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2 - Robin Shaeffer of Protect Our Coasts NJ, is here this afternoon. What is the Attorney General saying with this latest ruling on windmills? Why is the wind industry failing without subsidies? Why is Mikie Sherrill seem even more driven on this issue than her predecessor? Why is climate change being taught in schools detrimental to environmentalism in the ocean? 210 - Your calls. 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 220 - What is there to say about this Iran deal? Why don't Republicans like it? 225 - Why is the PPA towing instead of ticketing during this World Cup? More calls. 235 - Is Mount Holly having their carnival the same as the mayor keeping the beach open in Jaws? 240 - Should Stacy Garrity do a listening tour? More calls. 250 - The Lightning Round!
12 - The VP takes on The View! Why isn't Mount Holly having their 4th of July carnival? 1215 - Side - associated with France 1220 - We're getting live look-ins to JD Vance shutting down and fact checking the ladies on The View. 1240 - Whatever is happening with The Quakertown Five? 1250 - Your calls. 1 - Jonny Z, owner and proprietor of our favorite summer spot, Mulligans Shore Bar in Wildwood joins us today. Is Dom spouting revisionist history? How will the Jaws debate go? How are the shirts looking this year? Who designs them? 110 - Your calls. 130 - Attorney, 1210 WPHT Host, and Founder of SaveJersey.com is here. What does Matt think of the incident with an ICE agent being struck by a car yesterday? What has led to this moment and the continued threat of violence towards immigration officers? Mount Holly has canceled their July 4th carnival over safety concerns, is that the right move? What can these towns learn from shoretowns? Who is “the real attorney”? 150 - Who was planning an attack at UFC Freedom 250? 2 - Robin Shaeffer of Protect Our Coasts NJ, is here this afternoon. What is the Attorney General saying with this latest ruling on windmills? Why is the wind industry failing without subsidies? Why is Mikie Sherrill seem even more driven on this issue than her predecessor? Why is climate change being taught in schools detrimental to environmentalism in the ocean? 210 - Your calls. 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 220 - What is there to say about this Iran deal? Why don't Republicans like it? 225 - Why is the PPA towing instead of ticketing during this World Cup? More calls. 235 - Is Mount Holly having their carnival the same as the mayor keeping the beach open in Jaws? 240 - Should Stacy Garrity do a listening tour? More calls. 250 - The Lightning Round!
In der 48. Folge des „Podcasts zur Energiezukunft“ spricht Holger Schäfer mit Stephan Dinse, Head of Industry Origination bei Vattenfall, über ein Instrument, das für die Energiewende immer wichtiger wird: das Power Purchase Agreements (PPA).
Send us Fan MailWelcome back to another episode of KOTC! This week Tyler Loong & Jimmy Miller break down everything from MLP Columbus, including the California Black Bears' performance, the continued struggles of the St. Louis Shock despite one of the most expensive rosters in MLP history, and whether the pickleball world is too quick to overreact to a single event.The guys discuss the recent Genie Bouchard trade, Alix Truong's move to the Flames, the Palm Beach Royals' roster decisions, and why one-game-to-11 MLP matches can create some wild results. They also dive into the ongoing debate surrounding international PPA points, John McEnroe's comments about pickleball, and whether top pros should be stronger ambassadors for the sport.Plus: MLP St. Louis preview, Anna Bright and the pressure facing the Shock, championship ceremony controversy, and Tyler's now-infamous Museum of Ice Cream golden spoon story.Timestamps0:00 Intro & Shock Super Sunday jokes 1:35 Club Pickleball Mastermind sponsor 3:01 Pickler Universe update 5:00 Dominator sponsor 7:02 KOTC discount code update 8:37 KOTC All Access membership 9:20 Tyler's New York story begins 10:01 Museum of Ice Cream & the golden spoon controversy 13:54 Pickleball destroying a marriage? 16:45 MLP Columbus recap begins 17:39 Jeannie Bouchard traded to Carolina 18:10 California Black Bears weekend recap 19:35 Miami Hogs stock discussion 20:26 Are people overreacting to MLP results? 22:08 St. Louis Shock concerns 22:50 Why haven't the Shock won yet? 24:58 Should the Shock make a blockbuster trade? 27:06 MLP St. Louis preview 28:50 Breaking down the St. Louis groups 29:53 Rumored Shock player contracts 31:32 Pressure building for St. Louis 32:21 Brooklyn and Utah outlook 33:06 Is Jaume Martinez Vich better on the left? 33:53 Paris Todd controversy & comments 35:26 Relatability of pro pickleball stars 36:59 International PPA points discussion 39:04 Do international points need adjustment? 41:19 LeBron's dark mode strategy 42:14 Should Anna Bright go dark mode? 43:44 Columbus venue, courts & lighting review 44:26 Championship ceremony controversy 47:20 Alex Strong trade analysis 48:56 Columbus team chemistry concerns 49:48 Palm Beach Royals discussion 53:00 John McEnroe, Jeannie Bouchard & pickleball criticism 57:29 What should ambassadors of the sport do? 58:59 Final thoughts on St. Louis 59:45 Why MLP is different than PPA events 1:01:58 OutroWebsite: https://www.tylerloong.com/ KOTC All Accesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiH-sjthLCovD8i79-AkWg/joinCode “KOTC” for insane discounts at: https://www.clubpickleballmastermind.com/kotc Use Code "KOTC" for Big Savings on Vulcan Gear: https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesKOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcInstagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --Support the show
Taiwanese officials have apprehended three individuals accused of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, and we debunk the fears over AI's water use. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today for our lead story, we cover the latest Nvidia chip smuggling crackdowns in Taiwan, and then we hop into an interview with Udi Wertheimer of Taproot Wizards to discuss the current state of Ethereum, and why one of its chief proponents sold his entire bag of ETH. Then, Haley Thompson, Director of Energy at Luxor, joins us to talk about how the Iran War is impacting energy markets in the U.S.. Plus, we analyze Google's 200MW solar PPA in Oklahoma, concerns with Strategy's STRC, and debunk the viral criticisms surrounding AI data center water usage. Check out our latest report, “What's a Megawatt Worth?” where we quantify the trillion dollar opportunity for bitcoin miners venturing into the AI sector. Download here: https://megawattreport.com/ Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com
Executive producer Mark Infante and pro pickleball star Anna Bright join Kate to talk about PARTNERS, the six-part Prime Video documentary series following the meteoric rise of the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA), the league that, in less than five years, has gone from scrappy upstart to the center of an international phenomenon. Anna Bright is a former Division I tennis standout at UC Berkeley turned top-ranked PPA and MLP pro, known for her aggressive style, lethal two-handed backhand, and high-profile partnership with world No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters. She gives a rare inside look at life on tour: how the sport actually works, what sets it apart, the wild financial transformation of pro pickleball, and the rivalries and romances that make the league must-watch TV. Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Send us Fan MailKOTC is back breaking down EVERYTHING from the wild MLP Dallas weekend at Pickler Universe — including the controversial new MLP rules, Ben Johns' dominant performance, DreamBreaker strategy, player rankings drama, and whether international PPA events are gaming the system.Tyler and Jimmy discuss the chaos surrounding blue cards, standing restrictions, phone bans, injury replacements, singles specialists, and the biggest winners and losers from the event. They also dive into Utah Black Diamonds, Dallas Flash struggles, Mad Drops' championship run, and what to expect heading into Columbus.Make sure to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and join the KOTC All-Access membership for bonus content, gossip, breaking news, and behind-the-scenes discussions.Timestamps 00:00 Intro + AI line call rant00:52 Youth sports & “plastic rings” discussion02:15 Dallas trip recap + Chili's review03:53 Club Pickleball Mastermind sponsor11:48 PPA Asia ranking controversy begins20:34 MLP Dallas recap begins21:50 New MLP rules explained22:35 Fed's blue card comments24:01 Why the new bench rule hurts MLP25:36 Cell phone bans & gambling concerns26:13 Blue card controversy with Bay Area26:55 Utah challenge timeout mistake explained28:17 MLP energy & atmosphere discussion29:02 Injury replacements & alternates chaos31:52 Singles specialists discussion33:22 DreamBreaker importance this season34:45 Communication issues with singles specialists41:09 Biggest losers from MLP Dallas43:48 Utah Black Diamonds analysis45:59 Connor Garnett & Tama breakdown47:35 Pablo Tellez praise + Utah struggles48:31 Surprise performances from the weekend49:17 Best player at MLP Dallas50:07 Young teams analysis (Phoenix & Bay Area)51:36 Luka Mack injury + Joey Wild signing52:31 Columbus MLP preview53:10 Georgia Johnson/JW matchup controversy54:39 Pickler Universe crowd & atmosphere55:32 Columbus team pools breakdown57:00 New MLP format discussion57:47 Columbus preview continues58:33 KOTC All-Access membership plug59:25 Columbus women's lineup debate01:00:14 Questions01:10:28 Final thoughts & outroWebsite: https://www.tylerloong.com/ KOTC All Accesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiH-sjthLCovD8i79-AkWg/joinCode “KOTC” for insane discounts at: https://www.clubpickleballmastermind.com/kotc Use Code "KOTC" for Big Savings on Vulcan Gear: https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesKOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcInstagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --Support the show
Politiku ovládol súboj vládneho, ale aj opozičného alibizmu a namiesto vládnutia nám politici ponúkajú potemkinovsky marketing. Slovensku pritom hrozí stopnutie eurofondov, ako i dôsledky nezvládnutej konsolidácie či stagnujúcej ekonomiky.Hrozba straty eurofondov, PPA a jej trestnoprávne kauzy všakovakých Fafokanov, pozastavenie výstavby strategickej prešovskej nemocnice či dobre známa kauza “Langoš.” Na strane druhej zasa kauza matky lídra PS Marty Šimečkovej, ale aj absencia zmysluplnej opozičnej alternatívy.Vládne nám už knieža Potemkin a nie premiér Fico? A zmenila sa politika zo správy vecí verejných už definitívne na obsahovo vyprázdnený a alibistický marketing?Téma dnešného podcastu so šéfom oddelenia politiky Aktualít Martinom Slizom.Sledujete Aktuality Nahlas, pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Politiku ovládol súboj vládneho, ale aj opozičného alibizmu a namiesto vládnutia nám politici ponúkajú potemkinovsky marketing. Slovensku pritom hrozí stopnutie eurofondov, ako i dôsledky nezvládnutej konsolidácie či stagnujúcej ekonomiky. Hrozba straty eurofondov, PPA a jej trestnoprávne kauzy všakovakých Fafokanov, pozastavenie výstavby strategickej prešovskej nemocnice či dobre známa kauza “Langoš.” Na strane druhej zasa kauza matky lídra PS Marty Šimečkovej, ale aj absencia zmysluplnej opozičnej alternatívy. Vládne nám už knieža Potemkin a nie premiér Fico? A zmenila sa politika zo správy vecí verejných už definitívne na obsahovo vyprázdnený a alibistický marketing? Téma dnešného podcastu so šéfom oddelenia politiky Aktualít Martinom Slizom. Sledujete Aktuality Nahlas, pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Robert Fico sa smeje Hlasu, necháva ho kúpať sa v problémoch a čaká, kedy padne, hovorí podpredseda KDH Viliam Karas. Súhlasí s Richardom Sulíkom v prípade rovnosti žien. haciendy sú podľa neho najmenší problém, aký Slovensko v oblasti eurofondov má. Konštatuje, že koalícia oslabila schopnosť štátu bojovať proti kriminalite, lebo rozpustila všetky elitné policajné tímy. Bude Slovensko platiť sankcie za zmenu ústavy, ktorú presadil spolu so Smerom?V podcaste s Viliamom Karasom z KDH sa dozviete:– od 1. minúty – či má Slovensko naozaj problém s právnym štátom, tak ako hovorí rezolúcia Európskeho parlamentu;– po 3:00 – čo všetko u nás funguje správne a čo nie;– od 6:00 – že haciendy sú náš najmenší problém;– po 10:30 – ako Slovensko rozpustilo všetky elitné policajné tímy a nefunguje KUFS;– od 14:00 – že v PPA sú ľudia prepojení na žiadateľov;– po 18:45 – či je možné podmieňovať eurofondy do budúcna;– od 22:00 – či naozaj nedotiahol reformu trestného procesu a či je následkom toho zdržanie kauzy Očistec;– po 26:00 – ako si trestný poriadok vyžaduje zásadné prepracovanie;– od 31:00 – či bude vôbec možné odsúdiť Gašpara s Bodorom;– po 33:00 – že koaličná tresntá novela uberá súdom možnosť voľnej úvahy;– od 39:00 – akú má víziu pre KDH a či chce byť predsedom;– po 45:00 – čo podľa neho robila Angela Merkelová zle;– od 48:00 – že politicky riešená rodová rovnosť je podľa neho des;– po 57:00 – ako mu chýba kolega Hajko, ktorý odišiel z parlamentu;– od 59:00 – že Ficova vláda je slabá, nekompetentná a najviac to vidno pri neexistujúcich tzv. prorastových opatreniach;– po 1:04:00 – že Fico sa smeje Hlasu, necháva ich kúpať sa v problémoch a čaká, kedy padnú;– od 1:07:00 – či Slovensko príde o peniaze pre jeho zmenu ústavy v konaní o infringemente;– po 1:10:00 – či chcel zmenou ústavy oslabiť vplyv Európskeho súdu pre ľudské práva na ochranu ľudských práv Slovákov.
Robert Fico sa smeje Hlasu, necháva ho kúpať sa v problémoch a čaká, kedy padne, hovorí podpredseda KDH Viliam Karas. Súhlasí s Richardom Sulíkom v prípade rovnosti žien. haciendy sú podľa neho najmenší problém, aký Slovensko v oblasti eurofondov má. Konštatuje, že koalícia oslabila schopnosť štátu bojovať proti kriminalite, lebo rozpustila všetky elitné policajné tímy. Bude Slovensko platiť sankcie za zmenu ústavy, ktorú presadil spolu so Smerom?V podcaste s Viliamom Karasom z KDH sa dozviete:– od 1. minúty – či má Slovensko naozaj problém s právnym štátom, tak ako hovorí rezolúcia Európskeho parlamentu;– po 3:00 – čo všetko u nás funguje správne a čo nie;– od 6:00 – že haciendy sú náš najmenší problém;– po 10:30 – ako Slovensko rozpustilo všetky elitné policajné tímy a nefunguje KUFS;– od 14:00 – že v PPA sú ľudia prepojení na žiadateľov;– po 18:45 – či je možné podmieňovať eurofondy do budúcna;– od 22:00 – či naozaj nedotiahol reformu trestného procesu a či je následkom toho zdržanie kauzy Očistec;– po 26:00 – ako si trestný poriadok vyžaduje zásadné prepracovanie;– od 31:00 – či bude vôbec možné odsúdiť Gašpara s Bodorom;– po 33:00 – že koaličná tresntá novela uberá súdom možnosť voľnej úvahy;– od 39:00 – akú má víziu pre KDH a či chce byť predsedom;– po 45:00 – čo podľa neho robila Angela Merkelová zle;– od 48:00 – že politicky riešená rodová rovnosť je podľa neho des;– po 57:00 – ako mu chýba kolega Hajko, ktorý odišiel z parlamentu;– od 59:00 – že Ficova vláda je slabá, nekompetentná a najviac to vidno pri neexistujúcich tzv. prorastových opatreniach;– po 1:04:00 – že Fico sa smeje Hlasu, necháva ich kúpať sa v problémoch a čaká, kedy padnú;– od 1:07:00 – či Slovensko príde o peniaze pre jeho zmenu ústavy v konaní o infringemente;– po 1:10:00 – či chcel zmenou ústavy oslabiť vplyv Európskeho súdu pre ľudské práva na ochranu ľudských práv Slovákov.
