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Latest podcast episodes about Equinor

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Exportações de petróleo dos EUA batem recorde, com Oriente Médio restrito pela guerra I comece seu dia

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 3:41


NESTA EDIÇÃO. EUA batem recorde de exportações de petróleo em abril e mantêm volumes em maio, em meio a guerra com o Irã. Petrobras compra participação em bloco da Equinor no pré-sal da Bacia de Campos. Observatório do Clima quer colocar fim dos leilões de petróleo na pauta eleitoral. Acelen e Iata firmam acordo de olho na diversificação de matérias-primas para SAF. ***Locução gerada por IA

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#PolyPod – Karbonkoden: Vi må jo rydde opp etter oss

#PolyPod

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 44:07


Hva er egentlig karbonfjerning, og hvorfor gjør vi det? Hvordan kan det lønne seg økonomisk å fjerne CO₂? Og hva skjer på karbonfjerningsfronten i Norge akkurat nå?Lytt til samtalen mellom:Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, direktør for CCS og karbonmarkeder, Hafslund CelsioChristian Dovland, CEO, Obligo Investment ManagementAsbjørn Torvanger, seniorforsker og samfunnsøkonom, CICERO Senter for klimaforskningKaja Voss, grunnlegger og CEO, Inherit Carbon SolutionEmil Sirnes Aasen, Manager Low Carbon Solutions, Equinor og direksjonsmedlem, Polyteknisk Forening, er programlederI denne episoden av Karbonkoden lærer du hva karbonfjerning er, og hvorfor det er så viktig – både for kloden og for Norge som industrinasjon i omstilling. Du lærer om karbonsertifikaters viktige rolle for å gjøre industrien lønnsom, hva regelverket sier, og ikke sier, og du får siste oppdatering på hvilke prosjekter som er i gang i Norge akkurat nå. Ekspertpanelet deler også konkrete råd til statsministeren, energiministeren, finansministeren og klima- og miljøministeren.Karbonkoden: Gjennom samtaler med eksperter fra industri, forskning og forvaltning belyser Karbonkoden både muligheter og utfordringer i utviklingen av en ny grønn næring. Serien setter søkelys på hvordan Norge, med prosjekter som Langskip og sterke teknologimiljøer, kan spille en sentral rolle i å skalere opp CO₂-håndtering internasjonalt. Samtidig forklarer serien hvorfor dette feltet er viktig for både klimaomstilling, verdiskaping og fremtidig industrivekst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To
The NASA Technology Now Tracking Oilfield Methane

Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2026 53:20


Methane is invisible, odorless, and far more potent than CO2 in the short term, so how do you actually catch it leaking? Brendan Smith, CEO of SeekOps Inc., explains how technology built for the Mars Curiosity rover ended up flying on drones over oil and gas sites here on Earth. We get into spectrometers versus satellites, why offshore detection is so tricky, what EU methane rules mean for US operators in 2027, and how SeekOps turns an invisible gas into something you can finally see.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00   Setup and the Power Hour combo02:24   Crossing paths back in 201904:14   From PhD dropout to CEO05:24   JPL, the first patent, and Mars rover tech12:34   How a drone measures a methane plume13:49   Ground, drones, planes, and satellites19:00   Spinning out of JPL and the Equinor bet24:55   What methane is and why it matters29:01   Net zero and EU methane regulation32:00   LNG, coal, and offshore detection42:10   Lidar, photogrammetry, and 3D models45:36   What's overhyped and the road ahead49:24   Why Austin, and the Houston debate53:16   Wrap uphttps://twitter.com/collide_aihttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

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#PolyPod – Karbonkoden: Hvor blir det av CO2-en?

#PolyPod

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2026 46:09


Hvordan flytter man millioner av tonn CO₂ fra fangstanlegg til sikre lagre under havbunnen? Hvorfor velger noen prosjekter skip, mens andre bygger rørledninger? Og hva skal til for at transport og lagring av CO₂ kan utvikle seg fra enkeltprosjekter til en global industri?Lytt til samtalen mellom:Lars Gjerdaker, Energy Transition and Business Development Manager, Norske ShellBenedicte Staalesen, Director Communication and Political and Public Affairs, Northern LightsEmil Sirnes Aasen, Manager Low Carbon Solutions, Equinor og direksjonsmedlem, Polyteknisk Forening, er programlederI denne episoden lærer du om hvordan CO₂ transporteres fra fangstanlegg til lagringssted, og hvordan dette inngår i CCS-verdikjeden. Du lærer om hvordan skip og rørledninger brukes som ulike transportløsninger, og hvilke tekniske, geografiske og kommersielle faktorer som påvirker valget mellom dem. Videre får du innsikt i hva som skjer med CO₂ når den lagres under havbunnen, hvordan lagringssikkerhet vurderes og dokumenteres over tid, og hva som skal til for å bygge tillit til langvarig lagring. Til slutt ser vi på hvordan transport- og lagringsløsninger utvikles i ulike regioner, og hvordan disse påvirkes av industriell struktur, infrastruktur og behovet for å skalere en ny industri sammen med eksisterende næringer.Karbonkoden: Gjennom samtaler med eksperter fra industri, forskning og forvaltning belyser Karbonkoden både muligheter og utfordringer i utviklingen av en ny grønn næring. Serien setter søkelys på hvordan Norge, med prosjekter som Langskip og sterke teknologimiljøer, kan spille en sentral rolle i å skalere opp CO₂-håndtering internasjonalt. Samtidig forklarer serien hvorfor dette feltet er viktig for både klimaomstilling, verdiskaping og fremtidig industrivekst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#PolyPod – Karbonkoden: Det starter med fangst

#PolyPod

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2026 47:26


Hva skal egentlig til for at karbonfangst går fra ambisjon til et prosjekt som faktisk kan realiseres? Hvor begynner de viktigste beslutningene i et karbonfangstprosjekt? Når er teknologien moden nok til at noen tør å investere? Og hvordan begynner business caset å ta form i et marked som fortsatt er i utvikling?Lytt til samtalen mellom:Jon Christopher Knudsen, CCO, SLB CapturiMartin Sleire Lundby, CEO, Hafslund CelsioVetle Houg, administrerende direktør, Heidelberg Materials Sement NorgeEmil Sirnes Aasen, Manager Low Carbon Solutions, Equinor, er programlederI denne episoden lærer du om hvorfor fangst er det første avgjørende steget i karbonfangst og -lagring, og hva som gjør at noen prosjekter går videre mens andre stopper opp. Du får høre hvordan teknologi, driftserfaring, risiko og investeringsvilje påvirker beslutningene i tidlig fase, og hvorfor et prosjekt må være mer enn teknisk mulig for å bli realisert. Du hører også om hvordan forretningsgrunnlaget for karbonfangst begynner å ta form, fra mer miljøvennlige produkter og energisystemer til industriell konkurransekraft og nye markedsmuligheter. Til slutt utforsker vi hvordan utviklingen innen karbonfjerning og CDR påvirker deler av markedet, og hvorfor spørsmålet om hva som skjer med CO₂-en etter fangst blir avgjørende videre i verdikjeden.Karbonkoden: Gjennom samtaler med eksperter fra industri, forskning og forvaltning belyser Karbonkoden både muligheter og utfordringer i utviklingen av en ny grønn næring. Serien setter søkelys på hvordan Norge, med prosjekter som Langskip og sterke teknologimiljøer, kan spille en sentral rolle i å skalere opp CO₂-håndtering internasjonalt. Samtidig forklarer serien hvorfor dette feltet er viktig for både klimaomstilling, verdiskaping og fremtidig industrivekst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alles auf Aktien
Trump pusht China-ETFs & die produktivsten Mitarbeiter der Welt

Alles auf Aktien

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2026 20:34 Transcription Available


In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Philipp Vetter und Holger Zschäpitz über einen kleinen Realitätscheck an den Börsen, die Orbitpläne von Space X und Google sowie eine veritable Enttäuschung bei der Munich Re. Außerdem geht es um Bayer, Munich Re, Siemens Energy, Thyssenkrupp, Zalando, Under Armour, Hims & Hers Health, ZoomInfo, GitLab, CME Group, Alphabet, Rackspace Technology, AMD, eBay, GameStop, Allianz, Micron, Meta, Tesla, Apple, Qualcomm, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz Group, Airbus, Saudi Aramco, Equinor, ConocoPhillips, AppLovin, Nvidia, Investor AB, Welltower, Altria Group, CNOOC, SAP, Global X China Electric Vehicle and Battery ETF (WKN: A3C5S0), UBS MSCI China A SF UCITS ETF (WKN: A2PRV8), Xtrackers CSI300 Swap UCITS ETF (WKN: DBX0M2), HSBC MSCI China A UCITS ETF (WKN: A2N390), KraneShares CSI China Internet UCITS ETF (WKN: A2PBU9), HSBC Hang Seng Tech UCITS ETF (WKN: A2QHV0), iShares Dow Jones China Offshore 50 ETF (WKN: A0F5UE). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und - ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Finansredaksjonen
Oljefondet rir AI-bølgen – men tar en stadig større risiko

Finansredaksjonen

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2026 32:27


Mer enn hver femte krone i Oljefondet er nå plassert i noen få selskaper som satser enormt på kunstig intelligens. Hva skjer hvis festen tar slutt? Oljefondet har tjent over 1.600 milliarder kroner på teknologi-gigantene de siste årene. På en høring i Stortinget denne uken advarte både Oljefondets leder Nicolai Tangen, sentralbanksjef Ida Wolden Bache og finansminister Jens Stoltenberg om risikoen for store verdifall i Oljefondet. –⁠ Aldri i historien har så mye av fondets penger vært investert i så få selskaper, som Tangen sa tirsdag.Men så lenge «musikken spiller» håver Norge inn penger. Onsdag kom det nytt påfyll av friske penger, da statens melkeku, Equinor, la frem et kvartalsresultat på 90 milliarder kroner. I ukens episode av Finansredaksjonen, en podkast som lages av oss i DN, snakker vi om Oljefondets konsentrasjonsrisiko, fantastiske resultater fra både teknoligi-selskaper og andre selskaper i USA. og hvorfor Oljefondet bør holde seg unna investeringer i PE.Og ikke minst om investeringer i AI er en bølge som vil avta eller det er «det viktigste som skjer i verden nå», som Tangen mener. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

StockUp
Skjønnheten i de ødelagte selskapene med Christoffer Callesen

StockUp

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2026 72:32


I dagens episode er Christoffer Callesen tilbake for å snakke om hvordan man finner vakre investeringer i selskaper som markedet har ødelagt eller undervurdert.Christoffer (f. 1988) er hovedforvalter av Fondsfinans Utbytte, som har vokst fra 450 millioner til over 7,5 milliarder kroner siden han overtok. Han er kjent for sin disiplinerte, analytiske stil og evne til å gå mot strømmen.I samtalen går vi tett på hvordan Christoffer jakter selskaper som reduserer sin kapitalintensitet. Som betyr selskaper som beveger seg fra kapitaltunge til kapitallette forretningsmodeller, og vi dykker dypt inn i flere av hans største og mest spennende posisjoner akkurat nå.Kongsberg Maritime – stort kjøp forrige uke og spin-off-casetValmet – kjøpsmulighet etter kursfall?Bravida – opp 38,7 % siden sist, hva driver oppgangen?Subsea 7, Equinor, Yara International, Storebrand, Wilhelmsen Holding, Röko, ABB, Investor AB, Aker, Accenture, Bouvet, og flereVi snakker også om SaaS-apokalypsen, durabele old economy-selskaper, gjentakende inntekter og hvilke endringer Callesen har gjort i porteføljen fra energi mot nordiske industriselskaper. En lærerik samtale om verdijakt i markedet akkurat nå.Ønsker du å lese mer om fondene han forvalter finner du det her:Fondsfinans Utbytte: https://www.fondsfinans.no/vare-fond/utbytte/?sel=dropdown1Fondsfinans Norden: https://www.fondsfinans.no/vare-fond/norden/ Episoden er spilt inn for informasjons- og underholdningsformål, og innholdet i episoden skal ikke anses som en investeringsanbefaling. Innholdet er ikke sponset av Fondsfinans Kapitalforvaltning. Christoffer ble invitert av StockUp.Vel lytt!Ønsker du å være med på discord?Gå hit: ⁠https://discord.gg/CsxNmyXGbE⁠ Hvis du ønsker å støtte podcasten, har vi satt opp en Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/StockUp831⁠

Guernsey Green Finance Podcast
Enabling Offshore Wind: Capital, Policy and Community Impact

Guernsey Green Finance Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2026 22:17


In this episode, Ben Perfitt speaks with Equinor's Michael Corney about what the energy transition looks like in practice. They explore the realities of delivering offshore wind at scale, from evolving grid infrastructure and policy frameworks to the financing structures that underpin major projects. The conversation also highlights the growing potential of floating wind in the Celtic Sea and the role Guernsey can play in supporting long-term energy investment.Learn more about Equinor here Connect with Ben on LinkedInConnect with Michael on LinkedInFollow Guernsey Finance on LinkedInFollow Guernsey Finance on Instagram

StockUp
Gjør det enkelt med Jan Atle Øyen

StockUp

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2026 59:48


I episode 128 møter vi Jan Atle Øyen – privatinvestor og gründer bak ExNor AS. Jan Atle (også kjent som Bankersen) er også mannen bak Discordserveren "Ship Stocks". Jan Atle har levert rundt 35 % årlig avkastning som privatinvestor de siste seks årene. Jan Atle gjør det enkelt: han finner sykliske eller «utbombede» sektorer med solid eierskap og ledelse som tåler tøffe tider – og så tar han store posisjoner og følger dem ekstremt tett. Vi går rett inn i historiene som har formet porteføljen hans:Hvordan han dagen før Saudi-Arabia slapp «fri flyt» av olje i mars 2020 kjøpte Equinor for 1 million kroner – rett før oljeprisen falt 20 % på én natt.Overgangen til tørrbulk-shipping med Golden Ocean og Frontline da oljebetet var ferdig.Hvorfor Logistea i dag er hans desidert største posisjon i en eiendomssektor som de fleste har vendt ryggen etter renteøkningene.Jan Atle deler sin kjernefilosofi, hva som gjorde akkurat disse betene ekstremt lønnsomme, den største feilen han har gjort, og hvorfor han bevisst velger å gjøre det motsatte av «spre risikoen»-rådet de fleste får. Han anbefaler likevel ikke andre å følge i hans fotspor, men understreker at alle må finne en investeringsfilosofi som passer ens egen personlighet. Vil du diskutere aksjer med Jan Atle, kan han finnes på:Ship Stocks Discord: https://discord.gg/JcQn2X5GHBExNor AS: https://exnor.noEpisoden er spilt inn for informasjons- og underholdningsformål, og innholdet i episoden skal ikke anses som en investeringsanbefaling. Innholdet er ikke sponset. Jan Atle ble invitert av StockUp.Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StockUpPodcastDiscord: https://discord.gg/CsxNmyXGbE⁠Patroen: https://www.patreon.com/StockUp831⁠

