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There is no shortage of discussion about the role of AI in the energy transition. Yet while many talk about the future of intelligent grids, only a handful of industry leaders are delivering solutions at scale.  One of them is Alberto Méndez Rebollo—an executive, investor, and entrepreneur dedicated to accelerating the energy transition. Throughout his career, Alberto has held senior leadership positions at Siemens Gamesa, Vattenfall, XCharge, and other organizations, overseeing multi-million-euro initiatives across renewable energy, power grids, and electric mobility.  Today, as Co-Founder and CEO of Plexigrid, he is leading the development of next-generation technology designed to prepare electricity networks for a rapidly changing energy landscape. Plexigrid, a deep-tech company headquartered in Sweden and Spain, develops intelligent software that helps utilities optimize and digitize electricity distribution networks. At the core of its platform is a real-time digital twin of the distribution grid, enabling operators to monitor capacity, detect anomalies, and make better operational decisions.  The company's AI-powered technology automatically coordinates energy consumption and manages flexible assets such as EV chargers, shifting demand away from peak periods. This allows utilities to alleviate congestion, increase grid resilience, and unlock additional network capacity—without the need for costly and time-consuming infrastructure upgrades.  The market response has been remarkable. Operating on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Plexigrid has expanded its commercial pipeline from €8 million to more than €150 million in just four years, consistently winning competitive tenders against some of the industry's most established players.   Its growing client base includes leading utilities and energy innovators, with notable partnerships such as EDP and Piclo focused on advancing real-time grid orchestration. The company has also raised approximately €15 million across multiple funding rounds, providing a strong foundation for continued growth and innovation.  Beyond the technology, however, this is a story about transformation at warp speed. It is about how critical infrastructure can evolve—not only technically, but culturally—to embrace new technologies and operating models. As electricity networks become increasingly decentralized, digital, and dynamic, organizations like Plexigrid are demonstrating how AI can move from a promising concept to a practical tool that helps utilities adapt, modernize, and thrive in the energy transition.  “Today's show is supported by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. The BMW Foundation unites leaders across sectors to develop solutions that foster an innovative economy and a future-proof society. A key focus is "Energy Transition & Climate Change," where the Foundation drives "International collaboration to accelerate the energy transition." With rising energy demands from AI and data centres, new partnerships, effective collaboration, and the exchange of science-based solutions and strategies are essential.”

ORE Catapult wants industry blade failure data, Siemens Gamesa posts its first profit since 2022, and Vattenfall sweeps Denmark’s offshore auction. Fill out the ORE Catapult survey! The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech, creators of the StrikeTape Ultra LPS retrofit. Subscribe to Uptime’s Substack newsletter. And check out Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” Youtube channel. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, Matthew Sted, and Yolanda Padron. And it has been a real interesting week out in the renewable land, uh, if you’ve been watching some of the news, and we’re gonna talk about a number of those stories this week. But I wanna lead off with what ORE Catapult is doing over in the UK. So if, if you haven’t followed ORE Catapult, they are a, a research investigative arm and a huge proponent of wind, offshore wind in the United Kingdom, and they’ve done a, a tre- really tremendous amount of work in some of the, uh, particular problems that exist in wind trying to help [00:01:00] solve them. They have a survey that’s out, and if you haven’t seen it, you can just Google ORE Catapult and put in survey, and you’ll come to either an article or get to their site. And Rosemary and Yolanda, there’s a couple of particular items that they’re asking questions about. Uh, a lot of it is asking specific questions about torsional stability of blades. Have you seen more difficulty with torsion? Is… Do we need a torsion test? I think that was one of the questions. Uh, also looking at ranking of the different issues that happen with blades in particular. That’s what I noticed. Uh, you know, where’s lightning? Where’s blade connections? Where’s structural issues? Where do you rank all those different things? And I, I have not seen a survey like this in quite a while. Is this something that we need to do more of? I know [00:02:00] ORE Catapult will get a huge amount of feedback, at least I hope, over in the UK and, and around Europe. I don’t think many Americans are gonna be contributing to that too much since you don’t have a lot of offshore wind. But is this going in the right direction? Do we need more of these industry surveys about structural blade issues?  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I think these surveys are a really good idea. Uh, the only thing that scares me from the owner side is that sometimes there’s a little bit of, uh- Teams don’t really love the idea of sharing information that might seem like it’s, um, like intellectual property to their internal teams. Even if as an engineer, of course, you love the idea of sharing and finding out like, um, what everybody else is, is experiencing on their site. Um, and so I really hope that the teams can really look, like their internal teams can really look past that because this would be a really great tool [00:03:00] for everybody to use. I know I looked at the survey myself and some of the questions kind of gave people the, the opportunity to kind of anonymize their data and then just kind of share it and have it. It seemed like it, it would probably be a platform that everybody could look at or everybody that, that shared could look at. And I think that it could be really, really good for operators to be able to know kind of if what they’re seeing on site is normal and just to be able to see what they’re signing up for when there’s a new site coming in. Or if it’s a site that’s been operational for a while, you can see what’s, hopefully, what’s happening to a quite older site than yours. So just to, to be able to be a bit more prepared, um, since a lot of these sites are from different own- owners. But I think it’s a really good idea.  