Podcasts about megawatts

Episode 1981 (481 / 1332) Covered In Metal-Part XII. Three classic albums (Maiden, Priest & Metallica) with each song covered by a different artist!Playlist: Y&T - PreludeAmbush - Heavy Metal BrethernCryonic Temple - Metal BrothersSadus - InvadersTherion - Children Of The DamnedFozzy - The PrisonerDark Tranquility - 22 Acacia AveSinergy - Number Of The BeastVan Canto - Run To The HillsDream Theater - GanglandCradle Of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy NameEnsiferum - BatteryMystic Force - Master Of PuppetsSins Of Thy Beloved - The Thing That Should Not BeThunderstone - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)Ceremonial Oath - Disposable HeroesAfflicted - Leper MessiahMisanthrope - OrionTankard - Damage Inc.Angra - PainkillerAngelus Apitrida - Hell PatrolSilent Force - All Guns BlazingBlood Red Throne - Leather RebelAnorexia Nervosa - Metal MeltdownPowerWolf - NightcrawlerIcy Steel - Between The Hammer And The AnvilVision Divine - A Touch Of EvilThelemite - One Shot At Glory

Megawatt Charging gilt als Schlüsseltechnologie der elektrischen Langstrecke – oder als überzogener Wunschzettel, der an der Praxis vorbeigeht. In dieser besonderen Folge diskutieren Chefredakteur Gerhard Grünig und Technik‑Ressortleiter Jan Burdorf kontrovers über Sinn und Notwendigkeit eines Megawatt‑Ladenetzes für E‑Lkw. Während Jan argumentiert, dass flächendeckendes ultraschnelles Laden unverzichtbar für Akzeptanz, Flexibilität und reale Einsatzszenarien ist, hält Gerhard dagegen: Die Zukunft liege im Depotladen, in Speicherlösungen und realistischen Einsatzprofilen – und Megawatt Charging sei oft teuer, unnötig oder sogar kontraproduktiv. Eine pointierte, humorvolle und fachlich dichte Debatte über Reichweite, Batterietechnik, Kosten, Ladeinfrastruktur und die Frage, wie Deutschland seine E‑Lkw‑Zukunft wirklich gestalten sollte.

In this conversation, Stephan Livera and Robert Warren discuss the evolving landscape of Bitcoin mining, focusing on the intersection of energy consumption and human flourishing. They explore the impact of AI on energy demand, the misconceptions surrounding the cost of production in Bitcoin mining, and innovative strategies for monetizing energy. The discussion highlights notable examples of companies and initiatives that are redefining the mining industry, emphasizing the importance of flexibility and community-driven innovation.Takeaways:

For review:1. The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday awarded Boeing a sole-source contract for newvGBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs , to replace the munitions used in last June's strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.2. Iran launched live-fire naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.The drill, called "Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz," was led by the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) under the supervision of IRGC Commander in Chief Maj. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour.3.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had told U.S. President Donald Trump to make four key demands of Iran in any deal to avert military strikes against the Islamic regime in Tehran.- All enriched uranium must leave Iran.- Iran to have no enrichment capability.- Limits on the range of Iranian ballistic missiles (Range of 300km and under).- Dismantle support/infrastructure for Iranian militia proxies in the Region.4. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation left for the Swiss city after the first round of indirect talks took place in Oman last week. Oman will mediate the talks in Geneva, the IRNA state-run news agency reported on its Telegram channel.Mr. Araghchi is also expected to meet with his Swiss and Omani counterparts, as well as the director general of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.5. A Republican senator seen as close to US President Donald Trump suggested Monday that an American decision on potential military action against Iran was “weeks, not months” away and opined that it would be a “strategic victory” for the Islamic Republic if its supreme leader isn't toppled amid the current standoff.6. Lebanon's government says its army will have a four-month extendable period to implement phase two of the military's plan to disarm Hezbollah in south Lebanon.Phase two covers an area north of the Litani river.7. The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday evening said that it carried out an airstrike targeting members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in eastern Lebanon, close to the Syrian border.8. A Ukrainian delegation was heading to Geneva on Monday for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, There was no anticipation of any significant progress on ending the war at the Tuesday-Wednesday meeting in Switzerland as both sides appear to be sticking to their negotiating positions on key issues.9. US Secretary of State Rubio sharply criticized the UN for having “virtually no role” in resolving conflicts, and called for global institutions to be reformed.“The United Nations still has tremendous potential to be a tool for good in the world,” he told the Munich conference.“But we cannot ignore that, today, on the most pressing matters before us, it has no answers and has played virtually no role,” he said.10. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced his country is in talks with the United States to buy an additional four F-16 fighter jets on top of the 14 copies already ordered.11. Estonia's arms procurement agency has signed a contract with France and KNDS for the acquisition of 12 additional Caesar self-propelled howitzers.The newly ordered systems are scheduled for delivery later this year.12. The Pentagon, along with the Department of Energy, on Sunday airlifted a small nuclear reactor, the first such transportation as the Trump administration looks to quickly deploy nuclear power across the U.S.The Ward 250 is a 5 megawatt nuclear reactor that could potentially power roughly 5,000 homes, according to the Pentagon. 

Episode 1980 (480 / 1331)Playlist: Y&T - PreludeExodus - Metal CommandAnthrax - Soldiers Of MetalMegadeth - Peace Sells...But Who'se Buying?Megadeth - Symphony Of DestructionMegadeth - Let There Be ShredMegadeth - Ride The LightningAnthrax - MadhosueAnthrax - IndiansAnthrax - AntisocialExodus - DeathanphetamineExodus - The Atrocity ExhibitionExodus - The Ballad Of Leonard and CharlesDark Angel - Merciless DeathDeath Angel - Voracious SoulsEvilDead - The HoodForbidden - Chalice Of BloodForced Entry - BludgeonHeathen - Death By HangingNuclear Assault - Trail Of TearsOverkill - EliminationSacred Reich - Surf NicaraguaSlayer - Angel Of DeathTestament - Over The WallVio-lence - Officer NiceAnnihilator - Alison HellExciter - Violence & ForceRazor - Evil InvadersSacrifice - As The World BurnsVoivod - Tribal ConvictionsSuicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today?Suicidal Tendencies - InstitutionalizedSuicidal Tendencies - Waking The Dead

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SummaryThe keynote explores the relationship between energy and human flourishing, emphasizing the evolution of production methods from the Industrial Revolution to modern Bitcoin mining. It highlights the importance of storytelling in conveying complex ideas and showcases various innovative projects that exemplify the potential of decentralized energy solutions. The discussion culminates in a call to recognize the collective efforts of individuals in achieving continuous production and fostering human flourishing.Takeaways- Energy is essential for human flourishing.- The Industrial Revolution set the stage for modern production.- Henry Ford's vision of continuous production is still relevant today.- Modern technology allows for decentralized production.- Bitcoin mining can be a steward of energy resources.- Stories are crucial for understanding complex concepts.- Innovative projects are transforming energy consumption.- Decentralization empowers individuals in the energy sector.- Continuous production can lead to human flourishing.- Collective efforts are key to achieving sustainable energy solutions.Chapters00:00 Setting the Stage for Energy and Human Flourishing04:55 The Evolution of Production: From Ford to Bitcoin09:55 Stories of Innovation: Real-World Applications of Bitcoin Mining12:48 Decentralization and the Future of EnergyKeywordsenergy, human flourishing, Bitcoin, production, innovation, decentralization, mining, stories, industrial revolution, continuous production