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Michael O'Neal (@solohour) and Mircea Morariu (@brainsdoc) return to the 4.0 to Pro pickleball podcast, recap Michael's visit to the PPA finals in San Clemente and what stands out in person about open pros' hand speed, defense, resets, and dinking pressure, and announce plans to publish more regularly. They discuss CRBN's Barrage paddle (promo code 402P at checkout at crbnpickleball.com) and its power and durability, then dig into DUPR volatility, including ratings dropping after close losses or even wins, the impact of low reliability opponents, and suggestions like weighting later-round matches and the need to “play up” to raise rating. They share tournament stories (including a walk-off ATP and a disastrous windy match) and highlight key improvement areas: stop and hit with a split step, communicate with partners, and let out balls go, plus a drill to understand how little pace keeps balls in. They close with thoughts on sticking to one's strengths despite the game's increasing aggression and what each is currently working on (Mircea's two-handed backhand; Michael refining defensive resets). Peace and love, peace and love. :P M&M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SUMMARY DEL SHOW Futuros en rojo al entrar en una semana cargada. Reportan $NVDA, y también $TGT y $WMT. El tono está presionado por rendimientos al alza y petróleo otra vez arriba de $100. El evento es $NVDA. El mercado se juega si el AI trade sostiene valoraciones con 10Y y 30Y subiendo. El movimiento dependerá de guía y de si el beat justifica el precio. $M sube por participación de $BRK.A y $BRK.B. En defensa, el ciclo de gasto sigue empujando a $LMT, $LHX y $RTX, y mantiene en radar ETFs como $XAR y $PPA.
Russell Reading and Mark Chappell, Senior PPA Manager at Zeigo Network, recap highlights from Solar & Storage Live, discussing the recent surge in panel exports, evolving PPA dynamics, and how CFDs are reshaping the UK market. The episode explores battery energy storage (BESS) — scaling challenges, longer-duration trends, revenue streams and practical advice on selling co-located batteries with solar projects, emphasizing value-led approaches over simple price competition.
El granizo ha protagonizado la tarde del martes en Huesca y en las localidades zaragozanas de Letux, Azuara o La Almunia de Doña Godina, donde han sufrido intensas tormentas. Los agricultores de Valdejalón calculan que los daños en la fruta de hueso podrían llegar al 30 % de la cosecha.Asaja Huesca ha vuelto a trasladar al Ministerio de Agricultura la preocupación que arrastra el sector porcino desde que el pasado 28 de noviembre se detectara el primer brote de peste porcina africana (PPA) en jabalíes salvajes de los alrededores de Barcelona.
Africa burns off enough energy every day to power entire cities. Bitcoin miners figured out how to profit from it, and almost no one is paying attention yet.Jesse Pielke, founder of HashrateUp, joins Alex Perny on the Alternative Investing Advantage podcast to break down one of the most overlooked plays in alternative investing: using stranded energy in Africa to mine Bitcoin at near-zero cost.Jesse has spent years on the ground in Cape Town building pilot projects across Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa. He explains why electricity has nowhere to go.
Ide o stovky miliónov eur ročne.Predstavitelia nadácie Zastavme korupciu vysvetlili Jurajovi Kemkovi, o čo ide v PPA a o čo v prípade matky Michala Šimečku.
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of King of the Court, Tyler and Jimmy break down everything from the PPA Finals and San Clemente 500, including partnership rumors, controversial line-calling technology, MLP storylines, and the future of pro pickleball. Jimmy absolutely unloads on the New Jersey 5s logo, while Tyler shares behind-the-scenes stories from competing in the finals himself.We also discuss Ben Johns and ALW continuing their dominance, Kate Fahey's big win, possible men's doubles shakeups, Nico Acevedo's rise, the “Partners” documentary, sponsorship money in pickleball, and why some players may already be searching for new partners. Plus, we talk Pickler Universe, upcoming MLP events, court surface issues, and some wild behind-the-scenes stories from San Clemente.If you enjoy honest conversations, pickleball drama, player insight, and all the latest pro pickleball news, make sure to subscribe and join the KOTC community.00:00 – Intro 00:49 – Jimmy Rips the New Jersey 5s Logo04:06 – Sponsors07:03 – Pickler Universe Giveaway Call11:54 – Why Pickler Universe Is the Best MLP Venue18:37 – San Clemente Parking & Venue Stories19:18 – Court Surface Problems & Dead Spots22:05 – New Line Calling Technology Discussion24:07 – How Accurate Is the AI Line Call System?27:42 – PPA Finals Points System Explained31:39 – Why the Rich Get Richer in Rankings32:24 – Men's Singles Recap (JLG, Garnett & More)34:00 – Players Pulling Out of Events34:40 – “Partners” Documentary Reactions39:10 – Kevin Hart Roast Reactions41:35 – Mixed Doubles Recap42:33 – Ben Johns vs ALW Debate44:50 – Should PPA Randomize Mixed Partners?47:05 – Tyler's Finals Match & Mid-Match Rule Change51:25 – Alshon's Viral Interview Reactions53:59 – Future Partnership Shakeups56:22 – Why Some Partnerships Actually Work01:00:44 – Missing James Ignatowich in the Scene01:01:36 – Competition vs Personality in Pickleball01:02:12 – Sponsorship Money & Paddle Deals01:05:55 – Lighting Issues During Matches01:06:38 – PPA 500 Tournament RecapWebsite: https://www.tylerloong.com/ KOTC All Accesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiH-sjthLCovD8i79-AkWg/joinCode “KOTC” for insane discounts at: https://www.clubpickleballmastermind.com/kotc Use Code "KOTC" for Big Savings on Vulcan Gear: https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesKOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcInstagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --Support the show
Ako to, že minister pôdohospodárstva obhajuje Fafokany namiesto zápasu o agrodotácie a našich farmárov? Koho záujmy Richard Takáč vlastne obhajuje a kde v tom celom sú oligarchovia stojaci za PPA? Pýta sa exminister Zsolt Simon.Bruselské agrodotácie sú vo vážnom ohrození, hlavným problémom je dlhodobo nefunkčná Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra. Inštitúcia, ktorú odborníci opisujú ako „štát v štáte“, ktorá čelí podozreniam z organizovaného rozkrádania a krytia oligarchických záujmov. A dnes sa na tieto pochybné praktiky pozrel už aj samotný Brusel.Od kauzy Dobytkár až po fiktívne penzióny sa v nej kontinuálne ťahá línia netransparentnosti, ktorú nedokázali zastaviť ani opakované kontroly NKÚ. Podľa exministra Zsolta Simona sa z PPA stal nástroj systémovej korupcie, kde takzvaná „penziónová kauza“ predstavuje iba špičku korupčného ľadovca. Systém, ktorý slúži oligarchom namiesto skutočných poľnohospodárov, pritom prerastá viacerými vládami a dnes opätovne ohrozuje samotnú akreditáciu agentúry.Minister pôdohospodárstva sa tvári, že nerozumie po anglicky a za výzvou Európskej komisie pozastaviť PPA akreditáciu vidí opozičný komplot a výzvy Bruselu spochybňuje a odmieta. Ak však Slovensko neuskutoční radikálne zmeny, naši farmári môžu prísť o stámilióny milióny eur určené na rozvoj vidieka i podporu poľnohospodárstva.O čo ide ministrovi pôdohospodárstva, koho záujmy vlastne chráni a prídu farmári o podporu z Bruselu? Ako to, že si dlhodobo nevieme poradiť s transparentnosťou a dôveryhodnosťou Pôdohospodárskej platobnej agentúry a koho táto inštitúcia naozaj reprezentuje?Ráno Nahlas s exministrom pôdohospodárstva Zsoltom Simonom. Pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Ako to, že minister pôdohospodárstva obhajuje Fafokany namiesto zápasu o agrodotácie a našich farmárov? Koho záujmy Richard Takáč vlastne obhajuje a kde v tom celom sú oligarchovia stojaci za PPA? Pýta sa exminister Zsolt Simon.Bruselské agrodotácie sú vo vážnom ohrození, hlavným problémom je dlhodobo nefunkčná Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra. Inštitúcia, ktorú odborníci opisujú ako „štát v štáte“, ktorá čelí podozreniam z organizovaného rozkrádania a krytia oligarchických záujmov. A dnes sa na tieto pochybné praktiky pozrel už aj samotný Brusel.Od kauzy Dobytkár až po fiktívne penzióny sa v nej kontinuálne ťahá línia netransparentnosti, ktorú nedokázali zastaviť ani opakované kontroly NKÚ. Podľa exministra Zsolta Simona sa z PPA stal nástroj systémovej korupcie, kde takzvaná „penziónová kauza“ predstavuje iba špičku korupčného ľadovca. Systém, ktorý slúži oligarchom namiesto skutočných poľnohospodárov, pritom prerastá viacerými vládami a dnes opätovne ohrozuje samotnú akreditáciu agentúry.Minister pôdohospodárstva sa tvári, že nerozumie po anglicky a za výzvou Európskej komisie pozastaviť PPA akreditáciu vidí opozičný komplot a výzvy Bruselu spochybňuje a odmieta. Ak však Slovensko neuskutoční radikálne zmeny, naši farmári môžu prísť o stámilióny milióny eur určené na rozvoj vidieka i podporu poľnohospodárstva.O čo ide ministrovi pôdohospodárstva, koho záujmy vlastne chráni a prídu farmári o podporu z Bruselu? Ako to, že si dlhodobo nevieme poradiť s transparentnosťou a dôveryhodnosťou Pôdohospodárskej platobnej agentúry a koho táto inštitúcia naozaj reprezentuje?Ráno Nahlas s exministrom pôdohospodárstva Zsoltom Simonom. Pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
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Send us Fan MailThis week on KOTC we break down one of the biggest moments in pickleball history — a $225 million investment into the UPA and what it means for the future of the sport.From MLP and PPA growth to players cashing in, KOTC is diving into the real story behind the headlines (and calling out the misinformation along the way).We also recap the Atlanta tournament, including The rise of “Tama Time” and breakout performances. Major upsets and new faces shaking up the brackets Heated moments, body shots, and sportsmanship debates. Why line call issues are getting worse (not better). The dominance of top teams — and who can actually challenge them0:00 Start 5:00 Sponsors 13:32 Big investment 23:13 Atlanta 27:26 Womens Singles31:48 Mens Singles 37:45 Mixed Doubles 40:24 Mens Doubles 54:12 Womens Doubles 1:00:32 The Race 1:05:48 Questions Website: https://www.tylerloong.com/ KOTC All Accesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiH-sjthLCovD8i79-AkWg/joinCode “KOTC” for insane discounts at: https://www.clubpickleballmastermind.com/kotcNext Mastermind is 8/12-8/14 pickleruniverse.com/2026-mlp#ticketoptionsClick the Vulcan link below for a discount to be applied to your order https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesClick the Stack Athletics link below for discount to be applied to your orderhttps://www.stackathletics.com/JIMMY62262KOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcInstagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --Support the show
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Rosemary reports back on her visit to multiple Chinese renewable energy companies, Vineyard Wind activates a $69.50/MWh PPA with Massachusetts utilities, and Bronze Age jewelry halts a German wind project. 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! [00:00:00] 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. Allen Hall 2025: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’m here with Yolanda Padron in Austin, Texas, who is back from the massive wedding event. Everybody’s super happy about that, and Rosemary Barnes had her own adventures. She just got back from China and Rosemary. You visited a a lot of different places inside of China. Saw some cool factories. What all happened? Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, it was really cool. I went over for an influencer event. So if you are maybe, you know, in the middle of your career, not, not particularly attractive or anything you might have thought influencer was ruled out for you as a career. No one, no one needs engineering influencers in their [00:01:00] forties. It’s incorrect. It turns out that’s, that’s where, that’s where I, I found myself. It was pretty cool. I, I did get the red carpet rolled out for me. Many gifts. I had to buy a second bag to bring home the gifts, and when I say I had to buy a second bag, I had to mention. Oh, I have so many gifts, I’m gonna need another bag. And then there was a new bag presented to me about half an hour later. But, so yeah, what did I do? I got to, um, as I was over there for a Sun Grow event. Huge, huge event. They, um, it’s for, it’s for their staff a lot, but it’s also, they also bring over partners. They also bring over international experts to talk about topics that are relevant to them. Yeah. They gave everybody factory tours in, um, yeah, in, in shifts. Um, I got to see a module assembly factory, so where they take cells, which are like, I don’t know, the size of a small cereal box, um, and assemble them into a whole module. Then the warehouse, warehouse was [00:02:00] gigantic. It, um, was, yeah, 1.8 gigawatt hours worth of cells that couldn’t hold in that one building. They’re totally obsessed with fire safety there in everything related to batterie, like in the design of the product, but also in, in the warehouse. And they do, yeah, fire drills all the, all the time. Some of them quite big and impressive. Um, I saw inverter manufacturing facility that was really cool. Heaps of robots. Sw incredibly fast. Saw a test facility. Allen Hall 2025: So was most of the manufacturing, robotics, or humans? Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. So at the factory it was like anything that needed to be done really fast or with really good quality was done by robots. So they had, um, you know, pick and place machines putting in. Um, you know, components in the circuit board, like just insane, insane rate. I’m sure it’s quite, quite normal, but, um, just very fast. Everything lined up in a row. Most of their quality control is done by robots. Um, so it does well it’s done by ai, I should say. [00:03:00] Taking photos of, of things and then, um, AI’s interpreting that. Repairs, I think were done by humans. There were humans doing, um, like custom components as well. Like not every product is exactly the same. So the custom stuff was done by humans. Allen H: So that’s the Sun Grove facility, right? You, but you went to a couple of different places within China? Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I went to another, a factory, a solar panel, a factory, um, from Longie. That was really cool too. I got to see a bit more probably of the, um, interesting, interesting stuff there, like, uh, a bit more. Um, yeah, I don’t, I dunno, processes that aren’t, aren’t so obvious. Not just assembly, but um, you know, like printing on, um, bus bars and, you know, all of the different connections and yeah, it was a bit, a bit more to it in what I saw. Um, so that was, but it, it’s the same, you know, as humans are only involved when it’s a little bit out of the. Norm or, um, where they’re doing repairs, actual actually re [00:04:00]repairing. You know, the robots or the AI is identifying which components don’t meet the standard and then they’ll go somewhere where a human will come and, um, fix them. Allen H: Being the engineer there. Did you notice where the robots are made? Was everything made in China that was inside the factory or were they bringing in outside? Technology. Rosemary Barnes: I didn’t think to look for that, but I would assume that it was Chinese made, also Allen H: all built in country Rosemary Barnes: 20 years ago that wouldn’t have been the case, but I think that China has had a long, a long time to, to learn that. Again, it’s not like, it’s not, it’s not rocket science. These are, these are pick and place machines, you know, like I remember working on a project very early in my career, so. Literally 20 years ago, um, I was working with pick and place machines. It’s the same, it’s the same thing. Um, some of them are bigger ’cause they’re, you know, hauling whole, um, battery packs around. It’s just the, um, the way that it’s set up, but then also the scale that they can achieve. You just, you can’t make things that cheap if you don’t have the [00:05:00] scale to utilize everything. A hundred percent. Like I said, wind turbine towers is a really good example. ’cause anyone, any steel fabricating Allen H: shop Rosemary Barnes: could make a wind turbine tower. Right? They, they could, they could do that. You know, the Chinese, um, wind turbine tower factories have the exact right machine. They don’t have a welder that they also use for welding bits of bridges or whatever. Uh, they have the one that does the exact kind of world that they need, um, for the tower. They, you know, they do that precisely. Robotically, uh, exactly the same. And, you know, a, a tower section comes on, they weld it, it moves off to the next thing, and then a new one comes on. They’re not trying to move things around to then do another weld in the same machine. You know, like they’re, um, but the exact right. Super expensive machine for the job costs a whole bunch to set up a factory. And then you need to be making multiple towers every single day out of that factory to be able to recoup on your cost. And so that is [00:06:00] the. The, um, bar that is just incredibly hard slash impossible for, um, other countries to clear. Allen H: Can I ask you about that? Because I was watching a YouTube video about Tesla early on Tesla, where they wanted to bring in a lot of robotics to make vehicles and that they felt like that was the wrong thing to do. In fact, they, they, they kinda locked robots in and realized that this is not the right way to do it. We need to change the whole process. It was a big deal to kind of pull those. Specialized piece of equipment, robots out and to put something else in its place in that they learned, you know, the first time, instead of deciding on a process, putting it in place and then trying to turn it on, see if it works, was to sort of gradually do it. But don’t bolt anything down. Don’t lock it in place such that it doesn’t feel like it’s permanent. So you engineer can think about removing it if it’s not working. But it sounds like this is sort of the opposite approach of. A highly specialized [00:07:00] machine set in place permanently to produce. Infinite amounts of this particular product, does that then restrict future changes and what they can make or, I, I, how do they see that? Did, did you talk about that? Because I think that’s one of an interesting approaches. Rosemary Barnes: I didn’t actually get as much chances I would’ve liked to speak to engineers. Um, I was talking mostly to salespeople and installers. Um, so they know a lot, but I couldn’t, um, like in the factory tours, I was asking questions. Um. That kind of question and, and they could answer all, all that. Um, but outside of that, and I couldn’t record in the factory obviously. Um, but I did, I did take notes, but what I would say is that they would have a separate facility where they would be working out the details of new products and new manufacturing processes and testing them out thoroughly before they went and, you know, um, installed everything correctly. But what I do hear is that, you know, especially with solar power. Maybe to [00:08:00] batteries to a lesser extent. You, you know, you like, you have these kind of waves of technology. Um, so you know, like everyone’s making whatever certain type of solar cell and then five years later, um, there’s a new more efficient configuration and everybody’s making that. And I know that there are a lot of factories that kind of get scrapped. Um, and the way that China’s set up their, like, you know, their economy around all this sort of thing is set up is that it’s not that, like every company doesn’t succeed. Right. They SGO was a big exception because they’ve been going since 1997, I think it was. It was started by a professor quid his job and hired a room across the, across the road from his old university and, you know, built his first inverter and, um, you know, ’cause he, he could see that. Uh, the grid was gonna have to change to incorporate all of the solar power that was coming, which to be honest, in 1997, that was like pretty, pretty farsighted. That was not obvious to me when I started working in solar in mid two thousands. And it was not obvious to me that this was a winner. Allen H: Well, has sun grow evolved then quite a bit? ’cause if you’re [00:09:00] saying that they’ve minimized the cost to produce any of their products by the use of robotics, they have been through an evolutionary process. You didn’t see any of the previous generations of. Factories. You, you were just seeing the most modern factory that that’s actually producing parts today. So is that a, is that a, is that just a cost mindset that’s going on in China? Like, we’re just gonna produce the lowest cost thing as fast as we can, or is it a market penetration approach? What are, what were, were the engineers in management saying about that? Rosemary Barnes: I think there’s a few different aspects to that, like within China. So Sun Grow is the big company with a long track record and they’re not making the cheapest product out of China. So I think that they are still trying to make the cheapest product, but they’re not thinking about it just in the purchase price. Right. They’re thinking more in terms of the long, long term. You know, they’ve been around for 30 years and probably expect to be around for another 30 years. They don’t wanna be having [00:10:00] recalls of their products and you know, like having to, um. Installers in particular are probably working with them because they know that they won’t have to go back and do rework and the support is good and all that sort of thing. So they’re spending so much money on testing and you know, just getting everything exactly right. But I don’t think that that’s the only way that China is doing it. There’s, you know, dozens, probably hundreds of companies. Um. Doing similar stuff between Yeah, like solar panels and associated stuff like inverters and, and batteries. So many companies and all of them won’t succeed. You know, sun Girls Facility in, I was in her and it’s huge, you know, it’s like a, a medium sized country town. Just their, um, their campus there, they’re not, they’re not scrapping that and moving to a new site, you know, they’re gonna be. Rejiggering and I would expect that, you know, like everything’s set up exactly the way it needs to be, but it’s not like gigantic machines.