Allen Hall: The survey asked questions about leading edge erosion, torsional loads, root joint integrity, lightning damage, manufacturing defects, which is a big [00:04:00] issue right now, extreme loading events, which also, uh, is, uh, coming about more often, uh, repair performance, and end of life fatigue. So there’s a, a series of questions about that and when do you experience these items in the lifetime of a blade. Is it more towards the beginning of the operation or more towards the end? That is important to know ’cause it, how you go about managing blades depends on that. The torsional questions were more specific. Uh, in your experience, how well understood are the effects on blade longevity of torsional loads compared to bending loads? And I think that relates back to some of the, uh, issues that have been seen on some offshore blades where there’s no existing test for torsion because it’s so hard to do. Whereas bending loads, we pretty well understand that and can do lifetime testing essentially for, for bending loads. So the torsional one I think is gonna raise a lot of question marks to hopefully with people, and we can come up [00:05:00] with a, a better approach to that.  Yolanda Padron: Hopefully, yeah. I think this is, I mean, this is just a really good idea to if, if everybody could partake. Um, I would really love to see something similar if people could in, in onshore. And so just something that’s, that’s shared a, uh, a little bit more widely I think would be really, really great. Uh, the only thing that might stre- or not stress me out, but- you know, I think people need to be careful about is just making sure that you’re not, um, that you actually use your data and not just kind of like, “Oh, I know that I remember this terrible lightning damage that I got in this really, really bad area, so I’m gonna mark as though most of my lightning damage happens in that bad area.” So just, just make sure you don’t use confirmation bias for, for that, but  Matthew Stead: I can also add to it as well ’cause, um, we’ve done a fair bit of work with all Catapult over the years, um, particularly through the new IEC standard for blade O&M. Um, and, uh, [00:06:00] definitely through the new blade O&M standard, the topic of blade twist has come up multiple times. Um- And also adding to that, you know, our organization has done twist on, twist measurements on 100 meter blades, and the twist that we measured was more than the OEM expected. Um, so I think this is a bit of a sleeper topic, um, and I think OR Catapult is doing the right thing by gathering more information. Allen Hall: There is a l- little database that’s gonna be put together, at least looking at the questions. Question 12, and everybody hopefully will go in and, and participate in the survey, but it says, “Would you be interested in sharing redacted failure data into a industry-wide database to help inform research agenda for blade development and O&M tools and solutions?” That is a great idea. Having a database so we understand the scale of problems and can put some numbers [00:07:00] to them, and then we can do some more research in those areas, and focus research where we’re actually gonna spend money in the right places, which has been my fight for the last five, six years, where we spend a lot of money, but not necessarily where we need to. That’s a great question, and hopefully OR Catapult does p- put together a database.  Rosemary Barnes: Companies really, really, really struggle to provide access to their data. Like, um, it, y- yeah, it, it’s, it’s very hard to get it beyond just using for their own specific project. I’ll be, I’ll be so happy if this database gets up and becomes publicly available so that every- everybody can use it to create the solutions that the industry needs. But I know how hard a challenge it is, so I’m wishing them heaps of, heaps of luck to get it to work.  Matthew Stead: And can I also add that, um, OR Catapult also did a wonderful presentation at Blades Europe, where they talked about life extension. They talked about the actual loading on the blades, um, influencing the fatigue life. And so I think, you know, that excellent [00:08:00] database hopefully, as we talked about, gets fed into some of their work about life extension.  Allen Hall: Well, OR Catapult is trying to get ahead of blade failures before they cost money. Uh, our next company knows exactly what that costs. Siemens Gamesa is still climbing out of a serial defect problem, and it posted its first profit in four years. So we’ll be back to talk about that in a moment.  Speaker: Are you overspending on lightning repairs? Most operators are, because solving lightning damage is complicated. Weather Guard Lightning Tech helps operators reduce lightning damage. Our innovative StrikeTape lightning diverter protects over 20,000 blades worldwide. Now, StrikeTape Ultra installs faster than ever. StrikeTape Ultra cures uptower in just 15 minutes, even in cold weather. Visit weatherguardwind.com to schedule a call. Allen Hall: Siemens Gamesa has finally turned a [00:09:00] profit, its first time since 2022. Uh, now comes the hard part. Order intake in the third quarter fell 77% from 4.89 billion euros a year ago to 1.05 billion Chief Executive Christian Bruch, uh, says a lot of the offshore projects that were originally planned are slipping, and as we’ve seen in the news, and that developers are not willing to make final investment decisions right now. Uh, in Germany, developers are lobbying to hand 16 gigawatts of offshore sites back to the states, and, and Bruch says that the, the capacity is, is not going to be built. Onshore, uh, the relaunched 5.X platform is ramping up slowly after the serial defect shutdown, with approvals still holding some orders back. So Siemens Gamesa is going to make a push, or [00:10:00] Omtera I guess it is called now, w- is going to make a push, uh, into the 5.X machine and continue on on the offshore side. But boy, some of these, uh, auctions and, uh, bidding processes are not great for Siemens at the moment.  