Finansredaksjonen
Pessimistiske økonomer og optimistiske investorer

Finansredaksjonen

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2026 27:19


Dystre prognoser om verdensøkonomien preller av på aksjemarkedenes vei mot nye toppnoteringer.I forrige uke truet president Donald Trump med å bombe Iran tilbake til steinalderen. Finansredaksjonens Thor Christian Jensen trodde ikke på han, og fikk rett. Nå hinter Trump om nye fredssamtaler og sier krigen snart er over. Det er Taco nesten hver dag nå. Vel, vi får se hva som skjer i virkeligheten, men aksje- og rentemarkedene bryr seg uansett ikke så mye om Trumps sirkus og fortsetter mot nye toppnoteringer. Oslo Børs har steget godt over 20 prosent i år. I dag kom tall fra SSB som er en del av forklaringen. Norges eksportinntekter økte med nær 200 milliarder kroner i mars, i hovedsak på grunn av høye olje- og gassinntekter. Equinor er det største selskapet på børsen, og selskapets aksjekurs har steget himmelhøye 52 prosent i år.Men oljeinntekter for Norge, betyr dyrtid for land som er avhengig av å importere olje og gass. Det får det internasjonale valutafondet, IMF, til å komme med svært dystre prognoser. I ukens episode podkasten Finansredaksjonen, som lages av oss i DN, snakker vi om Trumps siste sprell, aksjemarkedets robusthet, pessimistiske prognoser fra IMF og rentedilemma i Norges Bank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
Vineyard Wind Sues GE Vernova, US Monopile Factory Bankrupt

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2026 3:06


Allen covers EEW American Offshore Structures’ Chapter 11 filing, Vineyard Wind suing GE Vernova for $545 million, Europe’s exit from Korea, and wind project wins in Australia and Canada. 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! There is a story unfolding across this industry right now. It is a story of two worlds. One world is closing its doors. The other is throwing them wide open. Let us start in New Jersey. EEW American Offshore Structures filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy on April eighth. This was the first monopile manufacturing facility ever built in the United States. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced a two hundred fifty million dollar investment in the Paulsboro Marine Terminal back in twenty twenty. It was called the largest industrial offshore wind investment in the country at the time. At full buildout… five hundred thousand square feet of production space. More than one hundred monopiles per year. Five hundred workers. They even built the first American-made monopile… for Orsted’s Ocean Wind project. It weighed three million pounds. It measured three hundred feet long. Then Orsted canceled Ocean Wind One and Two. Then Shell pulled out of Atlantic Shores. Without contracted work… workers disassembled and recycled finished monopiles for scrap. Federal policy shifts removed the pipeline of future projects. A landlord eviction filing followed. And then… Chapter Eleven. That is a two hundred fifty million dollar facility… with nowhere left to go. Now stay with us. Because just offshore… another American offshore wind story is fighting for its life. Vineyard Wind… the sixty-two turbine project fifteen miles south of Martha’s Vineyard… filed suit in Massachusetts against GE Renewables. GE Vernova says Vineyard Wind owes it three hundred million dollars for work already performed… and it wants to walk away at the end of April. Vineyard Wind says not so fast. The developer says GE still owes five hundred forty-five million dollars for what it calls inexcusably poor performance after a catastrophic turbine blade collapse in July of twenty twenty-four. Fiberglass blade fragments washed onto Nantucket beaches during peak tourist season. Sixty-eight of seventy-two blades had to be removed and replaced. That set the project back nearly two years. Construction did reach completion in March… making Vineyard Wind the first offshore project to finish under the current administration. But now the only contractor capable of completing the remaining work… wants out. A court hearing was scheduled for Thursday. And now… look eastward. Something similar is playing out in Korea. European offshore wind companies are exiting the Korean market one by one. Corio Generation, a British firm owned by Macquarie, disbanded its Korean unit and pulled out of joint projects in Busan and Ulsan. Germany’s RWE quit offshore wind projects in Taean and Sinan counties. Vestas postponed its turbine factory in Mokpo… indefinitely. Equinor began reducing its Korean workforce. Shell exited the Korean offshore market entirely in twenty twenty-four. These companies point to worsening global profitability… and Korean government policies they say favor domestic companies over firms with greater experience. Korea had a target of three gigawatts of offshore wind by twenty thirty. That goal is now in serious doubt. But here is where the story turns. Not every market is closing its door. Eight thousand miles from New Jersey… in the Sunshine State of Queensland, Australia… the final forty-one turbines just arrived at the Wambo wind project. Cubico Sustainable Investments and Stanwell are building a five hundred six megawatt project on the Darling Downs. Stage One… two hundred fifty-two megawatts… already feeding the Queensland grid. Stage Two deliveries are now complete. Commissioning and full operations are on track for the end of twenty twenty-six. And up in Ontario, Canada… the province just approved fourteen new wind and solar projects totaling more than thirteen hundred megawatts. The average price… eight point eight cents per kilowatt hour. Compare that to twenty-one point four cents for some proposed nuclear projects… and more than thirty-two cents for certain new reactor designs. Contracts run for twenty years, with all projects online before twenty thirty. So let us step back. In New Jersey… the first American monopile factory files for bankruptcy. Off Massachusetts… a completed offshore wind farm fights to keep its contractor. In Korea… European developers pack their bags. But in Australia… turbines arrive on schedule. And in Canada… wind power undercuts nuclear at the meter. The wind energy industry is not in retreat. It is choosing its battlegrounds. And where the conditions are right… the blades are turning. And now you know… the rest of the story. That is the state of the wind industry for the 13th of April, twenty twenty-six. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast tomorrow.

Digital Forretningsforståelse
Odd Arne Nissestad om å lede endringer

Digital Forretningsforståelse

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2026 44:51


Om episoden: Hvorfor tradisjonell endringsledelse ofte feilerI denne episoden møter vi Odd Arne Nissestad, førsteamanuensis ved BI og tidligere leder i både Forsvaret og Equinor. Med bakgrunn fra operative miljøer der feil kan få katastrofale følger, utfordrer han de etablerte sannhetene om hvordan vi leder endring i organisasjoner.Nissestad argumenterer for at begrepet "endringsledelse" i seg selv er en selvmotsigelse. Han mener at mange ledere mislykkes fordi de behandler organisasjoner som ordnede, kausale systemer der man kan planlegge seg til suksess. I virkeligheten er organisasjoner komplekse systemer – som "bjørnebærbusker i kratt" – der alt henger sammen med alt, og lineære planer sjelden fungerer.Gjennom samtalen utforsker vi blant annet:Rammeverket Cynefin: Hvordan forstå forskjellen på det ordnede, det komplekse og det kaotiske.Små steg fremfor store transformasjoner: Hvorfor "neste riktige ting" (Adjacent Possible) er en mer effektiv strategi enn massive endringsprosesser.Menneskelig kognisjon og evolusjon: Hvorfor hjernen vår predikerer fremfor å reagere, og hvordan dette påvirker ansattes mottakelse av nye initiativer.Praktiske verktøy: Hvordan ledere kan bruke interaksjoner, rammebetingelser og "konstruktører" (som ritualer eller fysisk utforming) for å dulte organisasjonen i riktig retning.Dette er en episode for deg som er lei av endringstretthold og som ønsker en dypere, vitenskapelig basert forståelse av hvordan man faktisk beveger en kompleks organisasjon.Denne episoden ble spilt inn i forbindelse med BI-kurset Digital transformasjon i finansnæringen. Samtalen er åpent publisert etter avtale med samtalepartner, BI Norwegian Business School, og samarbeidspartnerne Finansforbundet, SpareBank 1 og Finans Norge.Omtalen av episoden er generert av Gemini. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

StockUp
Løft blikket og se på inntjeningsdriverne med Leif Eriksrød

StockUp

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2026 55:59


I episode 126 fikk et gledelig gjensyn med Leif Eriksrød – senior porteføljeforvalter og sjef for aksjeteamet i Alfred Berg Kapitalforvaltning. Med over 30 års erfaring bak seg og utrolige resultater i Alfred Berg, er Leif en av Norges mest respekterte aksjeforvaltere. Fondet Alfred Berg Gambak har levert utrolig 14-15% årlig avkastning de siste 10 årene. Oslo Børs har vært i fyr og flamme i 2026 – opp rundt 19–20 % hittil i år. I denne episoden går Leif rett inn i hva som driver oppgangen, og om børsen fortsatt er fornuftig priset. En av vinnerne i 2026 har vært Yara International. I tillegg til å argumentere for at Yara er et bra selskap som kan høre hjemme i en portefølje, viser Leif hvordan Yara kan oppnå rekordlønnsomhet til tross for en tid med overkapasitet i Kina. Stengningen har Hormuz har vært en "game changer" for Yara. Hva ser han som markedet undervurderer i gjødselgiganten akkurat nå? Hvordan påvirker globale råvarepriser, handelspolitikk og matvaresikkerhet Yara – og hele gjødselsektoren – i 2026?Med daglig ellevill volatilitet, kommer vi ikke utenom energisektoren. Oljeaksjene handler med høye daglige svingninger som minner om techaksjer på Nasdaq. Enten så trader du de vanvittig svingningene, eller så løfter du blikket og ser på de langsiktige inntjeningsdriverne for selskapene. Leif deler sine tanker om Aker BP og Vår Energi, prisingen i de rene olje- og gassprodusentene, og om leverandørselskaper som Subsea 7 står foran økt aktivitet både på norsk sokkel og internasjonalt. En episode full av konkrete, erfaringsbaserte innsikter fra en som har vært gjennom både bobler og kriser – og fortsatt leverer solide resultater år etter år. Andre selskaper som ble nevnt i episoden var Elopak, Sandvik, Epiroc, DNB, Subsea7, TGS, Vår Energi, Aker BP og Equinor. Hør episoden nå for å få Leifs beste tanker om Yara, gjødsel, olje & gass i 2026.Ønsker du mer informasjon om Leif og hans team, kan du finne det her:Alfred Berg: https://www.alfredberg.no/Episoden er spilt inn for informasjons- og underholdningsformål, og innholdet i episoden skal ikke anses som en investeringsanbefaling. Innholdet er ikke sponset. Leif ble invitert av StockUp.Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StockUpPodcastDiscord: https://discord.gg/CsxNmyXGbE⁠Patroen: https://www.patreon.com/StockUp831⁠

Our Agile Tales
[Episode 7] Beyond Budgeting: 25 Years of Management Innovation

Our Agile Tales

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2026 27:39


Welcome back to Our Agile Tales as we continue our conversation with Bjarte Bogsnes, exploring case studies from his latest book, This Is Beyond Budgeting. The book distills nearly three decades of experience challenging traditional budgeting, targets, and control-based management.In this episode, we discuss with Bjarte  how target setting evolved at Equinor from 2005 onward through separating target setting, forecasting, and resource allocation, including allowing indicators without targets and emphasizing team-set, often more ambitious goals and relative “reality targets” versus peers. Bjarte says Beyond Budgeting adoption spans many industries, is stronger in Europe, and is equally relevant in the public sector, citing Norway's NAV contact centers eliminating cost budgets and a 12,000-inhabitant municipality using self-managed teams, continuous decisions, and stakeholder alignment while still submitting an external “budget.” He argues budgets embed distrust and predictability assumptions, making true agility impossible without Beyond Budgeting, challenges absolute annual financial targets, and advocates relative targets, holistic evaluation, and common incentives. Finally, he describes surveys by Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company linking Beyond Budgeting to benefits like higher sales and leading financial planning practices.Key topics and timestamps00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro01:06 Evolving Targets at Equinor03:39 Who Adopts Beyond Budgeting05:14 Public Sector Breakthroughs05:41 NAV Pilot No Cost Budgets07:10 Municipality Self Managed Teams10:00 Funding Constraints Not Earmarks14:24 Why Budgets Block Agility18:24 No Budget No Targets22:09 Forecasting and Ambition23:28 Consulting Surveys and Benefits27:16 Wrap Up and Next EpisodeAbout Bjarte BogsnesBjarte Bogsnes is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, a former global finance executive, and a leading thinker in management innovation. He is the author of Implementing Beyond Budgeting and This Is Beyond Budgeting, showing how organizations can replace rigid, calendar-driven systems with models built on trust, transparency, and adaptability — creating companies that are both more responsive and more human.Follow Bjarte at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjarte-bogsnes-41557910/Music: https://www.purple-planet.comVisit us at https://www.ouragiletales.com/about

Finansredaksjonen
Trumps tomme trusler?

Finansredaksjonen

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2026 29:31


Trumps TRUSLER har økt i styrke og omfang i påsken. Men markedene tror ikke han setter dem ut i live. For mange har det vært en rolig påskeuke, men for dem som har fulgt med på Trumps stadig sterkere trusler mot Iran, har påsken budt på krim av episk størrelse. Det snakker vi om i ukens episode av Finansredaksjonen, en podkast som lages av oss i DN. Oljeprisen skyter fart igjen etter at president Donald Trump varslet massive angrep på iransk infrastruktur innen tirsdag kveld, dersom ikke Iran går med på en avtale om våpenhvile. Men selv om markedet reagerer med sterkere olje- og gasspriser, er det ikke i en størrelsesorden som tilsier at de tror Trump vil gjennomføre truslene sine. Og i aksjemarkedene er det egentlig ikke stor uro. På Oslo Børs stiger kursene etter påskeferien, godt løftet av Equinor.Hva skjer videre?Hør ukens episode der du ellers hører podkast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alles auf Aktien
Das Elektro-Wunder von Mercedes & 15 echte Energie-Kracher

Alles auf Aktien

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2026 21:26


In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Daniel Eckert und Lea Oetjen über die Begeisterung bei Weltraum-Aktien, Rückenwind für Rheinmetall und einen fatalen Patzer von Anthropic. Außerdem geht es um BASF, Lanxess, Evonik, Equinor, Repsol, BP, Orlen, Total, Renk Group, Hensoldt, TKMS, Intuitive Machines, Planet Labs, Rocket Lab, Destiny Tech100, Eli Lilly, Structure Therapeutics, Viking Therapeutics, Altimmune, Intel, RH, Shell, TotalEnergies, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, Canadian Natural Resources, Verbio, Nordex, SMA Solar, Nextpower, Enphase, First Solar, Enlight Renewable, Xtrackers MSCI World Energy ETF (WKN: A113FF), iShares Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (WKN: A1JKQL) und Invesco Solar Energy ETF (WKN: A2QQ9R). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und - ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Our Agile Tales
[Episode 6] Beyond Budgeting: 25 Years of Management Innovation

