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Élodie Arnould est humoriste, féministe et mère de deux enfants. Dans cet épisode de Biz&Bibs, elle raconte comment la maternité a changé sa carrière, son ambition et surtout la manière dont elle choisit aujourd'hui son rythme de travail. Avant de vivre du stand-up, Élodie Arnould travaillait chez EDF. Après l'improvisation à Marseille, elle commence à écrire ses propres spectacles, prend un congé pour tenter l'aventure en indépendante, puis finit par quitter définitivement son emploi lorsqu'un producteur lui propose de l'accompagner. Quelques mois après avoir signé, elle tombe enceinte de son premier enfant. Son post-partum coïncide avec le Covid et l'arrêt des spectacles. Une période imposée qui lui permet de rester auprès de son bébé, de récupérer physiquement et de prendre le temps avant de remonter sur scène. Aujourd'hui, Élodie Arnould assume un choix très clair : ne pas multiplier les dates, même si cela pourrait accélérer sa carrière. Elle limite ses déplacements et ses spectacles parce qu'elle ne veut pas passer à côté de l'enfance de ses enfants. On parle aussi de culpabilité maternelle, des coliques qu'on finit par transformer en blague, de ces enfants capables de faire perdre leur calme aux parents les plus stoïques, mais aussi de féminisme et de son héritage familial malgache, marqué par des modèles de femmes fortes, indépendantes et entrepreneures. Un échange drôle et sans filtre sur la maternité, l'humour, l'ambition, le féminisme et cette question que beaucoup de parents se posent : jusqu'où veut-on aller professionnellement lorsque réussir signifie aussi passer davantage de temps loin de ses enfants ?-------------------------------------------------

Ce mardi 29 septembre, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Bruno Guglielminetti, journaliste et animateur de "Mon Carnet de l'actualité numérique", et Stan Larroque, directeur des opérations chez Parrot, fondateur de Lynx. Ils se sont penchés sur la renonciation d'OpenAI au lancement de GPT-6.1, et le lancement par Nvidia d'une plateforme pour garder le contrôle sur les agents IA, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Ce mardi 29 septembre, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Stan Larroque, directeur des opérations chez Parrot et fondateur de Lynx, et Bruno Guglielminetti, journaliste et animateur de « Mon Carnet de l'actualité numérique ». Ils se sont penchés sur le lancement des assistants IA ChatGPT DOTS par OpenAI, le rachat d'une startup d'IA physique par AMD pour 8,2 milliards de dollars, ainsi que le déploiement de 26 nouveaux Starlink par Starship en orbite, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez-la en podcast.

Mardi 29 septembre, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Bruno Guglielminetti, journaliste et animateur de "Mon Carnet de l'actualité numérique", Stan Larroque, directeur des opérations chez Parrot, fondateur de Lynx, Guillaume de Lavallade, directeur général de Free Pro, Sylvain Trinel, journaliste BFM Tech, Léa Benaïm, journaliste BFM Business, et Antoine Marcel, CEO de Flourish Robots, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Mardi 29 septembre, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Bruno Guglielminetti, journaliste et animateur de "Mon Carnet de l'actualité numérique", ainsi que Stan Larroque, directeur des opérations chez Parrot et fondateur de Lynx, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Britain is "walking into a second significant energy crisis", the boss of the country's largest electricity generator has warned. Simone Rossi, chief executive of EDF in the UK, told the BBC's Business Editor Simon Jack on the Big Boss Interview that household bills are forecast to rise by around 20% in January. Customers still owe more than £5bn from the last crisis, four years ago.Gas is driving the rise. Gas prices are up 25%, while the electricity part of the price cap is 4% lower than in January. His advice is blunt: where you can, choose electricity over gas. He blames wars hitting the world's two biggest gas suppliers at once (Russia and Qatar), which he calls "almost unthinkable".Closer to the UK, he is asked whether ministers should approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields, he says: "Green light. Absolutely. No doubt about it." With most homes heated by gas and most cars running on petrol or diesel, weaning Britain off fossil fuels will take decades. Until then, he argues, producing oil and gas at home keeps jobs and tax receipts in the UK and pollutes less than importing it. "It's a no-brainer."Nor does he expect relief soon. Ed Miliband promised bills £300 lower by the end of this parliament. Mr Rossi expects them to stay stubbornly high until 2030. Britain built an energy system for rising demand, but demand fell even as the economy grew by 30% and the population by about 10 million. The cause, he says, is deindustrialisation. The fixed costs of the grid are now spread across fewer users, and "somebody's got to pay".That explains the paradox of cheap renewables and expensive bills. Wind and solar are the cheapest power to produce, but cost is not the same as value. Electricity is hard to store and does not travel well, so every wind farm far from where people live needs costly cables, grid and storage. Last year Britain paid wind farms to switch off nine terawatt-hours of power while importing more than £40bn of fuel.His answer runs against intuition: more demand means lower bills. Ten million electric vehicles, two million heat pumps and more data centres would spread those fixed costs more widely. He wants ministers to move more policy costs from bills into general taxation, extend the zero VAT rate on electricity beyond April, and introduce a proper social tariff. Bills, he says, have become "a tool to pay for a lot of stuff", and that makes them regressive.Then there is the winter. Britain's gas storage is low, and relying on imports could mean "staggering" prices at peak times. "If we are caught short," he warns, "basically we are naked in front of the markets."Presenter: Simon Jack Producer: Ollie Smith & Olie D'Albertanson01:15 Why UK energy bills are so high 04:11 Why cheap renewables don't mean cheap bills 07:30 Walking into a second energy crisis 12:33 Paying wind farms to switch off 13:48 Rosebank, Jackdaw and the North Sea 17:20 Bills stubbornly high until 2030 21:58 Clean power 2030 versus reindustrialisation 27:41 Hinkley Point, Sizewell C and the cost of nuclear 32:28 Low gas storage and summer grid scares

L'affaire Thélyson Orélien met la littérature face au défi de l'IA • Les détecteurs d'IA sont-ils fiables ? • Meta lance de nouvelles lunettes connectées et mise sur son agent Muse • Trump rebaptise l'IA • Les appels à une gouvernance mondiale de l'IA se multiplient • Les robots humanoïdes s'essayent au ménage • EDF explore les technologies pour mieux gérer l'eau • Withings mise sur la prévention avec sa nouvelle balance connectée.⭐️ Découvrez Frogans, l'innovation française qui réinvente le Web

C'est le grand jour ! Le début de l'ère Zinedine Zidane à la tête de la sélection française. La France se déplace en Turquie pour ce premier match de la Ligue des Nations. Un des choix de l'ancien n°10 devrait être de titulariser Rayan Cherki en relayeur dans un 4-3-3. Est-ce déjà un événement ? Pensez-vous qu'il puisse assumer ce rôle au milieu de terrain ? Plus globalement, qu'attendez-vous de ce match en Turquie ? Le résultat est-il important ? Quel joueur peut marquer des points ?Ce podcast est hébergé par Podcastics, la plateforme pour créer et diffuser votre podcast facilement.

Le PSG risque de tomber dans son propre piège ! En plaçant le collectif au-dessus des individualités, le Paris Saint-Germain a construit sa force. Mais la course au Ballon d'Or 2026 pose une question : comment défendre ses joueurs sans recréer une hiérarchie de stars ? Sur Paris Central, on débat du défi de Luis Enrique : protéger son groupe tout en assumant les ambitions individuelles. Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Vitinha, Achraf Hakimi, Fabian Ruiz… Les Parisiens alimentent le débat du Ballon d'Or. C'est la stratégie du PSG qui nous intéresse. Soutenir plusieurs candidats, concentrer sa communication ou laisser les performances parler : chaque option pose une question sur l'identité du club. LE COLLECTIF D'ABORD… JUSQU'À QUAND ? Le projet parisien repose sur une idée forte : personne ne doit passer avant l'équipe. Efforts défensifs, pressing, circulation du ballon, déplacements et solidarité font partie du football voulu par Luis Enrique. Mais comment préserver cette logique lorsque les projecteurs se concentrent sur les buts, les statistiques et les récompenses personnelles ? Une équipe peut-elle promouvoir ses stars sans devenir dépendante de leur statut ? LE BALLON D'OR : UNE FIERTÉ OU UN PIÈGE POUR PARIS ? Voir ses joueurs reconnus à l'échelle mondiale constitue une réussite pour le PSG. Pourtant, défendre une candidature revient aussi à mettre un visage devant les autres. Faut-il choisir un favori pour éviter de disperser les soutiens ? Ou défendre tous les Parisiens au risque de rendre le message moins lisible ? Nous discutons de ce dilemme sans affirmer qu'il existe un conflit dans le vestiaire : le sujet, c'est le risque et la manière de le gérer. LUIS ENRIQUE FACE AUX STATUTS Le discours du coach met la victoire de l'équipe au premier plan. Sur le terrain, ses décisions de composition et ses changements posent une autre question : les récompenses et la réputation doivent-elles compter dans la hiérarchie ? Un joueur candidat au Ballon d'Or doit-il accepter le banc comme les autres ? La concurrence reste-t-elle crédible si certains deviennent intouchables dans le débat public ? GAGNER ENSEMBLE, ÊTRE RÉCOMPENSÉ SEUL Dembélé et Kvaratskhelia attirent les regards, mais que devient le travail des milieux, des défenseurs et des joueurs moins exposés ? Vitinha, João Neves, Fabian Ruiz, Hakimi ou Nuno Mendes permettent d'élargir la réflexion. Comment raconter la réussite du Paris Saint-Germain sans réduire son jeu à un seul héros ? Un trophée individuel récompense un joueur, mais sa performance dépend aussi de tout ce qui se construit autour de lui. LE PSG DOIT-IL CHANGER SA COMMUNICATION ? Entre les déclarations publiques, les interviews et les informations de presse sur les candidatures soutenues, il faut distinguer les faits des interprétations. Ici, nous confrontons les arguments : valoriser ses joueurs est-il simplement le rôle normal d'un grand club, ou Paris risque-t-il de remettre les individualités au centre de son projet ? Le débat porte sur une stratégie, pas sur des tensions supposées présentées comme certaines. L'ENJEU : RESTER UNE ÉQUIPE QUI A FAIM Après les succès, comment conserver la même exigence ? Luis Campos défend l'ambition collective et la volonté de continuer à gagner. Mais durer au sommet demande aussi de bien gérer les attentes, la concurrence et la reconnaissance. Le PSG doit-il chercher à tout gagner, y compris sur le plan individuel, ou préserver à tout prix ce qui a fait sa force ? Donne ton avis en commentaire : le PSG doit-il soutenir un seul candidat au Ballon d'Or ou laisser chaque joueur défendre ses chances ? Le collectif peut-il rester prioritaire quand les distinctions individuelles prennent autant de place ? Abonne-toi à Paris Central, active la cloche et laisse un like pour soutenir nos podcasts PSG, débats football et analyses de l'actualité parisienne. Partage l'émission et rejoins le débat ! 00:00 Intro 07:53 Quels rôles pour nos parisiens en EDF 48:06 Premier bilan de nos recrues estivales 01:33:25 Le pêle-mêle actu PSG 01:47:27 Outro #PSG #ParisSaintGermain #BallonDor2026 #ParisCentral #LuisEnrique Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ron's Falcon 56 was supposed to make its first flight, but an old pushrod had other plans. That turned out to be a good reminder that just because an old airplane looks ready to fly doesn't mean it is.   We also talk about our trip to the SIRS vintage fly-in, some really cool old airplanes, and why it took Dave four tries to finally land his Wonder somewhere other than the bean field.   Then we take a look at a few new airplanes:   - "Skynetic Micro T-33 Shooting Star 30mm EDF" (https://motionrc.com/products/skynetic-t-33-shooting-star-micro-30mm-edf-jet-with-gyro-str-sky1075-003) - "Freewing F-35C Lightning II 110mm EDF" (https://www.freewing-model.com/freewing-f-35c-lightning-ii-12s-110mm-edf-jet-arf-plus-rc-airplane.html) - "Skynetic P-12E Pursuit 1100mm Biplane" (https://motionrc.com/products/skynetic-p-12e-pursuit-biplane-1100mm-43-3-wingspan-pnp-sky1076-001)   In This Episode   - 02:50 – Ron's Falcon 56 and its failed pushrod - 06:22 – Bringing old RC airplanes back to life - 08:58 – Nitro, four-strokes, and old-school setups - 18:03 – Spektrum versus FrSky - 22:57 – Our trip to the vintage fly-in - 39:32 – Dave versus the bean field - 52:34 – A few new RC airplane releases   If you enjoyed the episode, make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss the next one. If you've got a question, a topic you'd like us to cover, or just want to tell Dave how to keep his airplanes out of the beans, head over to https://rcplanelab.com/ and let us know.