Matthew Stead: I’ve got a question. Did, um, did Siemens actually stop selling for a while as well? Is that part of their order intake loss?  Allen Hall: Some of the machines, I believe, the 4.X and the 5.X, when they had the serial defect issues, uh, they put a hold on them for a little while and, and did a complete redesign, I believe, on the blades. But other turbines I thought were still being offered for sale, and I thought I saw s- some installs in the United States going on, more on the two megawatt, three megawatt machines, uh, but n- not the bigger ones. And, and offshore too, like it sound- does sound like the large offshore wind project in the United States, which is the coastal Virginia offshore wind project, uh, off the, you know, a couple of miles off the coast of Virginia, is [00:11:00]going a little bit slower than they thought. Uh, so maybe there’s a, a little bit to the 14. It’s, that’s a Siemens Gamesa 14-236 direct drive machine that’s going in there. So there, there’s some still learning curves going on from what I can see, but it does seem like it’s, uh, it’s, you know, formerly Siemens Energy, there’s a huge amount of money to be had in this corporation. So if the wind division is not doing all that great, it, it’s kind of like GE Vernova. There, there’s other ways to make money.  Matthew Stead: There’s also, I mean, I’m just wondering if there’s a bit of a blip. It’s just a short-term correction in terms of the order intake, and, you know, once they get back on track, uh, it’ll, it’ll revert again. Uh, that’s what I hope for, hope for.  Allen Hall: We’re gonna move on to Vattenfall. Uh, there was a Danish offshore auction, and Vattenfall won both of them. And Ørsted did bid and didn’t win, and no one seems to care too much that Ørsted didn’t win. Uh, and Vattenfall, it’s, it’s a huge deal for [00:12:00] Vattenfall. So- Orsted not winning in their own backyard does seem like a problem politically  Rosemary Barnes: If Denmark wanted to have, you know, local companies winning these auctions, then they could’ve, they could’ve, uh, you know, made it for l- local companies only or tilted the playing field in their favor. Um, so yeah, uh, I don’t know, maybe that’s the outcome that they want. If they want… It’s always like a, a tension, right? If you, you want cheap- the cheapest prices on one hand, you want local content on the other, and if you, you know, anything you do to one of those two sides affects the other. So yeah, like, in general, the more you encourage local content, then the more restrictions you place on companies to choose a cheaper supplier in every case. Uh, Denmark is at least well-placed to have good world-class suppliers in, you know, most, most categories of the things that you need in an offshore wind [00:13:00] farm. But yeah, I mean, you see it all over the world. Uh, you know, Australia periodically tries to, uh, you know, get more local content, but it’s very, it’s very hard for us ’cause we don’t have a whole thriving ecosystem. And so it’s like you’ve gotta pick out the one thing that you think that we could compete on and then subsidize that, and then it’s just, like, so… it’s such a weird distortion. And if companies didn’t already wanna choose that local supplier, it’s because it’s more expensive, so therefore you are necessarily adding cost. Um, I think Taiwan d- uh, has h- experienced a lot of this with their offshore industry, right? Where they kind of s- they got really enthusiastic about local content, and everyone’s like, “Yeah, this is a great thing to do ’cause you can get local manufacturing, and you can develop a whole thriving industry But then when it comes down to it, you know, it’s not so great to have, like, whoever set up the, the system that you’ve gotta adhere to to get these projects in place, like, they’re not the experts in developing offshore [00:14:00] projects for a cheap price and on schedules, obviously. Other- otherwise they’d be working in that, in that role. So you, uh, do end up making things really hard for the developers, and then you- they ended up with very expensive projects. And, um, because the local content, you know, like, they had what sounded, in theory at the start, like a good, um, like a good idea. They start off with a low local content requirement and gradually ratcheted it up as the industry is supposed to mature. But what they saw was the prices just ratcheted up in parallel. Um, especially once the few things that can be competitively supplied, uh, locally, once you… That is not sufficient to y- y- you know, once the local content amount exceeds what you can achieve with those competitive industries, then yeah, you do start to see people having to spend a lot more and add a lot of project risk if you’re, y- you know, uh, going with brand new suppliers that have never, you know, never supplied a project like that before. So I can kind of [00:15:00] understand why Denmark wouldn’t be so focused on, yeah, our local, our local company needs to win.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. Yeah, com- competition is a good thing, isn’t it? So yeah, you can’t have everyone winning all the time.  Rosemary Barnes: I think it’s such an interesting time, though, in the world where, and I’m changing my mind about this, like, yes, competition is a good thing, but if you only have competition, um, and don’t consider your country’s, you know, local competitiveness, then you end up not being able to make anything, especially when we’ve got, y- you know, in the world at the moment, there’s so much globalization, like, way more than ever before in the world’s history. And, you know, there are countries or our country mostly, that has, you know, 50% of market share for certain things, and more for other things that people need. It’s like, so- They can obviously, just based on scale alone, can produce things at prices that no [00:16:00] one else can compete with. And then you add in that not every country is totally committed to 100% fair global playing field and, you know, there are subsidies involved and incentives and that sort of thing. Like, you do just end up with every other country not thinking it’s economic to make anything at all. And then, yeah, I mean, everyone knows monopolies are bad, right? I don’t think that would be any different for supply chains. So I think, yeah, like we’re about to have a re-reckoning or are in the process of a re-reckoning about how much globalization is a good thing, how much free trade is a good thing, how much, you know, just letting the market take care of it is a good thing because nobody wants to end up in a situation where, you know, the whole world is dependent on one country to make absolutely everything. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, but is it, isn’t it also kind of like a cultural thing here for Vattenfall, um, like for Dane- Denmark itself to try to be very [00:17:00]strict about the rules and if Ørsted didn’t win the bid, then they didn’t win the bid type of thing? Like, to not try to give them as much of a, of an advantage ’cause they’re still owned majorly by the Crown, right? Allen Hall: It’s like 50% ownership by the state, right, Ørsted still.  Yolanda Padron: In general they, they have a lot of- very Danish rules of like against, you know, uh, in the US against like PACs and lobbying and stuff, and things that are very common here because it’s more culturally aligned with Denmark. Um, so I guess it, I mean, it does, it, it does make sense, right? That they would try to separate that as much as possible to try to not have that conflict of interest.  Rosemary Barnes: I think Denmark, um, definitely wouldn’t consider themselves rule followers, ’cause if you compare them to their immediate neighbors like, um, Sweden and Germany, the Danes are like a lot more relaxed. They have this saying in, [00:18:00] uh, Denmark that i- in, in Sweden, everything that isn’t forbidden is mandatory. That’s how they think of, of the Swedes.  Allen Hall: Wow. There’s a lot that’s not forbidden, Rosemary. You’re going into some murky waters there. Okay.  Rosemary Barnes: That’s their perception, and I think it is true relative to Sweden. The Swede- Swedes are more rule followers. But as, um, someone that comes from a probably more relaxed country, again, yes, the Danes did really like following rules. Um, like a lot of unwritten rules as well. I remember one specific example I remember actually, uh, we had like a whole, uh, I did Danish language classes when I was there, and part of that was like a cultural education. One of the classes was based around, uh, some of the unwritten rules in society, and one of them is it’s this date, and I don’t remember the date, but there is a certain date that if you have not trimmed your hedge by that date, that is just like y- you are not an upstanding member of society. Like, that is just like ab- absolutely not okay and like everybody that walks [00:19:00] past your house is like, “Oh my God, they haven’t trimmed their hedge yet,” and people will be talking about it and in the canteen at work. So definitely they do like to follow the rules. But what I will say about Denmark also is that I think that they usually top the world’s list, or at least close to the top in terms of trust. Um, they trust people in general, but especially they trust government institutions. And I think that you can’t have trust in government institutions if they pick and choose, um, when they’re going to enforce the rules or not. So I think that in that sense, yeah, of course, they’re not going to after the fact go, “Oh, this, the, oh, we had an auction, but the result wasn’t the way we liked it, so we’re gonna change it.” Like, that’s not a very trustworthy thing for a government to do. They do rely, obviously we’re a small country, they rely a lot on international trade, and so I think that they would see a big risk in, um, yeah, having their auction be anything but fully transparent and fair. So yeah. Anyway, that’s my, my cultural interpretation based on having lived in Denmark for five years. Uh, [00:20:00] five years ago now. It’s been a while.  Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn. 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Skal der stå kinesiske vindmøller i de to gigantiske havvindmølleparker, som Danmark skal opføre i Nordsøen og Kattegat de kommende år? Det spørgsmål er pludselig blevet brandvarmt, efter at den svenske energigigant Vattenfall, der skal opføre parkerne, har åbnet døren på klem for kinesiske møller. Det har skabt vrede og frustration i dansk erhvervsliv, hvor det ligefrem bliver kaldt »hul i hovedet« og en trussel mod sikkerheden. Er frygten berettiget – eller ser vi spøgelser i Danmark og resten af Europa? Det diskuterer panelet i denne uges udgave af Bundlinjen. Ugens panel: Kasper Tidemann, investor og stifter af bryggeriet Alefarm Søren Linding, erhvervskommentator og debatredaktør på Finans Joachim Sperling, selvstændig rådgiver for bestyrelser og topchefer Vært: Rasmus Bendtsen, redaktør på Finans Podcastredaktør: Kasper SøegaardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Allen covers a judge lifting the Pentagon’s wind freeze, RWE’s $1.22B US offshore exit, and TotalEnergies buying Shell’s European renewables. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good Monday everyone. You know … there is an old saying. When one door closes … another one opens. Well this week in wind energy … a whole lot of doors were swinging. Let us start in Washington. For months … the Pentagon had quietly stopped reviewing wind energy project applications. More than a hundred and fifty onshore wind projects … stuck in limbo. The Defense Department claimed that drones in Ukraine had changed the game. Wind turbines … they said … could blind radar to incoming threats. So they hit the brakes. But on Thursday … a federal judge said … not so fast. Judge Karin Immergut … a Trump appointee no less … issued a preliminary injunction. Resume the reviews … she ordered. Follow the law Congress wrote. The law gives the Pentagon seventy-five days for a preliminary review. As of late July … not a single one had been completed since the halt began in May. When government lawyers were asked to name one project they had reviewed … they could not name a single one. The judge told them plainly. If you want to change the rules … go ask Congress. Now … while one arm of the government was being told to do