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Allen, Joel, and Yolanda discuss Siemens Energy’s decision to keep their wind business despite pressure from hedge funds, with the CEO projecting profitability by 2026. They cover the company’s 21 megawatt offshore turbine now in testing and why it could be a game changer. Plus, Danish startup Quali Drone demonstrates thermal imaging of spinning blades at an offshore wind farm, and Alliant Energy moves forward with a 270 MW wind project in Wisconsin using next-generation Nordex 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! The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast brought to you by Strike Tape, protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit strike tape.com. And now your hosts, Alan Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxon, and Yolanda Padron. Welcome to the  Allen Hall: Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Alan Hall. I’m here with Yolanda Padron and Joel Saxon. Rosemary Burns is climbing the Himalayas this week, and our top story is Semen’s Energy is rejecting the sail of their wind business, which is a very interesting take because obviously Siemens CESA has struggled. Recently due to some quality issues a couple of years ago, and, and back in 2024 to 25, that fiscal year, they lost a little over 1 billion euros. But the CEO of Siemens energy says they’re gonna stick with the business and that they’re getting a lot of pressure, obviously, from hedge funds to do something with that business to, to raise the [00:01:00] valuations of Siemens energy. But, uh, the CEO is saying, uh, that. They’re not gonna spin it off and that would not solve any of the problems. And they’re, they’re going to, uh, remain with the technology, uh, for the time being. And they think right now that Siemens Gomesa will be profitable in 2026. That’s an interesting take, uh, Joel, because we haven’t seen a lot of sales onshore or offshore from Siemens lately.  Joel Saxum: I think they’re crazy to lose. I don’t wanna put this in US dollars ’cause it resonates with my mind more, but 1.36 billion euros is probably what, 1.8 million or 1.8. Billion dollars.  Allen Hall: Yeah. It’s, it’s about that. Yeah.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. So, so it’s compounding issues. We see this with a lot of the OEMs and blade manufacturers and stuff, right? They, they didn’t do any sales of their four x five x platform for like a year while they’re trying to reset the issues they had there. And now we know that they’re in the midst of some blade issues where they’re swapping blades at certain wind farms and those kind of things.[00:02:00] But when they went to basically say, Hey, we’re back in the market, restarting, uh, sales. Yolanda, have you heard from any of your blade network of people buying those turbines?  Yolanda Padron: No, and I think, I mean, we’ve seen with other OEMs when they try to go back into getting more sales, they focus a lot on making their current customers happy, and I’m not sure that I’ve seen that with the, this group. So it’s, it’s just a little bit of lose lose on both sides.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. And if you’re, if you’re trying to, if you’re having to go back and basically patch up relationships to make them happy. Uh, that four x five x was quite the flop, uh, I would say, uh, with the issues that it had. So, um, there’s, that’d be a lot of, a lot of, a lot of nice dinners and a lot of hand kissing and, and all kinds of stuff to make those relationships back to what they were. Allen Hall: But at the time, Joel, that turbine fit a specific set of the marketplace, they had basically complete control of that when the four x five [00:03:00] x. Was an option and and early on it did seem to have pretty wide adoption. They were making good progress and then the quality issues popped up. What have we seen since and more recently in terms of. The way that, uh, Siemens Ga Mesa has restructured their business. What have we heard?  Joel Saxum: Well, they, they leaned more and pointed more towards offshore, right? They wanted to be healthy in, they had offshore realm and make sales there. Um, and that portion, because it was a completely different turbine model, that portion went, went along well, but in the meantime, right, they fit that four x five x and when I say four x five x, of course, I mean four megawatt, five megawatt slot, right? And if you look at, uh, the models that are out there for the onshore side of things. That, that’s kind of how they all fit. There was like, you know, GE was in that two x and, and, uh, uh, you know, mid two X range investors had the two point ohs, and there’s more turbine models coming into that space. And in the US when you go above basically 500 foot [00:04:00] above ground level, right? So if your elevation is a thousand, once you hit 1500 for tip height on a turbine, you get into the next category of FAA, uh, airplane problems. So if you’re going to put in a. If you were gonna put in a four x or five x machine and you’re gonna have to deal with those problems anyways, why not put a five and a half, a six, a 6.8, which we’ve been seeing, right? So the GE Cypress at 6.8, um, we’re hearing of um, not necessarily the United States, but envision putting in some seven, uh, plus megawatt machines out there on shore. So I think that people are making the leap past. Two x three x, and they’re saying like, oh, we could do a four x or five x, but if we’re gonna do that, why don’t we just put a six x in? Allen Hall: Well, Siemens has set itself apart now with a 21 megawatt, uh, offshore turbine, which is in trials at the moment. That could be a real game changer, particularly because the amount of offshore wind that’ll happen around Europe. Does that then if you’re looking at the [00:05:00] order book for Siemens, when you saw a 21 Mega Hut turbine, that’s a lot of euros per turbine. Somebody’s projecting within Siemens, uh, that they’re gonna break even in 2026. I think the way that they do that, it has to be some really nice offshore sales. Isn’t that the pathway?  Joel Saxum: Yeah. You look at the megawatt class and what happened there, right? So what was it two years ago? Vestas? Chief said, we are not building anything past the 15 megawatt right now. So they have their, their V 2 36 15 megawatt dark drive model that they’re selling into the market, that they’re kind of like, this is the cap, like we’re working on this one now we’re gonna get this right. Which to be honest with you, that’s an approach that I like. Um, and then you have the ge So in this market, right, the, the big megawatt offshore ones for the Western OEMs, you have the GE 15 megawatt, Hayley IX, and GE. ISS not selling more of those right now. So you have Vestas sitting at 15, GE at 15, but not doing anymore. [00:06:00] And GE was looking at developing an 18, but they have recently said we are not doing the 18 anymore. So now from western OEMs, the only big dog offshore turbine there is, is a 21. And again, if you were now that now this is working out opposite inverse in their favor, if you were going to put a 15 in, it’s not that much of a stretch engineering wise to put a 21 in right When it comes to. The geotechnical investigations and how we need to make the foundations and the shipping and the this and the, that, 15 to 21, not that big of a deal, but 21 makes you that much, uh, more attractive, uh, offshore.  Allen Hall: Sure if fewer cables, fewer mono piles, everything gets a little bit simpler. Maybe that’s where Siemens sees the future. That would, to me, is the only slot where Siemens can really gain ground quickly. Onshore is still gonna be a battle. It always is. Offshore is a little more, uh, difficult space, obviously, just because it’s really [00:07:00] Chinese turbines offshore, big Chinese turbines, 25 plus megawatt is what we’re talking about coming outta China or something. European, 21 megawatt from Siemens.  Joel Saxum: Do the math right? That, uh, if, if you have, if you have won an offshore auction and you need to backfill into a megawatts or gigawatts of. Of demand for every three turbines that you would build at 15 or every four turbines you build at 15, you only need three at 21. Right? And you’re still a little bit above capacity. So the big, one of the big cost drivers we know offshore is cables. You hit it on the head when you’re like, cables, cables, cables, inter array cables are freaking expensive. They’re not only expensive to build and lay, they’re expensive to ensure, they’re expensive to maintain. There’s a lot of things here, so. When you talk about saving costs offshore, if you look at any of those cool models in the startup companies that are optimizing layouts and all these great things, a lot of [00:08:00] them are focusing on reducing cables because that’s a big, huge cost saver. Um, I, I think that’s, I mean, if I was building one and, and had the option right now, that’s where I would stare at offshore. Allen Hall: Does anybody know when that Siemens 21 megawatt machine, which is being evaluated at a test site right now, when that will wrap up testing, is it gonna be in the next couple of months?  Joel Saxum: I think it’s at Estro.  Allen Hall: Yeah, it is, but I don’t remember when it was started. It was sometime during the fall of last year, so it’s probably been operational three, four months at this point. Something like that.  Joel Saxum: If you trust Google, it says full commercial availability towards the end, uh, of 28.  Allen Hall: 28. Do you think that the, uh, that Siemens internally is trying to push that to the left on the schedule, bringing from 2028 back into maybe early 27? Remember, AR seven, uh, for the uk the auction round?[00:09:00] Just happened, and that’s 8.4 gigawatts of offshore wind. You think Siemens is gonna make a big push to get into that, uh, into the water there for, for that auction, which is mostly RWE.  Joel Saxum: Yeah, so the prototype’s been installed for, since April 2nd, 2025. So it’s only been in there in the, and it’s only been flying for eight months. Um, but yeah, I mean, RWE being a big German company, Siemens, ESA being a big German company. Uh, of course you would think they would want to go to the hometown and and get it out there, but will it be ready? I don’t know. I don’t know. I, I personally don’t know. And there’s probably people that are listening right now that do have this information. If this turbine model has been specked in any of the pre-feed documentation or preferred turbine suppliers, I, I don’t know. Um, of course we, I’m sure someone does. It’s listening. Uh, reach out, shoot us at LinkedIn or something like that. Let us know, but. Uh, yeah, I mean, uh, [00:10:00] Yolanda, so, so from a Blades perspective, of course you’re our local, one of our local blade experts here. It’s difficult to work, it’s gonna be difficult to work on these blades. It’s a 276 meter rotor, right? So it’s 135 meter blade. Is it worth it to go to that and install less of them than work on something a little bit smaller?  Yolanda Padron: I think it’s a, it’s a personal preference. I like the idea of having something that’s been done. So if it’s something that I know or something that I, I know someone who’s worked with them, so there’s at least a colleague or something that I, I know that if there’s something off happening with the blade, I can talk to someone about it. Right? We can validate data with each other because love the OEMs, but they’re very, it’s very typical that they’ll say that anything is, you know. Anything is, is not a serial defect and anything is force majeure and wow, this is the first time I’m seeing this in your [00:11:00] blade. Uh, so if it’s a new technology versus old technology, I’d rather have the old one just so I, I at least know what I’m dealing with. Uh, so I guess that answers the question as far as like these new experimental lights, right? As far as. Whether I would rather have less blades to deal with. Yes, I’d rather have less bilities to, to deal with it. They were all, you know, known technologies and one was just larger than the other one.  Joel Saxum: Maybe it boils down to a CapEx question, right? So dollar per megawatt. What’s gonna be the cost of these things be? Because we know right now could, yeah, kudos to Siemens CESA for actually putting this turbine out at atrial, or, I can’t remember if it’s Australia or if it’s Keyside somewhere. We know that the test blades are serial number 0 0 0 1 and zero two. Right. And we also know that when there’s a prototype blade being built, all of the, well, not all, but you know, the majority of the engineers that [00:12:00] have designed it are more than likely gonna be at the factory. Like there’s gonna be heavy control on QA, QEC, like that. Those blades are gonna be built probably the best that you can build them to the design spec, right? They’re not big time serial production, yada, yada, yada. When this thing sits and cooks for a year, two years, and depending on what kind of blade issues we may see out of it, that comes with a caveat, right? And that caveat being that that is basically prototype blade production and it has a lot of QC QA QC methodologies to it. And when we get to the point where now we’re taking that and going to serial blade production. That brings in some difficulties, or not difficulties, but like different qa, qc methodologies, um, and control over the end product. So I like to see that they’re get letting this thing cook. I know GE did that with their, their new quote unquote workhorse, 6.8 cypress or whatever it is. That’s fantastic. Um, but knowing that these are prototype [00:13:00] machines, when we get into serial production. It kind of rears its head, right? You don’t know what issues might pop up. Speaker 5: 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 ONM 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 WM 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.  Allen Hall: While conventional blade inspections requires shutting down the turbine. And that costs money. Danish Startup, Qualy Drone has demonstrated a different approach [00:14:00] at the. Ruan to Wind Farm in Danish waters. Working with RDBE, stack Craft Total Energies and DTU. The company flew a drone equipped with thermal cameras and artificial intelligence to inspect blades while they were still spinning. Uh, this is a pretty revolutionary concept being put into action right now ’cause I think everybody has talked about. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could keep the turbines running and, and get blade inspections done? Well, it looks like quality drone has done it. Uh, the system identifies surface defects and potential internal damage in real time and without any fiscal contact, of course, and without interrupting power generations. So as the technology is described, the drone just sits there. Steady as the blades rotate around. Uh, the technology comes from the Aquatic GO Project, uh, funded by Denmark’s, EUDP program. RDBE has [00:15:00] confirmed plans to expand use of the technology and quality. Drone says it has commercial solutions ready for the market. Now we have all have questions about this. I think Joel, the first time I heard about this was probably a year and a half ago, two years ago in Amsterdam at one of the Blade conferences. And I said at the time, no way, but they, they do have a, a lot of data that’s available online. I, I’ve downloaded it and it’s being the engineer and looked at some of the videos and images they have produced. They from what is available and what I saw, there’s a couple of turbines at DTU, some smaller turbines. Have you ever been to Rust, Gilda and been to DTU? They have a couple of turbines on site, so what it looked like they were using one of these smaller turbines, megawatt or maybe smaller turbine. Uh, to do this, uh, trial on, but they had thermal movie images and standard, you know, video images from a drone. They were using [00:16:00] DGI and Maverick drones. Uh, pretty standard stuff, but I think the key comes in and the artificial intelligence bit. As you sit there and watch these blades go around, you gotta figure out where you are and what blades you’re looking at and try to splice these images together that I guess, conceptually would work. But there’s a lot of. Hurdles here still, right?  Joel Saxum: Yeah. You have to go, go back from data analysis and data capture and all this stuff just to the basics of the sensor technology. You immediately will run into some sensor problems. Sensor problems being, if you’re trying to capture an image or video with RGB as a turbine is moving. There’s just like you, you want to have bright light, a huge sensor to be able to capture things with super fast shutter speed. And you need a global shutter versus a rolling shutter to avoid some more of that motion blur. So there’s like, you start stepping up big time in the cost of the sensors and you have to have a really good RGB camera. And then you go to thermal. So now thermal to have to capture good [00:17:00]quality thermal images of a wind turbine blade, you need backwards conditions than that. You need cloudy day. You don’t want to have shine sheen bright sunlight because you’re changing the heat signature of the blade. You are getting, uh, reflectance, reflectance messes with thermal imagery, imaging sensors. So the ideal conditions are if you can get out there first thing in the morning when the sun is just coming up, but the sun’s kind of covered by clouds, um, that’s where you want to be. But then you say you take a pic or image and you do this of the front side of the blade, and then you go down to the backside. Now you have different conditions because there’s, it’s been. Shaded there, but the reason that you need to have the turbine in motion to have thermal data make sense is you need the friction, right? So you need a crack to sit there and kind of vibrate amongst itself and create a localized heat signature. Otherwise, the thermal [00:18:00] imagery doesn’t. Give you what you want unless you’re under the perfect conditions. Or you might be able to see, you know, like balsa core versus foam core versus a different resin layup and those kind of things that absorb heat at different rates. So you, you, you really need some specialist specialist knowledge to be able to assess this data as well. Allen Hall: Well, Yolanda, from the asset management side, how much money would you generate by keeping the turbines running versus turning them off for a standard? Drone inspection. What does that cost look like for a, an American wind farm, a hundred turbines, something like that. What is that costing in terms of power? Yolanda Padron: I mean, these turbines are small, right? So it’s not a lot to just turn it off for a second and, and be able to inspect it, right? Especially if you’re getting high quality images. I think my issues, a lot of this, this sounds like a really great project. It’s just. A lot of the current drone [00:19:00] inspections, you have them go through an AI filter, but you still, to be able to get a good quality analysis, you have to get a person to go through it. Right. And I think there’s a lot more people in the industry, and correct me if I’m wrong, that have been trained and can look through an external drone inspection and just look at the images and say, okay, this is what this is Then. People who are trained to look at the thermal imaging pictures and say, okay, this is a crack, or this is, you know, you have lightning damage or this broke right there. Uh, so you’d have to get a lot more specialized people to be able to do that. You can’t just, I mean, I wouldn’t trust AI right now to to be the sole. Thing going through that data. So you also have to get some sort of drone inspection, external drone inspection to be able to, [00:20:00] to quantify what exactly is real and what’s not. And then, you know, Joel, you alluded to it earlier, but you don’t have high quality images right now. Right? Because you have to do the thermal sensing. So if you’re. If you’re, if you don’t have the high quality images that you need to be able to go back, if, if, if you have an issue to send a team or to talk to your OE em or something, you, you’re missing out on a lot of information, so, so I think maybe it would be a good, right now as it stands, it would be a good, it, it’d be complimentary to doing the external drone inspections. I don’t think that they could fully replace them. Now.  Joel Saxum: Yeah, I think like going to your AI comment like that makes absolute sense because I mean, we’ve been doing external drone inspections for what, since 2016 and Yeah. And, and implementing AI and think about the data sets that, that [00:21:00] AI is trained on and it still makes mistakes regularly and it doesn’t matter, you know, like what provider you use. All of those things need a human in the loop. So think about the, the what exists for the data set of thermal imagery of blades. There isn’t one. And then you still have to have the therm, the human in the loop. And when we talk to like our, our buddy Jeremy Hanks over at C-I-C-N-D-T, when you start getting into NDT specialists, because that’s what this is, is a form of NDT thermal is when you start getting into specialist, specialist, specialist, specialist, they become more expensive, more specialized. It’s harder to do. Like, I just don’t think, and if you do the math on this, it’s like. They did this project for two years and spent 2 million US dollars per year for like 4 million US dollars total. I don’t think that’s the best use of $4 million right now. Wind,  Allen Hall: it’s a drop in the bucket. I think in terms of what the spend is over in Europe to make technologies better. Offshore wind is the first thought because it is expensive to turn off a 15 or 20 megawatt turbine. You don’t want to do that [00:22:00] and be, because there’s fewer turbines when you turn one off, it does matter all of a sudden in, in terms of the grid, uh, stability, you would think so you, you just a loss of revenue too. You don’t want to shut that thing down. But I go, I go back. To what I remember from a year and a half ago, two years ago, about the thermal imaging and, and seeing some things early on. Yeah, it can kind of see inside the blade, which is interesting to me. The one thing I thought was really more valuable was you could actually see turbulence on the blade. You can get a sense of how the blade is performing because you can in certain, uh, aspect angles and certain temp, certain temperature ranges. You can see where friction builds up via turbulence, and you can see where you have problems on the blade. But I, I, I think as we were learning about. Blade problems, aerodynamic problems, your losses are going to be in the realm of a percent, maybe 2%. So do you even care at that point? It, it must just come down then to being able to [00:23:00] keep a 15 megawatt turbine running. Okay, great. Uh, but I still think they’re gonna have some issues with the technology. But back to your point, Joel, the camera has to be either super, uh, sensitive. With high shutter speeds and the, and the right kind of light, because the tiff speeds are so high on a tiff speed on an offshore turbine, what a V 2 36 is like 103 meters per second. That’s about two hundred and twenty two hundred thirty miles per hour. You’re talking about a race car and trying to capture that requires a lot of camera power. I’m interested about what Quality Drone is doing. I went to that website. There’s not a lot of information there yet. Hopefully there will be a lot more because if the technology proves out, if they can actually pull this off where the turbines are running. Uh, I don’t know if to stop ’em. I think they have a lot of customers [00:24:00]offshore immediately, but also onshore. Yeah, onshore. I think it’s, it’s doable  Joel Saxum: just because you can. I’m gonna play devil’s advocate on this one because on the commercial side, because it took forever for us to even get. Like it took 3, 4, 5, 6 years for us to get to the point where you’re having a hundred percent coverage of autonomous drones. And that was only because they only need to shut a turbine down for 20 minutes now. Right. The speed’s up way up. Yeah. And, and now we’re, we’re trying to get internals and a lot of people won’t even do internals. I’ve been to turbines where the hatches haven’t been open on the blades since installation, and they’re 13 years, 14 years old. Right. So trying to get people just to do freaking internals is difficult. And then if they do, they’re like, ah, 10% of the fleet. You know, you have very rare, or you know, a or an identified serial of defect where people actually do internal inspections regularly. Um, and then, so, and, and if you talk about advanced inspection techniques, advanced inspection techniques are great for specific problems. That’s the only thing they’re being [00:25:00] accepted for right now. Like NDT on route bushing pullouts, right? They, that’s the only way that you can really get into those and understand them. So specific specialty inspection techniques are being used in certain ways, but it’s very, very, very limited. Um, and talk to anybody that does NDT around the wind industry and they’ll tell you that. So this to me, being a, another kind of niche inspection technology that I don’t know if it’s has the quality that it is need to. To dismount the incumbent, I guess is what I’m trying to say. Allen Hall: Delamination and bond 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 a. Expensive burdens. Their non-destructive test technology penetrates deep to blade materials to find voids and cracks. Traditional inspections [00:26:00] 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. After five years of development, Alliant Energy is ready to build one of Wisconsin’s largest wind farms. The Columbia Wind Project in Columbia County would put more than 40 turbines across rural farmland generating about 270 megawatts of power for about 100,000 homes. The price tag is roughly $730 million for the project. The more than 300 landowners have signed lease agreements already, and the company says these are next generation turbines. We’re not sure which ones yet, we’re gonna talk about that, that are taller and larger than older models. Uh, they’ll have to be, [00:27:00] uh, Alliant estimates the project will save customers about $450 million over the 35 years by avoiding volatile fuel costs and. We’ll generate more than $100 million in local tax revenue. Now, Joel, I think everybody in Europe, when I talk to them ask me the the same thing. Is there anything happening onshore in the US for wind? And the answer is yes all the time. Onshore wind may not be as prolific as it was a a year or two ago, but there’s still a lot of new projects, big projects going to happen here. Joel Saxum: Yeah. If you’ve been following the news here with Alliant Energy, and Alliant operates in that kind of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, that upper. Part of the Midwest, if you have watched a or listened to Alliant in the news lately, they recently signed a letter of intent for one gigawatt worth of turbines from Nordex.[00:28:00] And, uh, before the episode here, we’re doing a little digging to try to figure out what they’re gonna do with this wind farm. And if you start doing some math, you see 277 megawatts, only 40 turbines. Well, that means that they’ve gotta be big, right? We’re looking at six plus megawatt turbines here, and I did a little bit deeper digging, um, in the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s paperwork. Uh, the docket for this wind farm explicitly says they will be nordex turbines. So to me, that speaks to an N 1 63 possibly going up. Um, and that goes along too. Earlier in the episode we talked about should you use larger turbines and less of them. I think that that’s a way to appease local landowners. That’s my opinion. I don’t know if that’s the, you know, landman style sales tactic they used publicly, but to only put 40 wind turbines out. Whereas in the past, a 280 megawatt wind farm would’ve been a hundred hundred, [00:29:00]20, 140 turbine farm. I think that’s a lot easier to swallow as a, as a, as a local public. Right. But to what you said, Alan. Yeah, absolutely. When farms are going forward, this one’s gonna be in central Wisconsin, not too far from Wisconsin Dells, if you know where that is and, uh, you know, the, the math works out. Alliant is, uh, a hell of a developer. They’ve been doing a lot of big things for a lot of long, long time, and, uh, they’re moving into Wisconsin here on this one. Allen Hall: What are gonna be some of the challenges, Yolanda being up in Wisconsin because it does get really cold and others. Icing systems that need to be a applied to these blades because of the cold and the snow. As Joel mentioned, there’s always like 4, 5, 6 meters of snow in Wisconsin during January, February. That’s not an easy environment for a blade or or turbine to operate in.  Yolanda Padron: I think they definitely will. Um, I’m. Not as well versed as Rosie as [00:30:00] in the Canadian and colder region icing practices. But I mean, something that’s great for, for people in Wisconsin is, is Canada who has a lot of wind resources and they, I mean, a lot of the things have been tried, tested, and true, right? So it’s not like it’s a, it’s a novel technology in a novel place necessarily because. On the cold side, you have things that have been a lot worse, really close, and you have on the warm side, I mean just in Texas, everything’s a lot warmer than there. Um, I think something that’s really exciting for the landowners and the just in general there. I know sometimes there’s agreements that have, you know, you get a percentage of the earnings depending on like how many. Megawatts are generated on your land or something. So that will be so great for that community to be able [00:31:00] to, I mean, you have bigger turbines on your land, so you have probably a lot more money coming into the community than just to, to alliance. So that’s, that’s a really exciting thing to hear.  Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you found value in today’s discussion, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show For Rosie, Yolanda and Joel, I’m Allen Hall and we’ll see you next time on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