Ousmane Dembélé et Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ont livré une séquence qui raconte peut-être mieux que toutes les autres la transformation profonde du Paris Saint-Germain. Lors d'une interview croisée accordée à Ligue 1+, les deux attaquants du PSG se sont mutuellement désignés comme des candidats légitimes au titre de meilleur joueur du monde. Kvara choisirait Dembélé, tandis qu'Ousmane affirme que son coéquipier géorgien mérite lui aussi toutes les récompenses individuelles. Mais derrière ces déclarations se cache un sujet beaucoup plus important que le Ballon d'Or : le PSG a-t-il enfin réussi à supprimer la guerre des ego qui a longtemps accompagné ses plus grandes stars ? Pendant plusieurs saisons, Paris a construit son projet autour de noms gigantesques comme Neymar, Lionel Messi et Kylian Mbappé. Une accumulation de talents exceptionnelle, mais également un vestiaire marqué par les statuts, les hiérarchies, les privilèges et les rivalités individuelles. Aujourd'hui, Dembélé et Kvaratskhelia incarnent une philosophie totalement différente. Deux joueurs capables d'être décisifs dans les plus grands matchs, mais qui préfèrent mettre en valeur leur partenaire plutôt que revendiquer la lumière. Ousmane Dembélé a même rappelé le rôle central de Luis Enrique dans cette transformation : l'entraîneur espagnol demande quotidiennement à ses joueurs de placer le collectif avant leur propre personne. Cette déclaration permet de comprendre pourquoi le PSG semble avoir changé d'identité. Les stars existent toujours, mais aucune ne doit devenir plus importante que l'équipe, le jeu ou le projet. Dembélé et Kvara forment-ils désormais le duo qui symbolise le mieux le nouveau PSG ? Leur relation marque-t-elle une véritable rupture avec l'époque Messi-Neymar-Mbappé ? Cette humilité affichée est-elle totalement sincère ou s'agit-il aussi d'une communication parfaitement maîtrisée par le club parisien ? Et surtout, Luis Enrique a-t-il accompli ce qu'aucun entraîneur n'avait réussi avant lui : faire du collectif la plus grande star du Paris Saint-Germain ? Nous revenons également sur l'évolution impressionnante d'Ousmane Dembélé, autrefois régulièrement critiqué pour son irrégularité, ses blessures et son manque d'efficacité. À Paris, l'international français est devenu un leader sportif capable de guider l'équipe tout en valorisant ses partenaires. De son côté, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia s'est rapidement intégré au projet parisien grâce à son talent, sa capacité à défendre, son travail sans ballon et son influence dans les grands rendez-vous européens. Cette interview permet donc d'ouvrir un débat beaucoup plus général sur la nouvelle culture du PSG. Paris a-t-il définitivement tourné la page du football construit autour des individualités ? Le club a-t-il enfin trouvé la bonne formule entre stars mondiales, concurrence et discipline collective ? Cette nouvelle mentalité explique-t-elle les succès européens récents du PSG ? Et ce modèle peut-il résister lorsque les résultats seront moins bons, que certains joueurs seront remplaçants ou que les récompenses individuelles commenceront à créer de nouvelles tensions ? Dans ce nouveau podcast de Paris Central, nos chroniqueurs analysent les déclarations de Dembélé et Kvaratskhelia, le travail de Luis Enrique, la transformation du vestiaire parisien et la différence fondamentale entre l'ancien PSG et celui d'aujourd'hui. Au programme : – L'interview croisée de Dembélé et Kvaratskhelia – Leurs déclarations très fortes l'un envers l'autre – La disparition apparente de la guerre des ego – Le rôle majeur de Luis Enrique dans cette transformation – La comparaison avec l'époque Messi, Neymar et Mbappé – La nouvelle hiérarchie offensive du PSG – Le collectif devenu la véritable star parisienne – Les limites possibles de cette nouvelle philosophie 00:00 - Intro 01:41 - EDF: Que penser de la liste de Zizou? 12:38 - Nos parisiens en EDF 25:10 - Dembélé, le futur #9 de l'EDF? 41:32 - WZE, une polyvalence à risque? 55:06 - Reac' interview Dembélé/Kvara sur Ligue 1+ 01:08:54 - BO: propagande Dembélé/Kvara, un choix judicieux du PSG? 01:26:50 - Le pêle-mêle PSG 01:48:35 - Outro Dites-nous en commentaire : Dembélé et Kvara incarnent-ils le meilleur duo de l'histoire récente du PSG ? Luis Enrique a-t-il définitivement changé l'ADN du club ? Et cette harmonie résistera-t-elle à la concurrence pendant toute la saison ? Abonnez-vous à Paris Central, activez la cloche et partagez l'émission pour ne rien manquer de l'actualité du PSG, des analyses, des débats, des réactions et des grands rendez-vous du club parisien. #PSG #Dembélé #Kvaratskhelia #ParisSaintGermain #LuisEnrique #ParisCentral Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On parle IA, datacenters et surtout souveraineté numérique cette semaine dans tech 45' avec Exaion. Née chez EDF, la boîte fournit du cloud sécurisé et de la puissance de calcul pour l'IA, avec des infrastructures en France et au Canada. Mais paradoxe : Exaion est désormais majoritairement détenue par un acteur américain qui a mis l'argent qu'il fallait sur la table, ça a donné lieu à une grosse polémique, Xavier Niel a été appelé à la rescousse pour éteindre l'incendie en mettant lui meme un ticket. Alors peut-on encore parler de souveraineté ? Son fondateur et CEO Fatih est avec nous pendant 45 mn, en toute transparence. Du sentier au Parquet National Financier, sans filtre comme on l'adore ici

Née chez EDF, Exaion fournit du cloud sécurisé et de la puissance de calcul pour l'IA. Mais la startup est désormais majoritairement détenue par Mara, un acteur américain qui a mis l'argent qu'il fallait sur la table ; ça a donné lieu à une grosse polémique l'hiver 2026, Xavier Niel a été appelé à la rescousse pour éteindre l'incendie. Retour sur la genèse du projet dans ce teaser avec le co-fondateur.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Plusieurs débats au cœur de l'actualité, les Grandes gueules ont le choix, en débattre ou non : Grève chez EDF pour défendre leur tarif préférentiel ; Qui mettez-vous sur les nouveaux billets de banque ? ; Nouveau service national : Emmanuel Macron attendu à Orange.

Au sommaire : Oligarque : le mariage scandale de Trump JR. Carburants : pourquoi la crise va durer. EDF : faut-il en finir les "avantages" à vie ?Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Dans cet épisode d'Esprits Libres, David Abiker réunit deux regards éclairés pour décortiquer une question qui agite la France : les réductions tarifaires accordées aux agents d'EDF et de GDF. Cécile Cornudet, éditorialiste aux Échos, et Jean-François Colosimo, éditeur, philosophe et théologien, apportent leurs analyses contrastées sur ces « acquis » qui divisent le pays.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

“When we rightsize and right site our energy like nature does, not wasting it, using what's really necessary, we can actually enjoy the benefits of ubiquitous low-cost energy availability.”Are you interested in distributed energy systems? What do you think about energy as one of the crucial layers for urban anatomy? How can we leverage economies of energy for better urban futures?Interview with Karl R Rábago, the Principal of Rábago Energy LLC. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, distributed energy systems, sustainability history, cheap vs low cost, energy and cost savings, economies of energy, and many more. Karl R. Rábago is Principal of Rábago Energy LLC, based in Denver. With over 35 years of experience in clean energy, utility regulation, and sustainability, he has served as Texas PUC Commissioner, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary, Vice President at Austin Energy, and attorney. A recognized innovator and expert in performance-based regulation and distributed energy resources, he has worked with RMI, EDF, and other NGOs, and chairs the Board of the Center for Resource Solutions and has provided more than 190 expert witness testimonies.Find out more about Karl through these links:Karl R. Rábago on LinkedInThe Grid Doesn't Need More Power Plants (It Needs This) - Karl R. Rábago on Undecided with Matt FerrellKarl Rábago and the Internet of Electricity on the TBD podcastCenter for Resource Solutions websiteConnected episodes you might be interested in:No.222 - Interview with Adam Dorr about disruptive technologiesNo.425R - Energy Foundation (book summary)No.426 - Interview with AJ Perkins about how energy is the foundation of everythingNo.459R - National Standard Practice Manual - For benefit-cost analysis of distributed energy resources - SummaryWhat was the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ are also available.I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.Episode generated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Descript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ assistance (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

This week we return to zero, Horizon gets a rework, Townfall tunes in, 2XKO gets ready to say farewell, EDF comes skittering back, Netflix shows off GTAVI, Microsoft makes your discs go digital, and we gush about Gamescom Opening Night Live! (also Eric is dying and the world is ending) Release: Star Wars Zero Company

Dans cet épisode d'And One, on vous propose notre lecture des évènements récents en WNBA et dans le basket féminin en général, sur le parquet et hors parquet.Au menu : du décryptage tactique sans prise de tête, de la palette et une dose de Frenchies qui font briller le basket tricolore outre-Atlantique.