its job … another arm was writing checks. German energy giant RWE … handed back its American offshore wind leases. New York. California. Louisiana. In return … the U.S. Department of the Interior cut RWE a check for one-point-two-two billion dollars. RWE is the fifth developer to walk away from American offshore wind under this administration. The company had spent more than a billion dollars on those leases. Years of planning. Investment. Partnership with federal agencies. But RWE said there is simply no path forward to permit these projects … for the foreseeable future. So where does the $1.22B go? Nine hundred million dollars into Louisiana LNG. Three hundred million into natural gas turbine reservations. Fifteen gas peaking projects across the country. A company that came to America to build wind farms … is now building gas plants instead. But here is the thing about RWE. They are not leaving the wind business. They are leaving American offshore wind. Globally … RWE operates eighteen offshore wind farms. Four more under construction. And nearly seven gigawatts secured in the United Kingdom’s latest auction. America said no. The rest of the world said … come on in. And speaking of Europe … TotalEnergies … the French oil major … just bought Shell’s entire onshore renewables business in Europe. Four gigawatts of solar and wind. Five hundred megawatts already running or under construction in Italy and the Netherlands. Three-and-a-half gigawatts more in the pipeline across Italy … the United Kingdom … and Spain. And in the same breath … TotalEnergies sold a fifty percent stake in a one-point-two gigawatt European portfolio to KKR … for an enterprise value of one-point-eight billion euros. Build it. Sell half. Keep operating it. That is the model. Now let us fly east … to India. GE Vernova just landed a hundred-and-sixty-three megawatt wind order from American developer Enfinity Global. Forty-three turbines. Three-point-eight megawatts each. Headed for the Fatehgarh wind farm in Rajasthan. Deliveries start late this year. And those turbines will be built at GE Vernova’s factory in Pune … which can turn out fifteen hundred megawatts a year. India is pushing for five hundred gigawatts of renewable energy. Meanwhile … up in Denmark … a Danish wind tower maker named Welcon is raising its voice. Swedish utility Vattenfall just won two offshore wind tenders in Denmark. But when asked whether they would use European-made turbines … Vattenfall would not say. Welcon’s chief executive Jens Risvig Pedersen said … and I quote … “It would be completely absurd not to buy European products for the two new Danish offshore wind farms. That would simply shut down the European industry.” The Danish trade union Dansk Metal agreed. Chinese turbines … they said … should not be financed with Danish taxpayer money. Vattenfall says it has not decided yet. But the debate is on. And finally … a milestone that happened so quietly … nobody noticed. The world just crossed three terawatts of installed solar power. It took ten years to build the first terawatt. Less than three years for the second. And not even two more years for the third. Seventy-four countries now have at least one gigawatt of solar installed. That is up from forty-two in twenty-twenty. BloombergNEF expects nine terawatts by twenty thirty-six. But here is the catch. Without batteries … solar hits a ceiling. Places like Australia and California already have so much solar that electricity prices go negative during the day. You heard that right. They pay people to use power. The answer is battery storage. But batteries are not able to keep up with the pace of solar. Now … if you step back from all of this … something interesting emerges. Nobody in these stories is arguing about whether wind works. Not the judge in Oregon. Not RWE. Not even the Pentagon. The debate has moved on. The question is no longer … can you build a wind farm. The question is … who gets to decide where one goes. Think about that. A federal judge did not rule that wind turbines are safe or good or necessary. She ruled that the government cannot ignore its own laws. The science was not on trial. The process was. RWE did not surrender its leases because offshore wind failed. It surrendered them because one government made permitting impossible … while eighteen other wind farms in its global portfolio kept spinning. And TotalEnergies did not buy four gigawatts of European renewables out of charity. It bought them because Shell … an oil company … decided those assets no longer fit its strategy. One oil major’s exit is another’s entrance. The assets did not lose value. They changed hands. That is the story underneath all these headlines. Wind energy has crossed a threshold that most industries never reach. It is no longer competing on technology. It is competing on governance. The turbines work. The economics work. The engineering works. What varies … country by country … is whether the rules of the road are clear enough for capital to show up. And capital … as we saw this week … will always find the door that is open. That is the state of the wind industry for the 10th of August … twenty twenty-six. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy podcast tomorrow.

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Consumenten worden ongevraagd benaderd door malafide duurzaamheidsadviseurs die zich richten op voormalige klanten van failliete zonnepaneelbedrijven als Zonvoorop, Bespaarmetjedak, JD Energy Systems en Suddenly Solar. Klanten klagen massaal over opdringerige telefonische verkoop voor dure ‘energieadviezen’ van rond de 300 euro, waarbij vooral extra producten worden aangesmeerd. De Consumentenbond, Fraudehelpdesk en curatoren tastten in het duister over de herkomst van de data, maar wijzen op grote datalekken bij onder meer Odido, Essent en Vattenfall en roepen gedupeerden op hun rechten rond bedenktijd te benutten. In Duitsland roept minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Alexander Dobrindt de hoogste staat van paraatheid uit na de vondst van een met Semtex uitgerust explosief aan een drone op vrachtluchthaven Leipzig/Halle. De drone werd aangetroffen tussen vier Antonov-toestellen in de logistieke corridor naar Oekraïne, en mogelijk was er een tweede drone actief bij het omgeleide luchtverkeer. Duitse partijen als de Groenen en CDU/CSU spreken van staatsterrorisme en waarschuwen dat de beveiliging van vitale logistieke en energieknooppunten achterloopt op moderne dreigingen. Iran en Oman werken aan een tijdelijke deal voor een veilige vaarroute door de Straat van Hormuz, waarbij een groot deel van de scheepvaart door Iraanse territoriale wateren zou lopen. Volgens hoogleraar Internationale Handel en Logistiek Albert Veenstra gaat het om een operationeel afsprakenkader, vergelijkbaar met verkeersmanagement in de Straat van Malakka, maar is de rol van de VS en de tolheffingsplannen van Iran een cruciale onzekerheid. Structurele vrije doorvaart zoals voor de recente spanningen lijkt volgens Veenstra niet terug te keren, zolang Iran zijn machtspositie in de zeestraat verder probeert uit te bouwen. Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur. Over deze podcast BNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt ’s ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(02:00): Bliver Danmark rigere af Vattenfall vindmøllerne? Medvirkende: Otto Brøns-Petersen, Analysechef ved CEPOS. (10:00): Hvad betyder det at Fifa ikke længere vil tolerere angreb på organisationen? Medvirkende: Nicklas Degn, journalist og redaktør hos fodboldmediet Mediano. (30:00): Vil regeringens nye strakspakke mod AI-snyd virke? Medvirkende: Hanne Leth Andersen, professor i universitetspædagogik på Roskilde Universitet. (44:00): Hvad ved vi om dronebombe i Leipzig? Medvirkende: Poul Funder, tidligere Tysklands-korrespondet og nuværende Østeuropaanalytiker for Jyllands-Posten. Værter: Peter Marstal og Mathias Wissing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Consumenten worden ongevraagd benaderd door malafide duurzaamheidsadviseurs die zich richten op voormalige klanten van failliete zonnepaneelbedrijven als Zonvoorop, Bespaarmetjedak, JD Energy Systems en Suddenly Solar. Klanten klagen massaal over opdringerige telefonische verkoop voor dure ‘energieadviezen’ van rond de 300 euro, waarbij vooral extra producten worden aangesmeerd. De Consumentenbond, Fraudehelpdesk en curatoren tastten in het duister over de herkomst van de data, maar wijzen op grote datalekken bij onder meer Odido, Essent en Vattenfall en roepen gedupeerden op hun rechten rond bedenktijd te benutten. In Duitsland roept minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Alexander Dobrindt de hoogste staat van paraatheid uit na de vondst van een met Semtex uitgerust explosief aan een drone op vrachtluchthaven Leipzig/Halle. De drone werd aangetroffen tussen vier Antonov-toestellen in de logistieke corridor naar Oekraïne, en mogelijk was er een tweede drone actief bij het omgeleide luchtverkeer. Duitse partijen als de Groenen en CDU/CSU spreken van staatsterrorisme en waarschuwen dat de beveiliging van vitale logistieke en energieknooppunten achterloopt op moderne dreigingen. Iran en Oman werken aan een tijdelijke deal voor een veilige vaarroute door de Straat van Hormuz, waarbij een groot deel van de scheepvaart door Iraanse territoriale wateren zou lopen. Volgens hoogleraar Internationale Handel en Logistiek Albert Veenstra gaat het om een operationeel afsprakenkader, vergelijkbaar met verkeersmanagement in de Straat van Malakka, maar is de rol van de VS en de tolheffingsplannen van Iran een cruciale onzekerheid. Structurele vrije doorvaart zoals voor de recente spanningen lijkt volgens Veenstra niet terug te keren, zolang Iran zijn machtspositie in de zeestraat verder probeert uit te bouwen. Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur. Over deze podcast BNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt ’s ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Statens udbud af to store havvindparker er afgjort. Svenske Vattenfall løber med milliardkontrakten på begge projekter og slår således Ørsted, som netop bekræfter, at de også bød på en af parkerne. Er vi vidne til en vingeskudt dansk konge på havvind? Og hvorfor lykkes det nu 20 måneder efter udbudskollapset at få en stor spiller til at bide til begge projekter? Gæst: Jakob Martini, klimaredaktør Vært: Kasper Søegaard, podcastredaktør See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Im aktuellen Podcast spreche ich mit Dr. Guido Gehlen, Director Connected Car Services & Charging bei der Hyundai Connected Mobility. Guido ist promovierter Elektroingenieur und hat über zehn Jahre bei Vodafone im Bereich vernetzter Fahrzeuge gearbeitet. Heute verantwortet er bei Hyundai Connected Mobility den gesamten Charging-Bereich für Europa, und zwar in 43 Märkten. Wir reden über Vehicle-to-Grid: das Konzept, ein Elektroauto nicht nur als Verbraucher im Stromnetz zu betreiben, sondern als aktiven Teilnehmer. Hyundai hat diesen Weg schrittweise aufgebaut, von Vehicle-to-Load beim Ioniq 5 mit bis zu 3,6 kW für den Eigenverbrauch bis hin zu bidirektionalem AC-V2G mit bis zu 10 kW im Ioniq 9 und Ioniq 6, synchronisiert mit dem öffentlichen Netz. Wir gehen durch die technischen Entscheidungen dahinter: Warum hat sich Hyundai bewusst für AC statt für DC entschieden, obwohl einige Mitbewerber den anderen Weg gehen? Was bedeutet das für die Installationskosten und die Verbreitung im Heimbereich? Und warum wurde die gesamte Komplexität ins Fahrzeug verlagert, statt sie in die Ladeinfrastruktur zu verteilen? Ein zentrales Thema ist auch das Geschäftsmodell dahinter. Wer profitiert wie? Aggregatoren, die virtuelle Kraftwerke aus vernetzten Fahrzeugen aufbauen. Energieversorger, die Lastspitzen abfedern. Und Endkund:innen, die über Vergütungsmodelle von kostenlosem Laden bis zu direkten Kickbacks an dem entstehenden Energiewert beteiligt werden. Guido erklärt außerdem, warum die Sorge vor Akkuverschleiß durch V2G weitgehend unbegründet ist, welche regulatorischen Hürden in Deutschland inzwischen weggefallen sind und was das konkrete Pilotprojekt mit Vattenfall in den Niederlanden zeigen soll. Bis zu 40 Ioniq-9-Fahrzeuge nehmen dort teil, inklusive kostenloser Wallbox und 500 Euro Ladeguthaben. Ich habe aus dem Gespräch einiges mitgenommen, besonders den Blick auf die verschiedenen Ebenen, die gleichzeitig zusammenspielen müssen, damit V2G in der Fläche wirklich funktioniert: Fahrzeugtechnik, Infrastruktur, Regulatorik und das Nutzerverhalten. Guido ordnet das nüchtern und klar ein. Wer sich für die Zukunft des bidirektionalen Ladens interessiert, sollte diese Folge nicht verpassen.