Man kann es gut finden oder auch nicht, Fakt ist: Geht es nach den Hyperscalern Meta, Amazon, Google und Microsoft, dann wird AI ab etwa 2030 zu großen Teilen von Atomkraft angetrieben. Die AI Talk Hosts ⁠⁠⁠Jakob Steinschaden⁠⁠⁠ (Trending Topics, ⁠⁠⁠newsrooms⁠⁠⁠) und ⁠⁠⁠Clemens Wasner⁠⁠⁠ (⁠⁠⁠enliteAI⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠AI Austria⁠⁠⁠) diskutieren im Podcast, warum das so ist - die Themen:⚡ Energiekrise der KI: Trainingsleistung verdoppelt sich alle sechs Monate – von GPT-3 mit unter 10 Megawatt bis zu künftigen Modellen mit einem Gigawatt und mehr

Episode 1977 (457 / 1328) The Cutting Edge! All new, 2026 albums for your enjoyment!Playlist: Y&T - PreludeBullet - Chained By MetalManimal - Forged In MetalDeath Dealer - Blast The HighwayZepter - Slasher On The HighwayHelix - Fast & FuriousEdenbridge - Spark Of The EverflameMayhem - The Sentence Of AbsolutionKreator - DeathscreamAeon Gods - AmduatCoronatus - The MaelstromTextures - Walls Of The SoulGreyhawk - Warriors Of GreyhawkBurning Path - Burning PathAssignment - With The End Comes SilenceInduction - Love KillsRave In Fire - Speed & RaveAutumn's Child - Heartbreak BoulevardWinter Eternal - Unveiled NightskyEvoked Eclipse - The Cries Of EvilThe Magus - DaemonosophiaUrne - Setting Fire To The SkyStabbing - Their Melted RemainsInvictus - Nocturnal VisionsRozario - CrusaderRavenspell - HellstormFireborn - Dreamcatcher

Full Audio + detailed Analysis at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megawatt-wars-why-meta-microsoft-are-becoming/id1684415169?i=1000745771208

Episode 1976 (476 / 1328) The Hall Of Immortals Heroes Part 2 The Top albums of 2025 our annual countdown from #25 to #1!Playlist: Y&T - PreludeAlleyway - Heavy Metal Is ImmortalTheater Of Shadows - Immortal MetalInsania - #25 Fire From AboveHelstar - #24 Seek Out Your SinsHelm's Deep - #23 Chasing The DragonHarem Scarem - #22 Chasing EuphoriaGreen Carnation - #21 In Your ParadiseGrave Digger - #20 Kingdom Of SkullsGotthard - #19 Thunder & LightningFrozen Land - #!8 The CarrierFlames Of Heaven - #17 The Power Of StarsFairyland - #16 Hopeless StillEpica - #15 Eye Of The StormEnthroned - #14 Ashen AdvocacyDragonsclaw - #13 Don't Break The SilenceCrylord - #12 Inside Of The HellCrematory - #11 Banished ForeverCradle Of Filth - #10 To Live DeliciouslyCancer - #9 When KIlling Isn't MurderBrainstorm - #8 Masquerade ComspiracyBonfire - #7 I Will RiseBattle Beast - #6 SteelboundAvantasia - #5 PhantasmagoriaArjen Luccasen - #4 God Damn ConspiracyAmbush - #3 Evil In All DimensionsAexylium - #2 The Wild HuntAedan Sky - #1 Beyond The Vortex Of TimeHelloween - Majestic

Episode 1975 (475 / 1327) THe Hall Of Immortal Heroes-Part 1. Our annual countdown of the Top 50 to 26 of 2025. Enjoy the best of the best of the best!Playlist: Y&T - PreludeHelhound - Heavy Metal GenerationMetalwings - Immortal Metal WingsThe 7th Guild - The Metal Charade (#50)Warmen - Kingdom Of Rust (#49)Vicious Rumours - Hell High Hammer (#48)Twins Crew - Fighting For The World (#47)Trick Or Treat - Evil Dead Never Sleeps (#46)Treat - 1985 (#45)Tokyo Blade - We Burn (#44)Them - Electric Church (#43)Terra Atlantica - Raven In The Dark (#42)The Storyteller - Fields Of Blood & Steel (#41)Sodom - Trigger Discipline (#40)Sintage - Ramming Speed (#39)Sabaton - Templars (#38)Rising Steel - KIng Of The Universe (#37)Risen Atlantis - Glory for The Brave (#36)Raging Fate - The Vendetta Ride (#35)Rage - Beyond The Shield Of Misery (#34)Ramonda - Without Love (#33)Primal Fear - Tears Of Fire (#32)Parhelyon - Firelight (#31)Noor - Golden Coffin (#30)Nightfall - With Outlandish Desire to Disobey (#29)Manegarm - Logrinn's Varn (#28)Labyrinth - At The Rainbow's End (#27)Kaunis Kuolematon - Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli (#26)

Ontwikkelingen rondom China en elektrische auto's. Het Salon van Brussel wordt besproken. In EV-nieuws: de Renault Twingo kan besteld worden, maar niet voor 20.000 euro, Hyundai blijft geloven in waterstof. Uiteraard worden de registratiecijfers van 2025 niet vergeten. Fastned plaatst haar eerste Megawatt charger en de Marktplaat actie was al na 10 uur voorbij. Verder nemen we afscheid van de duurtesters Mazda 6e en Hyundai Ioniq 6, laten we een petrolhead in een Polestar 3 rijden en monteert Jasper een Thule trekhaakkoffer voor zijn wintersportreis. 