John Mather has worked in electricity markets in more than a dozen countries. He started at PowerGen in 1990, weeks before privatisation, when the UK was inventing the first electricity market anyone had built. He was in the room for the Longford gas crisis in Victoria. So when he says the two nuclear plants Britain is currently paying EDF to build will be white elephants by the time they commission, it's worth hearing why. His argument: the technology has moved too fast for centralised generation to make sense. Australia's rooftop solar penetration is unmatched anywhere in the world, South Australia leads on home batteries, and the wholesale price here is heading to zero or near zero for ten or twelve hours a day. That changes what a grid is for — and it makes energy-intensive industry a mobile asset that will follow cheap power. We also get into why private companies adopt new energy technology faster than public ones, why the UK is falling behind Australia on EVs, and what "peak" and "off-peak" even mean once storage is everywhere. Connect with Sohail Hasnie: Facebook @sohailhasnie X (Twitter) @shasnie LinkedIn @shasnie ADB Blog Sohail Hasnie YouTube @energypreneurs

L'émission 28 minutes du 25/08/2026 Requins : les dents de l'amer Avec son livre “Dans la tête d'un requin”, publié aux éditions Belin, le vétérinaire Éric Clua explore les sens, la mémoire et la personnalité des requins. Ses recherches montrent par exemple que certains peuvent être responsables d'attaques répétées et qu'ils possèdent des capacités cognitives encore largement méconnues. Il alerte également sur les menaces qui pèsent sur plusieurs espèces, notamment à cause de la pêche. La France décroche-t-elle sur le plan technologique ? La France peine à former et attirer les scientifiques et ingénieurs dont elle a besoin. En 2026, les candidatures aux écoles d'ingénieurs ont reculé de 3 %, une baisse inédite depuis dix ans. La tendance est également préoccupante concernant la recherche  : selon l'Association nationale de la recherche et de la technologie, entre 2011 et 2020, le nombre de docteurs a reculé de 17 % en France, contre une progression de 43% en Chine. Cette difficulté à renouveler les vocations scientifiques intervient alors que les financements de la recherche diminuent au CNRS, qui a réduit les crédits accordés aux laboratoires et gelé des recrutements. On en débat avec Anne Debrégeas, ingénieure de recherche sur le fonctionnement du système électrique à EDF, Arnaud Aymé, ingénieur et directeur général France de Sia Partners et Raphaël Doan, essayiste et ancien haut fonctionnaire. Xavier Mauduit revient sur l'histoire de la tarte à la crème après la mort, le 23 août, de Noël Godin, célèbre “entarteur” belge, connu pour avoir lancé des tartes à la crème sur des personnalités. Théophile Cossa s'intéresse à la disparition du tube de l'été. À l'heure du streaming et des playlists personnalisées, les grands succès estivaux ont laissé place à une multitude de morceaux qui peinent à s'imposer. 28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 25 août 2026 Présentation Élisabeth Quin Production KM, ARTE Radio

L'émission 28 minutes du 25/08/2026 La France peine à former et attirer les scientifiques et ingénieurs dont elle a besoin. En 2026, les candidatures aux écoles d'ingénieurs ont reculé de 3 %, une baisse inédite depuis dix ans. La tendance est également préoccupante concernant la recherche  : selon l'Association nationale de la recherche et de la technologie, entre 2011 et 2020, le nombre de docteurs a reculé de 17 % en France, contre une progression de 43% en Chine. Cette difficulté à renouveler les vocations scientifiques intervient alors que les financements de la recherche diminuent au CNRS, qui a réduit les crédits accordés aux laboratoires et gelé des recrutements. On en débat avec Anne Debrégeas, ingénieure de recherche sur le fonctionnement du système électrique à EDF, Arnaud Aymé, ingénieur et directeur général France de Sia Partners et Raphaël Doan, essayiste et ancien haut fonctionnaire.28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 25 août 2026 Présentation Élisabeth Quin Production KM, ARTE Radio

durée : 00:43:40 - Questions du soir : le débat - par : Antoine Dhulster - Cet été, canicules et sécheresses mettent à l'épreuve le parc nucléaire français et contraignent l'arrêt de plusieurs réacteurs par EDF. L'énergie nucléaire, souvent présentée comme une énergie verte, est-elle vraiment adaptée au changement climatique ? - équipe : Vivien Demeyère, Louise Cognard, Tom Umbdenstock, Inès Bouffartigue Sebastia, Adèle Triol, Coline Guillot - invités : Laure Noualhat Journaliste indépendante sur les questions environnementales, Emmanuelle Galichet Docteure en physique nucléaire, enseignante-chercheuse au Cnam (Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers) , Claire Le Renard Chargée de recherche en sociologie à l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées au sein du Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS) Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

It's ev.news Briefly for Monday 17 August 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnewsHYUNDAI STARTS IONIQ 3 PRODUCTION IN TURKEYHyundai has begun building the IONIQ 3 at its Izmit plant in Turkey, the site's first EV, following a €250 million ($290 million) investment that modernised around half the facility. Initial output is 30,000 units a year, with Dutch prices from €27,995 ($32,000) and the next-generation BAYON and i20 to follow next year.HYUNDAI OPENS IONIQ 3 ORDER BOOKSHyundai Motor UK has opened orders for the IONIQ 3 compact hatchback from £22,245 on-the-road, positioning it against the Kia EV2, Renault 5 and VW ID Polo. Buyers choose a 42.2kWh battery with up to 213 miles or a 61kWh version with up to 308 miles, both charging 10-80% in about 30 minutes, and the car debuts Hyundai's Android Automotive-based PleOS Connect system. Grant eligibility is still pending.LUCID UNVEILS GRAVITY GT-SLucid's 2027 Gravity GT-S produces 1,070hp from a dual-motor powertrain and hits 0-60mph in 3.1 seconds, priced from $127,750 — about $14,000 below the outgoing Dream Edition. It comes with rear-wheel steering and adaptive air suspension as standard, while a 926V architecture supports 400kW charging that Lucid says adds 200 miles in under 12 minutes.FRANCE TO BACK USED ELECTRIC VEHICLESFrom September, France will subsidise used EV purchases and leases through the Energy Savings Certificates scheme, funded by energy suppliers including EDF, Engie and TotalEnergies under the polluter-pays principle. Cars must have been first registered in France between 2017 and 2023 and retain at least 80% battery capacity, with buyers required to keep the vehicle three years and to purchase through a dealer rather than privately.PORSCHE REPORTS POINT TO TAYCAN PHASE-OUTPorsche is reported to have agreed in principle with employee representatives to end Taycan production by 2029 or 2030, closing a roughly decade-long run, though nothing has been formalised or confirmed. Output has collapsed from 39,397 cars in 2023 to 11,510 in 2025, with first-half 2026 deliveries down 25% and no successor named as Porsche appears set to prioritise the electric Macan and Cayenne.TESLA ADDS V2L TO MODEL Y PREMIUMTesla has enabled vehicle-to-load for the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico, delivering 2.4kW at 120V via an $80 adapter that requires the Gen 3 Mobile Connector. Eligibility is narrower than the badge suggests, with reports indicating only newer Juniper-built cars from around May 2026 carry the necessary hardware, and Tesla still trails rivals offering up to 10.2kW.TESLA LEASES POWERWALL BACKUP IN TEXASTesla Electric is offering a whole-home Powerwall lease in selected Texas retail-choice areas for roughly $35 a month plus tax in year one, achieved by applying an $87 monthly credit to a two-unit lease costing about $122. The deal carries a 3% annual escalator, a $100 order fee, a 20% minimum backup reserve for virtual power plant dispatch, and credits that may not start until two billing cycles after installation and utility approval.CORVUS TO SUPPLY BATTERIES FOR BC FERRIES SUMMIT CLASSCorvus Energy will supply 40MWh of battery storage across four hybrid-electric Summit Class ferries for BC Ferries, each carrying 360 vehicles and 2,100 people and fitted with a 10MWh Dolphin NxtGen system. The hardware is scalable to 70MWh per vessel for near-zero-emission running once shore charging exists, with China Merchants' Weihai Shipyard delivering the first ship in 2029 and all four in service by 2031.FERRARI LUCE SELLS FOR $40 MILLIONChassis 0 of the Ferrari Luce, the marque's first EV and a one-off Tailor Made build designed by Sir Jony Ive's LoveFrom, sold for $40 million at RM Sotheby's Monterey auction, over 36 times its estimate and a record for a new car. The sale was offered without reserve and with no buyer's premium, sending the full amount to The Ferrari Foundation, with winning bidder Dr Herbert Wertheim taking delivery early next year.

