This week, we're re-running one of our favorite interviews with Stefann Perrigot, director at PES Wind Magazine. Perfect timing, seeing that the magazine's latest edition features Allen's article! Stefann gives an inside look at PES Wind's dedication to exclusive industry articles, thoughtful debates on issues like blade upkeep and VR safety training, and an editorial process focused on insight and integrity. Be sure to read the latest edition by visiting peswind.com!

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Allen Hall: Welcome back, I'm Allen Hall. This is the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. As you're listening to this episode, Joel Saxum and I are on an airplane to Amsterdam, hopefully. And we are going to be at Blades Europe Forum, which is a massive event talking all about wind turbine blades. And we hope to see a number of people that have been on the podcast at that conference and we're gonna hopefully meet a bunch of new people there too.

This week for the podcast we're going to highlight one of the interviews from earlier this year and it's with Stefann Perrigot, director of PES Wind. And the latest issue of PES Wind just came out, and if you don't have your copy, you can get a free copy online at peswind.com. And the cover story on PES Wind for this issue is about lightning. It's written by yours, truly. So this is a really good episode. It's a good interview with Stefann Perrigot, but if you haven't downloaded that PES Wind, go ahead and get that done because the, there's a, I've seen advance of some of the articles that are inside that. It's a really good, really good issue of that magazine and it includes a story about lightning from yours, truly. So here again is Stefann Perrigot, Director of PES Wind.

Allen Hall: I am Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and today's special guest is Stefann Perrigot director at PES Wind and PES Wind is a website that provides news and information about the wind energy industry. It is part of the Power and Energy Solutions network, which also includes websites dedicated to solar energy, energy storage, and other renewable energy technologies.

PES Wind's, website features, articles about new wind projects, technology developments, and industry trends. In addition to its website, PES Wind also publishes a quarterly magazine, which is beautiful. The magazine features in-depth articles about wind energy topics, as well as interviews with industry experts.

If not familiar with PES Wind, you should be. So, Stefann, welcome to the program. 

Stefann Perrigot: Appreciate being here. It's been a long time coming. Yes, it has actually. And I've been asked a few times by a number of my clients on the, you know, especially at the recent global offshore wind on the, on the floor itself to say, you know, when are you getting on?

So Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do it at the show itself, but you know, here I am now and it's a pleasure to be here.

Allen Hall: Just a couple of touch points here where we get started. I think when you read PES Wind, you realize, wow, this is, this magazine is brilliant, right? There's a, a lot of good information in every magazine Plus has beautiful photos.

The magazine itself looks exquisite. How long have you guys been at this making this magazine?

Stefann Perrigot: So a bit about us. You know, we've been going sort of nearly 20 years now, but it used to be a renewable energy publication...