[00:11:00] It’s not like setting up a wind turbine blade factory where it’s hard if you designed it for 40 meter blades, you can’t suddenly start making 120 meter blades. Like it’s, they will be able to be sliding machines in and out as they need to. Um, so I, I, yeah, I guess that it’s some, some flexibility. But not at the cost of making the product correctly. Allen H: Did you see wind turbines while you were in China? Rosemary Barnes: I, the only winter I saw, I actually, I saw, because I caught the train from Shanghai, I actually caught the fast train from Shanghai to, which is about, it depends which one you get between like an hour 40 or three hours if it stops everywhere. Um, and I did see a couple of wind turbines on the way there, out the window, just randomly like a wind turbine in the middle of a, a town. Um, so that was a bit, a bit interesting. But then in the plane, on the way back, the plane from Shanghai to Hong Kong, I, at the window I saw a cooling tower of some sort. So either like a, yeah, some kind of thermal [00:12:00] power plant. And then. Around all around, well, wind turbines, so onshore wind turbines. So I don’t know. Um, yeah, I, I don’t know the story behind that, but it’s also not a particularly windy area, right? Like most of the wind in China is, um, to the west where, uh, I wasn’t Allen H: as wind energy professionals, staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it. That’s why the Uptime podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new to wind, PES Wind has the high quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit PS win.com today. So there are two stories out of the US at the minute that really paint a picture of the industry. It was just being pulled in opposite directions. The Department of Interior announced agreements to terminate two more. Offshore wind leases, uh, [00:13:00] Bluepoint wind and Golden State wind have agreed to walk away from their projects. Global Infrastructure Partners, which is part of BlackRock, will invest up to $765 million in a liquified natural gas facility instead of developing blue point wind. Ah. And Golden State Wind will recover approximately $120 million in lease fees after redirecting investment to oil and gas projects along the Gulf Coast, and both companies say they will not pursue further offshore wind development in the United States. Well, we’ll see how that plays out. Right? Meanwhile. In Massachusetts Vineyard Wind, which has been fighting with GE Renova recently has activated its long awaited power purchase agreement with three utilities. The contract set a fixed electricity price of drum roll please. [00:14:00] $69 and 50 cents per megawatt hour for the first year and a two and a half percent annual increase. Uh, state officials say the agreements will save rate payers $1.4 billion over 20 years. So $69 and 50 cents per megawatt hour is a really low PPA price for offshore wind. A lot of the New York projects that. Renegotiated we’re somewhere in the realm of 120 to $130 a megawatt hour, and there’s been a lot of discussion in Congress about the, the usefulness of offshore wind. It’s intermittent blahdi, blahdi, blah. Uh, but the, the big driver is what costs too much. In fact, it doesn’t cost too much. And because it’s consistent, particularly in the wintertime, uh, electricity prices in Massachusetts in the surrounding area are really high. ’cause of the demand and ’cause how cold it is that this offshore wind project, vineyard wind would be a huge rate saving. And [00:15:00] actually the math works out the math. Math everybody. Do you think this is, when we go back five years from now, look back at this. This vineyard wind project really makes sense for Massachusetts. Yolanda Padron: I think it really makes sense for Massachusetts. I’m really interested to know what the asset managers are thinking on the vineyard wind side, um, and if they’re scared at all to take this on. I mean, it’s great and I’m sure they can absolutely deliver. Like generation I don’t think should be an issue. Um. I just don’t know. It’s, it sounds like they’re leaving a lot of money on the table. Allen H: I would say so, yeah. But remember, the vineyard win was one of the early, uh, agreements made when things were, this is pre Ukraine war, pre Iran conflict on a lot of other, a lot of other things. It was pre, so I remember at the time when this was going on that. P. PA prices were higher than obviously a lot of other [00:16:00] things. Onshore solar, onshore wind, it would, offshore is always more expensive, but I don’t remember $69 popping up anywhere in any filing that I remember seeing. So even if they had said $69 five years ago, I think that would’ve still been like, wow, that’s pretty good for an offshore wind project. And now it looks fantastic for the state of Massachusetts Yolanda Padron: because I know that there’s sometimes, and we’ve talked about this in the past, right? There are sometimes projects where, you know, you think you, you’ve got a really good price and you’re really excited about it, and then it goes into operation and then like a couple years down the road, prices increase quite a bit and it’s not the worst thing in the world. But you do just kind of think a little bit like, I wish I could. Renegotiate this or you know, just to get, to get our team a bit of a better deal or to get a bit more money in operations and everything. Allen H: Does this play into Vineyard wind claiming $850 [00:17:00] million in dispute with GE Renova that at $69 PPA, there’s not a lot of profit at the end of this and need to get the money out of GE Renova right now, and maybe why GE Renova wants to get out of this because they realize. The conflict that is coming that they need to separate the, the themselves from this project. It’s, it’s very, as an asset manager, Yoland, as you have done this in the past, would you be concerned about the viability of the project going forward, or is all the upfront costs. Pretty much done in that operationally year to year. It’s, it’s not that big of a deal. Yolanda Padron: As an asset manager taking this on, I’d probably have started preparation on this project a lot earlier than other of my projects like I do. I know that usually there’s, you know, we’ve talked about the different teams, right, throughout the stages of the project until it goes into operations, [00:18:00] but. And usually you don’t have a lot of time to prepare to, to make sure all of your i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed, um, by the time you take the project and operations from a commercial standpoint. But this project, I think would absolutely, like you, you would need to make sure that a lot of the, of the things that you’re, that might be issues for some of your projects like aren’t issues for this project. Just to make sure at least the first few years you can. You can avoid a lot of, a lot of turmoil that the pricing and the disputes and the technical issues are gonna cause you, because I feel like it’s just, there’s, there’s just so many things that just keep this side, just keeps on getting hit, you know? Allen H: Well, I, I guess the question is from my side, Yolanda, is obviously inflation, when this project started was pretty consistent, like one point half, 2%. It was very flat for a long time. And interest rates, if you remember when this project started, were very, very low. Almost [00:19:00] nonexistent, some interest rates. Now that’s hugely different. How does a contract get set up where a vineyard can’t raise prices? It would just seem to me like you would have to tie some of the price increase to whatever the inflation rate is for the country, maybe even locally, so that if there were a, a war in Ukraine or some conflict in the Middle East. That you, you would at least be able to, to generate some revenue out of this project because at some point it becomes untenable, right? You just can’t afford to operate it anymore. And, Yolanda Padron: and I think, um, I, I haven’t, I obviously haven’t read the, the contracts themselves, but I know that there’s sometimes there, it’s pretty common for a PPA to have some sort of step up year by year. And it’s usually, it can be tied to, um, the CPI for. Like the, the change in CPI for the year to year. So you’re [00:20:00] absolutely like, right, like maybe, I mean, hopefully they’re, they’re not just tied to the fixed 69 bucks per megawatt hour. Um, but, but yeah, to, to your point like that, that price increase could, could really save them. Now that we’re, we’re talking the, the increase in, in inflation right now and foreseeable future, Allen H: if you think about what electricity rates are up in the northeast. I think I was paying 30 cents a kilowatt hour, which is 300. Does that sound right? $300 a megawatt hour. Delivered at the house, something like that. Right? So Yolanda Padron: prices in the northeast are crazy to me, Allen H: right? They’re like double what they are in North Carolina. Yeah. 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 [00:21:00]before they become expensive burdens. Their non-destructive test technology penetrates deep dip 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 Yolanda Padron: you millions. Allen H: Well, sometimes building a wind farm turns out more than expected construction workers at a 19 turbine wind project in lower Saxony Germany under Earth. What experts call the largest Bronze age Amber Horde ever found? The region, the very first scoop of an excavator brought up bronze and amber artifacts that stopped construction and brought archeologists back to the site. Uh, the hoard has been dated between [00:22:00] 1500 and 1300 DCE and is believed to have belonged to at least three. Status women possibly buried as a religious offering. Now as we push further and further across Germany with wind turbines and solar panels for, for that matter, uh, we’re coming across older sites, uh, older pieces of ground that haven’t been touched in a long time and we’re, we’re gonna find more and more, uh, historically significant things buried in the soil. What is the obligation? Of the constructor of this project and maybe across Europe. I, I would assume in the United States too, if we came across something that old and America’s just not that old to, to have anything of, of that kind of, um, maybe value or historically significant. What is the process here? Rosemary Barnes: I assume that they’ve gotta stop, stop work. Um, yeah, that’s my, my understanding and I don’t think, do you have [00:23:00] grand designs in America? Allen H: I don’t know what that is. Yes. Rosemary Barnes: So missing out by not having that chat. It’s a TV show about people who are building houses or doing, um, ambitious renovations, and it just, it follows, it follows them. You can learn a lot about project management or. The consequences if you decide that you don’t need to, project management isn’t a thing that you need to do. Um, anyway. I’m sure that in some of those ones I’ve seen they have had work stop because in their excavation they found a, um, yeah, some, some kind of relic, um, from the, from the past. So based on that very well-credentialed experience that I have, I can confidently say that they would be stopping stopping work on that site. I mean, it’s so bad, bad for the developer, I guess, but it’s cool, right? That they’re, you know, uncovering, uh, new archeology and we can learn more about, you know, people that lived thousands of years ago. Allen H: It, it does seem [00:24:00] like, obviously. Do push into places where humans have lived for thousands of years. We’re going to stumble across these things. Does that mean from a project standpoint, there’s, there’s some sort of financial consequence, like does the lower Saxony government contribute to the wind turbine fund to to pay the workers for a while? ’cause it seems like if they’re gonna do an archeological dig. That that’s gonna take months at a minimum, may, maybe not, but it usually, having watched these things go on it, it’s. It’s long. Rosemary Barnes: But wouldn’t that be something that you’d have insurance for? Allen H: Oh, maybe that’s it. Rosemary Barnes: You know, it seems to me like an insurable, an insurable thing, like not so hard to, it would’ve affected plenty of other, like any project that involves excavation in Europe would come with a risk of, um, finding Yeah. An archeological find. And having work stopped, I would assume. Allen H: Yolanda, how does that work in the United States do, is there some insurance policy towards finding [00:25:00] a. Ancient burial ground and what happens to your project? Yolanda Padron: I don’t know. I, um, the most I’ve heard has been, it’s just talking to like the government and like the local government and making sure that you have all your permits in place and making sure, you know, you might need to, to have certain studies so you know, you might not have to get rid of the whole wind farm or remove the hole wind farm, but at least a section. Of it has to be displaced from what you originally had thought. I don’t know. I know it happens a lot in Mexico where you get a lot of changes to construction plans because you find historical artifacts or obviously not everybody does this, but like. Tales of construction workers who will like, find, they’re so jaded from finding historical artifacts that they just kind of like take and then dump them to the next plot over to not deal with it right now. Not that it’s anything ethical, uh, or done by everybody, [00:26:00] uh, but it’s, but, but it’s a common occurrence, a relatively common occurrence. Allen H: You would think it where a lot of wind turbines are in the United States, which is mostly Texas and kind of that. Midwest, uh, wind corridor that they would’ve stumbled across something somewhere. But I did just a quick search. I really hadn’t found anything that there wasn’t like a Native American burial ground or something of that sort, which they previously knew. For the most part. It’s, so, it’s rare that, that you find something significant besides, well, maybe used some woolly mammoths tusks or something of that sort. Uh, in the Midwest, it’s, it’s, so, it’s an odd thing, but is there a. A finder’s fee? Like do does the wind company get to take some of the proceeds of, of this? Trove of jewelry. Rosemary Barnes: I, I would be highly surprised. Allen H: Well, how does that work then? Rosemary? Rosemary Barnes: I’d be highly surprised if that’s the case in Europe. I bet it would happen like that in America. Allen H: Sounds like pirate bounty in a sense. Rosemary Barnes: In, in Australia it wouldn’t be like that because [00:27:00]you, when you own land, you don’t actually. You, you own the right to do things from surface level and above, basically. I don’t know how excavation works. So you don’t generally have a a right to anything you find like that? I mean, you shouldn’t either. It’s not, it’s not yours. It’s a, it belongs to the, I don’t know, the people that, that were buried. When you then to the, the land, like, I guess. The government in some way. I mean, in Australia it’s, um, like we don’t have so many archeological fines that you would find from digging. I mean, it’s not that there’s none, but there’s not so many like that. But it is pretty common that, you know, there are special trees, um, you know, some old trees that predate, uh, white people arriving in Australia. And, um, you know, that have been used for, you know, like it might have a, a shield that’s been, um. Carved out of it. Or, uh, hunting. Hunting things, ceremonial things, baskets, canoes, canoe like things, stuff like that. They call ’em a scar [00:28:00] tree ’cause they would cut it out of a living, living tree. And you know, so when you see a tree with those scars and that’s got, um, cultural significance. There’s also, you know, just trees that were, um. That that was significant for cultural reasons and so you wouldn’t be able to cut down those trees if you were building any, doing any kind of development in Australia and a wind farm would be no different. I know that they are, there are guidelines for, if you do come across any kind of thing like that or you find any anything of cultural significance, then you have to report it and hopefully you don’t just move it onto the neighboring property. Allen H: I know one of the things about watching, um. Some crazy Canadian shows is that. Uh, you have to have a Treasure Hunter’s license in Canada. So if you’re involved in that process, like you can’t dig, you can’t shovel things, only certain people can shovel. ’cause if they were to find something of value, you. You’ll get taxed on it. So there’s just a lot of rules [00:29:00] about it. Even in Canada, Rosemary Barnes: if I was an indigenous Australian and you know, some Europe person of European descent came and found some artifacts, uh, aboriginal. Artifacts. I would be pissed if they just took it and sold it. Like that’s just clearly inappropriate right. To, to do that. So you, I don’t think it should be a free for all. If you find artifacts of cultural significance and you just, it’s, you find its keepers that, that doesn’t sound right to me at all. Allen H: Can we talk about King Charles II’s visit to the United States for a brief moment? Uh, he is a really good ambassador, just like, uh, the queen was forever. He’s, he does take it very seriously and the way that he interacted with the US delegation was remarkable at times in, in terms of knowing how to deal with somebody that there’s a war going on right now. So there’s a lot [00:30:00] happening in the United States that, uh, not only could it be. Uh, respecting both sides of the UK and the United States’ position in a, in a number of different areas, but at the same time being humorous, trying to build bridges. Uh, king Charles, uh, had the scotch whiskey tariffs removed just by negotiating with President Trump, and sometimes that’s what it takes. It’s a little bit of, uh. Being a good ambassador. Allen H: Yeah. The very polished you would expect that. Right? But this is the first visit of. The king to the United States, I believe. ’cause he, he’s been obviously as a prince many, many, many times to the United States. [00:31:00]But this time as, as a, the representative of the country, the former representative or head of the country, which was unique. I think he did a really good job. And I wish he, they would’ve talked about offshore wind. Maybe he could’ve calmed down the administration on offshore wind. Rosemary Barnes: I bet that’s one of the, the goals. I mean, that’s an industry that’s important to. So Allen H: I wonder if that happened actually. ’cause that’s not gonna be reported in, in the news, but how the UK is going on its own way in terms of electrification and I guarantee offshore wind had to come up it. Although I have been not seen any article about it, I, I find it hard to believe that King Charles being the environmentalist that he is, and a proponent of offshore wind for a long time. Didn’t bring it up and try to mend some fences. Rosemary Barnes: Maybe he’s playing the long game though. I mean, Trump is pretty, he’s transactional, but he also, you know, he has people that he really likes and you know, will act in their interests. So maybe it’s enough to just be [00:32:00] really liked by Trump, and then that’s the smartest way you can go about it. Allen H: Did you see the gift that King Charles presented to, uh, the US this past week? It was a be from, uh, world War II submarine, which was the British, I dunno what the British called their submarines, but it was, the name of it was Trump. So they had the bell from. The submarine when it had been commissioned and they, they gave that to the United States, or give to the president. It goes to the United States. The president doesn’t get to keep those things, but it was such a smart, it’s a great president. It’s such a smart gift, and somebody had to think about it and the king had to deliver it in a way that got rid of all the noise between the United States and the uk. Brought it back to, Hey, we have a lot in common [00:33:00] here. We shouldn’t be bickering as much as we are. And I thought that was a really smart, tactful, sensible way to try to men some fences. That was really good. 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. Don’t forget to subscribe, so you never miss this episode. 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 and Yolanda, I’m Allen Hall and we with. See you’re here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.