A Danish data center will heat a town with its waste heat, Sumitomo buys into Celtic Sea floating wind, and Cadeler orders two more vessels. The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech, creators of the StrikeTape Ultra LPS retrofit. Subscribe to Uptime’s Substack newsletter. And check out Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” Youtube channel. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good Monday everyone. A data center broke ground in Denmark this week … and the plan is for it to help heat the town. Not a slogan. But a pipe. Let me explain. The project is called Dansk Data Center 1. They put shovels in the ground on August thirteenth at the Port of Esbjerg in southern Denmark. The owners are the pension fund PensionDanmark … the real estate firm Thylander … and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. That last name should sound familiar. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has raised about forty-three billion euros across fifteen funds … and builds energy projects in more than thirty countries. This time it is building a data center. Eleven and a half megawatts. By the standards of this business … that is small. But watch how they built it. The waste heat will go into the town’s district heating system … in partnership with the local utility … Din Forsyning. The cooling water runs in a closed loop and gets used again. And the plant can raise or lower its power draw to match whatever the Danish grid has to spare that hour. The chief technology officer put it plainly. The goal is for the data center not to be a burden … but an active part of a balanced energy system. Commissioning is set for October of twenty twenty-seven. Now … hold that model in your head. Because on the other side of the world … they are still doing it the old way. Centuria Industrial is a warehouse landlord. Australia’s largest pure-play industrial property trust. This week … in its full-year results … it told investors it is chasing more than two hundred and fifty megawatts of data center capacity. Some of that is expansion at sites it already owns. A twelve-megawatt building in Melbourne bought from Telstra back in twenty twenty. A small center in Toowoomba, Queensland. Another in Perth … leased to Fujitsu. But the rest of that plan is warehouses. Old industrial yards in Victoria and Western Australia that Centuria wants to turn into data halls. And here is the tell. For three of those sites … the company has already filed power applications. Not planning applications. Power applications. Because in this business … the grid connection is the product. Centuria’s head of funds management says Australian demand is now outpacing supply. He is not wrong. And he is not alone. So … two continents. Two data center stories. One built as a part of the power system. The other waiting in line for it. Either way … the load is coming. Which brings us to the people building the supply. Start in the Celtic Sea … about forty kilometers off the British coast. There is a floating wind project out there called Gwynt Glas. That is Welsh for blue wind. Up to one and a half gigawatts. This week … Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation bought a third of it. The other two thirds are held by EDF … and by Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board. Three equal partners. Now … Sumitomo has been investing in European offshore wind since twenty fourteen. But this is its first floating project anywhere in the world. And the timeline will test your patience. Consent applications do not even begin until twenty twenty-eight. Commercial operation is targeted for the late twenty thirties. That is a Japanese trading house writing a check today for electricity that shows up in fifteen years. The deal sits under a memorandum signed with the British government last year. Britain wants the Celtic Sea built. Japan just volunteered to help pay for it. Now up to Scotland. Vestas has installed the most powerful onshore wind turbine in Britain. It stands at Sanquhar II … between Dumfries and Galloway and East Ayrshire. The machine comes off the EnVentus platform … a bigger rotor married to a higher-rated generator. More energy out of the same wind. That project spent ten years in planning. And Vestas has more than six hundred megawatts of these machines under construction across Britain. But here is the argument going on inside the industry. Everybody is building bigger turbines. And yet a Vestas executive said this week … quote … we firmly believe bigger does not automatically mean better. Project economics are under pressure. In Germany and the Netherlands … you cannot get a blade that size under a bridge or through a village. Scotland is empty enough to try it. Britain now has about thirty-three gigawatts of wind … split about evenly between onshore and offshore. Onshore space is running out. So every new turbine has to do more work than the one before it. And then … there are the ships. Cadeler runs the largest fleet of jack-up wind turbine installation vessels in the world. This week … it ordered two more. The yard is COSCO Shipping Offshore in Qidong, China. The price … about eight hundred and five million euros. Call it nine hundred and thirty million dollars. Delivery … twenty thirty and twenty thirty-one. That will bring the fleet to fourteen vessels. And understand what these things are. The current class carries a deck of five thousand six hundred square meters … a payload over eighteen thousand tonnes … and a crane that lifts more than three thousand three hundred tonnes. Six extra-large monopile foundations per trip. The new class … they say … will be bigger still. Meanwhile the newest ship … the Wind Ace … is finishing commissioning right now. Its first job is East Anglia Two for ScottishPower Renewables … starting in twenty twenty-seven. And here is the number that tells you the most. Cadeler’s order backlog stands above three billion dollars. Eighty-two percent of that work is on projects where the customer has already taken a final investment decision. Nobody orders a nine-hundred-million-dollar ship for twenty thirty-one on a hunch. So … here is what to watch. For years this industry has fought one bottleneck at a time. Permits. Then supply chain. Then vessels. Now the bottleneck is the grid connection itself. Centuria filed power applications before planning applications. Because in twenty twenty-six … the scarce resource is not land or steel or capital. It is a slot on the transmission network. That changes the game for wind developers. The projects that win will not be the ones with the biggest turbines or the cheapest blades. They will be the ones that show up with a grid solution already in hand. Denmark just showed what that looks like. A data center that flexes its load … feeds heat back to the community … and makes the grid operator’s job easier. If you are developing a wind farm today … and you are not thinking about who will consume your electrons and how … you are already behind. The old pitch was … we generate clean power. The new pitch is … we solve a grid problem. That is the difference between a project that gets built and one that sits in a queue for five years. And that is the state of the wind industry for the 18th of August … twenty twenty-six. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast tomorrow.

En Europa, una nueva ola de calor azota varios países, con temperaturas que alcanzan los 40 grados. Unas condiciones meteorológicas que dificultan la producción de energía de origen nuclear. En Francia, la proliferación de medusas – en parte debido al alza de la temperatura del agua de mar – obligó a parar varios reactores de una planta nuclear. La excepcional sequía que atraviesa Europa perturba el buen funcionamiento de las centrales nucleares en varios países. En Hungría y  Rumanía, los niveles excepcionalmente bajos del río Danubio llevaron a la paralización de varios reactores nucleares. Este jueves, Rumania detendrá su única central nuclear, por primera vez desde la sequía de 2003, ya que el caudal del río Danubio, que contribuye a su refrigeración, cayó a un nivel nunca visto, anunció el gobierno. Francia, por su parte, la empresa EDF, gigante de la producción de electricidad de origen nuclear, suspendió el 20% de su capacidad de producción eléctrica a causa del calor. Estas perturbaciones redujeron la producción nuclear de EDF en torno a un 3 % en junio y un 6 % en julio, pero sin que ello afectara al suministro de Francia, que, por otra parte, sigue siendo un gran exportador de electricidad, aseguró la empresa En algunos casos, se pararon reactores nucleares para preservar la fauna y la flora de los ríos. Las normas ambientales prohíben a las centrales nucleares verter agua caliente en los ríos cuya temperatura supera los 28 grados para evitar la muerte masiva de peces. En otros casos, la temperatura del agua de río ya no permite enfriar las infraestructuras, explica Francisco Castejón, miembro del Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear español. “Una central nuclear genera una cantidad de energía de la cual solo se aprovecha 1/3. Las otras 2/3 hay que evacuarlas en sistemas de refrigeración que lo más normal es que sean a través de una gran masa de agua en un río. Bien el mar. Si el caudal de refrigeración no es suficiente para evacuar ese calor residual de las centrales, esas 2/3 de la energía que se producen, pues la central no tiene más remedio que parar. “ En Francia también se han paralizado tres reactores de una planta nuclear por la presencia de medusas cuya reproducción se ve favorecida por el aumento de la temperatura del mar. “Esto también ha ocurrido en España”, recuerda Francisco Castejón. “Hay algunas especies invasoras en los ríos, en los mares. Nos hemos encontrado, en el caso de centrales españolas, con invasión del mejillón cebra que ha taponado las tomas de agua de los ríos. O, efectivamente, la acumulación de medusas que, en la toma de agua, pues puede bloquearla igualmente.” España, país europeo que enfrenta olas de calor con frecuencia, buscó soluciones hace varios años para mantener su producción eléctrica de origen nuclear, incluso en caso de calor extremo. Francisco Castejón recuerda el caso de la planta de Almaraz en el centro del país. “La planta nuclear de Almaraz fue sancionada por el Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear por arrojar agua a más alta temperatura de la permitida y matar un montón de peces del embalse. Entonces, a raíz de aquello, se instalaron unas torres de refrigeración y unos aspersores para hacer bajar la temperatura del agua”. Lo mismo en la central de Zorita, donde “se implementó una batería de torres de “enfriamiento. Es muy raro que una central española tenga que parar”, constata Castejón. Con el calentamiento global de origen humano. Los climatólogos anticipan un aumento de la frecuencia y de la intensidad de estas olas de calor. La empresa energética EDF de Francia prevé, por ejemplo, 9 mil millones de euros de obras para adaptar sus infraestructuras al cambio climático.