Näringslivsprofilen om energikrisen, behovet av en energiöverenskommelse, EU:s relation till USA och Kina och generationsskiftet i familjen. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Jacob Wallenberg är styrelseordförande i Wallenbergsfärens investmentbolag Investor, som i sin tur är delägare i flera svenska storbolag som Saab, Electrolux, Atlas Copco, ABB och SEB. Sedan 2022 är Jacob Wallenberg också ordförande för arbetsgivarorganisationen Svenskt Näringsliv. ”Risk att man sätter sig på händerna”Kriget i Iran och blockaden av Hormuzsundet har lett till en global energikris. För näringslivet innebär det mer ovisshet, vilket gör det svårare att fatta långsiktiga beslut – och osäkerheten sträcker sig bortom kriget i Iran, säger Jacob Wallenberg. ”På en högre nivå har vi ju en geopolitisk situation med friktion mellan USA och Kina, ett EU som letar sin roll i det här sammanhanget. Vi kommer från en era av globalisering när vi skulle ut och resa i världen och företag skulle resa över gränser, nya marknader, tillväxt, till en situation med ökad protektionism och tullar, som vi ofta talar om. Sammantaget så betyder det här att vi går ifrån en tid när man visste ungefär hur saker och ting fungerade, förutsägbarhet, till en tid när det är stor oförutsägbarhet och det är svårt att fatta långsiktiga beslut”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Ja, men det måste man ju ändå göra som företagsledare?”Precis så är det, men det betyder trots allt en risk för att man sätter sig på händerna och avvaktar och tittar. Det är väl det som oroar mig mest. Vi är inne i en era som är mer svårbearbetad för företagare och för individer i stort”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Ny relation till USA och KinaI det nya geopolitiska läget menar Jacob Wallenberg att EU behöver förändra relationen till Kina och USA:”Det viktiga är att EU mejslar ut en ny strategi i sitt förhållande till USA. Det ska vara en djup relation, men vi måste stå upp raka i ryggen och stå för våra värderingar, etc. Samma sak vad gäller Kina. Där har vi historiskt stått lite i skuggan av USA och gjort ganska mycket som de har gjort. Det tycker jag uppenbarligen inte att vi ska göra idag utan vi måste mejsla ut våra egna tankar i och kring relationen med Kina. Så att EU har väldigt hög grad att, inom citationstecken, ännu mer ta hand om sig själv” säger Jacob Wallenberg. Efterlyser energiöverenskommelse I sin egenskap av ordförande för Svenskt Näringsliv har Jacob Wallenberg tillsammans med organisationens vd nyligen skrivit en debattartikel i SvD med en önskelista på vad nästa regering behöver göra för att öka tillväxten i svensk ekonomi. Den första punkten är en politisk överenskommelse över blocken om stabil elförsörjning, för att näringslivet ska investera i ny kärnkraft. ”När man går in och satsar på det här så vill vi gärna se att näringslivet är engagerade, tar en del av risken, är med och investerar för att göra detta möjligt. Ur det perspektivet blir det här väldigt angeläget, att ju säkrare förutsättningar det finns att jobba med – läs politiken, politiska regler – ju lägre risk och större chans att man kommer att investera. Det är vi ute efter”, säger Jacob Wallenberg.När det gäller det blocköverskridande, statsministern brukar hävda att det redan finns en slags de facto-energiöverenskommelse politiskt i det att det fattats en rad beslut om kärnkraften som Socialdemokraterna är med på i stora delar. De politiska beslut i energifrågan som redan är fattade, räcker de?”Inriktningen är väldigt positiv, men de facto så har vi inte en bred överenskommelse idag. Jag hoppas att vi kommer att få det, men vi har det inte idag.”Vilken sorts politisk överenskommelse om energin krävs för att få till de där långsiktiga spelreglerna som ni efterlyser?”I grunden, och det har jag sagt tidigare, så handlar det om ett handslag mellan ledarna för respektive sida i den svenska politiken. Det är för mig trovärdigt”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Regeringen har tagit fram en rad förslag som innebär att staten ska ta en större del av kostnaden och den ekonomiska risken för ny kärnkraft. I det kärnkraftsprojekt som kommit längst, planerna på nya reaktorer vid Ringhals, så ska staten tillsammans med det statliga energibolaget Vattenfall stå för 80 procent av ägandet och risken. Resterande 20 procent ska ett konsortium av privata företag stå för, där ingår även Wallenberg-bolag. Vad tycker Jacob Wallenberg om den balansen? ”Det är väl i alla fall en fantastiskt bra början att det finns privatkapital med där. Vilket då pekar på att det finns förutsättningar att driva detta på kommersiell basis och att det inte bara är staten som går in och tar hela risken. Jag ser det som väldigt positivt”, säger Jacob Wallenberg.Om uppluckrad klimatpolitik: ”Vore väldigt olyckligt”Nyligen investerade familjen Wallenberg i ståltillverkaren Stegra, ett av de stora men osäkra projekten i den svenska gröna omställningen.”Vi tror att grön omställning