-- Experiencing unprecedented year-over-year product and solutions growth, 
company aims to lead O&M digital asset management in the year ahead 

SkySpecs, leading provider of digital asset management solutions for the wind 
energy industry, releases its 2020 "year-in-review" business overview. With a 
global team nearing 100 full-time employees and over 50 field professionals, 
the company rapidly progresses toward their founding mission to automate 
renewable energy operations & maintenance using robotics, software, and 
internal solutions expertise.  Lowering costs and using data to drive 
profitability in the long-term is one of the company's key drivers. 

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SkySpecs is playing a pivotal role in an industry that seeks to adopt a more 
data-driven approach to maintaining their assets, which now require closer 
attention and more predictive maintenance as they age.

"While we were initially cautious about how the pandemic would affect our 
business and our customers' operations, we feel incredibly grateful that we 
safely and systematically provided the same level of service this year as 
customers have been used to receiving from us in the past. We worked together 
to find new ways of accomplishing our goals, while continuing to focus on our 
team's expansion as well as the growth of our products and services," reflects 
Danny Ellis, CEO of SkySpecs. "And our customers were doing the same, so we 
were able to achieve some pretty incredible things in 2020 despite the remote 
nature of our interactions."

Highlights of SkySpecs' Year in Review include:

    - Horizon ( 
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), SkySpecs' blade asset management 
     platform saw measurable adoption in 2020, managing just around 90GWs 
     of the industry's blade assets. Horizon's Blade Asset Management tools 
     are also now enabling some of the largest owners, OEMs, and service 
     providers in the U.S. and Europe to digitize their O&M, including work 
     module functionality, repair campaigns, year-over-year damage 
     propagation analyses, vendor qualifications, and blade management 
     operations and planning.  

    - SkySpecs' fully automated inspection solution achieved numerous 
      milestones in 2020 including the fulfillment of just under 30,000 
      inspections globally, at nearly a thousand unique wind farms in 24 
      countries. SkySpecs' inspections ( 
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) deliver 
      critical data to nearly 33% of the U.S. market's assets. 

      The 2020 inspection volume is equivalent to the team's total 
      inspection volume over the previous three years combined.

    - SkySpecs' offshore inspections continue to increase in the European 
      market, providing inspections for nearly 20% of the global offshore 
      market. The company's long-standing partnership with Offshore Turbines 
      Services  ( 
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) 
      continued in 2020, providing a variety of vessels to meet customers' 
      unique needs.

    - The SkySpecs' Solutions team saw huge growth and tackled challenging 
      new issues this  past year, with the goal of serving as an industry 
      center of excellence for blade management. Composed of wind energy 
      experts who combine data analysis, asset management, and blade 
      engineering, they work with key customers to lead the industry's 
      digital transition. Horizon serves as the team's data and analytics 
      hub, paving the way for optimized performance and reduced operational 
      downtime and costs. 

    - "Industry Conversations," the company's recently launched webinar 
      series provides a platform for stakeholders at all levels of the 
      organization to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and present 
      new ideas and technology in an open exchange. The first two webinars 
      featured EDF's Matt Sigala,( 
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) who talked about blade repair 
      strategies, and Nick Gaudern of Power Curve ( 
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), who presented principles of aerodynamics and their 
      effect on output. 

    - The SkySpecs' US and European-based teams have grown by 75% percent 
      this past year, and are on track to double that growth in 2021.

"We know that this year is going to be critical not only for our team, but our 
customers' as well. The newly appointed US administration and the global push 
to advance clean energy as quickly and efficiently as possible have created the 
perfect opportunity for innovation and automation of many areas of wind 
energy," said SkySpecs' CTO Tom Brady. "We believe that offering our expertise 
to an industry that is ready to embrace new ways of doing business in the form 
of technology, data analysis, and robotics will be instrumental in making 
renewable energy ubiquitous - and that's a mission that we've lived and 
breathed from the start. We are pretty thrilled to be living in this moment."

For more information about SkySpecs' Year in Review, please express interest 
via our website contact page: 

About SkySpecs - SkySpecs automates the operations and maintenance of wind 
energy assets through robotics, predictive analytics software, and industry 
expertise to enable better decision making and a higher degree of transparency 
into operational planning over the lifetime of a fleet.  Using SkySpecs' suite 
of solutions, unplanned downtime is minimized and total production potential 
increases, making renewable energy more accessible to the world. SkySpecs has 
offices in Ann Arbor, MI and Amsterdam, Netherlands, and currently operates in 
26 countries on 5 continents.  Visit https://skyspecs.com or follow on 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skyspecs

Contact: Theresa Trevor, Marketing and Communications Director, SkySpecs, 
theresa.trevor@skyspecs.com

SOURCE: SkySpecs