Our Agile Tales

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 28:46


Welcome back to Our Agile Tales as we continue our conversation with Bjarte Bogsnes, exploring case studies from his latest book, This Is Beyond Budgeting. The book distills nearly three decades of experience challenging traditional budgeting, targets, and control-based management.In this episode, we ask why Silicon Valley firms rarely appear in Beyond Budgeting case studies; Bjarte posits that these companies excel at technology innovation but fear management innovation, sometimes reinforced by IPO-focused CFOs, though being public is not a true barrier (Many Beyond Budgeting adopters are listed on Wall Street.) He explains Beyond Budgeting can improve performance in both good and tough times and cites Handelsbanken's long-term stability. The discussion covers Morningstar's self-management and the need for enterprise-wide coherence, then Haier's radical micro-enterprise model and rapid evolution.Finally, Bjarte details Equinor's (formerly Statoil) beyond budgeting journey since 2005 via “Ambition to Action,” integrating strategy, risk, actions/forecasting, indicators, and HR with a 50/50 split between “what” and “how,” emphasizing transparency, event-driven cadence, decentralized ownership, and holistic performance evaluation.Key topics and timestamps00:00 Welcome01:05 Why Silicon Valley Lags in Management Innovation04:11 Public Markets and Budgets04:53 Boom Bust and Stability06:40 Morningstar and Self Management08:48 Haier Radical Micro Enterprises13:00 Equinor Beyond Budgeting Origins16:32 Ambition to Action Framework20:11 Alignment Cadence and Transparency25:37 Holistic Performance Evaluation28:15 Wrap Up and ConclusionAbout Bjarte BogsnesBjarte Bogsnes is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, a former global finance executive, and a leading thinker in management innovation. He is the author of Implementing Beyond Budgeting and This Is Beyond Budgeting, showing how organizations can replace rigid, calendar-driven systems with models built on trust, transparency, and adaptability — creating companies that are both more responsive and more human.Follow Bjarte at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjarte-bogsnes-41557910/Music: https://www.purple-planet.comVisit us at https://www.ouragiletales.com/about

Podcasts epbr
Petróleo cai para menos de US$ 100, mas analistas veem fôlego curto para negociações EUA-Irã I comece seu dia

Podcasts epbr

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 4:23


NESTA EDIÇÃO. Sinal de negociações entre EUA e Irã faz preço do barril cair, mas analistas são céticos sobre avanços TotalEnergies redireciona US$ 1 bi de eólica offshore para gás nos EUA. Equinor compra parque eólico no Rio Grande do Norte. Governo tenta nova manobra para viabilizar Redata. ***Locução gerada por IA

Følg pengene
Grisebassernes fremtid, Ørsteds bryllupsplaner og RIP arvesølv

Følg pengene

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 54:59


Grisen er rykket helt op på den politiske dagsorden. Hvad kan det få af betydning for den danske svineproduktion - og derved også Danish Crown? Skal vi producere færre grise herhjemme? Vi gennemgår en række grafer, der viser udviklingen - og stiller spørgsmålet: Hvordan ser fremtiden ud for grisen? Derefter ringer bryllupsklokkerne - eller? De fleste havde forventet, at norske Equinor ville få en plads i Ørsted bestyrelse. Men det bliver ikke i denne omgang. Man havde ellers talt om et tættere samarbejde mellem de to selskaber. Er bryllupsplanerne lagt på hylden? Til slut tager vi et smut tilbage i tiden. GN Store Nord har solgt deres høreapparat-forretning, som virksomheden ellers var kendt for. Vi kigger i historiebøgerne efter andre virksomheder, der har ændret DNA eller solgt ud af arvesølvet. Hvordan er det gået dem? Vært: Ulrik Rosenkvist Schultz. Fast gæst: Sune Aagaard. Medvirkende: Jacob Pedersen, aktieanalysechef hos AL Sydbank og Anders Ravn Sørensen, lektor i virksomhedshistorie ved CBS.

Morgenkaffen med Finansavisen
Sissener angriper Andresen: – Bot er for enkelt

Morgenkaffen med Finansavisen

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 2:04


Satser stort på Equinor-fall // Boost for ferieboliger // Hegnar om Mette-Marit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcasts epbr
PF abre inquérito criminal para apurar preços abusivos de combustíveis em meio à alta global I comece seu dia

Podcasts epbr

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 4:00


NESTA EDIÇÃO. Primeiras fiscalizações após MP do Diesel indicam preços abusivos e margens elevadas em combustíveis. Cenários de incertezas e volatilidades globais reforçam a importância de grandes projetos como Raia, diz diretor da Equinor. Aneel projeta alta média de 8% para tarifas de energia elétrica. COP30 publica relatório executivo e indica próximos passos. ***Locução gerada por IA

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
Vineyard Wind Finishes, Maersk Viridis Heads to New York

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2026 2:07


Allen covers a week of offshore wind milestones including the Maersk Viridis sailing toward New York, Revolution Wind’s first power delivery, Vineyard Wind’s final blade, RWE’s Thor project in Denmark, and Kinewell Energy’s fundraise in England. 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! Good morning, everyone. There is a ship sailing toward America right now. And when it arrives, it will be the most powerful wind turbine installation vessel ever to work in United States waters. Her name is Maersk Viridis. Built by Seatrium in Singapore. Forty thousand tonnes of steel. A main crane reaching one hundred and eighty meters into the sky. Designed to lift the next generation of fifteen-megawatt turbines. At her naming ceremony, godmother Charlotte Norkjer Larsen smashed a bottle of champagne against the main crane pedestal. Viridis — the Latin word for green. The Viridis is headed for Equinor’s Empire Wind project off the coast of New York. When complete, five hundred thousand homes will have power. Now, there is something worth noting. This vessel was built as a Jones Act-compliant solution. That means it can work legally in United States offshore waters. It was built with zero lost time injuries. And while one great ship sails west, the wind industry is moving forward on every front. In New England, the Revolution Wind project delivered its first power to the grid. Seven hundred and four megawatts. Power enough for up to three hundred and fifty thousand homes. Built by local union workers logging more than two million hours. That same week, workers installed the last turbine blade on Vineyard Wind. A project that endured a fractured blade in July of twenty twenty-four, a legal battle to survive a federal stop-work order, and came out the other side — still standing. On the other side of the world, Denmark is doing what Denmark does. The first turbine is now installed at the Thor offshore wind project. In the North Sea, off the west coast of Jutland. When finished, Thor will be Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm. Seventy-two turbines. Each capable of fifteen megawatts. Each turbine rising one hundred and forty-eight meters above the sea. Total project capacity — one-point-one gigawatts. The installation vessel is the Brave Tern, operated by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier. She carries three turbines per trip. Some blades on Thor are recyclable. That is not a headline you could have written ten years ago. And the developer building Thor? That would be RWE. RWE is everywhere right now. Now, for a small story with a large idea behind it. In Wallsend, England, a twelve-person company called Kinewell just raised seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Founded by an engineer named Andrew Jenkins while he was earning his PhD at Newcastle University. Kinewell builds software — software that optimises the design of offshore wind farms. Cable layouts, turbine placement, transmission systems. All three, working together. Their clients include Equinor, SSE Renewables, and Eurus Energy. The new funding unlocks a further six-figure grant, bringing total new capital to more than one million pounds. Ten new jobs in the next six months. Their software has saved clients hundreds of millions of pounds. That is what the right tool can do. So let us step back and look at the week. A ship christened and sailing to New York. A New England grid receiving its first offshore wind power. Vineyard Wind — finished at last. Denmark’s largest wind farm, growing turbine by turbine. And a twelve-person software firm in northeast England, helping shape the invisible architecture of the energy transition. That is the Wind Energy News for the 16th of March, 2026. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy podcast tomorrow.

Hot Bets - der Podcast über heiße Aktien
Ölpreis über 100$ – Diese Energie-Aktien profitieren jetzt | Adobe unter Druck

Hot Bets - der Podcast über heiße Aktien

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2026 6:42


Der Ölpreis bleibt über der Marke von 100 US-Dollar und die geopolitischen Spannungen im Nahen Osten nehmen weiter zu. Angriffe in der Golfregion und die Unsicherheit rund um die Straße von Hormus sorgen für Nervosität an den Märkten – gleichzeitig entstehen dadurch neue Chancen bei Energieaktien. Welche Öl- und Gasunternehmen jetzt besonders profitieren könnten, schauen wir uns genauer an. Im Fokus stehen Energiekonzerne, die nicht direkt im Nahen Osten aktiv sind und daher von hohen Energiepreisen profitieren können, ohne operativ stark betroffen zu sein. Dazu zählen unter anderem Petrobras, Repsol und Equinor. Außerdem sprechen wir über strukturelle Veränderungen im Technologiesektor: Adobe steckt nach schwachen KI-Fortschritten in einer Krise, der CEO tritt zurück und mehrere Analysten senken ihre Kursziele deutlich. Welche Chancen sich jetzt für Anleger ergeben und welche Aktien besonders interessant sein könnten – das analysieren wir in diesem Podcast.

Studio Vestland
ØYGARMOT 7: Rustfritt stål i vekst

Studio Vestland

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2026 22:26


Stål som ruster eller stål som er rustfritt? Karbonstål versus Lean Duplex. Begge deler brukes i industrien, og det vil fortsette, men rustfritt stål øker i bruk og har mange miljøgevinster, ikke minst på grunn av nesten uendelig levetid ifølge ekspertene. I denne podcasten møter du én aktør som leverer rustfritt stål og én som sveiser det sammen til blant annet gangbroer til Equinor sitt oljeraffeneri på Mongstad. Hør adm.dir Gert Chr. Strindberg i Fabtech og salgs-og markedsdirektør Steffen Pettersen i Sverdrup Steel i samtale med Irene Lillehammer fra Studio Vestland i denne podcasten fra Øygarmot.

CBC News: World Report
Wednesday's top stories in 10 minutes

CBC News: World Report

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 9:56


U-S Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth claims the joint U-S-Israeli operation has achieved "total dominance" over Iran, even as the Senate prepares a high-stakes vote to limit the President's military powers. NATO is formally condemning Iran's "indiscriminate attacks" on Turkey, moving to bolster air defenses along the alliance's eastern flank in a stern show of support for its ally. Iran's retaliatory strikes are hitting U.S. bases and energy sites across the Persian Gulf, leaving at least seven dead and sparking fears of a full-scale regional war. Iran has postponed the Supreme Leader's funeral and stalled the selection of his successor as the "war situation" and ongoing airstrikes paralyze the regime. Israeli airstrikes and ground advances are intensifying across Lebanon, forcing urgent evacuations in Beirut and leaving at least five dead in the east. National security experts warn that deep budget cuts and a shift in focus to immigration have "hollowed out" key U.S. agencies, leaving the country vulnerable to Iranian terror and cyber attacks. Newfoundland and Labrador reaches deal with Equinor, BP to open the way for development of Bay du Nord offshore oil project.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
US Offshore Wind Restarts After Court Injunctions

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 2:53


Allen covers four US offshore wind projects winning injunctions to resume construction, including major updates from Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia project. Plus Ming Yang’s proposed UK manufacturing facility faces security review delays, Seaway 7 lands the Gennaker contract in Germany, and Taiwan’s Fengmiao project hits a milestone. 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! Happy Monday everyone! Four offshore wind projects have secured preliminary injunctions blocking the Trump administration’s stop-work order. Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind. Avangrid’s Vineyard Wind 1. Equinor’s Empire Wind. And Ørsted’s Revolution Wind. All four argued they were at critical stages of construction. The courts agreed. Work has resumed. A fifth project… Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind… has a hearing scheduled for today. Now… within days of getting back to work… milestones are being reached. Dominion Energy reported seventy-one percent completion on Coastal Virginia. The first turbine… installed in January. The Charybdis… America’s only U.S.-flagged wind turbine installation vessel… is finally at work. Fifty-four towers, thirty nacelles, and twenty-six blade sets now staged at Portsmouth Marine Terminal. The third offshore substation has arrived. But here is where the numbers tell the real story. The month-long delay fighting the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management? Two hundred twenty-eight million dollars. New tariffs? Another five hundred eighty million. The project budget now stands at eleven-point-five billion dollars. Nine-point-three billion already invested by end of 2025. Dominion and partner Stonepeak are sharing the cost. Dominion insists offshore wind remains the fastest and most economical way to deliver nearly three gigawatts to Virginia’s grid. A grid that powers military installations… naval shipbuilding… and America’s growing AI and cyber capabilities. First power expected this quarter. Full completion… now pushed to early 2027. Up in New England… Vineyard Wind 1 also resumed work. The sixty-second and final turbine tower shipped from New Bedford this week. Ten blade sets remain at the staging site. The installation vessel is scheduled to depart by end of March. The turbines are going up. But eight hundred eight million dollars in delays and tariffs… That is a price the entire industry is watching. ═══ Scotland Waits on Ming Yang Decision ═══ In Scotland… a decision that could reshape European supply chains… hangs in the balance. Chinese manufacturer Ming Yang wants to build the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility. The site… Ardersier… near Inverness. The investment… one-point-five billion pounds. The jobs… fifteen hundred. Trade Minister Chris Bryant says the government must weigh security. Critical national infrastructure must be safe and secure. Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney is losing patience. He told reporters this week the decision has taken too long. He called it pivotal to Scotland’s renewable energy potential… and a crucial component of the nation’s just transition. Meanwhile… Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week. He spoke of building a more sophisticated relationship between the two nations. Whisky tariffs… halved to five percent. Wind turbine factories? Still under review. Bryant says they want a steady, eyes-wide-open relationship with China. Drive up trade where possible. Challenge where necessary. But no flip-flopping. For now… Scotland waits. And so does the UK supply chain. ═══ Seaway 7 Lands Gennaker Contract ═══ In the German Baltic Sea… a major contract award. Seaway 7, part of the Subsea 7 Group, will transport and install sixty-three monopiles and transition pieces for the Gennaker offshore wind farm. The contract value… one hundred fifty to three hundred million dollars. Subsea 7 calls it substantial. The client is Skyborn Renewables… a portfolio company of BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners. Nine hundred seventy-six megawatts of capacity. Sixty-three Siemens Gamesa turbines. Four terawatt-hours of annual generation. Enough to power roughly one million German homes. Seaway 7’s work begins next year. ═══ Taiwan’s Fengmiao Hits Milestone ═══ In Taiwan… Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners completed the first batch of jacket foundations for the Fengmiao offshore wind farm. Five hundred megawatts. On schedule for late 2027 completion. Offshore installation begins later this year. The jackets were built by Century Wind Power… a local Taiwanese supplier. CIP called it a sign of strong execution capabilities and proof they can deliver large-scale, complex energy projects. But they are not stopping there. Fengmiao 2… six hundred megawatts… is already in development. Taiwan is aiming for a major boost in large-scale renewable energy by 2030. And that is the state of the wind industry for February 2, 2026 Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
North Sea Summit Commits to 100 GW Offshore Wind

