In recent months, a large portion of my attention has been focused on the availability of the turbines in our company's fleet. Not only has it been a question of how to account for the periods of unavailability, but it has also been a question of how to define what "unavailable" is. In my experience working with people who have worked for power producers for a substantial amount of time, the answer is simple: when the turbine is not operating, it is unavailable. This is not the approach taken by many wind turbine manufacturers, however.

To read more, visit my blog at windgineer.com/ I've also posted a slideshow of my wind turbine model collection.

Thanks for your time and energy. - Windgineer

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I have started a blog for the discussion of technical issues facing the utility-scale wind industry.  It is at windgineer.com I hope you can make a visit.

Josh - Windgineer

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