Buffett’s Squeezing More Power Out of Wind With This Software

Operators of U.S. wind farms including Warren Buffett’s energy company are turning to technology designed to squeeze more power out of every turbine.

MidAmerican Energy Co., a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., is using software from Uptake Technologies Inc. that gathers data from turbines to help operators spot potential malfunctions before they happen. In one case, a bearing failure was spotted and fixed at a “significant cost saving,” Adam Wright, MidAmerican Energy’s chief executive officer said in an email.