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2026 2:34


Allen covers Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating wind farm achieving an impressive 51.6% capacity factor in 2025. Plus nine nations commit to 100 GW of offshore wind at the North Sea Summit, Dominion Energy installs its first turbine tower off Virginia, Hawaii renews the Kaheawa Wind Farm lease for 25 years, and India improves its repowering policies. 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! There’s a remarkable sight in the North Sea right now. Eleven wind turbines, each one floating on water like enormous ships, generating electricity in some of the roughest seas on Earth. Norwegian oil giant Equinor operates the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm, and the results from twenty twenty-five are nothing short of extraordinary. These floating giants achieved a capacity factor of fifty-one point six percent throughout the entire year. That means they produced power more than half the time, every single day, despite ocean storms and harsh conditions. The numbers tell the story. Four hundred twelve gigawatt hours of electricity, enough to power seventeen thousand homes. And perhaps most importantly, the wind farm reduced carbon emissions by more than two hundred thousand tons from nearby oil and gas fields. Production manager Arild Lithun said he was especially pleased that they achieved these results without any damage or incidents. Not a single one. But Norway’s success is just one chapter in a much larger story unfolding across the North Sea. Last week, nine countries gathered in Hamburg, Germany for the North Sea Summit. Belgium, Denmark, France, Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and their host Germany came together with a shared purpose. They committed to building one hundred gigawatts of collaborative offshore wind projects and pledged to protect their energy infrastructure from sabotage by sharing security data and conducting stress tests on wind turbine components. Andrew Mitchell, Britain’s ambassador to Germany, explained why this matters now more than ever. Recent geopolitical events, particularly Russia’s weaponization of energy supplies during the Ukraine invasion, have sharpened rather than weakened the case for offshore wind. He said expanding offshore wind enhances long-term security while reducing exposure to volatile global fossil fuel markets. Mitchell added something that resonates across the entire industry. The more offshore wind capacity these countries build, the more often clean power sets wholesale electricity prices instead of natural gas. The result is lower bills, greater security, and long-term economic stability. Now let’s cross the Atlantic to Virginia Beach, where Dominion Energy reached a major milestone last week. They installed the first turbine tower at their massive offshore wind farm. It’s the first of one hundred seventy-six turbines that will stand twenty-seven miles off the Virginia coast. The eleven point two billion dollar project is already seventy percent complete and will generate two hundred ten million dollars in annual economic output. Meanwhile, halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is doubling down on wind energy. The state just renewed the lease for the Kaheawa Wind Farm on Maui for another twenty-five years. Those twenty turbines have been generating electricity for two decades, powering seventeen thousand island homes each year. The new lease requires the operator to pay three hundred thousand dollars annually or three point five percent of gross revenue, whichever is higher. And here’s something smart: the state is requiring a thirty-three million dollar bond to ensure taxpayers never get stuck with the bill for removing those turbines when they’re finally decommissioned. Even India is accelerating its wind energy development. The Indian Wind Power Association welcomed major amendments to Tamil Nadu’s Repowering Policy last week. The Indian Wind Power Association thanked the government for addressing critical industry concerns. The changes make it significantly easier and cheaper to replace aging turbines with modern, more efficient ones. So from floating turbines in the North Sea to coastal giants off Virginia, from island power in Hawaii to policy improvements in India, the wind energy revolution is gaining momentum around the world. And that’s the state of the wind industry for the 26th of January 2026. Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Industry Podcast.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
Empire Wind Resumes, Ørsted Eyes Chinese Turbines

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2026 2:13


Allen covers court victories allowing Empire Wind and Revolution Wind construction to resume, while Vineyard Wind joins the legal fight. In the UK, EnBW walks away from Mona and Morgan with a $1.4B write-off, even as KKR and RWE announce a $15B partnership for Norfolk Vanguard. Plus Ørsted’s leaked “Project Dragon” reveals the offshore giant is considering Chinese turbines, and Fortescue breaks ground on Australia’s Nullagine Wind Project using Nabrawind’s self-erecting tower technology. 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! Last week I told you about Equinor’s ultimatum. Resume construction by January sixteenth… or cancel Empire Wind forever. Well… the courts have spoken. Last Thursday, Judge Carl Nichols issued his ruling. Empire Wind can resume construction. The harm from stopping, he said, outweighs the government’s concerns. One day earlier, Ørsted won the same relief for Revolution Wind. And now Vineyard Wind has joined the fight in Massachusetts. Three projects. Three courtrooms. Two victories and one victory yet to come. Meanwhile in Britain… a different kind of drama. German utility EnBW announced Thursday it is walking away from two major UK projects. Mona and Morgan. Three gigawatts of potential capacity. The cost of leaving? One point four billion dollars in write-offs. Eight hundred forty million pounds already paid… gone. Rising costs. Lower electricity prices. Higher interest rates. Their partner, Jera Nex BP, says they still see good pathways forward. But EnBW has had enough. Yet in the very same week… Investment giant KKR and German utility RWE announced a fifteen billion dollar partnership. Norfolk Vanguard East and West. Three gigawatts. One hundred eighty-four turbines. Power for three million British homes. Big winners and losers. In the same market. In the same week. Danish media outlet Berlingske obtained a confidential report from Ørsted’s procurement department. The world’s largest offshore wind developer… is exploring whether to buy turbines from China. They call it Project Dragon. The plan covers twenty-twenty-six through twenty-twenty-eight. CEO Rasmus Errboe told reporters they continuously evaluate all technologies and suppliers. Quality. Technical capabilities. Commercial conditions. He did not deny the report. For years, European developers have resisted Chinese turbines. Fear of losing their industry to China… just like they lost solar manufacturing a decade ago. But Ørsted is under pressure. In Australia, Fortescue has broken ground on its first wind project in the Pilbara. The Nullagine Wind Project. One hundred thirty-three megawatts. Seventeen turbines. But here is what makes it special. Nabrawind’s self-erecting tower technology. Hub height of one hundred eighty-eight meters. A new global benchmark for onshore wind. No giant cranes required. Fortescue plans two to three gigawatts of renewable energy across the Pilbara by twenty-thirty. Wind. Solar. Batteries. To power their mining trucks. Their drills. Their processing plants. Last week we talked about Equinor’s deadline. About Ørsted losing one and a half million euros every single day. About billions in limbo. This week… the courts stepped in. Empire Wind resumes. Revolution Wind continues. Vineyard Wind fights on. All while the North Sea quietly crossed a milestone. One hundred one operational wind farms. Thirty gigawatts of clean power. More than any body of water on Earth. Some companies are walking away. Others are doubling down with fifteen billion dollar bets. The wind industry is evolving very quickly. And that’s the state of the wind industry for the 19th of January 2026. Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

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Legal News for Fri 1/16 - Dominion Offshore Wind Battle, Protections for Pro-Palestine Academics, CA Voter Data Suit Tossed and Why You Can't Sue ICE Agents

Minimum Competence

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2026 17:12


This Day in Legal History: 18th Amendment to the US ConstitutionOn January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, marking a pivotal moment in American legal history by establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. The amendment prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” for consumption in the United States and its territories. It was the culmination of decades of temperance activism, led by organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, which argued that alcohol was responsible for societal problems including crime, poverty, and domestic violence.The amendment passed Congress in December 1917, but ratification by the states was required for it to take effect. That threshold was reached on January 16, 1919, when Nebraska became the 36th state to ratify it. One year later, on January 17, 1920, the Volstead Act—the federal statute enforcing the amendment—went into effect, ushering in the Prohibition era.However, the law led to unintended consequences. Rather than curbing alcohol consumption, it fueled the rise of organized crime, as bootleggers and speakeasies flourished across the country. Enforcement proved difficult and inconsistent, and public support for prohibition waned through the 1920s.Ultimately, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment on December 5, 1933, making it the only constitutional amendment ever to be entirely repealed. The legacy of the 18th Amendment remains significant as a historical experiment in moral legislation and the limits of constitutional power.A federal judge in Virginia will soon decide whether Dominion Energy can resume construction on its $11.2 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which was halted by the Trump administration last month. The Interior Department paused five offshore wind projects on December 22, citing classified concerns about radar interference and national security. Dominion is now challenging that pause in court, arguing that it violated procedural and due process laws and is causing the company significant financial harm—around $5 million in daily losses. Dominion has already invested nearly $9 billion in the project, which began construction in 2023 and is planned to power 600,000 homes.Similar legal challenges from other developers, including Orsted and Equinor, have already succeeded in federal courts in Washington, allowing their Northeast offshore wind projects to proceed. Those decisions raise the stakes for Dominion's case, which could influence the broader offshore wind industry amid continued hostility from the Trump administration toward the sector. Trump has long criticized wind energy as costly and inefficient. While the outcomes of these lawsuits may let projects move forward, industry uncertainty remains due to ongoing legal battles and political opposition.US judge to weigh Dominion request to restart Virginia offshore wind project stopped by Trump | ReutersA federal judge in Boston, William Young, said he will issue an order to protect non-citizen academics involved in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's deportation of pro-Palestinian student activists. The upcoming order would block the government from altering the immigration status of the scholars who are parties to the case, absent court approval. Young emphasized that any such action would be presumed retaliatory and would require the administration to prove it had a legitimate basis.The lawsuit stems from Trump's executive orders in early 2025 directing agencies to crack down on antisemitism, which led to arrests and visa cancellations for several students, including Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk. These moves targeted those expressing pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel views on campus. Young previously ruled that these actions violated the First Amendment by chilling free speech rights of non-citizen academics.In his comments, Young described Trump as “authoritarian” and sharply criticized what he called the administration's “fearful approach to freedom.” He limited his forthcoming order to members of academic groups like the AAUP and Middle East Studies Association, rejecting a broader nationwide block as too expansive. Meanwhile, the administration, which plans to appeal Young's earlier ruling, accused the judge of political bias.US judge to shield scholars who challenged deporting of pro-Palestinian campus activists | ReutersA federal judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department seeking access to the state's full, unredacted voter registration list. Judge David Carter ruled that the department's claims were not strong enough under existing civil rights and voting laws, and that turning over detailed voter data—such as names, birth dates, driver's license numbers, and parts of Social Security numbers—would violate privacy protections.Carter emphasized that centralizing such sensitive information at the federal level could intimidate voters and suppress turnout by making people fear misuse of their personal data. The lawsuit, filed in September by the Trump administration, targeted California and other Democrat-led states for allegedly failing to properly maintain voter rolls, citing federal law as justification for demanding the data.California Secretary of State Shirley Weber welcomed the decision, stating her commitment to defending voting rights and opposing the administration's actions. The DOJ had reportedly been in discussions with the Department of Homeland Security to use voter data in criminal and immigration probes. Critics argue the push was driven by baseless claims from Trump and his allies that non-citizens are voting in large numbers.US judge dismisses Justice Department lawsuit seeking California voter details | ReutersWhy can't people harmed by ICE just sue the agents themselves?U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal agency under the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2003. It enforces immigration laws and investigates criminal activities involving border control, customs, and immigration. ICE derives its authority from various federal statutes, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, and its agents operate with broad discretion during enforcement actions.Suing ICE agents or the agency itself is legally difficult. Individuals cannot usually sue federal agents directly because of sovereign immunity, a legal doctrine that protects the government and its employees from lawsuits unless explicitly allowed by law. One such exception is the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) of 1946, which permits lawsuits against the federal government when its employees cause injury or damage while acting within the scope of their employment. Under the FTCA, victims can bring wrongful death or negligence claims, as Renee Good's family is now considering.However, FTCA claims are limited. Plaintiffs cannot seek punitive damages or a jury trial, and compensation is capped based on state law where the incident occurred. The government is also shielded from liability for discretionary decisions made by its employees—meaning if the ICE agent used judgment during the incident and it's deemed reasonable, the claim can be dismissed. In Good's case, the government will likely argue self-defense.Suing ICE agents personally is even harder. The Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents case in 1971 created a narrow legal path for suing federal officials for constitutional violations, but courts have since restricted its use. In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that Bivens does not apply to border agents conducting immigration enforcement, further insulating ICE officers from personal liability.Criminal prosecution of federal agents is also rare. State prosecutors may bring charges, but only if they can prove the agent acted clearly outside the scope of their duties and in an objectively unlawful way—a high bar that is seldom met.This week's closing theme is by Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven, one of the most influential composers in Western music history, revolutionized the classical tradition with works that bridged the Classical and Romantic eras.This week's theme is Franz Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 — specifically, the first movement, Allegro con brio, catalogued as S.464/5. As one of the most iconic works in classical music, Beethoven's Fifth needs little introduction, but hearing it through Liszt's fingers offers a fresh perspective on its brilliance. In this solo piano version, Liszt doesn't simply condense Beethoven's orchestral power—he reimagines it, capturing the storm, structure, and spirit of the original with astonishing fidelity and virtuosity.The movement begins with the unforgettable four-note “fate” motif, its rhythmic insistence rendered on the piano with punch and precision. From there, Liszt unfolds Beethoven's dramatic argument, demanding the pianist conjure the textures of a full orchestra with nothing but ten fingers and a well-calibrated pedal. Every surging crescendo, sudden silence, and harmonic twist remains intact, though filtered through Liszt's Romantic sensibility and pianistic imagination.It's a piece that asks as much of the performer as it does of the listener—requiring clarity, power, and emotional depth. As a transcription, it's both a tribute and a transformation, placing Beethoven's revolutionary energy in the hands of a single interpreter. We chose this movement not just for its fame, but for how it exemplifies two musical giants in dialogue—Beethoven, the architect of modern symphonic form, and Liszt, the artist who made the orchestra speak through the piano.Without further ado, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 — the first movement, Allegro con brio. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

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Legal News for Thurs 1/14 - Trump's War on Wind Power Continues, DOJ Race-relations Agency Reversal (?), Tesla's Racism Case Mediation and Minnesota Prosecutors Resign