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Európske agrodotácie sú v ohrození. Dôvodom je katastrofálny stav Pôdohospodárskej platobnej agentúry. PPA je štát v štáte, vládnu mu figúrky dosadené ľuďmi zneužívajúcimi agrodotácie. PPA uniesla oligarchia a politici to kryjú, tvrdí Xénia Makarová z Nadácie Zastavme korupciu. A prečo je mýtny tender doteraz vážny problém?Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra je vo vážnom ohrození. Opäť. Brusel pre zásadné systémové nedostatky žiada pozastavenie jej akreditácie pričom v hre je i hrozba korekcií mnohomiliónových poľnoplatieb. Ešte väčším problémom je, že minister pôdohospodárstva, ktorý je riadiacim, ale aj kontrolným orgánom PPAčky, problém ignoruje a tvári sa, že buď nerozumie po anglicky alebo vraj ide len o akési spiknutie opozície a médií. Na vážne pochybenia v Pôdohospodárskej agentúre pritom opakovane poukazoval aj Najvyšší kontrolný úrad a PPA - po kauze Dobytkár, rovnakému problému ako teraz, už čelila."Hnevá ma, že my sme ako na podnose odovzdali orgánom činným v trestnom konaní ukážkový príklad skorumpovanej a rozkradnutej štátnej agentúry a namiesto toho, aby bežali vyšetrovania a jej bývali predstavitelia by boli braní na zodpovednosť, zavládla tu kultúra nevyvodzovania osobnej - politickej i trestnoprávnej, zodpovednosti." Predseda NKÚ Ľubomír AndrassyPrídu slovenskí farmári kvôli rôznym Fafokanom, ktoré sa tvária že sú penzióny, aj keď žiadnymi penziónmi nie sú, o mnohomiliónové eurodotácie? Čo - a koho presne, kryje minister pôdohospodárstva a prečo tento problém ignoruje? Na základe čoho bývalý šéf PPA - po zlyhaniach Agentúry, dnes šéfuje Finančnej správe a prečo je pre aktuálnu vládnu moc tak nenahraditeľným mužom? Ak by vláda nereprezentovala verejný záujem, ale záujem tých, ktorí uniesli PPA, nesprávala by sa inak, než ako sa dnes správa vláda Roberta Fica, hovorí Makarová.No a napokon, kam miznú miliardy z diaľničného Mýta a ako to, že napriek miliardám z mýtneho tendra nie sme schopní dostavať čo i len jednu diaľnicu z východu na západ tejto našej maličkej krajiny?Únos PPA, únos Mýta, ale i únos zdravotníctva či dokonca rozklad právneho štátu - ako i sankcií za zneužitie verejných zdrojov. Moc oligarchie naprieč všetkými oblasťami verejného života a vláda nikým nevolených finančných záujmov, hlboko v tieni politiky. Kto teda naozaj vládne Slovensku a koho je v skutočnosti tento štát?Ráno Nahlas, tentoraz s Xéniou Makarovou z Nadácie Zastavme korupciu. Pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Európske agrodotácie sú v ohrození. Dôvodom je katastrofálny stav Pôdohospodárskej platobnej agentúry. PPA je štát v štáte, vládnu mu figúrky dosadené ľuďmi zneužívajúcimi agrodotácie. PPA uniesla oligarchia a politici to kryjú, tvrdí Xénia Makarová z Nadácie Zastavme korupciu. A prečo je mýtny tender doteraz vážny problém?Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra je vo vážnom ohrození. Opäť. Brusel pre zásadné systémové nedostatky žiada pozastavenie jej akreditácie pričom v hre je i hrozba korekcií mnohomiliónových poľnoplatieb. Ešte väčším problémom je, že minister pôdohospodárstva, ktorý je riadiacim, ale aj kontrolným orgánom PPAčky, problém ignoruje a tvári sa, že buď nerozumie po anglicky alebo vraj ide len o akési spiknutie opozície a médií. Na vážne pochybenia v Pôdohospodárskej agentúre pritom opakovane poukazoval aj Najvyšší kontrolný úrad a PPA - po kauze Dobytkár, rovnakému problému ako teraz, už čelila."Hnevá ma, že my sme ako na podnose odovzdali orgánom činným v trestnom konaní ukážkový príklad skorumpovanej a rozkradnutej štátnej agentúry a namiesto toho, aby bežali vyšetrovania a jej bývali predstavitelia by boli braní na zodpovednosť, zavládla tu kultúra nevyvodzovania osobnej - politickej i trestnoprávnej, zodpovednosti." Predseda NKÚ Ľubomír AndrassyPrídu slovenskí farmári kvôli rôznym Fafokanom, ktoré sa tvária že sú penzióny, aj keď žiadnymi penziónmi nie sú, o mnohomiliónové eurodotácie? Čo - a koho presne, kryje minister pôdohospodárstva a prečo tento problém ignoruje? Na základe čoho bývalý šéf PPA - po zlyhaniach Agentúry, dnes šéfuje Finančnej správe a prečo je pre aktuálnu vládnu moc tak nenahraditeľným mužom? Ak by vláda nereprezentovala verejný záujem, ale záujem tých, ktorí uniesli PPA, nesprávala by sa inak, než ako sa dnes správa vláda Roberta Fica, hovorí Makarová.No a napokon, kam miznú miliardy z diaľničného Mýta a ako to, že napriek miliardám z mýtneho tendra nie sme schopní dostavať čo i len jednu diaľnicu z východu na západ tejto našej maličkej krajiny?Únos PPA, únos Mýta, ale i únos zdravotníctva či dokonca rozklad právneho štátu - ako i sankcií za zneužitie verejných zdrojov. Moc oligarchie naprieč všetkými oblasťami verejného života a vláda nikým nevolených finančných záujmov, hlboko v tieni politiky. Kto teda naozaj vládne Slovensku a koho je v skutočnosti tento štát?Ráno Nahlas, tentoraz s Xéniou Makarovou z Nadácie Zastavme korupciu. Pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Spolupráca medzi Péterom Magyarom a Robertom Ficom bude možná až po vyriešení Benešových dekrétov, ktoré ale slovenský premiér riešiť nechce. Znamená to koniec vzťahov medzi slovenskou a maďarskou vládou? Predseda strany Maďarská aliancia László Gubík priznáva, že ako maďarský občan volil Fidesz, no nepovažuje to za hanbu. Tvrdí, že jeho strana bude vždy strategickým partnerom maďarskej vlády.V podcaste s predsedom Maďarskej aliancie sa dozviete:– od 1. minúty – či by hlasoval za pozastavenie eurofondov Slovensku;– po 1:30 – že treba zmenu na Slovensku, a to aj v PPA, keďže jej problémy najviac postihnú maďarských gazdov;– od 3:00 – ako na neho zapôsobil Péter Magyar ako svojrázna osobnosť;– po 4:00 – že budúci maďarský premiér chce spolupracovať s Ficom až po vyriešení Benešových dekrétov;– od 5:00 – či to znamená, že teraz nebudú existovať medzivládne slovensko-maďarské vzťahy– po 7:45 – či Péter Magyar vyhostí slovenského veľvyslanca, smeráckeho exministra Pavlisa;– od 8:30 – či bola Maďarská aliancia pobočkou Fideszu alebo maďarskej vlády;– po 10:30 – čo znamená, že jeho strana je strategický partner maďarskej vlády;– od 12:00 – aká je úloha Maďarskej aliancie pri určovaní, na čo na Slovensku tečú dotácie z maďarskej vlády;– po 14:00 – že počas volebnej noci nebol na centrále Fideszu, ale so sympatizantami maďarskej vlády;– od 15:00 – že ako maďarský občan volil Orbána;– po 16:00 – prečo si nevyhodnotil situáciu tak, ako väčšina maďarských voličov;– od 17:00 – či pre neho nie sú dôležité antidemokratické smerovanie, spojenie s Trumpom a vynášanie Putinovi;– po 18:45 – či Orbán sekal demokraciu;– od 20:00 – či necítil hanbu pri podpore Fideszu;– po 21:00 – prečo by mu prekážal ako partner Robert Fico, keď mu neprekážal Orbán;– od 23:00 – či existujú podozrenia, keď Péter Mágyar chce vyšetrovať dotácie aj pre slovenských Maďarov;– po 26:00 – na čo konkrétne on čerpal dotácie od maďarskej vlády;– od 27:45 – či si ho potom neodchoval Fidesz za maďarské peniaze;– po 28:30 – či si Fidesz vychoval na Slovensku generáciu podporovateľov;– od 30:00 – že škrtať voľby poštou je antidemokratické a vzalo by to voličov aj Maďarskej aliancii;– po 33:00 – ako budú postupovať v župných voľbách;– od 36:30 – či by kandidatúra Tibora Gašpara na župana v Nitre pomohla vyhrať maďarskému kandidátovi.
Spolupráca medzi Péterom Magyarom a Robertom Ficom bude možná až po vyriešení Benešových dekrétov, ktoré ale slovenský premiér riešiť nechce. Znamená to koniec vzťahov medzi slovenskou a maďarskou vládou? Predseda strany Maďarská aliancia László Gubík priznáva, že ako maďarský občan volil Fidesz, no nepovažuje to za hanbu. Tvrdí, že jeho strana bude vždy strategickým partnerom maďarskej vlády.V podcaste s predsedom Maďarskej aliancie sa dozviete:– od 1. minúty – či by hlasoval za pozastavenie eurofondov Slovensku;– po 1:30 – že treba zmenu na Slovensku, a to aj v PPA, keďže jej problémy najviac postihnú maďarských gazdov;– od 3:00 – ako na neho zapôsobil Péter Magyar ako svojrázna osobnosť;– po 4:00 – že budúci maďarský premiér chce spolupracovať s Ficom až po vyriešení Benešových dekrétov;– od 5:00 – či to znamená, že teraz nebudú existovať medzivládne slovensko-maďarské vzťahy– po 7:45 – či Péter Magyar vyhostí slovenského veľvyslanca, smeráckeho exministra Pavlisa;– od 8:30 – či bola Maďarská aliancia pobočkou Fideszu alebo maďarskej vlády;– po 10:30 – čo znamená, že jeho strana je strategický partner maďarskej vlády;– od 12:00 – aká je úloha Maďarskej aliancie pri určovaní, na čo na Slovensku tečú dotácie z maďarskej vlády;– po 14:00 – že počas volebnej noci nebol na centrále Fideszu, ale so sympatizantami maďarskej vlády;– od 15:00 – že ako maďarský občan volil Orbána;– po 16:00 – prečo si nevyhodnotil situáciu tak, ako väčšina maďarských voličov;– od 17:00 – či pre neho nie sú dôležité antidemokratické smerovanie, spojenie s Trumpom a vynášanie Putinovi;– po 18:45 – či Orbán sekal demokraciu;– od 20:00 – či necítil hanbu pri podpore Fideszu;– po 21:00 – prečo by mu prekážal ako partner Robert Fico, keď mu neprekážal Orbán;– od 23:00 – či existujú podozrenia, keď Péter Mágyar chce vyšetrovať dotácie aj pre slovenských Maďarov;– po 26:00 – na čo konkrétne on čerpal dotácie od maďarskej vlády;– od 27:45 – či si ho potom neodchoval Fidesz za maďarské peniaze;– po 28:30 – či si Fidesz vychoval na Slovensku generáciu podporovateľov;– od 30:00 – že škrtať voľby poštou je antidemokratické a vzalo by to voličov aj Maďarskej aliancii;– po 33:00 – ako budú postupovať v župných voľbách;– od 36:30 – či by kandidatúra Tibora Gašpara na župana v Nitre pomohla vyhrať maďarskému kandidátovi.
The AI infrastructure buildout has a gating problem, and it isn't megawatts. It's certainty of delivery. In this episode, Data Center Frontier Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent sits down with Jim Summers, CEO of GPC Infrastructure, to examine what large-scale power delivery actually requires in today's market. Summers argues that hyperscalers are no longer shopping for energy. They're buying speed to market, guaranteed timelines, and risk transfer. Utilities, hamstrung by interconnection queues and uncertain delivery dates, increasingly can't provide those things. The conversation covers the full picture: why on-site natural gas has moved from bridge solution to permanent architectural layer, how battery systems have become essential infrastructure for managing AI's volatile load profiles, and what the supply chain — not energy policy — now governs project timelines. Summers also walks through GPC's mobile PPA structure, designed to give operators long-term cost amortization without locking equipment in place, and makes the case that waste heat capture will eventually become standard practice. The broader theme is risk. On-site generation shifts capital and operational responsibility to the developer. But it also hands them something utilities can't offer: direct control over their cost exposure, in a commodity market that is liquid and hedgeable. Power in the AI era, Summers concludes, is no longer a utility assumption. It is a negotiated outcome.
