainuiomata.  He has ties to the villages of Saoluafata, Falevao and Vaisala in Samoa.   Tui is currently studying and is in his final year towards A Bachelor of Creative Media Production at the College of Creative ARts, Toi Rauwharangi Majoring in Film and TV.  He is a member of the Massey Association of Pasifika students,  Kafa Kollective and a member of the Pacific Islands screen artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the DevOps 2020 event, Eficode’s CTO Marko Klemetti talked about improving DevOps capabilities. In this talk, Marko referred to the “design system”, stating that “design system is the voice and identity of an organization, but also a set of styles that represent that organization.” In this episode, we discuss in more detail the connection between design systems and DevOps. According to Marko, organizations should “connect all of your DevOps practices and tools into the design system.” Useful references about the subject: -How does UXDX break down development / design / research barriers?: https://hubs.ly/H0yRwhb0 -Design system example on github: https://github.com/eficode/design-system-example -Vaisala’s new Design System:https://hubs.ly/H0yRwyd0 -DPB Toolkit: https://hubs.ly/H0yRzYG0 -Elisa style book: https://stylebook.elisa.fi/ -The Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain #1 is a meteorologist and Sounding Solution Manager at Vaisala.  Chris Vagasky, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain #2 is also a meteorologist at Vaisala.  Ron Holle, welcome to the show!

Lightning during a heavy rainstorm is one of the most dramatic phenomena on the planet—and it happens, somewhere on Earth, an estimated 50 to 100 times a second. But even though scientists have been puzzling over the physics of lightning for decades, stretching back even to Ben Franklin's kite experiment, much of the science remains mysterious. Ira and IEEE Spectrum news editor Amy Nordrum speak with Farhad Rachidi, a lightning researcher at Säntis Tower in Switzerland, as well as Bill Rison, a professor of electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech and Ryan Said, a research scientist at Vaisala, about what potentially causes lightning, lightning-sparked wildfires, and why it's hard to study it in a lab. Plus: Scooters are electric, emission-free, and must be replacing gas-guzzling car trips. That has to be good for the climate, right? But a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters says electric scooters actually aren't very green. Sigal Samuel, a staff writer for Vox based in Washington D.C., joins Ira to talk more about the study. And this week, the Trump administration announced it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is implemented starting in September. Regulators would soon be able to conduct economic assessments to decide whether a species should be protected or not. Maggie Koerth-Baker, senior science reporter for FiveThiryEight, joins Ira to discuss the roll back as well as other science headlines in this week's News Roundup. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

Gwendalyn Bender, product manager for assessment services for Vaisala, discusses the range of services and products offered by the company in this Solar Speaks Live video, powered by Unirac, from the 2015 Solar Power International tradeshow. Bender also touches on the concept of accuracy in weather forecasts and how it impacts projects.

Site assessment is often discussed as an important step in planning any project, but what exactly do you need to look for? We spoke with Gwendalyn Bender of Vaisala to tell us more. She even touches on why developers of the notable Ivanpah solar project weren't as concerned as the media when the project didn't perform as hoped for its first summer. Listen to learn more.

In this bonus edition of Thinking Aloud from the 23rd ITS America Annual Meeting and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee, Paul Hutton talks to Bill Bronrott, deputy administrator of the US DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and catches up with FLIR, Econolite, LightGuard, McCain, Vaisala, QVision and Jim Barbaresso from the organising committee of North America's next turn to host the ITS World Congress, Detroit 2014. Meanwhile Kevin Borras talks to Thinking Aloud sponsor Jupiter and with four of the main drivers in the Integrated Corridor Management project in both San Diego and Dallas. Thinking Aloud is brought to you by Inrix, Traffax, Jupiter and Econolite and is available to download or listen to now, and remember it can also be found in the iTunes store. And don't forget to register for Thinking Highways, the ITS sector's most innovative magazine, at http://thinkinghighways.com/registration/. Be sure to join us next week for more Thinking Aloud.

In the fourth and final daily podcast from the ITS World Congress in Vienna, Paul Hutton finds out what's worrying a man who's been to all 19 of the congresses, gets news from Traficon, IRF and Hodos Media, talks to Swarco, InnovITS snd Navtech Radar, while Kevin Borras really does give his two cents about an aspect of the congress's organisation and Sarah Hawkes investigates Vaisala. There's also AustriaTech's guide to Vienna and Kapsch pay tribute to a great event.