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Matt Sigala, Director of Asset Management at SkySpecs, joins to discuss blade inspection data, repair vendor management, and carbon fiber repairs. 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! Allen Hall 2025: Matt, welcome to the program. Greatly appreciate it. So Matt Sagala has not been on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. Although he’s been asked for the last five or six years to be on, he has had other commitments. So now that he’s available to be on the podcast, we love having him here. Uh, if you don’t know Matt Sagala, Matt Sagala is a, a real special talent in wind. Very knowledgeable about repairs. He’s a composites person, but he, you know, it’s one thing to know composites and understand what that looks like, but also to run organizations that repair blades and manage blades and take care of large quantities of blades and do it very efficiently, where the assets are actually working and operating efficiently is hard to do. So, uh, [00:01:00] Matt is now with SkySpecs in a recent change from a, a large global wind operator, and he’s come over to SkySpecs as Director of Asset Management. So Matt, congratulations first. Appreciate  Matt Sigala: it. Appreciate it.  Allen Hall 2025: So that’s a, that’s a big title there. What does that all mean, Director of Asset Management at SkySpecs?  Matt Sigala: basically, it’s just the overview of your entire asset from the start of the inspections to the reviewing of, of the inspections, to creating the RFP, going out to blade budgets and repairs, uh, and then having the actual repair teams on site and us being able to help execute those repairs in a systematic way, um, without having to overload or, or burden your, your internal, uh, systems in-house. Allen Hall 2025: Because as an operator, there’s a lot on your plate.  Matt Sigala: Yes.  Allen Hall 2025: And a lot of operators don’t necessarily have blade teams internally. You came from an organization- Yeah … that did have a really good, still does have a really good blade organization.  Matt Sigala: Oh, amazing, yeah.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah. Uh, that was unique, but a lot of operators in the United States or globally just don’t have [00:02:00] that resource. SkySpecs has developed that resource over the last couple of years of we’re blade experts, we have all the data coming in, but we can also help you downstream when it comes to maintaining and repairing blades, which is, is sort of a new feature for- Yeah … SkySpecs. Now that you’re there and you’re seeing all the data, all the, the,  the- the, data center, so to speak, of w- and you have access to blades globally, and you can put your fingers on it. What are you seeing out there in terms of blade health and, and going forward?  Matt Sigala: There’s a lot of work. There’s definitely a lot of work upcoming and into the future. Um, and you know, I think a lot of it could be risk-based with, with inspections, annual inspections, semi-an-annual inspections. I think that’s always the first line of defense on any blade management c- campaign. Um, and then, you know, coming behind that, I think that’s where our preferred vendor lists and, uh, you know, being comfortable with working with certain suppliers on certain type of repairs. Um, we feel that, you know, we have an edge on the industry, [00:03:00] uh, with the data set that we have in hand, plus being able to build a relationship with ISPs. And not only build a relationship with them, but be able to continuously give them mindful insight to their repairs from a year now to two years now. Because we’re the only ones really seeing those inspections and the repairs after they’ve been in operation for more than a year. It’s very rare that a, an ISP, uh, even on my side of the house when I was working with EDF, of being able to see a repair from year to year. Um, I think that’s, that’s, that’s pretty massive and- Yeah … a lot of value within that, so.  Allen Hall 2025: Oh, sure. Uh, you were one of the first ones when I met you years ago now, uh, that was a big proponent of more inspection. Yeah. That there are some blades in which you must inspect more.  Matt Sigala: Yes.  Allen Hall 2025: And here’s the reason why. Matt Sigala: Yeah.  Allen Hall 2025: Because you had thought through it a little bit and you’d come up with a plan. So you always had a plan. That’s one thing about Sagales, he always has a plan. You can ask him any question, he’s got a plan in relationship to blades. And you were the, you were the one that has said, “Hey, uh, there are certain blade types out there that we have seen that, well, you need to do a [00:04:00] little more inspection, and there are some others that it’s totally fine.” Yeah. A, a yearly inspection is, is, is fine. Well enough. And that SkySpecs data, now that you have access to it, is that also f- feeding back into your- Definitely … logic of that?  Matt Sigala: Yeah, yeah. How do you, how do you think about it? No, it’s, it’s, it’s opened my mind a lot kinda getting me out of just being in, like, the trenches of certain decisions and being able to see this whole data set as a whole now. Uh, and holistically, it’s like, all right, m- there’s just certain things that I kinda need to adjust on my end. Um, definitely letting a lot of things just play out for, uh, this repair season and, and how things are running, and then kinda looking to make some changes into, into ’27. Um, but the data set, it’s, it’s amazing. It’s, it’s almost over- overwhelming. Um, so just kinda going after- the low-hanging fruit as far as, like, the 62 twos, the 145s, and really understanding what those look like, uh, how we can help our customers  Allen Hall 2025: that’s a large part of the fleet in the States, but globally too. SkySpecs has made a lot of, uh, recent advancements into, uh, certain marketplaces outside the US. Mm-hmm. I won’t go into the specifics there, [00:05:00] but e- essentially, like, SkySpecs is becoming definitely more of a global company than a US-based company. Uh, and seeing turbines from outside the US, so you see a, a GE or a Vestas turbine operating in Germany or in the UK, and you see the same turbine in the States. They’re not- No … performing the same, are they? No. It’s a completely different- Same turbine.  Matt Sigala: Yeah, different wind regimes, erosion characteristics, crack propagation rates, everything. Even we were seeing major, you know, differences from the West Coast to, to central Iowa with the same type of platform. So you can only imagine, you know, start going from a, a larger scale on, on the globe,  Allen Hall 2025: So you’re ac- because you have access to the data now, does that change the way you think about Blade management. Matt Sigala: Yes. I-  Allen Hall 2025: in terms of when to, when to inspect, when to repair, or just leave it. Are you able to have clear definition of the variables that go into that equation?  Matt Sigala: Definitely so. and I think that’s the key to it. It’s, it’s, we- we’re really stepping away from that blanket approach of inspections where you [00:06:00] do have your baseline inspection, but after that you start getting into the granulars of, okay, you know, this site has X amount of the 622Ps or whatever they are, uh, we need to inspect more on, on a biannual or semi-annual inspection. Um, and then we have, you know, certain turbines, like you said, that we, we touch once a year and it’s kind of just, just let it go. But, um, no, it’s, it’s very site specific, um, on- Allen Hall 2025: That’s what I’m wondering … on- Is it how, how site specific is it? Very, very,  Matt Sigala: very site specific.  Allen Hall 2025: Really? Yeah. It’s- So like, uh, is Central Iowa is different than Central Kansas-  Matt Sigala: Eh Allen Hall 2025: in a sense, or is it more broader spread than that? It can  Matt Sigala: get a little bit broader spread, but then we start looking into s- serial numbers for manufacturers, issues. Okay, are we seeing a certain batch that was released out and it’s in, you know, the northern part of Iowa or half the park? And so that’s what we’re really getting down to now is like serial batch issues and, and trying to track that across the region. Allen Hall 2025: SkySpecs has been trying to use more AI over the last- Yes … six months to a year. Is that helping to sort through some of that data?  Matt Sigala: Yeah, it’s accelerating it. Uh, definitely it’s not like the, uh, [00:07:00] all end answer, but it’s definitely, it’s, it’s-  Allen Hall 2025: So you’re not just thumbing through Excel spreadsheets- Yeah, no and looking at them one by one, you can actually use some, a little bit of  Matt Sigala: AI to- A little bit … to sort it. Yeah, Yeah, sort it out, get a high, high res summary, and then being able to kind of like pinpoint where we wanna go from there on it and, and dive in. But still, you know, AI hallucinates and, and does its thing. Oh, sure. And so we, we just, we wanna tread carefully with it, but making sure it’s clean,  Allen Hall 2025: a sanity check, right? Yeah, exactly. While you’re there, a sanity check, like does that make sense? Exactly. Oh, okay. Exactly. Let’s, let’s scrape it again. Okay. So that’s a huge advantage, and I, I know on the repair vendor management side- Yeah which has been a, an effort over the last year or two from SkySpecs, is to, uh, work with the ISPs and make sure that they’re doing the repairs properly and they’re vetted and they’re trained. Yes. That’s been a big effort in- internally in SkySpecs for a little while. Bringing you on really ramps that up in terms of the, the horsepower that SkySpecs can apply to that. Yeah. Where are you going on that, uh, repair vendor management and the ISPs and the data that comes from, from [00:08:00] all of that side of the business, you know, opposite of the inspection side?  Matt Sigala: Yeah, so with RVM, you know, my end goal is, is to have a preferred vendor list of contractors within SkySpecs. And I’m more thinking of them as like a toolbox of not just it being a crescent wrench, it’s more of, okay, this ISP is good for bulk LEP installation. This ISP is good for Vestas wrinkles, you know, within the max cord. And, and so I think that’s where what I’m trying to, to map out now is, is kind of put everyone within their right socket place of, uh, where they belong in the toolbox- Sh- sh- sh- … and how I can be able to utilize them. And then actually from there, um, seeing what the bandwidth is. And I think that’s like the real catch is being able to get- The right teams on site quickly, you know, when, when you run into those situations, and safely.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah, because it’s hard. If you call up an ISP and say, “Can you come fix my leading edge problem?” No. Pretty much the answer’s always yes. Yeah, yeah. Right? But you need a little bit of a sanity check there. Can they really do it when they got twel- 12 crews out right now? They only have 13, [00:09:00] so probably can’t do it right now. Yeah,  Matt Sigala: exactly.  Allen Hall 2025: That’s where SkySpecs can help sort that out a bit.  Matt Sigala: Yeah, you know, on the QAQC side of things with, like, LEP where you- do your 10 meters or 12 meters of, uh, LEP installation, and you’re trying to take a picture of 12 meters or, or 10 meters of, of LEP installation both, on both sides. And so the reports are subpar. I think that they’re good enough, but what I’d like to start implementing is being able to have a, a post-installation inspection after the turbines have been running for three days to a week. Let’s refly, you know, the leading edges and get an idea of how the actual installation quality was. Uh, ’cause I- in my opinion, you know, anything within the LEP that there’s a defect, it’s gonna pop up within that first two weeks of operation. Yeah. I think that’s something where we can capitalize on making the ISPs get back on that blade, fix it before they get offsite, and have prevent remob and, and such.  Allen Hall 2025: Ooh, that’s a good idea. Yeah. Because a lot of times they’re demobed, they’re down at the next wind farm- Yep … or maybe in another state, and it’s, like, too late to get them back there to, to touch up. To touch  Matt Sigala: up.  Allen Hall 2025: Exactly. To do [00:10:00] minor work usually. Yeah. Uh, it’s usually m- not major stuff. It tends to be minor stuff, but to catch it- Yeah is really important. So the Horizon system that, uh, an existing SkySpecs, uh, customer uses is, there’s a lot to it, right? Yeah, yeah. So there’s, there’s many branches to this tree. One of them is repair vendor management. Uh, obviously another one’s inspection and the, and one of those growth branches is solar. Matt Sigala: Yes.  Allen Hall 2025: Uh, what is the movement on solar within SkySpecs and repair vendor management? Is that something you guys are working on? Uh, and what, what is the plan for solar? Yes.  Matt Sigala: It’s the, the same approach as RVM, um, where, you know, solar-wise, we, we still wanna be able to, you know, step in and then be that middleman of being able to inspect, be able to get your asset back up and running with, our preferred vendors, you know, and, uh, just have a more smoother, systematic approach to, to the, the maintenance side of the solar s- side of things. I think [00:11:00] we’re, the blades, we got an early start on it from 2016, 2017 timeframe, so we’re, you know, well 10 years into this. Uh, and I think we’re at the point where, like, solar starts n- need to catch up, and I think SkySpecs has a, a big headstart on that.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah. Just even on the inspection side, although, uh, solar inspections have been happening for quite a while- Yeah the, the quality has varied quite a bit.  Matt Sigala: Yeah. The, the amount of data, uh, that I’ve, I’ve been learning is it’s, it’s- … 2, 3X compared to, to, you know, what we’re pulling off off blades. Um, and so- Oh,  Allen Hall 2025: sure …  Matt Sigala: there’s t- tons more, you know, solar data that needs to be captured and, uh, processed.  Allen Hall 2025: Thermal imaging.  Matt Sigala: Thermal imaging. A bunch of  Allen Hall 2025: that, right,  Matt Sigala: inverters. Top of the panel, bottom of the panel. Right. Yeah. Um, so that’s where I’m seeing a lot more, uh, data management is needed on that side too. And, and  Allen Hall 2025: the, the vendor management of, of that tends to be a little more of l- the Wild West, in my opinion. Yes. ‘Cause the ISPs and wind, there’s a competency to it, and there’s a lot of training- Yeah to do those things. To be a composite repair technician, you generally have to take- Some training, be out in, in the real world working for a couple of years- Yep … before you become competent at it. Solar doesn’t tend to be that way.  Matt Sigala: No, [00:12:00] no. They’re very, they’re very John Wayne, I guess, like you said, the Wild West- Yeah of, of, of, of it. But, um- Yeah, it has to  Allen Hall 2025: move fast.  Matt Sigala: It does, and I think that’s where, you know, SkySpecs can really help step in, uh, and be that technical bridge between the financials and the technical, and being able to safely execute, you know, uh, replacements, repairs, et cetera on, uh, on the, the solar side of things.  Allen Hall 2025: Let me ask you a couple questions- Okay … about carbon fiber. Okay. Because I would be remiss to, to let you go without talking- … about carbon fiber, because it comes up a lot in discussions we have at Weather Guard- Yeah, definitely … with operators, be like, “I’ve got these carbon fiber blades. I don’t really have a good track record of repairing them.” Matt Sigala: Yes.  Allen Hall 2025: Or, the repair is complex and I really can’t find an ISP that knows what to do there. What are some of those repair inspection issues with carbon blades that may differ from your standard fiberglass blades that we’re all used to?  Matt Sigala: Uh, it really depends on where the carbon’s at. So if, you know, we’re talking about a spar cap, um, you know, with unidirectional fibers being- A pultrusion Pultrusion. [00:13:00] Um, you know, the, the repairs are, are becoming more and more trickier, uh, mostly when you start in- introducing oil ingestion to a lot of these turbines that have carbon. you know, we’re, we’re having to take a lot more steps in, in the repair process, in making sure that we’re executing the repair properly. And then another thing that w- you know, with the carbon that will– seems to be an issue, uh, on the procurement side is being able to order, uh, you know, the right GSM UD directional prepreg carbon and, and being able to get that in the, into the field, um, just because it requires freezers and, and everything else. There’s, there’s a couple more steps to, to the prepregs. But, Carbon loves lightning.  Allen Hall 2025: It does.  Matt Sigala: It’s, it’s unfortunate. Yeah. But, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s, uh, a, a whole different repair process, to be honest.  Allen Hall 2025: Well, that’s what I’m hearing- Yeah … is that a lot of operators don’t want to touch it, especially if it’s in a pultrusion form. Yes. If it is a hand layup carbon fiber structure, uh, from the OEM, that’s a little different than if I had this preformed, uh, all unidirectional-[00:14:00] Plank … y- Yeah, this kind of brick- Yeah … uh, of, of carbon. That’s hard to kinda grind into and get the layers back like you want to. Is it really repairable? I- and, and it’s in a sense, like is it repairable uptower or is it a downtower thing? Matt Sigala: Um, no. The majority of the repairs… So I like to think of it if you got your… You break your blade into three sections. You got your max chord, your midspan, and your tip. Yeah. Uh, midspan tip, we, we can get away with uptower carbon fiber repairs.  Allen Hall 2025: Okay.  Matt Sigala: they do require aviation skillset as far as- Yeah … um, hot bonders being able- Okay to pull your vacuums. And, and it’s… The big thing with the carbon prepreg is that you have to get above 80 C, and you’re more into the 140 C, 160 C, and you’re letting it heat soak for, for quite some time. Yeah. And that’s where you need those aviation style hot bonders and being able to get up there because alternately, it’s, it’s you’re having to soak the carbon at 80 C for six hours or eight hours, a little bit longer to, to get that full, full cook. Um, and so that’s why right now I think there’s only a [00:15:00] very few qualified vendors out there, um, to do the carbon fiber repairs. it’s, it’s something that’s trainable. It’s not black magic. Um- No … it’s, it just takes time. It’s a different technician skillset. You go from reading layers and seeing your biaxials and UDs when you’re, when you’re grinding, to the carbon fiber, it’s all one layer. It’s all black. Uh, so you, you’re, you’re more using y- uh, micrometer, and you’re, you’re taking your GSM of what your glass you’re gonna replace it with. You’re micing it. Okay, this is four thousandths or whatever, and then you ki- okay, now I’m like at 16 thousandths, X amount of layers, and now let’s go back. And so it’s, it’s, it just takes time. It’s a process. It takes  Allen Hall 2025: a lot more time-  Matt Sigala: Yeah …  Allen Hall 2025: for sure. A lot. It- does that then lend itself to more training and qualification verification on, on the skillsets that’s out on site? Which is one of the things that repair vendor management at SkySpecs does, right? Definitely. You, you’re, you’re- clocking each technician of what their skill set is. So if you see a guy out there that only has fiberglass repair, but they’re [00:16:00] working on a pultrusion repair, that’s sort of a red flag- Red flag,  Matt Sigala: yeah …  Allen Hall 2025: in SkySpecs,  Matt Sigala: right? Definitely. Yeah, definitely. Or not try- Well, understand the process, where they’re coming from. Did it, was it an approved re- repair plan? Um, and a lot of these sites too, like I said, where, you know, they can’t get prepregded carbon, so we’re, they’re using, you know, GSM 600 UD fiberglass on- Right … some of these repairs.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah.  Matt Sigala: Um, which is not ideal. Not perfect. Yeah. Um, but, uh, if, if you gotta get the turbine up in operation, it’s understandable.  Allen Hall 2025: Oh, sure. Yeah. So what are the other big things that you’re seeing out there today? ‘Cause there’s a lot of work going on. There’s a lot of repower work going. A  Matt Sigala: lot of repower work. the whole 80/20, uh, right now, that’s kinda what I’m trying to understand is, uh- which companies are out there actually, uh, replacing blades, or is it just a gearbox generator, uh, repower, you know, where, where is the money need to be spent. Um, and then trying to understand, too, like the, uh, LEP, um, installations, VD- VG installations, uh, being able to get those on top of, uh, the repowers I think is, is a massive win.  Allen Hall 2025: [00:17:00] Yeah. I, I, we have seen a lot more, uh, leading edge repair over the last two years, uh, mostly c- because of the, the changes in the law. Also, VG’s going on. Mm-hmm. Which you didn’t necessarily see, especially like three or four years ago. Yeah. You would occasionally see it because operators know they get some more power. Matt Sigala: Yeah.  Allen Hall 2025: Are, you’re seeing more of that just to get to that 80 percentile threshold- Threshold … on, on, on the starting the tax credits over again Are you guys involved in, on some of the advice, uh- Yes … how to go do that? Because I know a lot of operators, like VGs make sense to me, but I don’t know anything about them. I’m not an aerodynamicist. Yeah. Just, Matt, does this make sense to go do? Is, is that some of the conversations you’ve been involved with?  Matt Sigala: Yeah, we’re getting there. Like I said, I’ve only been here for a month now, but, but- Oh, come  Allen Hall 2025: on …  Matt Sigala: yeah, the con- 30  Allen Hall 2025: days is plenty.  Matt Sigala: The, uh, the conversations are definitely there. and that’s something that we’re actually looking at in- in house and how we can partner up with, you know, s- certain assets out there that, that can, you know, feed a little bit more data into us. It’s creating like a, an aero packet of being able to- Mm … [00:18:00] install leading edge protection and then apply a VG, and then get yourself out of that neutral area and get you actually making the additional 1.4% energy or, you know- It’s a lot of money. Yeah, it is. In the- end, it’s, you know, times these massive fleets, it can add up pretty quickly.  Allen Hall 2025: What’s your feeling on instrumentation of blades today? Are, are there blades that you, yes, you must be putting some sort of instrumentation on it. I’m thinking about, uh, root inserts is a big problem. Yeah. There’s some cracks on certain blades that seem to be almost ubiquitous. And then, uh, there’s, there’s some blades that, you know, just seem to keep turning. Are, are you thinking about how SkySpecs gets data into the system? Are you starting to recommend, like, “Hey, uh, we definitely need to put some sensors out there to monitor this crack and just to watch it grow instead of yearly may not be enough”? Or, or is the drone inspection enough? Or you’re, are, are you thinking about vibration sensors? How, what are you thinking about in terms of blades? Yeah, there’s  Matt Sigala: definitely, definitely a need for, for sensors on certain [00:19:00]turbines. Um, I think at some point the visual inspections aren’t, aren’t enough, even on, uh, you know, quarterly. Um, I’d still feel that a, a visual inspection, uh, you know, 30, 40% of the story. Uh, and then after that, you know, you’re kinda having to either internal inspections or getting hands-on inspection type situation. But, um, it’s more the financials of going out and having to reinspect the blade. If you’re continuously inspecting the blade, it’s, it’s almost easier to have the sensors on. Uh, but it’s- The lack of data to put those sensors on to actually have, you know, good feedback is, it’s-  Allen Hall 2025: Well, that- that’s one of the things I was thinking about SkySpecs not long ago is because you touch so many blades- Yeah … it, it may make sense that SkySpecs maybe runs a couple of test sites. Like, we’re gonna put sensors on some of these blades to see how this crack progresses, because I’ve seen it in Illinois, in Kansas, in Oklahoma. If I, me, SkySpecs, have a data set that says, “This is how it progresses,” that could make sense. Yeah. Because you, what you would hate to see is, like, every [00:20:00] operator be doing the same thing over and over and over again. Exactly. Trying to learn the same lesson, where SkySpecs can be a focal point in that. Yeah. Matt Sigala: No, I think that’s, that’s, uh, something that we, we could be working towards. Um, it’s definitely, you know, not in, in the making right now, but, um, some of this, you know, data keeps coming towards us. It’s, it’s something that we wanna, you know, stay sticky with, so.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah. And, uh, let’s, let’s go back to the, the repair vendor management side. Mm-hmm. Uh, I know talking to you before the move to SkySpecs that you had tracked Every technician in terms of their efficiency, the quality of the work, how they… And beyond that, like- Yeah … how they work with others. Do they show up on time?  Matt Sigala: Yeah.  Allen Hall 2025: Is that part of the thought process coming into the larger scale Horizon SkySpecs system is we need to be measuring things than just did they finish the turbine and move on? Matt Sigala: Exactly.  Allen Hall 2025: Is, is, is that gonna be, you see more of that, you think-  Sigala: Yeah …  Allen Hall 2025: over the next couple of  Matt Sigala: years? I think it’s, it’s gonna be very, you know, ad hoc with each individual customer on, on what type of, you know, data they wanna track, but it’s literally [00:21:00] just a switch within Horizon to turn that on if, if, uh-  Allen Hall 2025: Wow, I, I, if I’m an operator, I’m 100% turning that on. Matt Sigala: Yeah. No, and I think it’s more of, uh, it helps the ISPs because the technicians know that their names are actually tied to it rather than them just going in there and doing a report, and we kinda get to see who they are at the end of it, so.  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah.  Matt Sigala: Um- ‘ Allen Hall 2025: Cause there’s a big boon to technicians. Oh, massive. If you’re a good technician, man, you can get a lot of street credibility because you’ve demonstrated it time and time again, and you have a- Yeah a, a whole data set that says, “Hey, I know what I’m doing.” Mm-hmm. “You should be hiring me.”  Matt Sigala: Yeah.  Allen Hall 2025: That’s extremely valuable.  Matt Sigala: That’s something I, I push to the technicians even when I was on the other side of the house where, you know, doing interviews for hiring technicians. W- we’d ask, like, “Do you have a, a, a portfolio? Like, you’re asking for X amount of money, like, you should have something to show for.” Some pictures. Pictures, previous repairs, you know. Start, s- definitely recommending to the technicians to-  Allen Hall 2025: Yeah …  Matt Sigala: you know, build a portfolio for yourself ’cause it’s, it speaks more than a resume at times. It’s a  Allen Hall 2025: profession. Matt Sigala: It is, yeah. You  Allen Hall 2025: need to treat it as a profession. Yeah. It’s a  Matt Sigala: skill- It’s not  Allen Hall 2025: just a job …  Matt Sigala: yeah, a skilled trade, so.  Allen Hall 2025: It, [00:22:00] it, it really is, especially now as- Yeah … as we get into more carbon and complex blade designs, and everything’s just getting more advanced than ever. Yeah. You’d have to have that skill set. Matt Sigala: Yeah. And I think it takes at least a minimum of three years to become a, a good blade repair technician or any type of technician in general. Like, you know, first year you’re learning. Second year is imposter syndrome, and third year you’re finally kinda getting into the groove of things and, and making some decisions. So, um, and mostly, you know, hanging on a 5/16 cable, you know, 180 feet off the ground. Um, it, it takes a lotta, lotta training and development with those technicians, and just finding the right mindset right off the bat. It’s, like, the first thing that we look for.  Allen Hall 2025: So what are the things that operators should know going into this repair season and in towards, you know, inspection season, which will start in a couple of months? What should they be thinking about going forward here based on what you know now, now you’ve been on the data side of it?  Matt Sigala: There’s a lot of work coming. There’s a lot of work to be distributed out there, uh, across all of our, our customers. Um, [00:23:00] but there’s a, a massive lack of quality, uh, within the ISPs. Um, and like, like I said, I think it’s not due to the It’s like, I think majority of it’s due to the rapid expansion of, you know, the volume needed for, for repair teams, and it’s constantly growing each year. And, um, you know, these owners are being pushed a little bit harder to, to spin up these teams to, to get out there. Um, biggest thing is just, you know, taking care of the little steps, you know, making sure all your lines are drawn out on the blade. Like, that’s the stuff that I really see- … our engineers, you know, on, on the q- uh, quality side two or three. Um, marking is just, you know, minimal stuff to where it doesn’t paint the full picture of the repair on the blade report, and so that’s why we’re raising the flags. Um, it’s not that they’re just going out generally and doing bad repairs. It’s just, like, the little steps in between. I think that’s what we’re kinda, like, focusing on. other than that, just being safe. You know, these, these guys are, are, are, uh, like I said, hanging up on the, on those ropes or cables and, um, you know, making sure that, you know, they get home safe is, is w- our [00:24:00] biggest thing at the end of the day, too. It’s not only just getting the repairs done, but having the ROI, but it’s making sure that those technicians can, can have a, a safe job to come and go to and, uh, you know, be there, so. Allen Hall 2025: Well, it’s, I’m sure SkySpecs is thrilled to have you. At least everybody I’ve talked to at SkySpecs is thrilled to have you there, and it’s like y- you’re plugging in this really knowledgeable person into this massive data set. And when you combine those two, you know, it’s, it’s squared. It’s not double, you know? Yeah. It, it’s, it’s gonna really help SkySpecs out a lot, and I’m super happy for you. I think this is the right s- position for you to be, and eventually, like, you just gain so much knowledge. You-  Matt Sigala: Definitely.  Allen Hall 2025: You’re just one of those guys that you, you just think, “Man, Matt knows so much.” And if you haven’t talked to Matt Sagala, or you haven’t talked to SkySpecs, or maybe you are in SkySpecs, you’re in the Horizon system, and you just haven’t turned on the repair vendor management, now is the time to do that. Matt Sigala: Definitely.  Allen Hall 2025: Matt is a powerhouse here. He can help you, and the, and the whole team at SkySpecs. There’s a lot of people behind the scenes- Oh, [00:25:00] tons … that are- Yeah … are making this thing go. How do they get ahold of you, Matt? Do they go to LinkedIn or-  Matt Sigala: LinkedIn, yeah. Um, or I can, you know, drop my, my email address with you, and you can put it up there. But, uh, yeah, don’t hesitate. Reach out, or if you see me around- … um, you know, give me a call. Grab  Allen Hall 2025: him.  Matt Sigala: Yeah. Grab  Allen Hall 2025: me. If you see Matt, grab him. Yes, Matt, it’s so great to have you on the podcast. We’ve been trying so long to do this, so it’s, it’s great to have you here.  Matt Sigala: Likewise. No, this was fun. Greatly appreciate it.