Playlist: Y&T - PreludeDeath Dealer - Every Nation (Out Of The Count)Warhawk - Metal WorldLabyrinthus Stellarum - Ravenous Planet (Nercronaut's Pick)Wings Of Steel - Winds Of Time (KK's Pick)Paradox - Kholat (Thrashmasters Pick)Mob Rules - Future Loom (Power Metal Mike's Pick)Paradise Lost - Lay A Wreath Upon The World (Necronaut's Pick)Darktribe - The Fallen World (KK's Pick)Coroner - Symmetry (Thrashmasters Pick)Wings Of Steel - Saints & Sinners (Power Metal Mike's Pick)The Birthday Massacre - Whisper (Necronaut's Pick)Saraya - Fire (KK's Pick)Eternal Warrior - Infernal Execution (Thrashmasters Pick)Majestic - Battlecry (Power Metal Mike's Pick)Warfield - Soul Conqueror (Thrashmasters Pick)OwlBear - Feathers & Claw (Power Metal Mike's Pick)Nightingale - Higher Than The Sky (Necronaut's Pick)Testament - Infanticide AI (KK's Pick)Sacrifice - Missile (Thrashmaster Pick)Arion - LIke A Phoenix I will Rise (Power Metal Mike's Pick)Ghoest - The Majestic End-Part 1.

This week, we're back in Carl's happy place with the big TC as he partners up with Cameron Diaz in James Mangold's 2010 globetrotting action adventure comedy which sees a woman get mixed up with a disgraced spy trying to clear his name - Megawatt smiles and roof running ensues - it's Knight and Day!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week it's a return of a favourite as Carl has to complete the gold run in Tom Cruise Blockbusters.(00:00:00) Theme song and welcome(00:02:00) Chit Chat(00:06:30) Unveil the Ale!(00:08:28) First impressions of Knight & Day(00:12:10) The Production - Mangold, Stunts and a terrible title(00:38:52) The Plot - McGuffin, a waste of Dano(00:57:20) The Game - Tom Cruise Blockbusters(01:01:30) The Cast - Shirtless TC, Cameron D, Father Ted(01:11:14) Recasting(01:18:25) Any Changes?(01:22:47) This is why you're wrong(01:27:50) Next Time and GoodbyeYou can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CarlMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SiMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (@mtnmoviepod.bsky.social)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠(mtnmoviepod)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (@mtnmoviepod)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (@mtnmoviepod)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (@movietheneedle)Or email us and let us know what you think: hello@mtnpod.com

In our 100th episode, we celebrate three years of POD256 and almost two years of building the open-source Bitcoin mining stack. We share behind‑the‑scenes stories from our first Telehash block find and chart what's coming for 2026. We walk through how the 256 Foundation allocated over $400k in grants across Ember One (open hashboard design), Libre Board (open control board), Mujina (open miner firmware), and Hydra Pool (self‑hosted pool), and how these projects are already flipping the closed “black box” mining model on its head. We dive into progress updates: Mujina running on Bitaxe Gamma, early Ember One integrations and cooling, Hydra Pool one‑command spin‑ups, plus community contributions like Stratum v2 support and Home Assistant control; and preview our plan to run Telehash #3 on a fully open stack live. We also invite miners and devs to point hashrate, contribute code, and join us at Telehash and NEMS as we turn this momentum into a product-style demo of open mining in action.We revisit the wild Telehash night when an Apollo-powered solo pool briefly wrangled an exahash and struck block 881423 (shout-out to Megawatt!), reflect on building the 256 Foundation and this pod from the early “Hash Cast” days, and outline how anyone from heatpunks to large farms can plug into the stack. Finally, we highlight community calls to action: spin up Hydra Pool, hack on Mujina, help us evangelize at meetups and campuses, and support free and open-source mining. Last but certainly not least: Code is not crime, support the Samourai devs' families and sign the pardon petition here: https://billandkeonne.org

Episode 1973 (473 / 1325) NYE Massacre! Party on dudes See ya in 2026!Playlist: Helvetet's Port - Heavy Metal NightPhoenix Heart - The Metal Night ReignsIron Savior - Entire albumAlice Cooper Band - Up All NightBangalore Choir - Just One NightDio - Night PeopleIcon - Through The NightJack Starr - Tonight We RideJoe Satriani - Driving At NightTrancemission - MineKane Roberts - Wild NightsKeel - Let's Spend The Night TogetherKiss - Crazy NightsLillian Axe - Visions Of The NightMidnite City - Can't Wait For Ther NiteMSG - Follow The NightScorpions - Big City NightsSignal - Run Into The NightTNT - Tonight I'm FallingTreat - Night BrigadeTyketto - Meet Me In The NightWhitesnake - Children Of NightWhitesnake - Still Of The Night

Fuga de gas provoca explosión en tianguis de Teoloyucan  Latinoamérica alza la voz contra Maduro y su régimenMás información en nuestro Podcast

Description: In this episode, our guest is Stanley Choi, a dynamic leader at SANY Group Australia, a global OEM driving electrification in heavy industry and infrastructure. Stanley shares insights into how SANY is delivering complete energy and transport solutions—from electric mining trucks to autonomous factories producing EVs in under 10 minutes. He discusses how SANY's off-grid power systems are helping decarbonize mining operations in Australia and South Africa, leveraging in-house solar, battery, and wind technologies. Stanley also highlights the challenges and opportunities for commercial EV adoption, including Australia's infrastructure gaps and the promise of autonomous and AI-driven logistics. A compelling look at innovation in energy, transport, and industrial automation. Please join to find more. Connect with Sohail Hasnie: Facebook @sohailhasnie X (Twitter) @shasnie LinkedIn @shasnie ADB Blog Sohail Hasnie YouTube @energypreneurs Instagram @energypreneurs Tiktok @energypreneurs Spotify Video @energypreneurs

Playlist: Trancemission - MineTwisted Sister - Heavy Metal ChristmasPaul Di'Anno - Another Rock n' Roll ChristmasStryper - Entire albumSpinal Tap - Christmas With The DevilAC/DC - Mistress For ChristmasBad News - Cashing In On ChristmasTed Poley - Letter To Santa From A Horny 12-Year Old BoyChristmas Bonus (single) - AirbourneVarious - Entire albumVarious - Entire Album

Episode 1971 (471 / 1323) Killed By Death. We look back and pay tribute to all the fallen Metal Warriors who passed away in 2025. You will be missed.Playlist: Trancemission - MineGrave Digger - Heavy Metal Never DiesCryonic Temple - Metal Never DiesBlue Murder (RIP John Sykes) - Jelly RollKrokus (RIP Peter Richard) - EnergyHeavy Load (RIP Peter Richard) - Full Speed At High LevelOmen (RIP Jody Henry & Coburn Pharr) - It's Not EasyIron Angel (RIP Dirk Schroder) - Rush Of PowerMad Max (RIP Jurgen SChroder) - Rolling ThunderMago De Oz (RIP Sergio Cisneros) - Hasta Que Le CuerpoJudas Priest (RIP Les Binks) - Take On The WorldThor (RIP Steve Price) - When Gods CollideShadow Killer (RIP Bob Edwards & Dan Lynch) - A Fate To EchoRosicrucian (RIP Lars Linden) - The Way Of All FleshBlitzkrieg (RIP Tony Liddle) - Struck By LightningDeath SS (RIP Andy Fois aka Kurt Templar) - ZombieRough Cutt (RIP CHris Hagar) - WE Like It LeudAgent STeel (RIP CHuck Profus) - Unstoppable ForceAngel Witch (RIP Kevin Riddles) - Angel WitchTank (RIP Peter Brabbs) - Heavy ArtilleryOzzy (RIP John Osbourne aka Ozzy) - Centre Of EternityKick Axe (RIP Larry Gilstrom) - Just Passing ThroughSodom (RIP GUido Richter aka Atomic Steif) - Get What You DeserveAt The Gates(RIP THomas Lindberg) - Blinded By FearTarget (RIP Guy Degrave) - Hordes Of InsanityTigertailz (RIP Ace Fichum) - Love Bomb BabyAce Frehley (RIP Ace) - Fractured IIISignal (RIP Mark/Marcie Free) - Wake Up You Little FoolBlitzkrieg (RIP JIm Sirotto) - BlitzkriegWarrant (RIP Thomas Klien) - Die YoungCrossfoire (RIP Marc Van Calenberge) - See You In Hell