Minimum Competence

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2026 7:06


This Day in Legal History: Williams v. FloridaOn January 15, 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Williams v. Florida, a significant case interpreting the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a trial by jury. The petitioner, Johnny Paul Williams, was convicted in a Florida court by a six-member jury and argued on appeal that his constitutional rights had been violated because the jury did not consist of twelve members. The Court, in a 6-2 decision authored by Justice Byron White, rejected this argument and held that the Constitution does not require a twelve-person jury in criminal cases.The ruling marked a turning point in how procedural aspects of jury trials were viewed under the Constitution. Drawing on historical analysis and functional reasoning, the Court concluded that the number twelve was a “historical accident” rather than a constitutional mandate. It emphasized that what mattered was whether the jury could fulfill its essential purpose: promoting group deliberation, guarding against government overreach, and representing a fair cross-section of the community.The Court's opinion opened the door for states to use smaller juries in certain criminal trials, leading to greater procedural flexibility. However, the ruling was not without its critics, including dissenting justices who warned that reducing jury size could dilute the quality of deliberation and increase the risk of wrongful convictions. The Court later clarified in Ballew v. Georgia (1978) that juries smaller than six members were unconstitutional, setting a lower boundary on size.Williams v. Florida continues to shape discussions around the structure and fairness of criminal jury trials. It reflects a broader judicial approach that balances historical tradition with evolving interpretations of fairness and efficiency in the criminal justice system. The decision also illustrates how constitutional protections, while deeply rooted, are not frozen in time but subject to ongoing judicial scrutiny.On January 17, 2026, a U.S. District Court will hear a request from Norwegian energy company Equinor to resume construction on its Empire Wind offshore project off the coast of New York. The company is suing the Trump administration after it suspended offshore wind development in federal waters, citing national security concerns related to radar interference. Equinor argues that the $4 billion project, now 60% complete, faces cancellation if construction doesn't continue by January 16. The case follows a recent decision allowing Danish company Ørsted to resume work on its own halted project off Rhode Island.The legal challenge is one of several confronting the Trump administration's broader effort to stall offshore wind development. Trump officials have paused work on five federal wind leases, citing a classified Defense Department assessment. Offshore wind companies say these actions threaten billions in investment and the viability of long-term energy goals. Empire Wind is projected to power about 500,000 homes once completed.US court to weigh New York project challenge to Trump offshore wind halt | ReutersThe Trump administration has reversed its decision to lay off nearly all employees of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service (CRS), an agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to mediate racial and ethnic conflicts. In a recent federal court filing in Boston, the DOJ stated that it rescinded the September layoff notices issued to 13 CRS staff members, citing “administrative discretion.” Civil rights groups, including two NAACP chapters and the Ethical Society of Police, had sued to block the terminations, arguing they were part of an unlawful attempt to dismantle the agency.Though the employees have been reinstated, it remains unclear if they will resume work on CRS functions. The plaintiffs have asked the court to hold a hearing to determine the practical impact of the reversal and whether CRS operations will truly continue. Under the Trump administration, the CRS reportedly stopped accepting new service requests and faced budget cuts, with the current White House proposal offering no funding for it. However, a bipartisan appropriations bill in Congress would allocate $20 million to support the agency.Previously, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani denied a temporary restraining order to stop the layoffs but said the plaintiffs had shown a strong likelihood of success. She is still considering whether to issue a permanent injunction to prevent dismantling the CRS.Trump administration reinstates fired employees of DOJ race-relations agency | ReutersTesla has agreed to enter mediation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to try to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging widespread racial harassment at its Fremont, California factory. The EEOC claims Tesla allowed a hostile work environment where Black employees were subjected to slurs, racist graffiti—including swastikas and nooses—and other forms of discrimination, some of which appeared on vehicles coming off the assembly line. Tesla has denied the allegations, arguing it was unaware of the conduct and accusing the EEOC of seeking publicity.U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley approved a pause on some discovery deadlines to prioritize mediation efforts. The EEOC and Tesla are currently selecting a mediator, with talks potentially beginning in March or April. Both sides must report to the judge by June 17 if mediation fails. The lawsuit, filed during the Biden administration in September 2023, is part of a series of legal challenges Tesla has faced over workplace issues at its Fremont facility.In a separate case, Tesla recently avoided a class-action lawsuit when a California judge ruled that over 6,000 Black workers at the plant could not proceed as a group, citing a lack of willing witnesses.Tesla agrees to mediation that could resolve US agency's racism lawsuit | ReutersSix federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on January 13, 2026, in a move that may disrupt the Justice Department's intensified efforts to crack down on public benefits fraud. Among those stepping down are Joe Thompson, the former acting U.S. attorney for the district, and Harry Jacobs, a key figure in cases involving misused child nutrition program funds. Both were central to the high-profile Feeding Our Future investigation, which scrutinized alleged fraud in federal nutrition programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.Sources say the resignations were linked to political pressure from the Trump administration, including demands to investigate the widow of Renée Nicole Good, who was killed by a U.S. immigration officer earlier this month. The DOJ reportedly declined to pursue charges against the officer, leading to internal dissent.Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned the resignations as evidence of the Trump administration's politicization of the DOJ, accusing it of forcing out experienced, nonpartisan staff. The departures come amid a broader exodus from the department, including five senior lawyers from the Civil Rights Division, which had worked closely with Minnesota prosecutors after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.Attorney General Pam Bondi recently announced a new DOJ fraud division and plans to deploy prosecutors from other regions to Minneapolis. The White House has also ramped up enforcement in other liberal-leaning districts, which has led to more prosecutions related to immigration protests and officer assaults—and in some cases, grand jury rejections of those prosecutions.Six US Prosecutors Resign in Minnesota as Crackdown Builds (1) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
US Offshore Wind Halts, Japan Launches First Floating Farm

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 26:34


Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss the ongoing federal halt on US offshore wind projects and mounting lawsuits from Equinor, Ørsted, and Dominion Energy. Plus Japan’s Goto floating wind farm begins commercial operation with eight Hitachi turbines on hybrid SPAR-type foundations, and Finnish investigators seize a vessel suspected of severing Baltic Sea cables. 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 Strike Tape, protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now your hosts, Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum and Yolanda Padron. Welcome to the  Allen Hall: Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Alan Hall. I’m here with Rosie Barnes, Joel Saxum, and Yolanda Padron. Many things on the docket this week. The, the big one is the five US offshore wind projects that are facing cancellation after the federal halt. And on December 22nd, as we all know, the US Department of Interior ordered construction halted on every offshore wind project in American waters. Uh, the recent given and still given is national security. Uh, developers see it way differently and they’ve been going to court to try to. Get this issue resolved. Ecuador, Ted and Dominion Energy have all filed lawsuits at this point. EOR says [00:01:00] a 90 day pause, which is what this is right now, will likely mean cancellation of their empire. Project Dominion is losing more than about $5 million a day, and everybody is watching to see what happens. Orton’s also talking about taking some action here. Uh, there’s a, a lot of moving pieces. Essentially, as it stands right now, a lot of lawsuits, nothing happening in the water, and now talks mostly Ecuador of just completely canceling the project. That will have big implications to US. Electricity along the east coast,  Joel Saxum: right Joel? Yeah. We need it. Right? So I, I hate to beat a dead horse here because we’ve been talking about this for so long. Um, but. We’ve got energy demand growth, right? We’re sitting at three to 5% year on year demand growth in the United States, uh, which is unprecedented. Since, since, and this is a crazy thing. Since air [00:02:00] conditioning was invented for residential homes, we have not had this much demand for electricity growth. We’ve been pretty flat for the last 20 years. Uh, so we need it, right? We wanna be the AI data center superpower. We wanna do all this stuff. So we need electrons. Uh, these electrons are literally the quickest thing gonna be on the grid. Uh, up and down that whole eastern seaboard, which is a massive population center, a massive industrial and commercial center of the United States, and now we’re cutting the cord on ’em. Uh, so it is going to drive prices up for all consumers. That is a reality, right? Um, so we, we hear campaign promises up and down the things about making life more affordable for the. Joe Schmo on the street. Um, this is gonna hurt that big time. We’re already seeing. I think it was, um, we, Alan, you and I talked with some people from PGM not too long ago, and they were saying 20 to 30% increases already early this year. Allen Hall: Yeah. The, the increases in electricity rates are not being driven by [00:03:00] offshore wind. You see that in the press constantly or in commentary. The reason electricity rates are going up along the east coast is because they’re paying for. The early shutdown of cold fire generation, older generation, uh, petroleum based, uh, dirty, what I’ll call dirty electricity generation, they’re paying to shut those sites down early. So that’s why your rates are going up. Putting offshore wind into the equation will help lower some of those costs, and onshore wind and solar will help lower those costs. But. The East Coast, especially the Northeast, doesn’t have a lot of that to speak of at the minute. So, uh, Joel, my question is right now, what do you think the likelihood is of the lawsuits that are being filed moving within the next 90 days? Joel Saxum: I mean, it takes a long time to put anything through any kind of, um, judicial process in the United States, however. There’s enough money, power [00:04:00] in play here that what I see this as is just like the last time we saw an injunction happen like this is, it’s more of a posturing move. I have the power to do this, or we have the power to do this. It’s, it’s, uh, the, it’s to get power. Over some kind of decision making process. So once, once people come to the table and start talking, I think these things will be let, let back loose. Uh, I don’t, I don’t think it will go all the way to, we need to have lawsuits and stuff. It’ll just be the threat of lawsuits. There’ll be a little bit of arbitration. They’ll go back to work. Um, the problem that I see. One of the problems, I guess, is if we get to the point where people, companies start saying like, you know what, we can’t do this anymore. Like, we can’t keep having these breaks, these pauses, these, this, you know, if it’s 90 days at $5 million a day, I mean that’s 450 million bucks. That’s crazy. But that nobody, nobody could absorb that.  Allen Hall: Will they leave the mono piles and transition pieces and some [00:05:00] towers just sitting in the water. That’s what  Joel Saxum: I was gonna say next is. What happens to all of the assets, all of the steel that’s in the water, all the, all the, if there’s cable, it lays if there’s been rock dumps or the companies liable to go pick them up. I don’t know what the contracts look like, right? I don’t know what the Boem leases say. I don’t know about those kind of things, but most of that stuff is because they go back to the oil field side of things, right? You have a 20 year lease at the end of your 20 year lease. You gotta clean it up. So if you put the things in the water, do they have 20 years to leave ’em out there before they plan on how they’re gonna pull ’em out or they gotta pull ’em out now? I don’t know.  Allen Hall: Would just bankrupt the LLCs that they formed to create these, uh, wind  Joel Saxum: farms. That’s how the oil field does it bankrupt. The LC move on. You’ve, you’ve more than likely paid a bond when you, you signed that lease and that, but that bond in like in a lot of. Things is not enough. Right. A bond to pull mono piles out would have to be, [00:06:00] I mean, you’re already at billions of dollars there, right? So, and, and if you look again to the oil and gas world, which is our nearest mirror to what happens here, when you go and decommission an old oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, you don’t pull the mono piles out. You go down to as close to the sea floor as you can get, and you just cut ’em off with a diamond saw. So it’s just like a big clamp that goes around. It’s like a big band saw. And you cut the foundations off and then pull the steel back to shore, so that can be done. Um, it’s not cheap.  Allen Hall: You know what I would, what I would do is the model piles are in, the towers are up, and depending on what’s on top of them, whether it’s in the cell or whatever, I would sure as hell put the red flashing lights on top and I would turn those things on and let ’em run just so everybody along the East coast would know that there could be power coming out of these things. But there’s not. So if you’re gonna look at their red flashy lights, you might as well get some, uh, megawatts out of them. That’s what I would do.  Joel Saxum: You’d have to wonder if the contracts, what, what, what it says in the contracts about. [00:07:00] Uh, utilization of this stuff, right? So if there’s something out there, does the FAA say, if you got a tower out there, it’s gotta have a light on it anyways. Allen Hall: It has to or a certain height. So where’s the power coming from? I don’t know. Solar panel. Solar panel. That’s what it have to be, right? Yeah. This is ridiculous. But this is the world we live in today.  Speaker 4: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Pullman on the park for Wind energy o and M Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at W OM a 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and m Australia is created by wind professionals for wind professionals. Because this industry needs solutions, not speeches, [00:08:00] Allen Hall: the dominoes keep falling. In American offshore wind, last year it was construction halts this year, contract delays. Massachusetts has pushed back the signing of two offshore wind agreements that were supposed to be done. Months ago, ocean Winds and Berroa won their bids in September of 2024. The paperwork is still unsigned more than a year later, a year and a half later. State officials blame Federal uncertainty. Uh, the new target is June and offshore wind for these delays are really becoming a huge problem, especially if you don’t have an offtake agreements signed, Joel.  Joel Saxum: I don’t see how the, I mean, again, I’m not sitting in those rooms. I’m not a fly on the wall there, but I don’t see how you can have something sitting out there for, it’s just say September 24. Yeah. Yeah. You’re at 18 months now, right? 17, 18 months without an agreement signed. Why is, why is Massachusetts doing this? What’s, what’s the, what’s the thing there? I mean, you’re an, [00:09:00] you are, uh, an ex Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Ian, is that what it’s called?  Allen Hall: Yeah. I, I think they would like to be able to change the pricing for the offtake is most likely what is happening as, uh, the Trump administration changes the agreements or trying to change the agreements, uh, the price can go up or down. So maybe the thing to do is to not sign it and wait this out to see what the courts say. Maybe something will happen in your favor. That’s a real shame. Right. Uh, there’s thousands of employees that have been sidelined. Uh, the last number I saw was around 4,000. That seems on the low end.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. I think about, um, the, the vessels too. Like you’re the, like the Eco Edison that was just built last year. I think it’s upwards of 500 million bucks or something to build that thing down in Louisiana, being sent up there. And you have all these other specialized, uh, vessels coming over from Europe to do all this construction. Um, you know. Of course if they’re coming over from Europe, those are being hot bunked and being paid standby rates, which [00:10:00] is crazy ’cause the standby rates are insane. Uh, ’cause you still gotta run fuel, you still gotta keep the thing running. You still gotta cook food. You still have all those things that have to happen on that offshore vessel. Uh, but they’re just gonna be sitting out there on DP doing nothing.  Yolanda Padron: You have the vessels, you have people’s jobs. You have. Regular people who are unrelated to energy at all suffering because of their prices going up for energy and just their cost of living overall going up. All because they don’t look pretty.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. The entire, that entire supply chain is suffering. I mean, Yolanda, you’re, you, you used to work with a company involved in offshore wind. How many people have, um, you know, have we seen across LinkedIn losing their jobs? Hey, we’re pivoting away from this. I gotta go find something else. And with that. In the United States, if you’re not from the States, you don’t know this, but there’s not that much wind, onshore wind on the East coast. So many of those families had to relocate out there, uproot your family, go out to Massachusetts, New Jersey, [00:11:00] Virginia, wherever, put roots back down and now you’re what? What happens? You gotta move back.  Yolanda Padron: Good luck to you. Especially, I mean, you know, it’s, it’s a lot of projects, right? So it’s not like you can just move on to the next wind farm. It’s a really unfortunate situation.  Allen Hall: Well, for years the promise of floating wind turbines has dangled just out of reach and the technology works, and the engineers have been saying for quite a while. We just needed someone to prove it at scale. Well, Japan just did the go-to floating wind farm began commercial operation this past week. Eight turbines on hybrid spar foundations anchored in water is too deep for anything fixed. Bottom, uh, it’s the first. Wind farm of his kind in Japan and signals to the rest of Asia that floating wind is possible. Now, uh, Rosemary, their turbines that are being used are Hitachi turbines, 2.1 megawatt machines. I don’t know a lot about this hybrid spark [00:12:00] type floater technology, which looks to be relatively new in terms of application. Is this gonna open up a large part of the Japanese shoreline to offshore wind? Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I mean, at the first glance it’s like two megawatt turbine turbines. That’s micro, even for onshore these days, that’s a really small turbine. Um, and for offshore, you know, usually when you hear about offshore announcements, it’s like 20 megawatt, 40 megawatt monstrosities. However, I, I think that if you just look at the size of it, then it really underestimates the significance of it, especially for Japan. Because they, one, don’t have a lot of great space to put turbines on shore or solar power on shore. Um, and two, they don’t have any, any good, um, locations for fixed bottom offshore. So this is not like this floating offshore wind farm. It’s not competing against many onshore um, options at all. For Japan, it’s competing against energy imports. I’m really happy to see [00:13:00] a proper wind farm. Um, in Japan and they’ll learn a lot from this. And I hope that it goes smoothly and that, you know, the next one can be bigger and better. And then it’s also, you know, Japan traditionally has been a really great manufacturing country and not so much with wind energy, but this could be their chance. If they’re the country that’s really on scale developing the floating offshore industry, they will necessarily, you know, like just naturally as a byproduct of that, they’re gonna develop manufacturing, at least supporting manufacturing and probably. Some major components and then bring down the cost. You know, the more that, um, these early projects might start out expensive, but get cheaper, fast. That’s how we hope it’ll go. And then they’ll push out into other areas that could benefit from offshore wind, but um, not at the cost. Somewhere like California, you know, they have the ability to have onshore wind. They’d really like some offshore wind, some floating offshore wind. But it is a hard sell there at the moment because it is so much more expensive. But if it gets cheaper because, you know, projects like [00:14:00] this help push the price down, then I think it will open things up a lot. So yeah, I am, I’m quite excited to see this project.  Allen Hall: Will it get cheaper at the two to six megawatt range instead of the 15 to 20 megawatt range?  Joel Saxum: That’s what I was gonna comment on. Like there’s, there’s a, there’s a key here that the general public misses. For a floating offshore wind farm. So if you’re gonna do this cost effectively, that’s why they did it with the 2.1 megawatts ones because with a, with the spar product that they’re using basically. And, and I was sourcing this off at my desk, so here you go,  Rosemary Barnes: Joel. We need a closed caption version for those listening on the podcast and not watching on YouTube. Joel’s holding like a foam, a foam model of a wind turbine. Looks like it’s got a stubby, stubby holder on the bottom.  Joel Saxum: This is. Turbine. Steel. Steel to a transition piece and then concrete, right? So this is basically a concrete tube like, um, with, with, uh, structural members on the inside of it. And you can float this thing or you can drag these, you can float ’em key side and then drag ’em out, and [00:15:00] then it just fill ’em halfway or three quarters away with ballast sea seawater. So you just open a valve, fill the thing up to three quarters of the way with seawater, and it sinks it down into the water a little bit. Water level sits about. Right at the transition piece and then it’s stable. And that’s a hybrid. Spar product is very simple. So to make this a easy demonstrate project, keyside facility is the key, is the big thing. So your Keyside facility, and you need a deep water keyside facility to make this easy. So if you go up to Alan, like you said, a two to six, to eight to 10 to 15 megawatt machine. You may have to go and take, you may have to barge the spars out and then dump ’em off the spar and then bring the turbines out and put ’em on. That’s not ideal. Right? But if you can do this all keyside, if you can have a crane on shore and you can float the spars and then put the, build the whole turbine, and then drag that out as it sits, that’s a huge cost reduction in the installation operations. So it, it’s all about how big is the subsea portion of the spar? How? How deep is your [00:16:00] deep water keyside port? To make it efficient to build. Right. So they’re looking at 10 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2030. Now it’s 2026. That’s only four years away, so 10 gigawatts. You’re gonna have to scale up the size of the turbines. It’ll be interesting how they do it, right? Because to me, flipping spars off of a barge is not that hard. That’s how jackets and spars have been installed in the past. Um, for, um, many industries, construction industries, whether it’s oil and gas or just maritime, construction can be done. Not a problem. Um, it’s just not as efficient. So we’ll see what, we’ll see what they do.  Allen Hall: You would need 5,000 turbines at two megawatts to get to 10 gigawatts, 5,000 turbines. They make 5,000 cars in a day. The, the Japanese manufacturing is really efficient. I wouldn’t put anything by the Japanese capabilities there.  Joel Saxum: The problem with that is the cost of the, the inter array cables and [00:17:00] export cables for 5,000 turbines is extreme. Allen Hall: We also know that. Some of the best technology has come out of Japan for the last 50 years, and then maybe there’s a solution to it. I, I’m really curious to see where this goes, because it’s a Hitachi turbine. It’s a 2.1 megawatt turbine, as Rosemary’s pointed out. That’s really old technology, but it is inexpensive to manufacture and easy to move around. Has benefits.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. It also means like they, they’re not gonna be surprised with like, you know, all of. When you make a 20 megawatt offshore wind turbine, you’re not only in the offshore environment, you’re also dealing with, you know, all your blade issues from a blade that long and 2.1 megawatt turbine has blades of the size that, you know, just so mature, reliable, robust. They can at least rule those headaches out of their, um, you know, out of their. Development phase and focus on the, the new stuff.  Joel Saxum: Does anybody know who [00:18:00] makes blades for Hitachi?  Allen Hall: Rosie? Was it lm? I, I, I know we have on a number of Hitachi turbines over time, but I don’t know who makes the blades.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I don’t know. But I mean, also it’s like, um, it doesn’t mean that they’re locked into 2.1 megawatts for forever, right? So, um, if the economics suggest that it is be beneficial to scale up. Presumably there will be a lot that they have learned from the smaller scale that will be de-risking the, the bigger ones as well. So, you know, um, it’s, there’s advantages to doing it both ways. It’s probably a slower, more steady progress from starting small and incrementally increasing compared to the, you know, like big, um, fail fast kind of, um, approach where you just do a big, big, huge turbine and just find out everything wrong with it all at once. Um, but. You know, pros and cons to both.  Allen Hall: Hitachi buys TPI. They got the money. They got the money, and they got the brain power. [00:19:00] Delamination and bottom line. Failures and blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. C-I-C-N-D-T are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their non-destructive test technology penetrates deep to blade materials to find voids and cracks. Traditional inspections completely. Miss C-I-C-N-D-T Maps. Every critical defect delivers actionable reports and provides support to get your blades back in service. So visit cic ndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions. The Baltic Sea has become a chessboard under sea. Cables carry data. Pipelines carry energy as we’ve all seen and someone keeps cutting them. Finnish investigators are now saying a cargo ship dragged its anchor [00:20:00] across the seabed for tens of kilometers before severing a telecommunications cable. On New Year’s Eve, special forces seize the vessel. Four crew members are detained, but the questions still remain. Who or what is trying to cut cables and pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.  Joel Saxum: It’s not accidents like it happened on New Year’s Eve and it was, and you drug an anchor for tens of kilometers. That’s on purpose. There’s, there’s no way that this is someone, oh, we forgot to pull the anchor up. You know how much more throttle you have to put on one of these? Have you seen an anchor for an offshore vessel? They’re the size of a fricking house,  Allen Hall: so they’re investigating it right now. And four, the 14 crew members are under detention. Travel restrictions, we’ll see how long that lasts. Crew includes nationals from of all places, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. So there is a, a Russian element to this. [00:21:00] I don’t know if you were all watching, I don’t know, a week or two ago when there’s a YouTube video from and oral, which makes undersea. Equipment and defense, uh, related, uh, products. And Palmer Lucky who runs that company basically said, there are microphones all over the bottom of the ocean, all around the world. Everything is monitored. There’s no way you can drag an anchor for a kilometer without somebody knowing. So I’m a little surprised this took so long to grab hold of, but. Maybe the New Year’s Eve, uh, was a good time to pick because everybody is kind of relaxed and not thinking about a ship, dragging an anchor and breaking telecommunication cables, wind turbines have to be really careful about this. There, there have to be some sort of monitoring, installation sensors that are going on around the, all the wind power that exists up in that region and all [00:22:00] the way down in, in the North Sea. To prevent this from happening, the sabotage is ridiculous. At this point,  Joel Saxum: yeah. I mean, even, even with mattresses over the export cables, or the inter array cables or, or rock bags or rock dumps or, or burials, these anchors are big enough to, to cut those, to drag and cut ’em like it, it’s just a, it’s a reality. It’s a risk. But someone needs to be monitoring these things closer if they’re not yet. ’cause you are a hundred percent correct. There’s, so, there’s, there’s private, there’s public sides of the acoustic monitoring, right? So like the United States military monitors, there’s, there’s acoustic monitoring all up and down. I can’t actually never, I looked into it quite a while ago. There’s a name for the whole system. It’s called the blah, blah, blah, and it monitors our coastline. Like ev, there’s a sensor. Every man, it’s a couple miles. Like all, all around the EEZ of the United States. And that exists everywhere. So like you think like in international waters, guarantee that the United States has got microphones out listening to, [00:23:00] right. So, but if you’re in the Baltic Sea, it’s a little bit different of an, of a confined space. But you have Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, all along the southern and eastern coast and the, and Russia. And then you have the Fins, Swedes, Norwegian, Denmark, Germany. Everybody is Poland. Everybody’s monitoring that for sure. It’s just like a postmortem investigation is, is doable.  Allen Hall: Yolanda, how are they gonna stop this? Should they board the ships, pull the people off and sink them? What is it gonna take for this to end?  Yolanda Padron: I don’t know. In the meantime, I think Joel has a movie going on in his head about how exactly he’s gonna portray this. Um, yeah, it’s. I mean, I’d say better monitoring, but I, I’m not sure. I guess keep a closer eye on it next time. I mean, I really hope it’s, there’s not a next time, but there seems to be a pattern developing. Right.  Allen Hall: I forgot how many of those happened.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. The maritime, this is a, this is a tough reality about the maritime world. [00:24:00] ’cause I, I’ve done some work done in Africa and down there it’s specifically the same thing. There’s say there’s a vessel. Okay, so a vessel is flagged from. S Cy Malta, a lot of vessels are flagged Malta or Cyprus, right? Because of the laws. The local laws there that Cyprus flagged vessel may be owned by a company based in, um, Bermuda that’s owned by a company based in Russia that’s owned by a company based in India. All of these things are this way. There’s shell companies and hidden that you don’t know who owns vessels unless they’re even, even the specific ones. Like if you go to a Maersk vessel. And you’re like, oh, that’s Maersk, they’re Danish. Nope. That thing will be, that thing will be flagged somewhere else, hidden somewhere else. And it’s all about what port you go to and how much taxes you can hide from, and you’ll never be able to chase down the actual parties that own these vessels and that are responsible you, you, it, it’s so [00:25:00] difficult. You’re literally just going to have to deal with the people on board, and you can try to chase the channels to who owns that boat, but you’ll never find them. That’s the, that’s the trouble with it.  Allen Hall: It does seem like a Jean Claude Van Dam situation will need to happen pretty soon. Maybe as Steven Segal, something has to happen. It can’t continue to go on it over the next couple of months with as much attention as being paid to international waters and. Everything that’s happening around the world, you’d think that, uh, ships Defense Department ships from Denmark, Finland, Germany. We will all be watching this really closely UK be watching this and trying to stop these things before they really even happened. Interesting times. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcasts. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas. We’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. [00:26:00] And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show for Rosie, Yolanda and Joel. I’m Alan Hall and we’ll catch you next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