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L'élimination de la France hier soir contre L'Espagne en demi-finale de Coupe du monde marque la fin d'une ère : 14 années passéees à la tête de la sélection tricolore pour Didier Deschamps. Entre juillet 2012 et juillet 2026, l'ancien capitaine français aura guidé son équipe vers quatre derniers carrés de Coupe du Monde et Euro avec le sacre de 2018 en point d'orgue. Si statistiquement, en palmarès comme en longévité, le Basque semble tout en haut au panthéon des sélectionneurs français, dans l'impression, son approche très pragmatique a souvent été discutée. Après un Mondial marqué par un jeu plus offensif et spectaculaire, l'élimination contre l'Espagne a remis Deschamps au centre des critiques et responsabilités. Alors quel bilan pour DD ? L'équipe du WFC fait le point !Aussi, à retrouver dans cette vidéo : la preview d'Angleterre - Argentine, l'autre demi-finale de cette Coupe du Monde 2026 ! Une rivalité exacerbée dans le football des sélections pour un morceau d'Histoire ? Emmenée par Messi, l'Argentine a-t-elle les capacités d'aller chercher une 4ème étoile ? les Three Lions, eux peuvent-ils vaincre le signe indien et mettre fin à 60 ans sans sacre ?Ce podcast est hébergé par Podcastics, la plateforme pour créer et diffuser votre podcast facilement.