Spain has approximately 42GW of utility-scale solar and 50GW when rooftop is included, yet less than 100MW of grid-connected battery storage. In February, solar capture rates hit €1.30 per megawatt hour, a fraction of the €30–35/MWh needed for a solar project to break even. So why hasn't battery storage followed the solar boom and could it be the key to rescuing solar revenues?Pablo Martinez Serrano, Iberia Industry Lead at Modo Energy, joins Ed Porter to break down why Spain's energy market defies easy assumptions, and what the Iberian blackout changed.They cover:- Why Spain's hydro fleet masked the need for batteries for years, and why that's no longer enough as solar saturation bites.- Why solar developers are earning less and less for every unit of power they generate and what that means for the projects still in the pipeline.- The co-location thesis: why existing solar asset owners are turning to BESS to fix their generation profile and unlock ancillary service revenue- What actually caused the Iberian blackout: voltage instability, cascading disconnections, and why the TSO had already flagged the risk- Spain's new voltage control market: how it works, why priority of dispatch may be more valuable than the reactive service payment itselfWant to model battery revenue stacks in Spain or track Iberian power market dynamics? Ko, Modo Energy's AI analyst, is built for exactly these questions. Free sign up: https://help.modo.energy/en/articles/13335470-ko-your-ai-analyst?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast_apps&utm_id=pablo_martinez⏱ CHAPTERS00:00:00 Introduction00:00:50 What everyone gets wrong about Spain00:01:54 Spain's generation mix: solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear00:04:43 Seasonal demand dynamics and why spring is the problem00:06:03 Solar capture price collapse: €42 to below €30/MWh00:08:19 PPA contracts, negative prices and the solar momentum problem00:11:52 The co-location pivot: why developers are turning to storage00:13:58 Why Spain has less than 100MW of batteries vs GB's 6GW00:15:33 Where the money is coming from: two types of investor00:17:11 The Iberian blackout: what went wrong and why00:20:04 How Spain is rebuilding grid stability after the blackout00:21:04 Spain's new voltage control market and what it pays00:24:43 Grid forming inverters and the future of ancillary services00:26:38 Contrarian take: Spain hasn't actually decoupled from gas00:29:15 The three phases of displacing thermal generators00:30:39 Closing remarksYou can watch or listen to new episodes every Tuesday. Transmission is a Modo Energy production. Your host is Ed Porter - Director EMEA & APAC at Modo Energy.
Spain has approximately 42GW of utility-scale solar and 50GW when rooftop is included, yet less than 100MW of grid-connected battery storage. In February, solar capture rates hit €1.30 per megawatt hour, a fraction of the €30–35/MWh needed for a solar project to break even. So why hasn't battery storage followed the solar boom and could it be the key to rescuing solar revenues?Pablo Martinez Serrano, Iberia Industry Lead at Modo Energy, joins Ed Porter to break down why Spain's energy market defies easy assumptions, and what the Iberian blackout changed.They cover:- Why Spain's hydro fleet masked the need for batteries for years, and why that's no longer enough as solar saturation bites.- Why solar developers are earning less and less for every unit of power they generate and what that means for the projects still in the pipeline.- The co-location thesis: why existing solar asset owners are turning to BESS to fix their generation profile and unlock ancillary service revenue- What actually caused the Iberian blackout: voltage instability, cascading disconnections, and why the TSO had already flagged the risk- Spain's new voltage control market: how it works, why priority of dispatch may be more valuable than the reactive service payment itselfWant to model battery revenue stacks in Spain or track Iberian power market dynamics? Ko, Modo Energy's AI analyst, is built for exactly these questions. Free sign up: https://help.modo.energy/en/articles/13335470-ko-your-ai-analyst?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast_apps&utm_id=pablo_martinez⏱ CHAPTERS00:00:00 Introduction00:00:50 What everyone gets wrong about Spain00:01:54 Spain's generation mix: solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear00:04:43 Seasonal demand dynamics and why spring is the problem00:06:03 Solar capture price collapse: €42 to below €30/MWh00:08:19 PPA contracts, negative prices and the solar momentum problem00:11:52 The co-location pivot: why developers are turning to storage00:13:58 Why Spain has less than 100MW of batteries vs GB's 6GW00:15:33 Where the money is coming from: two types of investor00:17:11 The Iberian blackout: what went wrong and why00:20:04 How Spain is rebuilding grid stability after the blackout00:21:04 Spain's new voltage control market and what it pays00:24:43 Grid forming inverters and the future of ancillary services00:26:38 Contrarian take: Spain hasn't actually decoupled from gas00:29:15 The three phases of displacing thermal generators00:30:39 Closing remarksYou can watch or listen to new episodes every Tuesday. Transmission is a Modo Energy production. Your host is Ed Porter - Director EMEA & APAC at Modo Energy.
US wind PPA prices climb to $79.40/MWh as the IRA sunsets. Plus GE Vernova ordered to stay at Vineyard Wind, lessons from Spain’s blackout, and data centers straining the US grid. 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. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall here with Nikki Briggs, who is in North Carolina this week, and Yolanda Padron who is back from the exciting wedding and weekend in Mexico. Welcome back, Yolanda. Yolanda Padron: Thank you. Excited to be here, Allen Hall: uh, this week there’s a, there’s a lot going on and we’re gonna touch upon some of it. Uh, Rosemary is over in China this week and Matthew is actually at Wind Europe in Madrid. And so this is gonna be an American focused episode mostly, but it’s gonna have global implications. One of the key items is PPA prices in the United States and with the on sunsetting of the [00:01:00] IRA Bills, uh, tax credits, and the whole infrastructure there with the one big beautiful bill when it crushed the IRA bill. PPA Prices needed to come up well. That’s happening, right? So developers, uh, can’t live without some money to compensate for the roughly 26, 26 7 20 $7 in PPA prices that were compensated by the tax credits. But, uh, when purchase price agreements have hit the highest level since they begin tracking it at Wood Mac. The average wind PPA now stands at $79 and 40 cents per megawatt hour up 24% from just one year ago now, Yolanda, you and I were talking before we started recording today about how low some of those PPA prices were two years ago, three years ago. Some of them were almost single digits. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, yeah. Some of them were pretty low. I [00:02:00] remember 16, $19 EPA prices and then a couple years ago we were looking at those and thinking, oh no, I can’t believe we, we kept those prices and they’re so low and everything’s changed so much, and the prices grown so much, and that was two years ago and now it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s almost four times as much as, as what we had originally thought, which is. Not super great for those older projects, Allen Hall: obviously, uh, when they, if they do repower, the extent they’re gonna have to renegotiate the PPAs. Right. The, the landscape has changed quite a bit. So the, the question really is now are they gonna be able to renegotiate new PPAs when the existing PPA hopefully ends? You can’t, you can’t run turbines for free and will they repower. Or will they just try to extend the lifetime? I think it’s a lot of operators trying to figure that out right now. And that’s in light of installations. So Whim Mac also says that US wind installations are [00:03:00] on track to nearly double in 2026, uh, building towards 48 gigawatts of new capacity through 2030, which all makes sense, right? That the, the. Uh, everybody’s trying to get all their assets in the ground so they, they qualify for the, the tax credits. So there’s a big push. So 2026 and 2027 are gonna be pretty busy years. Uh, but the, the negotiations are still going on and we’re talking to operators. Nikki and I have been talking to operators this past week or the last couple of weeks, honestly. There is all kinds of negotiations going on for turbines right now and who can get turbines? Can they get ’em in time? Can they get ’em planted fast enough? Nikki, it is causing a lot of operators to spend a great deal of time doing planning that they otherwise wouldn’t have been working on two years ago. Nikki Briggs: Definitely. I mean, it seems kind of weird to me because it’s like a weird spot. It’s like, um, you know, we want more power and we need to do all these projects, [00:04:00] but then. The permitting process is just like a brick wall or something, you know? Um, like it just takes them so much more to get through, um, and get it moving. Allen Hall: Well, I, I think if you have an existing site, you’re gonna repower it. I mean, that’s probably the easiest thing to do if, if you can pull it off. The, the question is how big of a turbine are you gonna purchase? A lot of those turbines that are gonna get repowered are probably 1.5. To two megawatt machines. They’re going to move up to five or six megawatt machines, generally speaking. So they’re reducing the amount of turbines that are gonna be on site. But the, the amount of power that’s delivered usually is about the same, maybe a little bit more. Which, which, which strives the, which drives the, the equation of, Hey, what’s everybody gonna do in the next couple of years with the data centers. Having listened to the GE Renova financial report for Q1 that just came out as we’re earlier today. GE is trying to sell gas turbines like there’s no tomorrow. However, the weird thing about it was that they were [00:05:00] very nervous about locking in firm orders that a lot of the deposits they had for like 2029 or moving into 2030. So they had a, a discussion about GE Renova building gas turbines. They could do about 20 gigawatts a year, but they had like a 10 gigawatt hole. In 20 29, 20 30 of orders because the data centers are realizing, like to get a contractor to put a hole in the ground so you can put a data center in is taking more time than they thought. It’s not Silicon Valley where you can just type some software. And Yolanda, you’re kind of in the middle of this right now, being in Austin, Texas. Is the, the drive for data centers and the drive for power, what it was six months ago, is that landscape changed? Has everybody come back to reality? Like building physical projects takes time. Yolanda Padron: I think people are starting to get, get back to reality from the little bit that, that I’ve been, that. I privy to, uh, I do think that you mentioned the GE renova and [00:06:00] just kind of all the changes and everything. And I know in the past we’ve talked about, um, the fact that, you know, a lot of blade manufacturers have changed hands for wind and a lot of things are uncertain in general. Um, I think right now with the boom of people trying to repower and doing everything as quickly as possible and as safely as possible, it’s really important that everybody should. Try to get as much documentation on everything as possible, not just to, to protect yourselves, right? I mean, if there’s some sort of, I mean, you’re, you’re, you’re checking that the foundation on your turbine is perfect still, um, doing all the civil engineering studies that you need to do and making sure that, that everything’s fine, um, for, for the long term, right? If you’re not, you’re not planning on repowering again in five years. Um. But just to track everything. There’s so much movement right now and so much uncertainty that at the very least, so you know, what you’re dealing with, if and when you have an issue, [00:07:00] you know, five years down the line, like, oh, this is what happened and this is why, this is who I need to talk to, or this is how I’m going to solve this. Or, you know, it’s not a new problem. Um, because it’s just, there’s just so many, so many factors changing. All at once that it’s, it’s a little bit, it’s a little bit daunting for everyone in this space. I don’t know if you guys feel the same way. Nikki Briggs: I have a separate question, um, which is, you know about these PPA pricing, if it’s going up, it continues to go up. Is the old adage about like green energy is the, is is the cheapest? Is that like out of the wind now? I mean, that’s not even. You can’t even apply that. Allen Hall: No, I think renewable energy, solar and wind are the lowest cost, fastest way to get power onto the grid. The, the, the question is, uh, will state and federal governments prohibit it? Because if you’re talking about the gas turbines, [00:08:00] which is not cheap, and you’re talking maybe the earliest is 20 30, 20 32. Uh, as when you be able to, to get something scale there. What else did there that you’re gonna build? Nuclear. Nuclear GE iss. Talking about nuclear small modular reactors again today. And they got a project going up in Canada, it sounded like that’s not vast either. So if you’re talking about speed and deployment, solar’s quick, right? You can just put ’em up and you can get wind turbines up pretty fast too. But anything that’s uh, gas turbine or god forbid, we start burning oil again to make electricity. Uh, I, I just don’t see it. This has implications obviously over in Europe too, right? So Wind Europe is this week, and it’s in Madrid, of course. And the Vesta, CEO, Henrik Anderson’s, uh, told the audience over in Europe that, uh, hey, there’s a lot of choices to be made [00:09:00] here the next couple of years, and it’s more important now than ever, uh, to. Think about renewables with the problems in the ous, straight of ous, sending prices higher. Does Europe want to be connected to a petroleum future? I think Europe has been struggling with that since obviously the Ukraine war started. So the, the problems in Iran are just gonna double down on that. The EU Energy Commissioner, uh, Dan Jorgenson, uh, called it out. Earlier this week and said it’s, this is not an energy crisis, it’s a fossil fuel crisis. So if we don’t have to rely on fossil fuel so much, then the energy crisis will hopefully come down in Europe. Uh, but one of the weird things about what’s happening and where Europe is, although Vestas and the EU energy Minister Commissioner are talking about fossil fuels and moving to electricity into more renewables, when [00:10:00] Europe is talking about, uh. Unfettered media posts that are, that there’s misinformation happening and, and how they’re going to deal with misinformation. That’s not their, to me it’s not their problem. Misinformation is not slowing down projects you, you have to deal with. Uh, obviously people are gonna oppose power plants, Tesla facilities, whatever’s going on in their neighborhood. The, there’s gonna be opposition to it. You have to learn how to deal with it. And I, I’m always shocked when, when a, a large organization, be it American Clean Power or, or Wind Europe or one of the many others, or complaining about misinformation, they’re in their information business. They need to be doing more work, laying the groundwork locally to deal with some of these issues. But it does feel like. Yolanda have seen this up close, uh, where there’s been sort of local disputes about, particularly wind, uh, that you, you need a little bit of help, right? [00:11:00] You can’t rely on the, the operator, owner operator to provide all the ammunition to, to, to fight off. Uh, you know, the, the generic Facebook posts about wind turbines killing birds or whatever they’re gonna post. Is, is there a, a, a future here where a a, a Wind Europe does a, an American clean power for that matter, do a better job of communicating why you would wanna have renewable energy in your backyard? Yolanda Padron: I think we just all need to just agree in general about what our approach is here. Right? Because we, I know there’s, we’ve talked about companies that really, really wanna do, you know, if, if you can. Produce X amount of money by creating wind power, then you’re, I’m gonna charge you X minus one. Right? Like, I’m gonna maximize my profits as much as possible. Um, and then there’s other people who are just really, really trying to, [00:12:00] to do with, deal with what they can. You know, they, you have 25-year-old projects that have been going on forever and ever. No one’s manufacturing them anymore. And people are still finding solutions to keep those alive. And then there’s, I know we talked about, I think it was Japan that was doing that really crazy work with these smaller turbines that, I mean, they already know what the issues with those turbines are. So just, just removing a lot of the factors going into something very experimental for, you know. We could all talk about the greater good, which is making sure that renewable energy is something that’s financially accessible. Right. I, I know we have a friend who’s been talking about it for a really long time and he said, you know, it shouldn’t be a thing of this is the right thing to do, should be a thing. This is the most cost effective thing to do, and I think he’s right. I think we should all just really try [00:13:00] to make sure that we work together. To make it the most cost effective way of producing energy, um, of solving all the problems that we can and not just, I mean, we can focus about competition later, right? If we really, really want to. Allen Hall: Let’s talk about the, the power demand for a minute. So, a number of states in the US have prohibited data centers altogether. I think the number I saw last was like 30 states have prohibited. Data centers main being the most recent one that I recall, where they just prohibited ’em in the state. That has to do with electricity prices. That the concern is if I have a couple of gigawatts being devoted to any, you know, uh, ai, Facebook, Google, uh, x, ai, any of those that my electricity rates are gonna go up and, and a lot of the states are putting blockades in essentially to prevent that from happening. That changes the landscape dramatically, right? [00:14:00] Where now, uh, if they were gonna put renewable energy in, in advance of ai, those projects are gonna die, obviously. Is there, is there a, a place where data centers, ai, electricity demand being increased, is met with renewables and some logic? Will that ever come to a place where everybody will be happy? Yolanda Padron: I mean, I think it can, in that case, I guess when Europe is correct in saying, you know, we need to stop the misinformation spread, right? But it’s also, I think it’s, it’s, it’s like one of those things where it’s like, it’s such a small part of the equation to make sure that the people who don’t exactly have a lot to do with the decisions that are being made. Legally, um, are on the same page. I think it’s more of, you know, the people who [00:15:00] are making these decisions need to come to an agreement on what’s, what’s best and what’s fiscally responsible for the area. Allen Hall: Would you wanna turn away? I, I think the thing about AI data centers and the issues that’s driving it, it’s once you have a AI data center up and running, there’s hardly anybody working there, so it doesn’t create jobs. A lot of times they don’t even have lights. Right? Why do you need lights? The computers don’t need lights. They’re just gonna sit there and run that. If it was bringing jobs, I think everybody would think differently about data centers. But because data centers don’t bring jobs, except in the power generation side, there’s not a big incentive for states to allow them. So I don’t see how this works. Right. At some point, somebody somewhere is gonna figure it out. That I’m gonna have to have a lot of excess electricity. Maybe it’s Norway and it has to be pretty cold again, Norway or Sweden, where I could put data centers and it, it may not even happen in the us. Is that what we’re, is [00:16:00] that what we’re gonna see? Nikki Briggs: I don’t know what we’re gonna see, but I’ve, I’ve heard that, um, aren’t they putting data centers in the, in the water now too underwater and like in the ocean and there’s talk about putting data centers in space and, you know, all kinds of things to, to find these different environments. But I think, um, with the. Increased demand and power that it’s gonna be all these data centers are gonna be taking. And as, um, we know AI is very exponential, right? So it’s, it’s growing exponentially in the use and, um, the adoption of it and the models are getting stronger and so it’s consuming a lot more energy, right? And so I feel like the switch back around to sustainability as, as, uh, like a core need of. Of the Earth is gonna have to, it’s gonna have to come back around for sustainability. I mean, because you can’t, you can’t just keep doing that. Allen Hall: I think the thing is, in, in Europe, they [00:17:00] obviously are interested in having some AI data centers, and that will be the, the growth plan of course, because they want to be able to compete with the rest of the world. So Europe will be in this mode of we need to create more electricity. But they want, at the same time, decouple from the Middle East and maybe even from the United States in terms of using, uh, petroleum based products to, to power their grid. I think that’s, that’s inevitable. So they’re gonna have to make a huge change in Europe. We’re, we’re looking at massive changes in the US who knows about China right now. Uh, what they’re planning to do besides pour money into everything, all the above strategy is what China seems to be doing. Does that then. If, especially, let’s just talk about the GE and over thing. So, Yolanda, I think this touches your point, which is GE and over win business is really not healthy. They lost about 300 plus million dollars in the first quarter, EBITDA wise, uh, compared to, uh, roughly a [00:18:00] year ago. It was like a hundred million dollars they lost. So the, the continued pain at GE Renova Wind. Uh, is maybe, which I thought was gonna flatline, it seems to be getting worse. All of a sudden. They think it’s gonna be better in the second half of the year. And maybe that’s true. Hopefully it is. But if you’re, if you’re talking about putting on more data centers, more electricity demand, just ’cause of population growth and your wind companies maybe besides vestus or not doing that well. Do we get there? Does, can we, can we do this? Can we actually turn this corner, make that turn, get onto, uh, more electricity, be able to compete against the world in AI and everything else, electricity wise. Is this gonna happen or is everybody gonna. Take a five year pause while they figure it out. Yolanda Padron: I just think that everybody’s just kind of running with their shoes untied, right? Like we’re all trying to race. Allen Hall: They’re running with scissors and the shoes untied. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, it is like it. I mean, eventually someone’s gonna have to [00:19:00] pause or trip Allen Hall: because you always wonder how serious some of these data center projects are because you hear the names like who? Uh, and the one that always gets me is, no, no offense to Stanford University, but. Lately, I’m hearing a lot of Stanford University graduates that are planning some massive power generation source of some sun type and just go, okay, no. Can we stop? Can we stop for a minute? No. Having a master’s degree from Stanford doesn’t know. You probably don’t know how to build a data center. Sorry. And you probably don’t know how to do distributed energy. You don’t. It’s just those are complicated and industrial things that take a lot of money and time and resources, so, no. So the, the reality of what is. Real that will be built, that’s gonna come due. I think there’s a lot of projects that were theoretical and grand and, uh, six months ago even are going to go kapoof, like pets.com. In 2001, it’s gonna be the same thing. Nikki Briggs: You’re dating yourself, Alan. Allen Hall: There was a time when. [00:20:00] When everybody was gonna be, be a internet billionaire, and one of ’em was pets.com, right? So pets.com was this pet store thing, and, and it was, they had a great URL of course, but as soon as, you know, there was any e you know, the, the, the, the, uh, planes hit the towers in New York City, poof, that thing was gone and they could sustain the, the economics of, um. The US at the moment, and when I think of Austin, I think all the tech bros are in Austin. Like you drive around Austin, you just see it. There’s a lot of smart people on the ground trying to do these grandiose things. Electricity generation is a hundred and twenty five, a hundred forty years old. That is an industrial process that is really hard to break into and you can’t AI your way into creating data centers. Does somebody realize that? And was the GE talk today? I’m gonna be the GE talk today, Yolanda, on the gas turbines. Obviously [00:21:00] they wanna take as many orders as they can or get place placeholder deposits in one of the GEs competitors is not even taking orders past 2030 ’cause they don’t think they’re real if they were real. I think everybody taking orders and I think they’re, they’re seeing the quality of that individual walking in the door trying to place, place that deposit and realize. They don’t know how to work EPC. Yolanda Padron: Have you seen, I know there’s, there’s been a lot of like memes right now about how the use of electricity in AI and data centers and it’s like, you know, we’ve increased exponentially, so we will continue increasing exponentially until the end of time. Allen Hall: Till the world explodes. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, exactly. And it’s like, I don’t think, I mean, to your point, like I, is it real like it. It could, it was sort of, um, it did grow a lot and it’s continuing to grow a lot. I just don’t know that it’s gonna be something where like everybody has a data center in their backyard, or everyone’s connected to a data center within a mile. You [00:22:00] know, Allen Hall: I think you’re a hundred percent right about that. So the realism is hitting the market, right? So as PPA prices increase and the realities of construction projects hits everybody, this is gonna slow down. Quite a bit. Yolanda Padron: I’m curious to see how long that’ll be before we overshoot it for the PPA prices. Allen Hall: Oh, you think, okay. That’s a, that’s a really good point because I, I was wondering that today, I’ve been telling people for two years now, as soon as they, uh, the tax credits sunset that PPA prices necessarily have to go up, they just have to go up the, the, the offshore wind PPA prices, were in the $150, uh, megawatt hour. Ballpark, uh, for a couple of projects off the coast in New York. I don’t know what they are in Europe at the minute. I, I should go look. I do actually do know. I should go back and look though. But the onshore prices are obviously much less, right? If you’re in the $80 per megawatt hour, although it does seem high, it is relatively [00:23:00] low compared to everything else you’re gonna be able to do. What, what are the choices you’re gonna do? What other, what other choices can you make? Yolanda Padron: What kind of structure are you gonna. Work with is if you’re increasing, increasing, increasing, and then eventually we’re gonna hit a plateau eventually, or like an almost plateau. But I highly doubt everyone’s gonna be able to forecast exactly when that is without overshooting it. Allen Hall: Yeah. I guess the question is how much is the overshoot. Is it a hundred dollars? Is it $120? Is it $150? Nikki Briggs: I have a question though, because are these AI data centers, are they meant to be running completely on wind power? Allen Hall: They in theory can’t. Right? Nikki Briggs: They need power 24 7. So Yolanda Padron: yeah, they need to have some sort of backup thing, so maybe even backup in the grid or something if it’s not something directly hitting it. A lot of projects are like co-located, so you might have wind and battery or wind solar battery or something. All together, Allen Hall: the XAI effort in Memphis, right? There’s, it is gas turbines, a bunch of gas turbines they’ve bought from [00:24:00] all over, but it has a pretty good best backup to provide stability to that. I think you’d have to do that, right? Nikki Briggs: You’d have to have a a, a failover plan or something. Yeah. Allen Hall: Having watched the internet and at different times of day, there’s nothing happening between like us time midnight and 6:00 AM. There is zero going on, and I always think does 24 7 AI data center need is so not gonna happen because when people are, if, if the data center is providing roughly national, or say it’s Europe, there’s, there’s, people are awake as a certain time of day and then they’re not. Right? So unless your data center’s gonna feed China, which it won’t, and Europe at the same time, or the US and Europe, it’s still, there’s just blocks of time where the. You just don’t need a lot of power. You just don’t need it. So the 24 7 demand, I think is not real Nikki Briggs: well, but they have to keep them cool. And you [00:25:00] know, I mean there’s like the environment inside of the data center has to be a certain, uh. Uh, specification, I guess. Right? One question that I, that I had come up here on the side, Alan, had you heard about the, uh, CEO from Vestas talking about the need for an energy union? Allen Hall: Yes, but this is not the first time it’s come up, uh, to, to try to, to gather everybody together. Ideally, if you’re thinking about the eu. Working together, and rarely does that happen, but if it were to happen, Vestas would be a huge winner in that. So would Siemens esa Honestly, the, the weird thing about all what’s happening in Madrid and at, when Europe at the moment is that sizzle’s back and they’re talking about doing projects in Europe and uh, I think a Donny is also talking about doing projects in Europe or providing turbines, right? So there’s. [00:26:00] Once Ming Yang was rejected in Scotland, which I thought was inevitable, I’ve always thought that the second place to go to get turbines that would compete with Avesta and Siemens is in India, and I do, because it’s an English speaking country, it does break down a lot of barriers. That’s for sure. And because obviously it was a, a, a British colony for a long time, there’s the relationship there. That would be it. It, I think something that makes, makes sense. So Vestus, who would obviously be the winner of all the offshore and maybe even some of the onshore projects in the UK may have competition. So although Vestas may be hoping for more of a energy block, which. Uh, could work, honestly. It could work and you could see a lot of wind and solar and batteries and hydro in, in Europe and obviously France with nuclear. I think [00:27:00] India has a really good shot at penetrating that market that would change the dynamics quite a bit. That would put pressure on Vestas to lower prices, no doubt. And so the, the, the dream scenario of Vestas is the only. OM standing in this huge demand market, which is all local to them. Uh, that may not actually turn out there. There could be some really rough patches here. If, uh, the so salons, a Donnies of the world, they can produce a five megawatt, six megawatt turbine. God knows if they could make a a 15 megawatt offshore turbine, that would put a tremendous amount of pressure on Vestus. Tremendous, and that would be harder to stop. I think from a a UK standpoint, very interesting times. Vestus is well suited to, to gain market share and is rapidly in the United States and a number of other countries, Australia being another, and Europe, but woo. Huh. The dream scenario never works out like you think it [00:28:00] will. It never does. As wind energy professionals, staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it difficult. That’s why the Uptime podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or a new. Wind, PES Wind has the high quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit PES wind.com today. So there’s been more information come out about the, this Iberian blackout that happened about a year ago. And as the, the details are, uh, published and everybody has a chance to review them, uh, one, one person to check out is, um. Howard Pinrose at Motor Dock and his chaos in Caffeine podcast, which happens on the weekends because he provides some good summaries about some of the latest news from the Iberian Peninsula and the reports that are being published. [00:29:00] The Iberian blackout and the role of renewables is very interesting. The, the problem that they had was, uh. Instability. So it, the grid was just generally unstable and they had a transformer fail and that just cascaded where, uh, they were disconnected from the rest of Europe. So the Liberian peninsula was just automatically disconnected and that happened relatively quickly. One of the things that could have supported the grid, and I think you’re gonna see changes happening, and Howard Pinrose was just in Washington DC with American clean power pushing for this, which is. As Yolanda knows, solar and wind have sort of two moats. They can follow the grid and produce power and just kind of follow along. Or better yet, they can form the grid and support the grid and be a resource when things get wobbly on the grid. And Spain learn that lesson really [00:30:00] well about a year ago, and I think we’re gonna find that all those solar panels that disconnected and because you’re in a following mode, protect mode. If they had had ’em in a, a more, uh, command role into managing the grid, that maybe the Iberian peninsula may not have blacked out. Maybe parts of it had because they lost a transformer, but there may be a role for renewables in terms of grid stability. Doesn’t that seem odd? Because the story and the mis, maybe the misinformation that’s happening around the world is, well, if the wind turbine isn’t turning, it can’t help monitor the grid. It actually can, same thing for solar. Those inverters that sit on the grid are actually thinking and working and reacting. So they can actually provide a lot more, uh, stability to the grid than maybe be some other resources at, at a lot less cost. Is there a scenario where we start changing the rules about wind and solar where we, instead of them playing dumb, that they become smart [00:31:00] and provide more stability? Yolanda Padron: Well, it happens a lot I think in Texas, right? We have, like you, you dispatch wind when you need it and you dispatch solar when you need it. And there’s a whole, I mean, the whole market. Behind the scenes that it’s for people a lot smarter than I am. But, uh, but yeah, I mean, you, you get, like, you’ll see sometimes wind turbines that are pitched slightly so they won’t generate electricity when it’s not needed, or they’re just free flowing when, I mean, it’s, it’s not necessarily to produce a lot of electricity or, you know, sometimes you’ll say, oh, you know what, I need this much. Energy from you at this moment, and so Sure. Switch. I mean, it’s, it’s literally a click of a computer. You turn it on, make sure the, that it’s dispatching energy, and then once you need it to be cut off, it’s cut off. Especially if it’s a co-located site, it’s a lot easier to make sure that you are [00:32:00] actually giving all the energy that you need to give in any given moment. Allen Hall: Because a grid reacts very quickly when things go wrong in the grid. It happens in seconds, and the only thing they can respond in seconds. Is renewables, inverter based resources. That’s the only thing you can respond. You can’t spool up a synchronous condenser to stabilize your grid in a couple of seconds. You may need a couple of hours typically to get that going. Isn’t this where we’re going? It because of the digital age and everything is on off so fast. If I had a data center that, you know, it collapses pulling a gigawatt, man, you need to be react almost instantaneously to that. The only thing that can do it today if they chose to do it is wind, solar, and battery. That’s it. In the digital age, Yolanda Padron: I think it’s great. There was this one time, uh, a few years ago where, um, uh, a, a buddy who’s, who was a, a traitor for, you know, the, the, uh, energy markets in the [00:33:00] states. Um, he, he saw what was happening and he knew that he could. You know, he was controlling like wind, solar, and, and battery. And it was a co-located solar and battery site. And so he let them dispatch the solar for a bit and then he held off on the battery. And then the moment that he dispatched it was like he. Within like five minutes, it was $3,000. Something crazy like that. ’cause it was just like the mo, like he was just, everybody was amazed. Just the moment that he was like, amazing. Just like, well this is, this is why you do what, what you do. You know? Um, but yeah. Yeah, it’s, I mean, it’s a really, it’s a really interesting, interesting, for anybody that wants to read up on it. Like the, the market for that is really, really interesting. Nikki Briggs: It does sound really interesting and like, I’ve been thinking a little bit about, um. The, the role of wind and, and you know, in Colorado we have a lot of high wind and then we have this [00:34:00] wildfire danger as well because of the drought. And so what happens when it gets really, really windy is they turn off the power ’cause they don’t wanna start a fire, a wildfire. So, um, so you know, here you want the wind so that you can generate the power, but then you can’t give it. So how do you store that and how do you, you know, like how do you manage that, you know? It’s a, it’s a tricky situation. Yolanda Padron: Yeah. That’s where they’re co-locating. I think a lot of sites, there’s a lot of, I know there’s a wind farm in Arizona that’s really huge and they have a, a whole, they have a certain perimeter around it where they just really make sure that there’s nothing that can spread there. Like it’s, it’s just. Kind of barren land, so in case there is a wildfire or anything, ’cause it’s in a very dry area. Um, nothing will really happen to that in theory, you know, that has all the systems for the battery. Nikki Briggs: What if the, what if the electric transmission lines are what, you know, causes the fire [00:35:00] because of the wind? The wind is causing those to break or to fall down. The poles fall down and then they cause a spark. And then they cause a fire. That’s what happened in Colorado a long time ago, a couple years ago. Allen Hall: Same thing in California. Nikki Briggs: So in order to protect from that, there’s like, it’s super windy. So they turn off the power. Allen Hall: Does it make it right? Right. Well this, this comes back to the infrastructure of the United States and how old that it is, and if you pay attention as you drive across the US you’ll realize that some of the. Towers and some of the infrastructure that you see on the side of the road. Dang, you’re a hundred years old and it doesn’t get replaced. It was never meant to be replaced. Or maybe they thought we were gonna be living on Mars in a hundred years, but basically it’s the same. Technology. It’s a wire on a kind of suspended up there in the air, and the wind moves around and it’ll burn and it wears out. It just wears out, right? Eventually you’ll just wear through that stuff, and we’re seeing that [00:36:00] across the United States. You’re seeing it in Europe, you see it in Spain, in other places where the infrastructure has just has a lot of age on it until we decide to do something new and refurbish it, like we refurbish the roads all the time. Uh, we’re gonna have trouble. We just are gonna have trouble in the states. Yolanda Padron: Alan, as an electrical engineer, I do have a question. So would the forecasted generation needed by all these data centers and stuff, like with our current system, would we be okay with that? Or what kind of changes would we need to make just as a country in general? Allen Hall: I think the problem with. A large data center as you’re seeing some of them being built on the east coast right now is one, trying to keep them up and running. Two, the infrastructure that are feeding and it’s old, right? So the transformers and all that. The things that don’t move, that are just planted on a concrete pad [00:37:00] that’s seem like they, they would never age, age, had fail. Eventually. So when you put a big demand on existing infrastructure that’s kind of powering old light bulbs and um, motors and things that are old and that have very well-known patterns, and you start putting these, uh, basically big digital power sinks that go up and down in in power usage. The grid can’t take that. It just won’t be able to take it at scale. It’ll take it for a while and we’ll figure out a way because electrical engineers tend to be pretty sy um, at how to make miracles out of, uh, uh, uh, of questionable things. That’s how we, how we do that, that’s why we get paid so much. But the, the, the problem is, is that at some point it’s gonna break, right? And, and the, the electrical grid in the US and the people that support that. Internally, I think we’re getting a little bit worried about it [00:38:00] and trying to figure out what we can do to keep the grid up and running. It’s a huge problem, huge problem, because when the grid was built back in the late 18 hundreds, early 19 hundreds, there were a lot less people, and somehow we managed to get to about 350 million people. All with the mobile phones and big screen TVs, and now electric vehicles and laptops, and blahdy, blahdy, blah. How this thing is still running is a miracle. It really is it. It obviously is Yolanda Padron: delamination and bottom line. Failures and blades are Allen Hall: 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 into the label materials. To find voids and cracks. Traditional inspections completely. 