Episode 1970 (470 / 1322) The Cutting Edge-Part 2Playlist: Trancemission - MineExecutioners Steel - Defenders Of MetalHellish War - Defender Of MetalAedan Sky - Beyond The Vortex Of TimeAeternia - Dragon's GazeAquilla - Creed Of FireBlack Knight - TowerBendida - The Golden DragonCivil Daze - HeroesCreatures - Devil In DisguiseDefecto - Eternal DescentDestiny's Requiem - The Heralds Of DestinyDraktribe - I Walk AloneElenion - The Wild GoddessEpikion - Run With The WolvesEradicator - Perpetual SacrificeFate's Hand - The Quest SpiritFlames Of Heaven - EclipseFrozen Land - Ice MelterHyperion - Yet We Still FightImperatore - My LifeIn Virtue - Thoughts In FreefallIron Brigade - All Hail The GuardianKillerWitch - The AlchemistMajestic Res A.D. - Demons Of WarMoonlight Masquerade - WreckageNite Stinger - What The Nite Is AboutPerpetual Fire - Savage RevengeSacred Leather - Spitfire At MidnightSainted Sinners - Sweet, Sweet AddictionSands Of Eternity - Eternal FlameShadowKiller - Rise Of The HunterSpeedclaw - Queen Of The NightStargate - Starlit roadUntimely Demise - Killing AuthorityVarras - Electric Stardom

Tristan Suerink, het handige neefje van Nikhef, schuift opnieuw aan en dompelt ons onder in de wereld van technisch aanbesteden, supercomputers en AI. Hij puzzelt met miljoenenaanvragen, balanceert tussen wet en wens, en jaagt met liefde op de perfecte aanbesteding voor het wetenschappelijk rekenwerk van Nederland. Randal en Jurian graven samen met hem naar de kern: waarom zijn aanbestedingsdocumenten 60 pagina’s dik? Hoe bouw je een AI-cluster zonder het stroomnet op te blazen? En wat doe je met al die restwarmte? Shownotes Any Austin op Youtube Seagate Exos 4U74 en 4U100 The Venture Bros. Arc Raiders Sponsor: LendahandInvesteer met impact, ontvang tot 8% rente per jaar en draag bij aan een duurzame en eerlijke wereld. Ga naar www.lendahand.com en maak vandaag nog een account aan. Gebruik de code mnot50 bij het afrekenen van je eerste investering en ontvang een garantie van 50% tot €1000. Zo heb je een extra buffer op je eerste investering. Sponsor: Canal+War of the Kingdoms is een meeslepend verhaal over liefde, macht en verraad, waarin loyaliteit op de proef wordt gesteld. Wie wint? De liefde of de kroon. Stream deze nieuwe fantasy serie nu exclusief bij Canal+. Tijdschema0:00:00 Technisch aanbesteden: een puzzel van miljoenen0:06:52 Waarom Tristan aanbestedingen leuk vindt0:11:34 De kunst van het slim formuleren zonder te sturen0:18:49 Hoeveel VRAM past er onder je bureau?0:23:33 AI-clusters bouwen in Nederland0:28:49 Megawatt-kasten en stroomhonger0:35:16 Subsidies en de AI-inhaalslag0:37:30 AGI en de angst voor Skynet0:41:56 AI en de wildgroei aan fake news0:47:35 GTA 6: crunch, miljarden en hype #Nikhef #supercomputers #techniekaanbesteding #AIclusters #VRAM #SURF #CERN #Ollama #HuggingFace #AGI #fakenews #GTA6 #crunchculture #datacenters #energiegebruik #openbareaanbestedingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 1969 (469 / 1321) The Cutting Edge-Part 1 All new 2025 releases from across the globe.Playlist: Trancemission - MineHellish War - Metal ForeverHeaven Denies - Metal PrideTreat - RodeoTestament - Para BellumStargazery - Carnival PuppetersSkull & Crossbones - Time ThiefSabaton - Hordes Of KhanSecret Rule - The AnswerSanguisugabogg - Semi-Automatic Facial ReconstuctionRoyal Hunt - Ride Into The SuntRonnie Romero - BackboneRisen Atlantis - Power To The PastRage - Against The MachineOmnium Gatherum - Walking Ghost PhaseMystery - Wizards Of The Western CoastMichael Schenker Group - Don't Sell Your SelfManegarm - En BlodvittenskransMaster's Hammer - Moldoror DiscoKill Ritual - In My HeadJet Jaguar - SeveranceInternal Bleeding - Settle All ScoresHuman Fortress - StrongholdGrailKnights - ForeverEnthroned - AshspawnDark Angel - Extinction Level EventCryptopsy - Malicious NeedsCoroner - ConsequenceCentinex - Masterpiece In FleshBig City - The TowerBiohazard - Tear Down The WallsBlut Aus Nord - The End Becomes

Episode 1968 (468 / 1320) The Witches Brew! The 9th Anniversary of the transition of power, when I became the sole host of Megawatt Mayhem! Time Flies!Playlist: Trancemission - MineToo Metal For Metal (single) - Too Metal For MetalSoulbound - Not Metal EnoughTestament - Seek And Destroy (Metallica cover)Raven - Metal Militia (Metallica cover)Moonsorrow - For Whom The Bells Tolls (Metallica cover)Elvenking - Children Of Decadence (Children Of Bodom cover)Metal De Facto - Lake Bodom (Children Of Bodom)Coreleoni - Firedance (Live)Dream Theater - Pull Me Under (Live)HammerKing - Make Metal Royal Again (Live)Primordial - The Coffin Ships (Live)Fifth Angel - CathedralFifth Angel - Light The SkiesElectric Boys - Head HonchoChaos Magic - Furyborn (Acoustic)Doro - Warriors Of The SeaDoro - Fire In The Sky (Live)Mike Tramp - If My Mind Is EvilAlcatrazz - Hiroshima Mon AmourNot Fragile - One Way To GloryNot Fragile - Down In The StreetsDeep Purple - BloodsuckerDeep Purple - Hey CiscoBabylon A.D. - When The World StopsBangalore Choir - PrisonerCrystal Tears - You Could Be Mine (Guns ' N Roses cover)Triskelyon - Major Tom (David Bowie cover)

Episode 1967 (467 / 1319) International Men's Day ShowPlaylist: Trancemission - MineLoudness - The Metal ManMass - Metal ManKick Axe - Magic ManRage - Solitary ManRage - Perfect ManRiot - Whiskey ManRiot - Medicine ManAxel Rudi Pell - Wanted ManOlympos Mons - Wanted ManAnonymus - Invisible ManRing Of Fire - Invisible ManEldritch - Zero ManMorning Dwell - Wandering ManMob Rules - Unknown ManHighlord - Simple ManW.A.S.P. - Shadow ManBattle Beast - Rain ManMajesty - Nowhere ManSeven Witches - Nightmare ManJorn - Legend ManSeventh Avenue - Iron ManPrimal Fear - Innocent ManIron Ware - Holy ManAngel Witch - Free ManNew Eden - Empty ManJacob's Dream - Drowning ManAlcatrazz - Double ManRonny Monroe - Desperate ManOrden Ogan - Blind ManDungeon - Better ManAnthem - Omega Man

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In this episode, host Kelsey Markl welcomes Global Application Manager Rodrigo Marquina to the show, where they discuss the fundamentals and future of EV charging with a focus on megawatt charging. They delve into the use cases for high-power megawatt systems, and how these advancements are shaping the electrification of transportation, from passenger vehicles to long-haul trucks.

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Just under a third of electricity came from renewables in July, the first month of a new coal-free era for Ireland's power system. Provisional data from electricity grid operator EirGrid shows that 32% of electricity came from wind, grid-scale solar and other renewable sources last month. Wind energy met 24% of total demand, with 6% coming from solar. July saw another significant peak in grid-connected solar generation with a new record of 798 MW registered, up 30 MW from the previous record. July also marked the first full month in which coal did not feature in Ireland's electricity fuel mix, after its use was discontinued at Moneypoint in June after 40 years. Gas was the single largest source of electricity generation in July at 51%, with imports at 15%. Overall electricity system demand stood at 2,734 GWh (Gigawatt Hours) for July. Once again, fluctuations in electricity demand were noticeable during this year's GAA All-Ireland finals last month, with increases of around 80 MW coinciding with half-times as viewers switched on kettles and other appliances during breaks in play. Investment in the electricity grid, such as that announced in the National Development Plan last month, will be vital for enabling the necessary upgrades and reinforcements to the grid to ensure it is resilient and capable of accommodating greater amounts of renewable energy in future. Commenting on the data, Diarmaid Gillespie, Director of System Operations at EirGrid, said: "As the power system marked the first full month of a new coal-free era, we've continued to see new milestones set for grid-scale solar power with the peak now standing at just below the 800 Megawatt mark as of July - a figure that may still be surpassed over the coming months."

In this episode I'm interviewing a scientist who is trying to revolutionize computing by replacing power hungry silicon gates with highly efficient biological neurons. For a present-day silicon-based computer to approach the processing power of a human brain would take MegaWatts of power—we are seeing some of these inefficiencies looking at AI systems that require massive amounts of energy to run. A human brain can do the same thing on less than 20 Watts. My guest today is a scientist who is working on the interface between brain and machine. Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is an entrepreneur with a PhD in neuroscience. After academia, she transitioned into business development and technology commercialization, advising tech companies on sales, partnerships, and market strategy. She founded Ekai Ltd to support innovation and scale in science-driven companies. Her work spans advisory roles, go-to-market planning, and translating complex R&D into real-world impact. She also speaks publicly on innovation, neuroscience, and the intersection of science and entrepreneurship. Check out the video versions on my YouTube channel. Chat with me on Facebook.