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Ørsted Loses €1.5M Daily, Equinor Sets Empire Wind Deadline

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2026 1:52


Allen covers the deepening US offshore wind crisis as Ørsted reports losing €1.5 million daily on American projects and Equinor sets a January 16 deadline to resume or cancel Empire Wind. Meanwhile, onshore wind thrives with Invenergy’s 2GW Oklahoma project and AES repowering Buffalo Gap in Texas with Vestas turbines. 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! Danish energy giant Ørsted said it is losing one and a half million euros on US offshore projects. Every. Single. Day. Norwegian company Equinor has drawn a line in the sand. January sixteenth. Resume construction on Empire Wind… or cancel the whole thing. 3.5 billion euros invested. Sixty percent complete. And now… a deadline. As we all know, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued stop-work orders on December twenty-second. Just before Christmas. A gift nobody wanted. Ørsted has filed complaints. First on Revolution Wind. Then Sunrise Wind. Court documents reveal the Danish company stands to lose more than 5 billion euros if forced to abandon both projects. Meanwhile… President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing America from sixty-six international organizations. Many focused on energy cooperation. On climate. Ole Rydahl Svensson of Green Power Denmark calls it a sad development. But not surprising. Ole says America is abdicating from renewable energy… in favor of energy forms of the past. The empty seats will be filled quickly, he predicts. By China. By Europe. I personally get asked every week by my European friends, is US onshore wind also under attack?? I think the answer is not yet. While offshore wind projects sit paralyzed by federal orders… Out in the Oklahoma Panhandle… something different is happening. Invenergy is planning a three hundred wind turbine wind farm. Two gigawatts of power. Enough electricity for eight hundred fifty thousand American homes. According to recent filings the turbines will be supplied by GE Vernova. Invenergy already operates wind farms in ten Oklahoma counties. They’ve already built the largest single-phase wind park in North America outside of Oklahoma City. Four billion dollars of investment. Five hundred construction jobs. Thirty permanent positions. No stop-work orders. No court battles. No international incidents. And down near Abilene Texas, AES is repowering its Buffalo Gap wind farm – the existing 282 turbines will be replaced with 117 new Vestas V150 4.5MW turbines. $94 million in tax revenue for local counties and schools over its lifetime. It will also create 300 jobs during peak construction and 17 long-term operations jobs. So while the US oceans remain off-limits… While billions evaporate in legal fees and idle vessels… The wind industry continues to move forward. And that’s the state of the wind industry for January 12, 2026. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast tomorrow.