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GE is trying to get it back into arbitration where they can do some negotiation, but it’s all about big, big dollars.[00:40:00] The one thing that came out with Scott Straza, uh, Q1 discussion, which was uh, a phone call today, had to do with the completion of GE Ver Nova’s offshore wind projects, and when they could be complete. That includes sort of the doer bank projects in the uk, which I think are gonna wrap up sometime in 2027 to try to get those finished and vineyard wind, which they said was gonna be finished at the end of April. So from a GE Renova standpoint, I think they’re considering vineyard wind to be done at the end of the month and that’s gonna be their position. It was very odd. To hear the CEO of GE Renova talk about something that’s in litigation. ’cause usually that doesn’t happen. But if the company position is, Hey, we’re leaving at the end of April, we’ll see you a vineyard wind. That’s a problem. And let me explain a little bit of the details of this. GE Renova is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not that far away from vineyard wind, which [00:41:00] is also based in Massachusetts. So you have this corporate entity, which just. Opened an office in Cambridge. It’s really swanky place, not very far from where MIT and Harvard and all the, the elite universities are just outside of Boston. And then you have this vineyard wind project, which is important to the state of Massachusetts where they need that power to happen and they need it to be sustained and needed to run properly inside the state of Massachusetts. There must be huge discussions about this in the state government. Massive discussions about how these two entities have to work together for the next 20 years, and they are really at each other’s throats. That’s not the way you wanna start an offshore project. And Yolanda, you’ve been around some of these offshore projects. Is it always this tense between the OEM and the operator? Is, is this where all these projects end in some sort of disagreement and [00:42:00] separation? Yolanda Padron: No, I think, I mean, from my experience. There’s usually someone at some point, and it’s usually, I think, I mean the. The owner, but you’ll stop and say, okay, I need to work with this person. I need to work with this company for the next X amount of years. I need to make sure that they give me the proper documentation once I need it. I need to make sure that they’re doing things in good faith. You know, I mean, if I can’t, it’s not like the technicians have like a camera strapped onto them to, so you can monitor every single blade repair, right? Like you need to make sure that they’re doing things right. Um, and not just patching things up because. Because they’re mad at you. Uh, so, so, no, I think it’s, it’s a little bit crazy to me that no one’s yielding as much. Allen Hall: I think GEs position is we’re gonna give vineyard all the manuals and the equipment would be up and running. You can find somebody to run it. You, you, you think that’s possible On a brand new turbine that [00:43:00] is only one other places on the planet that’s being run, which is over in the uk. Are you gonna be able to find people if GE walks off? Yolanda Padron: I mean, even if you can find people, once GE walks off, it’s like you, you need to be able to train your technicians. You know, like all of these, all of these projects are you, you need to have them in constant supervision. You need to make sure that everything’s working smoothly and you can’t just afford, I don’t know if we’re being really optimistic, like a month of no one touching those turbines. That’s crazy. Like anybody in the wind world is even onshore. Could you imagine if we just walked off a site and just let the wind turbines just be for a month? Like that’s, I mean, I don’t know, I, I’m not super, super well versed in exactly what they’re getting, but are they getting any sort of, at least like technical support? Allen Hall: I don’t think so. No. Yeah, Yolanda Padron: no rock system, no. Nothing. Allen Hall: If it all works out like GE wants it to, [00:44:00] no. You get the manuals. You get a, a, a nice, uh. Card in the mail saying Thank you for your business. And that’s it. It, that’s, I think that’s where it’s going. Nikki Briggs: Doesn’t seem like a good way to, like, doesn’t seem like they’re stand standing behind their product or what they sold. Um, I mean, and it seems like there would be some downstream ramifications for other, other companies that want to buy ge. Allen Hall: They don’t wanna be in that business. I, I think that’s one of the discussion points that never comes up when the quarterly calls is. Is GE gonna remain in the wind business? Because I think the answer to it is maybe how could a lot, I mean, you said on the financial side of some of these, uh, wind farms and paid attention to the details. If you were losing a billion dollars a year, how long would you be in that business? Yolanda Padron: I mean, not very long. I think you’d have to change things to make it work. Um, yeah. I mean, I don’t know. I think, [00:45:00] I think it’s one of those things where they’re trying to. Find exactly where they fit into this business, if they still fit in at all. Uh, I really hope they don’t fully back out because of everyone that’s in operations that has GE products out there that’s really gonna need that support. Uh, I think especially for a vineyard’s sake, at the very least that they’ve are doing, that vineyard is doing a better job than a lot of the operators I know at making sure that. Everything you need within operations has been asked for since development and construction. Um, I’m not super, super optimistic about that. Just because like everyone has so many things to do that you don’t like if you’re in development, you don’t always have time to think about. Oh yeah, I really hope they give me the repair manuals in case there’s a lightning strike on the blade at R 20. You know, like it’s just, um, so it’s just. It’s, [00:46:00] it’s just gonna, it’s gonna be a very interesting case study. Whatever they end up doing, I think it’s gonna be something that will be worth following a bit more closely. We’ve seen, there’s been projects where, you know, day one, the OEM just backs off, but that was at least. They knew that, you know, the, the owner knew it two years in advance, and so they tried to get as many people as possible. There were to, to get on those turbines. There were of course mishaps and stuff, um, and it was more of a financial than an engineering decision. Um, but when the decision was made, people knew about it and people had time to act. I mean, people having a week to find, I. Someone to, to, to take care of every single aspect of their site is a little bit insane. Especially, I mean, [00:47:00]with the history of veneer, right? Like, come on, they had a, they had a blade break, Allen Hall: right? There’s gotta be a lot of questions about the durability. There has to be Right. Even if, even if GEs figured it out, and I think they probably have, and then they’ve put a, a lot of money and time into resolving the issue. You still have to wonder. Is it right? And if you’re vineyard, I think that’s one of the questions is, is it right and could we operate it by ourselves without needing a lot of handholding from ge? Or paying GE more money than we already agreed to, which is probably what’s likely to happen, right? That GE iss gonna ask for more money if they can break the contract legally and renegotiate, that would be a smart move. I think they will try to do it. It’s unfortunate and it causes a lot of grief for a lot of people, but I think GE probably needs to renegotiate and probably Vineyard wants to renegotiate it too ’cause they both feel disgruntled at this point. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, and I think it’s really interesting ’cause we focus a lot on vineyard and just the [00:48:00] way that the OEM and the owner operated with each other just because it gets, it’s so close to such an important part of the country that gets so much PR all the time. It’s just, it kind of sets the mood for a lot of things that go on. So it’s, I mean, it’s not that we’re just picking a lot of vineyards, it’s just really, it’s a really important site just in general from where it is, right? It’s not like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s a very important place that gets a lot of attention Allen Hall: that writes up another episode or 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 if you never miss an episode, if you found any value in today’s conversation, I mean any value, please leave us a review. And those reviews, we actually. Take and use to help create the next episode. So send us your notes, send us your comments. Send us what you would like us to discuss. Because the wind energy marketplace and [00:49:00] development are changing so rapidly, it sometimes it’s, it’s faster than we can keep up with. So please send us your ideas. Uh, and anytime you have a chance, please like and subscribe because it really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. So for Nikki and Yolanda, I’m Alan Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.
Most people [who have been in the industry awhile] have opinions about SunEdison.This is one of the first times Ahmad Chatila and Jigar Shah have sat down together to compare notes on how it actually played out.Both were inside it.Both made the bets.Both saw things others didn't.In this conversation, the two leaders who helped build one of solar's most ambitious companies sit down to examine how it actually worked and why it did not hold.They walk through the operating logic that made SunEdison so competitive. Using semiconductor-style cost modeling to see price declines before the market. Making audacious bets on equipment inputs. Structuring deals that looked aggressive at the time but consistently won.Ahmad explains how lessons from silicon manufacturing shaped that thinking and created a real edge.But they also get clear on what ultimately determined the outcome.The strategy worked.The cost curve was real.The execution was there.What broke was the financial architecture behind it.A capital structure that depended on continuous demand.A global footprint that introduced currency and market friction.And a model that moved faster than investors were willing to follow.In this live conversation, Ahmad Chatila joins Jigar Shah and Nico Johnson for a candid look at the decisions, convictions, and missteps that helped shape one of the most consequential chapters in clean energy history.This is not a sanitized founder story. It is a rare, honest reflection on what worked, what failed, and why the hardest problem in clean energy may still be capital formation, not technology.You will hear how Ahmad anticipated solar cost declines years ahead of the market, why he determined that owning the PPA mattered more than owning construction, and how TerraForm Global became the critical fault line in SunEdison's collapse.The conversation also reaches far beyond the past, into the future of India, currency risk, and the global financing models that still need to be built if clean energy is going to scale where it is needed most.It's one of the most fascinating conversations Nico has had the opportunity to co-lead (and eaves-drop on!)Solar may be cheap, but capital still decides what gets built.If you're trying to scale projects, raise money, or understand where deals actually break, this is worth your time.Press play and decide what you would have done differently.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!SunCast is also sponsored by Nextpower!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus
Corporate energy buyers have quietly become one of the most consequential forces shaping the U.S. electricity system. By the end of 2025, members of the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) had procured more than 130 GW of carbon-free electricity in the U.S.—a footprint comparable to the combined generating capacity of California and Texas—and roughly double that globally. In this episode of The POWER Podcast, CEBA CEO Rich Powell joins POWER Executive Editor Aaron Larson for a wide-ranging conversation on how hyperscalers, manufacturers, retailers, and other large electricity users are responding to unprecedented demand growth and reshaping corporate procurement in the process. Topics covered include: • Why CEBA is "big tent" on clean technology, and how solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal, hydro, gas with carbon capture, and even fusion PPAs all figure into the mix • How AI-driven data center growth—and the chip fabs supplying them—are layering onto existing trends in electrification and internet expansion • The four-pronged nuclear revival: reactor restarts, license renewals, uprates, and advanced reactor bets on X-energy, Kairos, TerraPower, Oklo, and light-water SMRs • The Ratepayer Protection Pledge and how large buyers are addressing concerns that data centers push costs onto residential customers • Why ERCOT remains CEBA's "North Star" market, and how hybrid deals combining firm capacity with clean energy attributes are changing PPA structures • The rise of flexibility as a corporate procurement category, including demand-side management, on-site storage, and virtual power plants • How rising tariffs and supply chain inflation are squeezing solar, wind, and gas project economics • Powell's top policy ask: fundamental, legislatively codified reform of federal permitting and transmission planning A candid look at where the corporate clean energy market stands today—and what it will take to keep pace with the AI era.
I was really excited for this conversation with Jamar Jones—and it did not disappoint. He's the real deal when it comes to branding, mindset, and building a business that actually grows.He was a featured speaker at PPA's Imaging Expo this year and got rave reviews. Author of the book Change Your Circle, Change Your Life AND host of The Foureva Podcast.In this rich conversation, Jamar shares how he went from music to photography and videography, and then into business advisory. This journey included opening for TI, Snoop Dogg, and Keyshia Cole as a hip-hop artist. Then created a thriving photography business. and a company called Foureva Media, where he is a branding/business advisor for clients such as Marcus Lemonis and Red Bull.We talk a lot about something I know so many of us struggle with—how to grow when we feel stuck. His answer? Change your circle. Not by abandoning people, but by expanding into spaces where you're challenged, supported, and inspired. By networking is ways that work with people who can support you and that you support in return.We also get into the balance of Mindset and Action (he says it's 50/50), how to introduce yourself in a way that makes people lean in, and why soft skills might matter even more than your technical skills.A few things we cover:• A better way to network (and actually connect)• Why mindset + action both matter• Building referral relationships that lastAnd I love this question he shared for networking: “What exciting things are you working on right now?”So much better than “What do you do?”If you've ever felt stuck or like you're doing all the things but not getting where you want to go, this episode will give you a fresh perspective.You can find Jamar at Forever Media and check out his book Change Your Circle, Change Your Life.He has a gift for you too…a Wiki Audit https://forms.gle/u38m7S6RXmkWCAdX8And as always, I would love for you to subscribe, comment, and check out my lucidumascoaching.com websiteConnect with Photography Business Coach Luci Dumas: Website Email: luci@lucidumas.comInstagram FacebookYouTubeNew episodes drop every week — make sure to subscribe so you never miss an inspiring guest or a powerful solo episode designed to help you grow your photography business.
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Episode SummaryIn this Bridgeton Beacon episode, host Meg McCormick Hoerner, Esq. talks with South Jersey solar expert Garrett Hessinger, owner of Solar Savings by Garrett, about what solar really looks like for everyday homeowners and small businesses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.Name: Garrett HessingerBusiness: Solar Savings by GarrettRole: Owner, residential and commercial solar advisorService area: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DelawaresolarsavingsbygarrettGarrett focuses on helping homeowners and small business owners understand their usage, assess their roofs and properties, and choose financing structures that actually reduce costs over time. He works primarily by referral and manages projects from bill review to installation, including roofing and tree work coordination where needed.Learn more or request a bill review:Website: https://solarsavingsbygarrett.comAs part of this episode, we highlight Solar Savings by Garrett's role in the Bridgeton Beacon AI Summary Authority pilot, where we work with trustworthy local experts (like Garrett) to show up as the credible, preferred option inside Google's new AI‑generated summaries at the top of search results.If you're a roofer, HVAC contractor, electrician, plumber, or similar home‑service professional in South Jersey who wants to:Be discovered as the trusted local choice when people search for your serviceTurn real‑world expertise and referrals into AI‑friendly authority signalsUnderstand how AI summaries and overviews are changing local searchUse the link in the show notes to learn more about joining our contractor AI summary pilot.1. Can I really save money with solar if I'm already struggling with my electric bill?Often yes, but it depends on your usage, roof, and local utility. Garrett builds a custom savings model using your past 12 months of usage and shows side‑by‑side projections for your current bill versus different solar options (ownership, lease, PPA) over 20–25 years.cbsnews+1youtube2. How many electric bills do I need to give Garrett for an accurate quote?Typically, just one recent bill is enough, as most utilities (Atlantic City Electric, JCP&L, PSE&G) show 12–24 months of usage in a chart on the back. That history lets Garrett design a system sized to your actual consumption, not guesses.3. What if my area is in a “restricted” or “blacked‑out” grid zone?Some parts of South Jersey are temporarily restricted from adding new solar because too much power is already being fed back into that segment of the grid. Garrett checks your address against the latest utility maps, explains your status, and can add you to a follow‑up list if your zone opens back up.4. Do I have to replace my roof before going solar?Not always, but roof age matters. Garrett's team evaluates your roof and often recommends bundling roofing and solar together when there are less than 10–15 good years left, to avoid paying for removal and re‑installation later.5. What's the difference between owning panels and doing a lease or PPA?With ownership, you pay for the system (often via loan or cash) and take on more responsibility for warranties and insurance, but you also receive all the long‑term savings. With leases and PPAs, you typically pay nothing upfront, get a lower monthly payment than your old electric bill, and shift most equipment and performance risk to the financier and installer.6. What happens when I sell my home with solar?In many cases, buyers simply assume the remaining term of the lease or PPA, or the owned system transfers with the property. Garrett shares real examples of helping clients coordinate this transfer so the new owners can enjoy the existing system and savings.