Place aux demi-finales de la Coupe du monde avec l'affrontement choc entre la France et l'Espagne. L'équipe de Didier Deschamps est à ce stade de la compétition pour la 3e édition de suite, voyez-vous une troisième finale consécutive ? Face à l'Espagne, quel type de match imaginez-vous ? Deschamps va-t-il être récompensé de son choix des quatre offensifs comme c'est le cas depuis maintenant deux ans ? Qui Didier Deschamps doit-il choisir au milieu de terrain ? Manu Koné peut-il bousculer la hiérarchie ? Didier Deschamps doit-il trancher en faveur de Doué pour occuper le poste de quatrième offensif ? Du côté des Espagnols, les statistiques sont impressionnantes mais la Roja vous a t elle convaincu sur le terrain pendant cette Coupe du Monde ? Avec Pedri remplaçant, est-ce un aveu d'échec ou un vrai choix de Luis de la Fuente ?Ce podcast est hébergé par Podcastics, la plateforme pour créer et diffuser votre podcast facilement.

Wreckshop has one of the richest legacies in Houston hip hop. Now, D-Reck and Quiet Money Dot are focused on writing its next chapter.In Episode 202 of In My Humble Opinion, we sit down with the Wreckshop founder and his newest artist to discuss Quiet Money Dot's upcoming album, Million $ Dot, how the two first connected, and why this partnership feels different. They break down the creative process behind the project, what listeners can expect from the music, and how they're honoring Wreckshop's history while building toward its future.The conversation also dives into why they believe this current run is working, the importance of surrounding yourself with the right team, and the people helping bring Quiet's vision to life, including videographer Kev O of Square Business Media, EDF, who recently collaborated with Quiet on Playas United 4 Cash, and Mike Frost, who created the artwork for Million $ Dot. Reck also shares why Big Moe was mad at a video shoot, what they've learned from working together, and more.

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.

Au sommaire :L'OCDE s'inquiète de la dégradation des finances publiques de la France et estime qu'un effort de 100 milliards d'euros sera nécessaire d'ici 2030 pour stabiliser la dette du pays.L'OCDE préconise de réduire les dépenses publiques inefficaces, notamment dans les domaines de la santé, de l'éducation et des collectivités locales, et de reprendre la réforme des retraites.L'ancien Premier ministre Édouard Philippe, candidat à l'élection présidentielle, estime que des coupes drastiques seront nécessaires dans les dépenses de l'État et que les Français devront travailler plus longtemps.La taxe française sur les petits colis est suspendue et remplacée par une taxe européenne.L'inflation a nettement ralenti le mois dernier en France, passant de 2,4% à 1,8%.La transparence salariale fait monter la température dans les entreprises, notamment chez EDF où les salariés dénoncent le refus de la direction de transmettre les rémunérations de ses cadres dirigeants.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Les Prix EDF Pulse 2026 mettent en lumière six startups qui proposent des innovations concrètes pour accélérer la transition énergétique et améliorer la sécurité dans l'industrie.

What protections do Americans have from toxic chemicals found in everyday products, workplaces, and the environment, and could those protections be changing? Tune in for Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Phillip Williams, Tribal Council Member and Army veteran, as we discuss the Toxic Substances Control Act and why this issue matters to communities across America.Moments with Marianne Radio Show airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate!  https://www.kmet1490am.comSarah Vogel is the Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). She joined EDF in 2012 and leads a team of scientists, attorneys and policy experts to protect health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and air pollution. Sarah has written and spoken to diverse audiences and journalists about chemical policy, air pollution and environmental health. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She also holds a Master of Public Health and Master of Environmental Management from Yale University, and BA from the University of Virginia. https://www.edf.orgPhillip Williams is a Yurok Tribal Council member and proud Army veteran who has been working hard to ensure tribal lands are cleaned up from legacy pollutants like PFAS. Woth over 100,000 acres of ancestral lands to monitor, he is concerned if TSCA is weakened or not funded, more pollutants could invade. The tribe successfully brought back the CA Condor, got dams removed and restored the salmon spawning grounds, and are protecting their Redwood forests. Everyday Phillip is working to restore the land and protect the wildlife and his people against toxic chemicals.Discover inspiring conversations with today's leading authors, celebrities, thought leaders, and changemakers. To learn more about the Moments with Marianne Radio Show, explore guest interview opportunities, connect with Marianne, and follow her on social media, visit https://www.mariannepestana.com Explore the Moments with Marianne Book Club and find your next great read: https://www.mariannepestana.com/book-club/Listen to the Moments with Marianne Radio Show on KMET 1490AM & 98.1FM, an ABC News Radio Affiliate, weekdays at 8:06 AM PT / 11:06 AM ET and Sundays at 10:06 AM PT / 1:06 PM ET. Learn more at: https://www.kmet1490am.com/moments-with-marianne