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Trump Suspends Offshore Wind Leases, Airloom Turbines

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2026 3:23


Allen covers the Trump administration’s suspension of five East Coast offshore wind leases on national security grounds, and the wave of lawsuits from developers like Equinor and Ørsted calling the reasoning pretextual. Plus Bill Gates-backed startup Airloom showcases its low-profile turbine design at CES 2026, and Brazil opens consultation on curtailment compensation for renewables. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update 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 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Five major offshore wind projects sit idle today. Billions of dollars in equipment. Thousands of workers. All waiting. President Trump has made no secret of his feelings about wind power. He has called offshore wind a scam. He has said these projects cost too much. He has compared them unfavorably to natural gas. Big ugly windmills, he calls them. His administration has moved aggressively to stop them. First came executive orders suspending federal approvals. Then stop-work orders on projects already under construction. In December, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management took the boldest step yet. It suspended the federal leases for five East Coast projects. The reason given: national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently classified reports. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum explained that wind turbine blade movement can interfere with radar systems. He pointed to vulnerabilities created by large-scale projects near population centers. The companies building these projects see it differently. Empire Wind called the reasoning hollow and pretextual. In court filings, the company pointed to statements from the Secretary of Interior and the White House. The real motivation, they argued, relates to the administration’s opposition to offshore wind energy. Not national security. Politics. These are not small projects. Empire Wind is sixty percent complete. Four billion dollars invested. Nearly four thousand workers employed during construction. When finished, it would power half a million New York homes. Its parent company, Norwegian energy giant Equinor, says it has coordinated closely with federal officials on national security reviews since twenty-seventeen. It has complied with every requirement. Revolution Wind is eighty-seven percent finished. A five billion dollar venture between Danish company Ørsted and Global Infrastructure Partners. The project went through more than nine years of federal review before approval in twenty-twenty-three. National security considerations were comprehensively addressed, the company says. Workers sat waiting on the water when construction was halted in August. A federal judge allowed them to resume in September. Now they’re stopped again. Both companies warn that the ninety-day suspension will likely result in cancellation. Offshore wind construction depends on highly choreographed specialized vessels. Complex sequencing. Narrow weather windows. You cannot simply pause and restart. Dominion Energy has also filed suit over its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. The company calls the suspension arbitrary and capricious. The legal battles are piling up. In December, a federal judge in Massachusetts declared an earlier stop-work order illegal. Seventeen states had sued. New York Attorney General Letitia James led the coalition. As New Yorkers face rising energy costs, she said, we need more energy sources, not fewer. Wind energy is good for our environment, our economy, and our communities. She called the administration’s actions a reckless and unlawful crusade against clean energy. Four East Coast governors issued a joint statement. New York’s Kathy Hochul. Massachusetts’ Maura Healey. Connecticut’s Ned Lamont. Rhode Island’s Daniel McKee. Coastal states are working hard to build more energy, they said. These projects have created thousands of jobs. They have injected billions in economic activity into our communities. The National Ocean Industries Association is calling for an end to the pause. Offshore wind improves national security, says president Erik Milito. It shifts economic, infrastructure, and geopolitical advantages to the United States. The Interior Department has declined to comment on the lawsuits. Meanwhile, at CES twenty-twenty-six in Las Vegas, a different kind of wind power is making news. A startup called Airloom is showcasing a radical new turbine design. Backed by Bill Gates. No towering blades reaching for the sky. Instead, a low-profile system about sixty-six to ninety-eight feet high. Picture a loop of adjustable wings traveling along a track. More roller coaster than windmill. The company claims forty percent less material. Forty-seven percent lower cost. Eighty-five percent faster deployment. They say projects can be built in under a year instead of five. And unlike traditional turbines, these can go places conventional wind farms cannot. Remote islands. Mountainous terrain. Near airports. Even military bases. Places where spinning blades would be impractical. The company broke ground on a pilot site last June. Commercial demonstrations are planned for twenty-twenty-seven. Down in Brazil, the government is tackling a different wind energy challenge. What happens when you generate more power than the grid can handle? Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has opened a public consultation. The question: how should wind and solar generators be compensated when their output gets curtailed? The government wants to balance legal certainty for investors against excessive costs for electricity consumers. Stakeholders have until January sixteenth to weigh in. So there you have it. The near future of US offshore wind will be decided in court rooms over the next few weeks. The curtailment of Brazilian renewables will be bandied about in January. And a Bill Gates supported wind company is going to try it’s hand at power remote locations. I hope you had new year’s celebration. 2026 is going to be an interesting ride. And that’s the wind energy news for the 5th of January, 2026. Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

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Offshore Wind Projects Canceled, What this means for consumers and investors.

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 19:13


Michael and I would like to take a moment and thank all of our great Subscribers and patrons this year. It has been a wildly successful growth year in listens, watches, and articles read, and we are truly blessed to see it. We are striving to improve and keep growing with some different things rolling out next year.While the cancellation is under review with the Department of War for national security risks, I think that if science is applied, it will be an easy ruling. So after reading about these cancellations, I wanted to see who would be impacted by the company and how consumers would be impacted. This will be an ongoing story as it unfolds, but the high utility costs will be passed on to consumers. And make no mistake, the Democrats will use this to their advantage, and Republicans won't do anything.President Trump and Secretaries Doug Burgum and Chris Wright are running down the road trying to do the right thing for the American People. The costs associated with the project are going to be huge, and when the Democrats start ripping President Trump over this, remember the Billions of dollars and the crippling of the economy that Obama, Biden, and the governors of Democratic states cost the US citizens by their overreach and Net Zero enforcement of horrific policies. The main topics discussed1. The Trump administration's cancellation of several major offshore wind projects in the U.S. due to national security concerns. The projects mentioned include Vineyard Wind One, Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind, Coastal Virginia Wind Offshore, and Empire Wind.2. The potential impact of these project cancellations on companies involved, such as Dominion Energy, GE Vernova, Orsted, and Equinor. The transcript discusses the financial performance and stock price movements of these companies.3. The debate around the definition of "green energy" and the challenges of integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar into the power grid, including issues around transmission, costs, and reliability.4. The delay or cancellation of the retirement of some fossil fuel power plants in the U.S. in response to increasing electricity demand, particularly from the growth of AI and data centers.5. The global oil market dynamics, including the "oil glut" with a large number of oil tankers at sea, the impact of sanctions on major producers like Russia and Venezuela, and discussions around OPEC's role in oil price determination.6. The overall commentary on the state of the energy industry, policy debates, and Stu's perspectives on the various topics covered.1.All Large Scale Offshore Wind Projects Under Construction Suspended Due to National Security Concerns2.Virginia-based Utility Dominion Energy May Be Hit as Investors Eye This Week's Offshore Wind Cancellations3.GE Vernova Inc: Supplier to Vineyard Wind, Looking at Its Books After This Week's Trump Administration Cancellation of Projects4.U.S. Fossil-Fuel Power Plants Delay Retirement as AI Power Demand Soars5.Oil Glut and Surging Barrels at Sea Have Spooked Oil Traders and the Market, but Is This Market Dysfunction Rather Than a Glut?6.U.S. Department of Energy to Return $13 Billion to the Treasury and a clear definition of green energy is needed.Feel Free to use this as an excuse to not hang out with your in-laws if you need to over the holidays. We may be more fun. Check out the Energy News Beat Substack: https://theenergynewsbeat.substack.com/Check out the Energy News Beat Website: https://energynewsbeat.co/Also, if you need to calculate your tax burden, check out the tax calculator here https://energynewsbeat.co/invest/Merry Christmas to all, and thank you to all of our great followers, subscribers, and patrons.Check out Reese Energy Consulting, Sponsor of the Energy News Beat, Stand Up https://reeseenergyconsulting.com/

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Empire Offshore Progress, New RWE Offshore Farm Approved

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025 2:10


Allen covers forecasts for 46 GW of new US wind capacity by 2029, driven by data centers and reshoring. Plus Equinor’s Empire Wind project stays on track for late 2026, RWE gets approval for the Five Estuaries offshore wind farm in the UK, and a Scottish startup raises funding for modular multi-rotor turbines. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly Substack newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by StrikeTape by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Follow us on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Engineering with Rosie on YouTube! Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! There is an old saying about the wind. You cannot see it. You cannot hold it. But you can harness it. And right now, people around the world are doing exactly that. After years of sluggish growth, American wind power is waking up. Wood Mackenzie reports the United States will add more than seven gigawatts of new wind capacity in 2025. That is a thirty-six percent jump from this year. And by 2029? Forty-six gigawatts of new capacity coming online. Why now? Because after a decade of flat electricity demand, America is hungry for power again. Data centers. Electric vehicles. Factories returning home. Demand is growing three percent annually now, up from less than one percent before. Out West, they are leading the charge. Wyoming. New Mexico. Colorado. Pattern Energy’s three-point-five gigawatt SunZia project in New Mexico alone will make them the top wind installer in 2026. And Invenergy’s Towner Energy Center in Colorado? Nine hundred ninety-eight megawatts. The single largest project expected to come online in 2027. But here is where it gets interesting. Off the coast of Long Island, a different kind of story is unfolding. The Empire Wind project. Eight hundred ten megawatts of offshore wind power. Enough to power half a million homes in Brooklyn. Norwegian energy giant Equinor is building it. And despite the political headwinds blowing against offshore wind, New York is standing firm. First electricity expected by late 2026. Across the Atlantic, Britain just gave the green light to something bigger. The Five Estuaries offshore wind farm. Seventy-nine turbines off the coast of Suffolk and Essex. At least twenty-three miles from shore. German energy company RWE is building it. When complete, it will power one million British homes. One million. Meanwhile, Europe is putting its money where the wind blows. Austria’s Erste Group just signed a two hundred million euro deal with the European Investment Bank. Part of an eight billion euro program to strengthen European wind turbine manufacturers. As Karl Nehammer, the bank’s vice president, put it: Europe is serious about keeping wind manufacturing jobs at home. Now… You might think wind power is all about going big. Massive offshore farms. Turbines taller than skyscrapers. But in Stirling, Scotland, three entrepreneurs have a different idea. Adam Harris. Paul Pirrie. Peter Taylor. They founded a company called Myriad Wind Energy Systems. Their invention? Small modular wind turbines. Multiple rotors mounted in a framework. No cranes needed. No special roads. Install them on a farm. On a factory. On a remote site where traditional turbines could never go. This week, they secured eight hundred sixty-five thousand pounds in seed funding. Led by Tricapital Angels. Their first prototype? A fifty-kilowatt unit scheduled for 2026. From Wyoming to New York. From Essex to Austria. From the North Sea to the Scottish Highlands. Wind energy is not waiting for permission. It is happening. Forty-six gigawatts in America alone by decade’s end. Billions of euros flowing in Europe. Innovators in Scotland proving that sometimes, smaller is smarter. You cannot see the wind. But you can see what it is building. That’s the wind industry news for the 22nd of December 2025. Happy Holidays folks, wherever you may be.

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Trumps irre Milliarden-Fusion und Win-Win-Deal für Netflix

Alles auf Aktien

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 20:57


In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Anja Ettel und Philipp Vetter über den Rebound von Big Tech, Gerüchte um die Europäische Zentralbank und Aktivistenalarm bei Lululemon. Außerdem geht es um Micron, Oracle, Broadcom, Coreweave, Nvidia, AMD, Lululemon, Tilray, Canopy Growth, Netflix, Warner Bros., Paramount Skydance, Douglas, Rheinmetall, Trump Media and Technology Group, TAE Technologies, Alphabet, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Equinor, Eni, Cenovus Energy, Lockheed Martin, Nucor, Synopsys und Microsoft. Die aktuelle "Alles auf Aktien"-Umfrage findet Ihr unter: https://www.umfrageonline.com/c/mh9uebwm Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts und AAA-Newsletter.[ Hier bei WELT.](https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html.) [Hier] (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6zxjyJpTMunyYCY6F7vHK1?si=8f6cTnkEQnmSrlMU8Vo6uQ) findest Du die Samstagsfolgen Klassiker-Playlist auf Spotify! Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? [**Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte!**](https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien) Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Forklart
Kort Forklart: Unormalt varm desember, og klarer Joachim Trier det igjen?

Forklart

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 6:50


Flere steder i Norge ligger desember an til å bli rekordvarm. Det er den nye normalen, mener klimaforsker. Vi oppsummerer nyhetene for deg, i dag også om Equinor som får gigantbot, og «Affeksjonsverdi» som er Oscar-favoritt.

Podcasts epbr
Cláudia Brun, VP de Estratégia e Novos Negócios da Equinor | videocast gas week #016

Podcasts epbr

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 54:39


A vice-presidente de Estratégia e Desenvolvimento de Novos Negócios da Equinor, Cláudia Brun, analisa a trajetória da empresa no mercado brasileiro de gás. Ela detalha as estratégias de comercialização do gás de Raia e os avanços do projeto, além das perspectivas para o fornecimento a termelétricas do LRCAP e data centers. A executiva também comenta os desafios regulatórios, a revisão tarifária das transportadoras e os planos da Equinor para biometano e combustíveis de baixo carbono. Uma visão abrangente sobre os investimentos da companhia norueguesa no Brasil. Inscreva-se no canal e ative as notificações para não perder os próximos debates. Deixe seu like para promover esse conteúdo. Capítulos 00:00 Abertura 00:55 Apresentação e trajetória pessoal de Cláudia Brun 05:00 Trajetória da Equinor no mercado brasileiro de gás 08:32 Lições aprendidas nos primeiros contratos 11:50 Atualização do projeto Raia 13:35 Estratégia de comercialização e contrato com Comgás 15:42 Fornecimento para termelétricas do LRCAP 17:30 Visão sobre data centers e confiabilidade energética 20:26 Estratégia para o mercado livre de gás 24:25 Perspectivas de preço do gás e competitividade 27:55 Ambiente regulatório e novos investimentos 30:54 Projeto Bacalhau fase 2 33:22 Blocos Itaimbezinho e Jaspe 37:43 Debate sobre acesso ao SIE/SIP 41:49 Perspectivas sobre leilão de gás da União 44:25 Visão sobre gas release 46:25 Revisão tarifária das transportadoras 48:52 Estratégia para biometano e baixo carbono 54:00 Considerações finais e encerramento #equinor #gasnatural #preçodogasnatural #produçãoeexploração #datacenters

Lexicon by Interesting Engineering
ANYbotics and Equinor: engineering the future of autonomous inspection

Lexicon by Interesting Engineering

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2025 35:03


In this episode of Lexicon, we speak with Dr. Péter Fankhauser, CEO of ANYbotics, and Jasmine Assefi, Key Account Manager for Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, about how robotics is transforming operations at Equinor's Northern Lights CO₂ storage project—the world's first open-access carbon transport and storage facility. Together, they explore how “Roberta,” an ANYbotics robot deployed by Equinor, is redefining industrial autonomy, safety, and sustainability.Also, don't forget to subscribe to IE+ for premium insights and exclusive content!

The Interchange
How are key renewable energies faring at the end of 2025? Guest host and energy analyst Bridget Van Dorsten talks through developments in geothermal, hydrogen and wind.