On this episode of Renewable Roundup host Russell speaks with Lauren Stewart of Zeigo Network about corporate PPA trends across Europe from 2024–26. They discuss Spain's surge in solar PPAs, Germany and the Nordics' market dynamics, and cooling sentiment in 2025. The conversation highlights a shift toward better‑designed deals—hybrids, baseload and shaped profiles—with examples like Merlin Properties' long‑term solar deal and Airbus' baseload PPA with TotalEnergies. Lauren explains how developers and buyers are adapting and where the market may head next.
Please let us know what you think of this podcast.In our update this month we are joined by Derek Munn, Director of Policy and Public Affairs and Amit Kulkarni, Head of Research and Outcomes.We cover:Research Champions Professional Network https://www.rcslt.org/members/research/research-networks/#section-2 Relaunch of registration for Clinical Academic Mentors scheme https://www.rcslt.org/members/research/research-networks/#section-3 Link between research and outcomes and decision makingUpdate on Invest in SLT campaign: https://www.rcslt.org/news/invest-in-slt-campaign-letter-delivered-to-downing-street/ NHSE Workforce plan – advance testsSEND consultation https://www.rcslt.org/news/send-reforms-share-your-views/, EAH detail on ICB roles, and Parliamentary debate (plus PPA and AHPs)Welsh manifestosHelp us build our next strategy: https://www.rcslt.org/news/help-us-build-our-next-strategy/RCSLT Research strat plan listening events:Listening event 13 May: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7450576966879117313/?viewAsMember=true Listening event 18 May: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7450581649479880705/?viewAsMember=true Podcast for World Voice Day: https://www.rcslt.org/news/new-podcast-highlights-the-importance-of-voice/ About our sponsor:Zanda combines all your admin, billing, scheduling, and communication needs into one easy-to-use platform built specifically for health practitioners. Every feature is designed to reduce paperwork, streamline daily tasks, and give you more time to focus on delivering quality care.As a proud sponsor, Zanda supports speech and language therapists with tools that simplify practice management while maintaining compliance and professionalism. From online bookings and automated reminders to secure notes, AI, invoicing, and payments, everything works together in one connected system.Whether you're running a solo practice or managing a growing clinic, Zanda helps you stay organised, improve cash flow, and create a smooth client experience from first appointment to final payment.https://zandahealth.com/uk/profession/speech-therapy-software/?utm_source=rcslt&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=UK_Podcast&utm_content=paidPlease be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.
PicklePod 2.0 is presented by Marek Health. Use our code THEDINK for 10% off your $299 Intake Assessment at https://MarekHealth.com/ The PicklePod is BACK and this one is loaded. We're breaking down everything happening in pickleball right now — from the massive US Open Pickleball Championships to the $1,000,000 Pickleball Slam, plus some serious controversy around the JOOLA lawsuit. We also debate one of the hottest takes in the sport right now…
Philly is known as the mural capital of the world. But murals are just one form of public art – and our city is teeming with many more. Through his blog Streets Dept, lifelong Philadelphian Conrad Benner has made it his mission to help denizens notice the art all around them – from wheatpaste posters to stickers slapped on the back of PPA signs to graffiti art and more. Now, Conrad is re-launching the Streets Dept podcast, talking with the artists, thinkers, lawmakers, and ordinary people who shape Philly's culture. Host Trenae Nuri talks with Conrad about how he's built a following documenting the everyday magic in Philly's streets. Our newsletter has Philly news & events in your inbox every weekday morning. Call or text us: 215-259-8170 Instagram: @citycastphilly Support our show and get great perks as a City Cast Philly Neighbor: membership.citycast.fm Advertise on the podcast or in the newsletter: citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Women Against Abuse Heiler Painting
Cassidy DeLine has spent more than 16 years developing renewable power plants. As the founder and CEO of Linea Energy, she's built an independent power producer with a pipeline exceeding 7 GW in roughly two years—a pace she calls "a bit unrivaled" for a company of its size and age. On this episode of The POWER Podcast, DeLine sits down with executive editor Aaron Larson to explain how Linea got there and where it's headed next. At the core of Linea's approach is a commitment to better information, earlier. Most developers don't get detailed site data, such as wetland boundaries, topography, and transmission characteristics, until after leases are signed and field teams are deployed. Linea has built proprietary simulations to surface that information before a single landowner conversation takes place, giving its team a sharper picture of risk before committing capital. That discipline extends to how the company handles offtake. Unlike most developers, Linea is comfortable advancing projects without a power purchase agreement (PPA) locked in. DeLine explains why signing a PPA too early can actually create risk, particularly in a market where tariff volatility and shifting capital costs have burned developers who fixed the revenue side before they had certainty on expenses. The conversation also covers Linea's growing role in the data center space. The company is doing bespoke energy development for data center operators and, in some cases, developing the data center itself. But DeLine is candid about the engineering challenges: artificial intelligence (AI) inference workloads cause demand to swing on a microsecond basis, which is fundamentally different from what the grid was built to handle. Linea has developed battery-and-inverter solutions to smooth those rapid fluctuations, guided by a simple principle: the lights have to stay on. DeLine shares her perspective on battery storage as a grid resource, the maturing but still incomplete renewable energy capital markets, the interconnection queue bottleneck, and what it means to commit to communities for a 40-year ownership horizon. She also discusses why Linea is evaluating small modular reactor technology—not because the economics work today, but because projects started now won't come online until the 2030s, and she wants to be ready for where the market is heading. Whether you're in development, finance, policy, or just following the energy transition, this is a conversation worth hearing.
This episode is a conversation about primary progressive aphasia (PPA). We discuss the definition of PPA, the three widely used subtypes, common clinical symptoms, neuroanatomy and proteinopathies, epidemiology, overlap/differences between PPA and Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychiatric symptoms in PPA, neuropsychological assessment of PPA patients, and current available treatments. Show notes are available at www.NavNeuro.com/188 _________________ If you'd like to support the show, here are a few easy ways: 1) Get CE credits for listening to select episodes: www.NavNeuro.com/INS (for membership discount code, login to the-ins.org then go to this page: https://the-ins.org/current-members/special-offers-discounts/) 2) Subscribe (free) and leave an Apple Podcasts rating/review: www.NavNeuro.com/itunes 3) Check out our book Becoming a Neuropsychologist, and leave it an Amazon rating Thanks for listening, and join us next time as we continue to navigate the brain and behavior! [Note: This podcast and all linked content is intended for general educational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of psychology or any other professional healthcare advice and services. No professional relationship is formed between hosts and listeners. All content is to be used at listeners' own risk. Users should always seek appropriate medical and psychological care from their licensed healthcare provider.]
Eric Washburn is a fifth-generation Coloradan who is a big game hunter, who is a Senior Policy Advisor for Pioneer Public Affairs. PPA works on clean energy technologies and advocacy movements to combat the climate crisis, protect natural wonders, and empower marginalized communities across America. Eric discussed many issues from affecting winter, water and wildlife in Colorado, including the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease within elk and deer herds, pushing for the reintroduction of more beavers and wolves in the state, generational knowledge and traditions within the hunting communities, and climate change. @thewolfconnectionpodColorado Politics ArticleThe Future of Winter, Water and Wildlife in Colorado@rockymtnwolf
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Tyler and Jimmy go over the latest pickleball tournament in the desert. They talk about all the upsets and results. They then talk about the latest news of Proton Pickleball being banned from PPA events for further notice… They end with a Q+A with questions from the fans, SO don't forget to send us your questions! Let us know what we should cover on the pod in future episodes and who we should get on, thanks for following along!—————————Website: https://www.tylerloong.com/ Code “KOTC” for insane discounts at: http://ClubPickleballMastermind.com/KOTCUse Code ‘KOTC' for a great discount online at: clubpickleballshop.comUse Code ‘KOTC” for a great discount at https://www.dominatorhoop.comUse Code "KOTC" for Big Savings on Vulcan Gear: https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesKOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcInstagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --Instagram: Tyler's IG - @tyler.loong Jimmy's IG - @jimmymiller_pbKOTC IG - @morekingofthecourt Facebook: / tyler.loong --0:00 Introduction 3:15 Club Pickleball Mastermind 5:25 Pickler Universe 6:01 MLP Pools/Draws 8:22 Dominator 11:22 ALL ACCESS11:56 March Madness 18:30 Paddle Testing19:44 PPA Zion Cup49:00 Vulcan Pickleball 51:50 Proton Pickleball59:02 MLP Draws for Dallas 1:07:04 Q+ASupport the show
Russell interviews Gregorio Morales, Chief Commercial Officer of Sonnidex, about the company's evolution into a next‑generation independent power producer. They discuss shifting from project-level sales to portfolio-based strategies, closer customer engagement, and advanced risk management. The conversation covers practical plans—hybridizing assets with battery storage, building a trading desk, and offering flexible PPA structures tailored to customer needs across Spain, Portugal and Italy. Gregorio explains how these moves add customer value and create quality growth for Sonnidex. They conclude by outlining the future vision: leading the market transition to resilient, decarbonized, customer-focused energy solutions that balance reliability, competitiveness, and flexibility.
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Tyler and Jimmy start by catching up and sharing anecdotes. They go over the MLP drama and the latest drafts. They then talk through the latest PPA event that was overtaken by the wind! They talk about each event and the pairings and the results. They end with a Q+A with questions from the fans, SO don't forget to send us your questions! Let us know what we should cover on the pod in future episodes and who we should get on, thanks for following along!—————————Website: https://www.tylerloong.com/ Use Code "KOTC" for Big Savings on Vulcan Gear: https://vulcansportinggoods.com/pagesCode “KOTC” for insane discounts at: http://ClubPickleballMastermind.com/KOTCUse Code ‘KOTC' for a great discount online at: clubpickleballshop.comKOTC Merch - Use “KOTC” kitchpickleball.comNEW KOTC DISCORD https://discord.com/invite/kNR65mBemfNEW KOTC CAMEOhttps://www.cameo.com/morekotcCode ‘KOTC' for BIG discounts onlinehttps://www.pickleruniverse.comCode ‘KOTC' for a discount https://www.dominatorhoop.com/0:00 Introduction 1:27 Club Pickleball Mastermind 4:19 Pickler Universe 6:30 Dominator 8:00 ALL ACCESS15:49 MLP Trade News… 18:02 PPA Texas 48:47 Upcoming PPA 50:59 Commentators 58:51 Vulcan Pickleball 1:00:57 CAMEO 1:01:09 Q&ASupport the show
Six years after her last appearance on the podcast (Episode 28, 15 June 2020), Natasha Luther-Jones returns to join Laurent and Gerard for a lively catch-up on how both her career and the energy sector have evolved. What began with her being dubbed the “Queen of PPA” has expanded into a far broader role — prompting the hosts to crown her the “Energy Empress” as she now operates across the full spectrum of global energy and infrastructure. Natasha reflects on the evolution as the Global co-chair in the Energy & Natural Resources practice at DLA Piper, describing how client demand has shifted from single-asset transactions to complex, multi-technology, cross-border platforms. The market has matured significantly, with renewables now firmly established as mainstream infrastructure and capital becoming more disciplined and selective. A major growth area is battery energy storage systems (BESS), which have moved from being an adjunct to renewables to a core investment thesis in their own right. Storage, hybridisation and co-location strategies are reshaping project design, while revenue stacking and merchant exposure are demanding more sophisticated structuring and risk management. On the M&A front, Natasha highlights sustained deal activity and strong valuations for scaled platforms and development pipelines. The market is firmly in a consolidation phase, with investors prioritising portfolio and platform transactions over single-asset deals. Innovative financing models, including holdco structures and cross-collateralisation across diversified portfolios, are increasingly replacing traditional asset-by-asset project finance. The conversation also turns to the accelerating demand from AI-driven datacentres and the growing integration of digital infrastructure within energy complexes. As power demand surges, particularly for firm and clean energy, the convergence of energy and technology is creating new investment models and strategic partnerships — signalling that the next chapter of the energy transition will be defined as much by integration and capital structuring as by capacity build-out.
PicklePod 2.0 is presented by Marek Health. Use our code THEDINK for 10% off your $299 Intake Assessment at https://MarekHealth.com/ Table tennis superstar and viral content creator Adam Bobrow joins the PicklePod to talk about his surprising dive into pickleball—and what the sport can learn from the global growth of ping pong. Bobrow, one of the most recognizable personalities in table tennis, shares how he built an audience of millions, why he initially resisted pickleball, and what finally changed his mind once he stepped on the court. But first… the guys recap one of the most chaotic tournament weekends in recent memory. From Nico's first PPA tournament in two years, to a match-ending Nasty Nelson attempt, to accusations of “no honor” on court 19, the Newport Beach event delivered peak unhinged pickleball. Meanwhile, pro drama was brewing with timeout tactics, loud grunting, and mental warfare between top singles stars like Hunter Johnson and Federico Staksrud. Plus: - The Mount Rushmore of unhinged pickleball players - The psychology behind gamesmanship in pickleball - Why millions of people play but don't watch the pro game -What pickleball can learn from the growth of table tennis - Bobrow's first experiences playing against pros like Anna Bright, Christian Alshon, and Ben Johns If you love pickleball stories, inside pro tour drama, and the future of the sport—this episode is a must-watch. Subscribe for weekly pickleball stories, interviews, and debates from the PicklePod. Be the first to try Zane's new course here: https://tzpickleball.com/ #Pickleball #PPATour #PickleballPodcast Leave your voicemail for the PicklePod at (512) 200 - 4299 ------------------ Like the ep? Do us a favor: subscribe to our channel and leave a review on Apple or Spotify -Subscribe to our 'all things pickleball' *free e-newsletter* at https://www.thedink.beehiiv.com https://www.instagram.com/thedinkpickleball/ -Follow us on IG -Continue the convo in our private FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedi... -For everything else we do, visit https://linktr.ee/dinkfam -Read more about Zane and subscribe to his newsletter at https://zanenavratilpickleball.com/ -Follow Zane on IG @zanenavratilpickleball #pickleball #pickleballcourts ------------------ 0:00 Intro 2:06 Story time with Nico in Newport 10:15 The correct way to throw a paddle 12:58 Nico learns the Rob Cassidy timeout 18:05 Mt Rushmore of unhinged players 22:02 Headlines from the Newport Beach Open Adam Bobrow 30:01 Adam Bobrow joins the pod 30:34 Paddle vs Bat | Ping Pong vs Table Tennis 35:51 Bridging the gap between rec players and the pro game 41:32 There are levels to this game 43:44 Adding personality into sports viewing experience 49:21 How has your audience responded to the pickleball content? 52:16 Adam is invited to girls' night with Mari Humberg 55:45 Who is still on the dream guest list? 58:33 Zane saw vs snake shot 1:06:03 Guess my DUPR - Double Tweener 1:10:55 Zane tests his table tennis broadcast abilities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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