Et si les poids lourds faisaient partie de la solution climatique plutôt que du problème ?Le transport pèse 34 %* des émissions de gaz à effet de serre en France, et le poids lourd est le premier visé. À Méricourt, l'entreprise familiale Transports Bray s'est fixé un cap radical : zéro carburant fossile d'ici 2027.Dans la cabine d'un de ses camions électriques, le président David Bray raconte cette bascule : son coût réel, ses doutes des débuts et sa conviction que l'avenir reposera sur un mix d'énergies. À ses côtés, Matthieu Meese, d'EDF, détaille l'écosystème qui rend la transition possible.Le tout premier épisode filmé et enregistré dans une cabine de poids lourd 100 % électrique, à écouter dans Cap Électrification, le podcast proposé par EDF sur La Story.L'énergie est notre avenir, économisons-la.*Donnée du Bilan annuel des transports en 2024 du SDES (Service des données et études statistiques des ministères chargés de l'environnement, de l'énergie, de la construction, du logement et des transports)Journaliste César Monteyrol ; Réalisation et prise de son : Rudy Tolila et Killian Martin Daoudal ; Production : Marie Corpet et Jean-Baptiste Rochelet pour OneTwo OneTwo Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Jeudi 25 juin, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF ; Yves Maître, operating partner chez Jolt Capital et cofondateur de Xunos ; Didier Sanz, journaliste Tech ; Léa Benaim, journaliste BFM Business ; Florent Van Calster, PDG de Whispeak ; Salomé Ferraris, journaliste BFM Tech et Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO de Winamp, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Jeudi 25 juin, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Yves Maitre, operating partner chez Jolt Capital et cofondateur de Xunos, et Didier Sanz, journaliste Tech. Ils se sont penchés sur l'augmentation des prix chez Apple, l'ébranlement des business models par la RAM, ainsi que le dévoilement de la première puce IA maison d'OpenAI, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez-la en podcast.

Ce jeudi 25 juin, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Yves Maitre, operating partner chez Jolt Capital et cofondateur de Xunos, et Didier Sanz, journaliste Tech. Ils se sont penchés sur la pression exercée sur les data centers face à la canicule, sur l'étude mettant en évidence la persistance des connexions 4G derrière l'indication 5G, ainsi que sur la suppression de 800 postes d'ingénieurs chez Renault, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Jeudi 25 juin, François Sorel a reçu Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, Yves Maitre, operating partner chez Jolt Capital et cofondateur de Xunos, et Didier Sanz, journaliste Tech, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez-la en podcast.

Power outages, train delays, and melting roads – the current heatwave is straining France's infrastructure. Electricity provider EDF says it has had to reduce its nuclear power output, but that it still has enough capacity to meet demand. Also in the show: the UN's International Maritime Organization starts evacuating some of the 11,000 sailors stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, and Europe's defence industry prepares for a boost with the IPO of Franco-German tank maker KNDS. 

"Sustainable aquaculture needs to be part of the solution set for health, for feeding a growing population, and it increasingly can be done well, that's the thing. There's been a lot of innovation in that field over the last few decades….There are different types of aquaculture. So the gold standard, if you're offered an oyster or a mussel or a clam, you can always feel good about those choices because they are a net benefit to the planet…What I think is important is a lot of chefs and a lot of startup aquaculture companies are getting in the game and looking to make the industry more and more sustainable, which is better for all of us going out to restaurants." Amanda Leland on Electric Ladies Podcast  Do you eat fish and seafood? Over 3 billion people depend on fish for their protein (like me) and that number is growing. Over 60 million people are employed by the fishing and acquaculture industries. But pressures from climate change, plastic pollution and overfishing are threats. What can we do to save our fish and seafood?   Listen to Amanda Leland, Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the author of the new book, "Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions," in conversation with Electric Ladies Podcast host Joan Michelson   You'll hear about:   ·       What sustainable fish and seafood is and why it matters ·       What overfishing is, why it matters and what to do about it ·       How plastic in the oceans is affecting our fish and seafood ·       What legal strategies EDF is employing to try to clean up and protect our fish and seafood, ·       Plus, insightful career advice.   "I think this is an undervalued thing, always hire people better than yourself…It gives you more scope to grow, I think if you hire people better than you into the roles that report to you. So that's one thing I think is a secret of success….Somebody who's doing things better, more efficiently on your team than you did them, even though it might feel like you're going to read it as a reflection that you didn't get it quite right, you actually end up getting rewarded because that person is doing the job better and it's under your oversight and management support…. disconnect from the personal so much and make it actually, when my unit is successful or my team is successful, then I'm successful." Amanda Leland on Electric Ladies Podcast Subscribe to our newsletter to receive our podcasts, articles, events and career advice – and special coaching offers.   Thanks for subscribing on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio and Spotify and leaving us a review!   You'll also like:   ·       Food, Fashion and Agriculture in Climate Change - From The Earth Day Women's Summit ·       What's in Your Food? - with Gabrielle Rubenstein, Cofounder, Managing Partner, Manna Tree Partners ·       How Stories Can Shift Culture and Policy - with Melissa Jun Rowley, Author of "Beyond the Mic Drop: How Stories Can Shift Culture, Power & Policy" ·       Zara Summers, Chief Science Officer at LanzaTech, on how carbon emissions are converted into sustainable materials for clothing, food, and fuel. ·       And, insightful career advice…  Elevate your career with expert coaching and ESG advisory with Electric Ladies Podcast. Unlock new opportunities, gain confidence, and achieve your career goals with the right guidance.   Don't forget to follow us on our socials X/Twitter: @joanmichelson LinkedIn: Electric Ladies Podcast with Joan Michelson Twitter: @joanmichelson Facebook: Electric Ladies Podcast YouTube: Electric Ladies Podcast

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm's Mike Casey.This week's episode features special guest Akshat Rathi from Bloomberg, who discusses the energy crisis caused by the war in Iran, which is causing some governments to pursue structural shifts away from fossil fuels toward renewables.This week's “Cleantecher of the Week” is Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO of Emerald AI. Emerald AI uses AI to let data centers flex power consumption on command without losing compute performance. Congratulations, Varun!This Week in Cleantech — June 12, 2026 LS Power Said to Near Deal for EDF's American Renewables Arm – BloombergBig US Solar and Battery Project Lines Up $3.5 Billion Financing –– BloombergG.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag — The New York TimesNew Qcells plant doubles current US capacity to make solar cells – Canary MediaIran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition – BloombergWant to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing  Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com

Previous climate change policies focused primarily on mitigation, reducing emissions to achieve net zero by 2050 and avoid the worst outcomes. But as emissions continue to rise, extreme weather events intensify and physical risks materialize, a second, less comfortable reality is setting in: we must also adapt and build resilience, because we must now brace for impact. In this episode of 2050 Investors, Kokou Agbo-Bloua explores the consequences of what this shift will mean in practice for economies, public policy, infrastructure, and capital allocation. He examines the growing economic need for climate adaptation and resilience, the widening gap between adaptation needs and available funding, and the uncomfortable question of how far adaptation can really go in a world of rising physical risk. This episode's guest is Carine de Boissezon, Chief Impact Officer at EDF (Électricité de France). She shares how one of France's leading energy providers is adapting in a warming world. From water management and ecosystem preservation to stress-testing assets against extreme scenarios, she argues that resilience is both systemic and collective, no company or country can adapt in isolation. Listen to this episode of 2050 Investors to understand what it will take to adapt in a more volatile world.CreditsPresenter & Writer: Kokou Agbo-Bloua. Producers & Editors: Jovaney Ashman, Jennifer Krumm, Louis Trouslard.Sound Director: La Vilaine, Pierre-Emmanuel Lurton. Music: Cézame Music Agency. Graphic Design: Cédric Cazaly.Whilst the following podcast discusses the financial markets, it does not recommend any particular investment decision. If you are unsure of the merits of any investment decision, please seek professional advice. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Shoot us a Text.Episode #1357: Honda rides hybrid momentum toward bigger market share, Ford gets an AI-fueled stock boost from repurposed EV batteries, and Target bets family-friendly upgrades will drive customer loyalty.Show Notes with links:Honda says it's aiming for more than 9% U.S. market share in 2026 and thinks 10% is within reach as hybrids continue to surge. With gas prices climbing and EV demand cooling, the company says its flexible production strategy is helping it stay ahead.Honda finished last year with 8.7% U.S. market share, hit 10% in April of this year and still expects to grow sales 4% this year to around 1.5 million vehicles.Hybrids made up nearly a third of Honda brand sales in Q1, and the company is ramping up production and marketing around Civic, Accord, CR-V, and Prelude hybrids.Despite tariff uncertainty, Honda says its North American manufacturing footprint protects it from major disruption with nearly 99% of vehicles built in-region.Honda says hybrids are now the sweet spot, expecting them to land in the “mid-to-low 30 percent range” of total sales this year as gas prices push more buyers away from pure ICE models.Ford stock is suddenly surging, not because of trucks, but because Wall Street is betting on Ford becoming an AI-era energy player. The company's new Ford Energy division plans to repurpose EV batteries into massive storage systems for data centers and utilities.Ford stock jumped 28% in two weeks after launching Ford Energy with a $2 billion investment aimed at powering AI data centers and utilities.The business will repurpose excess EV battery capacity into stationary storage systems, putting Ford into competition with Tesla and LG Energy Solutions.Investors are especially bullish on Ford's partnership with Chinese battery giant CATL, with one analyst valuing the new energy arm at up to $10 billion.Ford says it plans to deploy at least 20 gigawatt hours of battery storage annually, including a major supply agreement with energy company EDF starting in 2028.BNP Paribas analyst James Picariello summed up the shift saying: “It's hard to find another comparison on the OEM side of things with the exception of Tesla.”Target is betting that winning over busy families doesn't require flashy AI, it just requires cleaner bathrooms, smarter shopping carts, and fewer parenting headaches. The retailer says those small upgrades could create much bigger long-term customer loyalty.Target is investing $1 billion into customer experience upgrades, including 130+ store remodels focused on family-friendly improvements.New shopping carts feature larger cupholders, deeper child seats, and flat storage surfaces designed to make shopping easier for parents.The retailer says modernized bathrooms are a surprisingly important loyalty driver because “busy families” are now Target's core growth audience.Executives admitted Target lost focus in recent years and are now doubling down on creating “the most delightful experience in retail” for younger families.Gartner analyst Halle Stern said the smaller upgrades matter more than flashy tech: “The minor changes are making this huge difference.”Join Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier every morning for the Automotive State of the Union podcast  as they connect the dots across car dealerships, retail trends, emerging tech like AI, and cultural shifts—bringing clarity, speed, and people-first insight to automotive leaders navigating a rapidly changing industry.Get the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/