The Company designs, develops, and operatesdigital infrastructure that transforms surplus renewable energy into globalcomputing resources. Soluna's pioneering data centers are strategicallyco-located with wind, solar, or hydroelectric power plants to supporthigh-performance computing applications, including Bitcoin Mining, GenerativeAI, and other compute-intensive applications. Soluna's proprietary softwareMaestroOS(™) helps energize a greener grid while delivering cost-effective andsustainable computing solutions and superior returns. A leading developer of green data centers that convert excess renewableenergy into global computing resources. Soluna builds modular, scalable datacenters for computing intensive, batchable applications such as Bitcoin mining,AI, and machine learning. Soluna provides a cost-effective alternative tobattery storage or transmission lines. Up to 30% of the power of renewableenergy projects can go to waste. Soluna's data centers enable clean electricityasset owners to ‘Sell. Every. Megawatt.'

As electricity demand surges across the U.S. — driven by AI, data centers, electrification, and reshoring of manufacturing — one critical question rises to the top: Who's going to build the grid of the future, where does the money come from, and how fast can we do it?  In this episode of Energy Solutions, EPSA President and CEO Todd Snitchler sits down with Doug Kimmelman, Founder and Executive Chairman of Energy Capital Partners, to explore the role of private investment in meeting this challenge and building a power system to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Doug shares why he believes we're entering a new era of infrastructure urgency, introduces the concept of the "Triangle of Power"—power generation, natural gas supply, and delivery infrastructure—and explains why competitive electricity markets and permitting reform are essential to meeting America's energy moment.   Together, they tackle:  Why reliability is the true product of the power sector  The unique opportunity the AI boom presents for the U.S. economy  Myths about Wall Street's role in energy infrastructure  How private capital can deliver faster, smarter, and at scale  What policymakers can do to unlock investment and spur innovation  

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In the wake of new executive orders elevating nuclear energy as a national security priority, there's growing momentum—and urgency—behind advanced fission technologies. Few are better positioned to talk about this shift than Jordan Bramble, co-founder and CEO of Antares Nuclear, a startup building microreactors for defense and space.In this episode of Valley of Depth, we explore the strategic, technical, and geopolitical dimensions driving the nuclear renaissance. We cover:• Why microreactors are built for strategic energy and not just the grid• The real story behind public support for nuclear energy• How Antares plans to deploy sub-megawatt nuclear systems on U.S. military installations• The challenges of fuel supply, regulation, and capital• Why China is pulling ahead and what the U.S. must do to catch up• Nuclear-powered space assets and propulsion• Why Jordan believes venture-scale outcomes are coming to nuclear energy • Chapters •00:00 - Intro00:56 - Payload Pro01:39 - State of fission03:38 - Is renewed nuclear interest driven by political or environmental factors?05:23 - Are small modular reactors (SMRs) going to replace large, conventional nuclear reactors?07:31 - Is nuclear still a controversial topic?09:27 - Cultural legacy of nuclear in media11:49 - Antares and how Jordan got into nuclear14:16 - What does 1 Megawatt mean?15:53 - Game changing environments for Antares's SMR19:30 - Terrestrial business model20:39 - Nuclear fuel supply chain21:35 - Current state and future prediction of fuel pipeline23:42 - Safety in contested environments26:49 - Hardest technical challenges29:52 - What will it take to get to their first electron31:23 - Competition34:27 - US vs its adversaries36:29 - Navigating regulatory guidelines38:10 - Impact of Trump's Executive Orders40:03 - NRC41:12 - Are we living in a VC renaissance for nuclear?44:05 - What drives Jordan to work on nuclear?46:30 - For those afraid of nuclear • Show notes •Jordan's socials — https://x.com/jordanbrambleAntares' socials — https://x.com/AntaresNuclearAntares' website — https://boomsupersonic.com/Mo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislamPayload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspaceIgnition's socials — https://twitter.com/ignitionnuclear /  https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-nuclear/Tectonic's socials  — https://twitter.com/tectonicdefense / https://www.linkedin.com/company/tectonicdefense/Valley of Depth archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/  • About us •Valley of Depth is a podcast about the technologies that matter — and the people building them. Brought to you by Arkaea Media, the team behind Payload (space), Ignition (nuclear energy), and Tectonic (defense tech), this show goes beyond headlines and hype. We talk to founders, investors, government officials, and military leaders shaping the future of national security and deep tech. From breakthrough science to strategic policy, we dive into the high-stakes decisions behind the world's hardest technologies.• Payload: www.payloadspace.com• Ignition: www.ignition-news.com• Tectonic: www.tectonicdefense.com