The Interchange

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 37:11


At the start of the year things were looking uncertain for nascent renewables like hydrogen and geothermal. With policy support from the previous US administration they had boomed with the IRA, then came July 2025 and the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill, which tore up tax credits and removed incentives for those renewable technologies. As we approach the end of the year, has anything changed for the better? How are hydrogen, wind and geothermal looking as we prepare for 2026?Regular host Sylvia Leyva Martinez is on maternity leave until the middle of next year, so her fellow energy analyst Bridget Van Dorsten is stepping up to keep the mic warm. Bridget is an analyst researching hydrogen, but she has an engineer's understanding of technologies across the energy spectrum. She doesn't just cover that ‘frustrating, inefficient, expensive-to-move-around molecule' (as she calls it); she knows what's real in the energy world and what's just hype. To kick off her tenure as host she's picked out a few highlights from the year relating to those important renewables – geothermal, hydrogen and wind. Looking back on those conversations Sylvia had with experts on those fields, Bridget then gives the energy analyst's view on how things are progressing in the current policy environment. Expect in-depth analysis on what's changed, and the key stats and forecasts you need to know as 2026 approaches. Plus, Bridget looks back on the conversation Sylvia had with energy investors back in July, when we saw the oil and gas majors like Shell and Equinor announce they were scaling back their climate ambitions under pressure from investors. Bridget explores why the energy transition is unfolding slower than expected, how shareholder pressure is reshaping low-carbon strategies, and why companies like TotalEnergies and Shell have retreated from their plans to phase down fossil fuels. Bridget will be hosting until mid-next-year, and she wants to know what topics you want explored.Connect with the show and let us know what you want to hear, on LinkedIn, X or Bluesky at @interchangeshow, and follow the podcast so you don't miss the episodes coming in the new year.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

E24-podden
Penger, pølser og politikk: Budsjettdrama, skattelister og Røkkeshow

E24-podden

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2025 24:29


Her får du en smakebit av en annen E24-podkast, Penger, pølser og politikk, som kommer hver mandag etter lunsj. Finn frem popkorn-bøtta, for denne uken blir det budsjettdrama! I helgen brøt MDG budsjettforhandlingene og SV sa nei til forslaget som lå på bordet. Hvor går veien videre for Ap, Sp og Rødt nå? Roar foreslår at Ap kan ringe Equinor for å hente litt sukker til pillen for å blidgjøre MDG, og hva er det SV vil? Det blir mye statsbudsjett denne uken, men det er også ventet skattelistetall og så skal investor og sitatmaskin Kjell Inge Røkke vitne i rettssaken som pågår i Oslo tingrett.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
Ørsted Denies Equinor Merger, WOMA 2026 Tickets Live

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 32:26


The crew discusses Equinor's significant investment in Ørsted, while Ørsted denies plans to merge. They also cover Jupiter Bach's new plant in Colorado and the upcoming Wind Operation and Maintenance Australia 2026 event. Register for ORE Catapult's UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight!Learn more about Composite Inspection and Consulting! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update 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 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! You are listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now, here's your hosts. Allen Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes.  Allen Hall: Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall in the queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina. I have Rosemary Barnes in Australia who has, uh, been doing a little bit of travel. Joel is back in Austin, Texas. Man, I feel like everybody's been traveling a lot and so is Yolanda. The Yolanda has been on the road quite a bit and we have a really interesting week in wind energy. Particularly over in Denmark and Norway, and if you've been following the news there, uh, as we all know, Ecuador had a pretty big investment into Sted several months ago where they put in about two and a half [00:01:00] billion dollars to buy 10% of Sted to help write the ship a little bit, and then. A c basically last month, right Joel? It was about last month where they, they spent about a billion dollars for the right rights issue, uh, to keep that stock moving, right, and or, and need more cash. And that's how they raised it. That's a total investment, about three and a half billion dollars. That's a lot of money for anybody to be spending at this moment, and Ecuador is thinking this is a pretty good bet. That's great and they wanna work closer with Ted. And the talk is that Ecuador wants a boar seat with Ted Joel. Is there any chance that is going to happen?  Joel Saxum: Well, it was, it's interesting that they brought that up as well, right? Because the initial buy-in, you know, back I think six, nine months ago or whatever it was, they specifically said in their press release, we are not trying to get a board seat. We don't want to have [00:02:00] control over this, yada, yada, yada. But then when the rights issue came out, and I think it was the, the TED stock dropped like 30% or something that day. Um, they threw more cash in, they got a little bit more power. But it's like anything, right? Once, once you've got, uh, quite a bit of money invested and you have a, have pretty heavy percentage of us of whatever that investment may be, it can be. Half ownership in a car, I don't care. You want to have a little bit more say about what happens with your money and what the results can be based on strategic decisions. And if you've, you know, been watching Ted's decisions. Now they've been at the, the whim of government policies and stuff for the last few years, but they've also mistepped a little bit on a couple of them. Uh, so you can see EOR wanting to get in there to protect their investment a little bit. The, in the funny thing to me here, and, um, Rosie, you spent a ton of time up in Denmark, is the, the, the back and forth between the Norwegians and the Danes about, oh, you're, you're just our [00:03:00] little brother. You're our, oh, you're our distant cousin, da da da da. How they were kind of all at one point in time, a lot, you know, a lot closer. There was what was called the, um, the calmer Union, I think it was. And that was the Danes, Norwegians,

Energy News Beat Podcast
CapEx Growth Returns What It Means for Oil & Gas Investors the ENB Weekly Recap

Energy News Beat Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2025 24:32


In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat Daily Standup - Weekly Recap, Stuart Turley and Michael Tanner break down a whirlwind of critical updates—from Secretary Chris Wright's aggressive timeline on rare earth mineral development to the real story behind ANWR lease openings and the mounting capital challenges in Alaska's frozen frontier. They dive into sanctions, Venezuela's geopolitics, and the myth of energy “transition” vs the reality of energy addition. Plus, insights on TotalEnergies' Anadarko gas deal, Equinor's earnings miss, and why utilities and fossil fuels are still where the real returns lie. Buckle up for the smartest 20 minutes in energy.Subscribe to Our Substack For Daily InsightsWant to Add Oil & Gas To Your Portfolio? Fill Out Our Oil & Gas Portfolio SurveyNeed Power For Your Data Center, Hospital, or Business?Follow Stuart On LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuturley/ andTwitter: https://twitter.com/STUARTTURLEY16Follow Michael On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelta... andTwitter: https://twitter.com/mtanner_1Timestamps:00:00 - Intro00:17 - Secretary Chris Wright has a plan for Rare Earth and Critical Minerals – What is the timeline?03:36 - Now that the Alaska ANWR is Open for Lease Sales, Who Will Develop?08:10 - New Oil Sanctions Will Not Stop Russia's War Machine14:08 - We Are in an Energy Addition, Not Transition20:08 - TotalEnergies Bolsters US Gas Presence with 49% Stake in Anadarko Basin Assets22:07 - Lower Oil Prices Hit Equinor's Q3 Profits and They Miss Analysts Estimates24:23 - OutroLinks to articles discussed:Secretary Chris Wright has a plan for Rare Earth and Critical Minerals – What is the timeline?Now that the Alaska ANWR is Open for Lease Sales, Who Will Develop?New Oil Sanctions Will Not Stop Russia's War MachineWe Are in an Energy Addition, Not TransitionTotalEnergies Bolsters US Gas Presence with 49% Stake in Anadarko Basin AssetsLower Oil Prices Hit Equinor's Q3 Profits and They Miss Analysts Estimates

The Global Lithium Podcast
Episode 222: The Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit (with Governor Sanders)

The Global Lithium Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 62:13


The state of Arkansas is poised to be the next great lithium brine province. This week at the Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit I interviewed Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders along with Allie Kennedy Thurmond and Jason Muller from Equinor, Ashu Sharma from Aquatech and Jesse Edmondson of Standard Lithium.Topics:Why Arkansas?Angela's storyGoing downstreamNo DLE, no SmackoverUS policy gapsStockpile optionsBuilding value chainsThe Smackover Lithium cultureForce multipliersAquatech's businessProcess optimization Li-Pro & PearlWhat's next for the Summit?

Energy News Beat Podcast
Energy Addition Not Transition and What It Really Means for Investors

Energy News Beat Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 17:47


In this episode of Energy Newsbeat Daily Standup, Stuart Turley breaks down why we're living through an energy addition, not a transition—as global demand for oil, gas, and coal continues to climb despite record renewable spending. He dives into Texas ERCOT's massive overbuild of nameplate capacity, BP's $25 billion Iraq investment as a geopolitical lifeline, Iraq's new LNG import deal, and major oil producers ramping output despite OPEC's challenges. Plus, updates on TotalEnergies' U.S. gas expansion and Equinor's Q3 profit drop, highlighting how “green transition” strategies have failed and traditional energy remains the cornerstone for investors. Subscribe to Our Substack For Daily Insights Want to Add Oil & Gas To Your Portfolio? Fill Out Our Oil & Gas Portfolio Survey Need Power For Your Data Center, Hospital, or Business? Follow Stuart On LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuturley/ andTwitter: https://twitter.com/STUARTTURLEY16 Follow Michael On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelta... andTwitter: https://twitter.com/mtanner_1 Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro00:08 - We Are in an Energy Addition, Not Transition06:21 - BP's New $25 Billion Investment in Iraq's Kirkuk Fields Is Far More Than an Oil Project—It's a Geopolitical Pivot07:59 - Iraq Secures First Floating LNG Import Platform Deal with U.S. Firm08:50 - Oil Giants Join OPEC in Boosting Production with Earnings Confirmations This Week12:28 - TotalEnergies Bolsters US Gas Presence with 49% Stake in Anadarko Basin Assets14:41 - Lower Oil Prices Hit Equinor's Q3 Profits and They Miss Analysts Estimates17:03 - Outro Links to articles discussed: We Are in an Energy Addition, Not TransitionBP's New $25 Billion Investment in Iraq's Kirkuk Fields Is Far More Than an Oil Project—It's a Geop…Iraq Secures First Floating LNG Import Platform Deal with U.S. FirmOil Giants Join OPEC in Boosting Production with Earnings Confirmations This WeekTotalEnergies Bolsters US Gas Presence with 49% Stake in Anadarko Basin AssetsLower Oil Prices Hit Equinor's Q3 Profits and They Miss Analysts Estimates

Ransquawk Rundown, Daily Podcast
Europe Market Open: China to purchase US soybeans; European equity futures lower

Ransquawk Rundown, Daily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 3:56


APAC stocks were predominantly in the green following the tech strength on Wall St, most indices extended to record highs.US President Trump said he had a great trip so far and expects to lower fentanyl-linked tariffs on China. China said to have made soybean purchase.European equity futures indicate a marginally lower cash market open with Euro Stoxx 50 future down 0.1% after the cash index closed with losses of 0.1% on Tuesday.USD is broadly firmer vs. peers with GBP still under pressure. AUD leads as hot Aus CPI dashes hopes of an RBA rate cut next month.Israeli planes launched strikes on Gaza City. US VP Vance said he thinks peace in the Middle East will hold despite skirmishes.Looking ahead, highlights US Pending Homes (Sep), FOMC & BoC Policy Announcements, US President Trump to meet South Korea's Leader, Fed Chair Powell & BoC's Macklem, Supply from UK, Germany & US.Earnings from Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Google, Starbucks, eBay, Verizon, Boeing, CVS, Caterpillar, Phillips 66, UBS, BASF, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Bank, Equinor, Santander, GSK & Airbus.Read the full report covering Equities, Forex, Fixed Income, Commodites and more on Newsquawk

E24-podden
Equinor-sjefen om Smørbukker, havvind og gass

E24-podden

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 19:46


Norges desidert største selskap har lagt frem ferske kvartalstall. Blir det mer Smørbukk enn Bacalhau i Equinors fremtid? Kan vi samtidig få en overflod av gass i lang tid? Og hva er planene for havvind - både her og der? Med konsernsjef Anders Opedal i Equinor. Programleder Sindre Heyerdahl. Produsent Erik Holm-Nyvold. Ansvarlig redaktør Lars Håkon Grønning. Hør E24-podden der du hører podkast. Analyser, nyheter og innsikt i business og næringsliv. E24-podden ble i mai 2025 kåret til årets aktualitetspodkast under Medieprisene i Bergen.

The Interchange
It's turbulent times for the wind sector in the US, but the outlook is better across the pond. What can the US learn from Europe?

The Interchange

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 41:49


Nearly 150 days into President Trump's second term, the outlook for wind energy in the United States - particularly offshore wind - is increasingly bleak. Trump had pledged to end offshore wind development, and now the House Ways and Means Committee is proposing a phase-out of tax credits for renewables by 2031 - a move that would severely impact an already struggling wind sector (over on our sister podcast Energy Gang, we discuss the bill and what it means for renewables – check out that episode once you're finished here).Only three offshore wind projects have come online in US waters, with 4 GW currently under construction. In 2024, total wind installations reached a ten-year low at just 5.2 GW. By contrast, Europe has surged ahead, having built 35 GW of offshore wind capacity - ten times the US total – emphasising the stark differences in policy and financing frameworks.Still, there are glimmers of hope: President Trump recently lifted a stop-work order on a $5 billion offshore wind farm off the coast of New York, following lobbying from Governor Kathy Hochul. The project, led by Norwegian company Equinor, is expected to power 500,000 homes by 2027. However, with developer confidence sinking, experts warn that the stop-start nature of US policy continues to undermine long-term momentum in the sector. To forecast the next few years for wind in the US, host Sylvia Leyva Martinez – principal analyst at Wood Mackenzie – is joined by analyst Stephen Maldonado. They explore the policy and technology that's holding back deployment of offshore wind in the US.Plus, looking across the Atlantic to Europe, Sylvia talks to WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson, about the financing frameworks for wind in Europe.Sylvia, Stephen and Giles talk through the lessons for developers and financers: with uncertainty around tax credits and shifting policies, there may be a shift in resources to more advanced projects, putting early-stage ones on hold. Repowering old wind turbines is an option too; Giles explains how. And making use of domestic supply chain strengths is key – compared to solar, wind has more domestic supply chain support.Follow the show wherever you're listening to it now, and tell us what you think, we're on X and Bluesky @interchangeshowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

X22 Report
Scavino Sends A Message,How About A Nice Game Of Chess? Objective [End], Checkmate King – Ep. 3622

X22 Report

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 92:36


Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger PictureDoug Burgum halted offshore wind project near NY, Gov Hochul tries to fight back. Foreign investors are dumping stocks.IMF issues warning, Trump is destroying their system. Trump is getting ready to drill baby drill. The Art of the Deal is in action. The [DS] has lost the narrative on MS-13 who was deported. The question is why are the Ds and the fake news concerned about this individual, does he know where the bodies are buried? Scavino sends a message puts up a picture of the President of El Salvador playing chess. What is the objective, in the end it will be checkmate king.   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy Trump Admin Orders Halt To Offshore Wind Project Near New York Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said on April 16 that he had ordered a halt to the construction of a major wind project off the coast of New York “until further review.” Burgum, posting to the social platform X on Wednesday, said he had consulted with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to direct the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to “halt all construction activities” on Equinor's Empire Wind project. The Biden administration approved the project in 2023, with construction beginning last year. The interior secretary accused the former administration of “rush[ing] through its approval without sufficient analysis.” He did not provide further details on potential faults identified. “On day one, [President Donald Trump] called for comprehensive reviews of federal wind projects and wind leasing, and at Interior, we are doing our part to make sure these instructions are followed,” Burgum wrote in a follow-up post.   In response to the pause, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the project had already generated roughly 1,000 “good-paying union jobs” and is contributing to the state's economy. “This fully federally permitted project has already put shovels in the ground before the President's executive orders—it's exactly the type of bipartisan energy solution we should be working on,” Hochul wrote in a statement. “As Governor, I will not allow this federal overreach to stand. I will fight this every step of the way to protect union jobs, affordable energy, and New York's economic future.” According to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, offshore wind farms “can be damaging to fish and other marine species” due to the noise and vibration from both the construction and operation of the wind turbines. Disturbing the sea floor during construction can also “affect plankton in the water column.” Source: zerohedge.com   https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1912952517346070939  According to Apollo, foreigners own a massive $18.5 trillion of US stocks, or 20% of the total US equity market. Moreover, foreign holdings of US Treasuries are at $7.2 trillion, or 30% of the total. Investors from abroad also hold 30% of the total corporate credit market, for a total of $4.6 trillion. Foreign investors want out amid the volatility. IMF issues global economy warning The global economy is expected to grow more slowly this year and face higher inflation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, citing global trade disruptions and rising “protectionism.” Sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, which he says are focused on prioritizing domestic manufacturing and renegotiating trade deals in favor of the US, have caused a sharp rift with trade partners, including the European Union and China.