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A decade ago, Zach Borton had a lightbulb moment when studying energy economics at Ohio State University: the grid was trending toward decentralization. That realization set him on a path that would eventually lead him to Colorado, where he now serves as DER services manager at Platte River Power Authority.Platte River's 2024 integrated resource plan includes an ambitious goal: 30 megawatts of virtual power plant capacity by 2030. But building a VPP across multiple utility territories isn't just about technology -- it's about coordination, customer engagement, and breaking down organizational silos.This week on With Great Power, Zach explains the technical architecture behind Platte River's VPP strategy, which relies on two interconnected systems: grid derms and edge derms. He also discusses the challenges of aligning five different organizations, the importance of seamless customer enrollment, and why he believes curiosity-driven leadership is his superpower in the energy transition.With Great Power is a co-production of GridX and Latitude Studios.  Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get podcasts. For more reporting on the companies featured in this podcast, subscribe to Latitude Media's newsletter.Credits: Hosted by Brad Langley. Produced by Erin Hardick and Mary Catherine O'Connor. Edited by Anne Bailey. Original music and engineering by Sean Marquand. Stephen Lacey is executive editor. The Grid X production team includes Jenni Barber, Samantha McCabe, and Brad Langley.TRANSCRIPT:Brad Langley: Back in the early 2010s, apps skyrocketed in popularity. Apple had just launched its famous "There's an app for that" commercial, and within a few years, more than a million apps were available for download in the app store.Commercial clips: Ever wish you could really read people's emotions? Well, now there's an app for that. Don't have a great voice or any real musical talent? Well, there's an app for that too. You want to get the potholes filled? Well, there's an app for that. There's an app for that...Brad Langley: Zach Borton's family was right there with the rest of America, feverishly downloading apps to manage finances or track the weather or achieve personal fitness goals.Zach Borton: Fitbits were becoming popular and my mom and dad would all compete against different steps, and we wanted to bring that kind of competitive element to the energy space.Brad Langley: At the time, Zach was studying business and sustainability at The Ohio State University.Zach Borton: Most of my classmates were going down the road of corporate social responsibility, sustainability reporting, but I took an energy economics course and that kind of shifted my path.Brad Langley: As part of that course, Zach was presented with some graphics of the power system. One showed the traditional energy value chain with big centralized generation. Another showed the declining cost of rooftop solar and an upward trend for installations.Zach Borton: I realized at that moment we're going from this horse and buggy to car event. Every few generations will have that shift, and I wanted to be a part of that shift.Brad Langley: After graduation, Zach and two friends decided to launch their own energy-focused app, the idea was to show people the impact of their environmentally focused investments.Zach Borton: What we were trying to build is a visualization tool to track environmental metrics such as carbon saved or trees planted, and also kind of that competitive nature of seeing what your friends were investing, what types of projects they were investing in, and then competing with your friends or tracking that with your friends to drive that competitiveness.Brad Langley: Unfortunately, for Zach and his friends, their app didn't make millions, but it did motivate Zach to keep working on some of the big complex problems unfolding in the power sector. So he took a job at American Municipal Power in Columbus, Ohio.Zach Borton: I was a power supply engineer. There was learning kind of the nuts and bolts on how to serve a community with generation, really how to stack those assets for energy, capacity, and transmission. But really despite everything I was learning, I kept going back to those two graphics from that energy economics course.Brad Langley: He just couldn't get one question out of his head. How would the legacy power system interact with all these new DERs? And he wasn't the only one thinking about it.Zach Borton: There was utility of the future white paper coming out of MIT, and so we were really going through that and understanding rather than a centralized approach from these large generators, how can we hedge against energy, capacity, and transmission from within the load?Brad Langley: Once Zach locked into this problem, he just couldn't let it go. So he headed west to Colorado where he now works at a public power utility helping build a virtual power plant.Zach Borton: My job is to take distributed energy resources and make use of them as we transition to a non-carbon grid.Brad Langley: This is With Great Power, a show about the people building the future grid, today. I'm Brad Langley. Some people say utilities are slow to change, that they don't innovate fast enough, and while it might not always seem like the most cutting edge industry, there are lots of really smart people working really hard to make the grid cleaner, more reliable and customer centric. This week I'm talking to Zach Borton, the DER service manager at Platte River Power Authority, a public power utility that serves the communities of Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland in Colorado. Platte River provides wholesale electricity generation and transmission for its member communities, each of which has its own local electric utility. So a major part of Zach's job is figuring out how to build a VPP across all of those different utilities.Zach Borton: So each have their own technology suite, which makes integrations maybe a little bit more difficult. So we're all at different paths in this integration and technology suite, but getting there is going to require more collaboration and breaking down those silos.Brad Langley: I wanted to dive into the mechanics of building this kind of VPP, but first I asked Zach how the initiative came about and how Platte River planned to break down those utility silos. So let's dig into your work at Platte River. Platte River's 2024 Integrated resource plan includes 32 megawatts of VPP by 2030, which is a significant amount. Tell us about that project. How did the initiative come about?Zach Borton: Yeah, so it can all kind of go back to the 2018 resource diversification policy. In that policy, there's a few things that line out how we can get to a non-carbon future, but it really suggests better integration and coordination across the systems from the generation transmission system down to the distribution. So senior managers, utility directors, and a few different public engagement sessions really sparked this vision and guiding principles for a DER strategy. Next came kind of a gap analysis, so we tried to understand what systems we have today and what we need, and so this really showed us where we need to go with how to make this technology work. Finally, we got to that potential study, which you saw in the 2024 IRP. This showed us kind of the market size and the potential and really gives us a goal to hit. It tells us what types of programs we should run and where we should head into that 2030 mark that you said, 30 megawatts.Brad Langley: And what is your role as DER services manager on the project? What are you specifically tasked with?Zach Borton: It's really trying to coordinate and develop these programs with our owner communities. We can think about our strategy in two different approaches. It's really that best thinking available today, which you can see in the SEPA article Decoding DERMS. It's going to require two different systems, and that's the grid DERMS and the edge DERMS. But really I want to circle back to VPP isn't just a piece of software, it's a utility strategy. It's a system level approach that brings together people, technology and data to orchestrate this cleaner and more flexible grid.Brad Langley: So we've established there's two main components to this. There's the grid DERMS and there's the edge DERMS. Talk me through specifically what the grid DERMS is doing as well as what the edge DERMS is doing.Zach Borton: Absolutely, yeah. So we can think about the grid DERMS as the brain of the future utility operation. It's going to hold our network model. It's going to monitor the state of the distribution in real time, say watching for those stress points and identifying where flexibility could be made available. Some of this technology is in place today, but a lot of this needs to be developed over the next several years, whereas the edge DERMS manages the customer side. It's going to help us enroll devices into the programs, optimize them, and then deliver those optimized energy shapes, load shapes or blocks into the grid DERMS as kind of like, here's a block at this hour. Here's the shape that you can use here for this stress point, and together these two systems kind of coordinate those individual devices into actionable blocks.Brad Langley: Can you go into more detail in terms of what those components are? I assume it's a mix of hardware and software, but any specific technologies you're able to call out.Zach Borton: When we think about our owner communities, they're kind of laying the foundation for the grid DERMS for that distribution system awareness, whether that's smart metering, switching, things like that. We need to build out that process with our owner communities to bring in those data points and make that distribution grid a little bit more intelligent. We can think about the future of advanced distribution management. When we think about the edge DERMS, there's a lot of processes and people involvement: enrolling customers and engaging with those customers. Obviously there's a lot of software optimization on the backend, but that's where we lean on our partners.Brad Langley: So two distinct yet connected systems for owner communities. What kind of challenges are you either experiencing or do you foresee in making this program a reality?Zach Borton: There's quite a bit of challenges. I'd say one of our biggest challenges is aligning across the five organizations. It's sometimes hard enough to break down the department silos, but then breaking down the five organization department silos is really complicated. So everyone might agree on this goal of a functional customer friendly VPP, but getting there in sync is the hard part, which kind of brings us to the next challenge, which is a unified vision and consistency. Like I said, we have incredibly talented people working on this from all sides, but aligning on a common path with consistency is critical. We may ask, why is that so important? Well, we risk confusing the customer if we're changing things as we go or sending mixed messages. So we need to really build that trust and participation with our customers and our own communities. That brings us kind of to the third point, which is the customer patience and experience.We're building something new and with that comes unavoidable, really growing pains. So making the enrollment and engagement process as smooth as possible in that first year is going to be so important for us to scale to that 2030, 30-megawatt goal. And that's the last piece is that OEM maturity and industry coordination. Like OEMs are learning how to build and design for flexibility, but it's a learning curve and everyone's taken their unique approach. Whereas the utilities, I can call up a utility that has a similar goal to us and they'll share the lessons learned where I feel like some of the OEMs aren't sharing those lessons learned with each other.Brad Langley: It's an interesting point. We're big believers in partnerships in this space. I think partnerships are super important. Are you encouraging the OEMs to talk to each other? Because it's tricky, they might be competitive, but they're implementing similar programs, so lessons shared can be important. How do you navigate that? Are you finding openness for OEMs to be more collaborative or is it kind of a walled garden so to speak?Zach Borton: It seems like a walled garden, but I would like for all of us utilities to try to break that down and share like, Hey, we're trying to get to this non-carbon future and open up all of these opportunities for flexibility. And so I think if a lot of us will say that to the OEMs, maybe they'll start listening. So I think if we can band together and really get the OEMs to listen, we can get to this non-carbon flexibility future.Brad Langley: You mentioned you'll start enrolling customers early next year. Does that mean the project is complete? What are some of those stages or milestones that kind of happen before or after that? Maybe give us the one to two year look into the various stages of the program following customer enrollment?Zach Borton: Yeah, so I mentioned the two types of DERMS and there's kind of different working paths for each of those, but I'll kind of talk about the edge DERMS really enrolling customers there early next year. So I think we're breaking this strategy out into three different years. First year we really want to boost up the enrollment and awareness of these programs. So enrolling customers, boosting up satisfaction and increasing that program awareness. It's going to take many actions to get there, like streamlining that DER onboarding process and establishing incentive structures and engagement methods with our customer base. That's going to be critical for scaling the VPP all testing in that first year dispatches with a small number of megawatts and devices. In that next year, we're really going to be looking for analytics and post-event insight, so leveraging event data to better understand how we're forecasting and modeling DR.So we're going to lay out the infrastructure needed to capture dispatch data and analyze that across the systems, whether it's on the distribution or the generation transmission system. And then that third year is going to be building out scale. To get to that 2030 goal in the third year, we're really going to be trying to grow those legs and pick up our speed, and it's all going to be about scalability of the dispatch and optimization. I think this is where the edge DERMS becomes integrated with the grid DERMS. So as the grid DERMS is getting intelligent and connecting to all of those devices in the field, we'll build out that integration to kind of build this full VPP fully integrated using those historical insights. And really in that year, we start to see the real time grid data and the integrations.Brad Langley: How did the customers react to the VPP announcement? Are they excited about the prospect of integrating this type of technology? What was their overall sentiment towards the program when it was announced?Zach Borton: Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of excitement around this. When we think about our customer base, they love technology. We have a lot of EVs in our service territory. We have a lot of solar. We're starting to see that solar being paired with storage. So I think there's a lot of interest in helping us get to that non-carbon goal. And it's really the foundation we've built over the past 50 years, our community ownership, our collaborative mindset, and a long-term vision. We're not just building it alone, we're building it with our members, our partners, and every customer who chooses to be part of the solution. And it's really great to see a lot of those customers show up to the stakeholder meetings and suggest really great ideas to get to this VPP.Brad Langley: How many customers are you initially targeting and what's the scale of that look like over time?Zach Borton: Yeah, so the first few years, our big focus is on seamless integration, enrollment and engagement with those customers. We're going to most likely start within three different program groups, so EVs, batteries and thermostats and expand offerings from there. We hope to have roughly one megawatt in that first year, but again, I want to focus mostly on building out the seamless enrollment process and engagement. We can't build that 30 megawatts by 2030 without the customers and the devices, so having that poor engagement or poor enrollment process isn't going to help us scale. So we really need to build out the processes we have and kind of scale up to that 30 megawatt number by 2030.Brad Langley: Well, hey, we call this show With Great Power, which is a nod to the energy industry. It's also a famous Spider-Man quote. With great power comes great responsibility. So Zach, what superpower do you bring to the energy transition?Zach Borton: That's a really great question. I would say that curiosity-driven leadership. I'm highly adaptable and I have this ability to connect with all types of people, meet them where they're at, and build that real trust through kind of empathy, curiosity. I find common ground and help bring out the best in others, whether it's a technical person, strategic customer focus, I know how to relate and inspire those folks and share a sense of purpose. The ability to connect with folks is key when bringing together a diverse team with the single vision that we have.Brad Langley: And I'd add a great sense of fashion. I know our listeners can't see it, but I love the VPP hat you're rocking. It's right on point. So nicely done with that. Well, Zach, thank you so much for coming on the show and we wish you the best of luck with the program.Zach Borton: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you having me, Brad.Brad Langley: Zach Borton is the DER service manager at Platte River Power Authority. With Great Power is produced by GridX in partnership with Latitude Studios. Delivering on our clean energy future is complex. GridX exists to simplify the journey. GridX is the enterprise rate platform that modern utilities rely on to usher in our clean energy future. We design and implement emerging rate structures and we increase consumer investment in clean energy all while managing the complex billing needs of a distributed grid. Our production team includes Erin Hardick and Mary Catherine O'Connor. Anne Bailey is our senior editor. Steven Lacey is our executive editor. 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