är nånting som efterfrågas av kunder. Vi upplever att du har ett moraliskt ansvar att tänka i de termerna. Vi tror att när du ska anställa unga människor så förväntar de sig att deras nya arbetsgivare har grönt i sin tanke. Det här är saker som vi tycker är grundläggande”, säger Jacob Wallenberg.Stegras affärsmodell bygger till stor del på EU:s utsläppshandelssystem, ETS, alltså att politiska beslut gör det så dyrt med utsläpp att det blir lönsamt med grönt stål. Det finns vissa tecken nu på att EU:s klimatpolitik rullas tillbaka, att beslutade tuffa klimatregler luckras upp. Hur ser du på den utvecklingen?”Jag tycker att det vore väldigt olyckligt. De så kallade ETS-reglerna, södra Europa vill backa, norra delen av Europa vill fortsätta. Många i norra Europa, många företag har redan investerat i teknologier som adresserar det här. Det skulle vara investeringar som inte går i hamn om ETS-reglerna skulle ändras. Jag tror på att vi måste gå åt det här hållet. Därför skulle jag inte önska att EU genomförde de här förändringarna”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Generationsskifte i familjen WallenbergJacob Wallenberg ingår den femte generationen Wallenberg. Han har nyligen fyllt 70 år. Sedan i fjol har medlemmar ur nästa generation fått ledande positioner i familjens företag.”Det finns ett stort antal personer i nästa generation som utbildas, får sin egen arbetslivserfarenhet, etcetera. Några av dem har kommit in i mer centrala roller i styrelser etcetera. Det har gått bra. Jag hoppas att det ska fortsätta att gå bra”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Är ambitionen att det i nästa generation ska bli lika tydligt som idag med tre, nu är det ju du, din bror Peter Wallenberg och din kusin Marcus Wallenberg?”Nej, det finns inget egenvärde i ett exakt antal. Men det är ganska uppenbart att det är ett stort ansvarsområde. Att vi kan vara tre den här gången istället för en eller två som det har varit historiskt ser vi som en stor styrka. Jag hoppas att det kommer att vara ännu fler i framtiden som har framträdande roller”, säger Jacob Wallenberg. Gäst: Jacob Wallenberg Programledare Johar BendjelloulKommentar Knut Kainz RognerudProducent: Maja LagercrantzTekniker: Peter BerglundIntervjun spelades in torsdag den 11 juni 2026.

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).

I veckans avsnitt är Tobias Wikström från ledarsidan vikarie för Frida Wallnor och tillsammans med PM Nilsson diskuterar de SCB:s nya opinionsmätning. Varför finns det så tydliga könsskillnader bland väljarna och vad skulle en rödgrön majoritet faktiskt innebära för svensk politik? PM problematiserar även Tidöpartiernas fokus på justitiefrågan och tycker att de behöver hitta en tydligare framtidsvision för att fånga fler väljare. Dessutom pratar de om den så kallade bonusfesten hos statliga Vattenfall och deras senaste marknadsföringsstrategi. Och så frågar de sig om Vattenfall verkligen måste vara statligt?

De Week van Energeia is dé nieuwspodcast voor de energieprofessional. Elke vrijdag praten redacteuren van Energeia je in ongeveer vijfentwintig minuten bij over de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in de complexe energiewereld. Met deze week: de Hoge Raad doet dit jaar uitspraak in een zaak rond energiebedrijf Vattenfall. Vattenfall en andere energieleveranciers verhoogden tijdens de energiecrisis in 2022 tussentijds de tarieven bij klanten met een variabel contract. Eén klant klaagde bij de rechter en kreeg gelijk. De zaak belandde uiteindelijk bij de hoogste rechtsinstantie en de kans bestaat dat de zaak opnieuw moet. Welke gevolgen de uitspraak kan hebben, vertelt redacteur Katrijn de Ronde. Hoofdredacteur Wouter Hylkema licht toe welke bindende afspraken toezichthouder ACM met de netbeheerders heeft gemaakt om meer aan netcongestiemanagement te doen. En waarom het kabinet EemsEnergyTerminal een garantie van €90 mln geeft voor de drijvende LNG-terminals voor de Groningse kust. Presentatie: Ilse AkkermansSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wie wird aus der Energiewende ein skalierbares, bezahlbares und resilientes Energiesystem? In dieser Folge spricht Claus Hartmann mit Jens Zerbst, Group CIO von Vattenfall, über die unterschätzte Rolle der Digitalisierung in der Transformation der Energiewirtschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie IT, Smart Meter, Flexibilität, Speicher und intelligente Laststeuerung zusammenspielen müssen, damit erneuerbare Energien nicht nur ausgebaut, sondern wirklich systemdienlich integriert werden können. Jens Zerbst zeigt, warum die Energiewende längst kein reines Erzeugungsthema mehr ist, sondern ein komplexes Zusammenspiel aus Netzen, Marktmechanismen, Regulierung, Cybersecurity, Industrieprozessen und Nutzerakzeptanz. Besonders spannend: Flexibilität muss einfach werden. „Install and forget“ statt täglichem Strompreis-Nerdtum. Nur wenn digitale Lösungen verständlich, standardisiert und wirtschaftlich attraktiv sind, entstehen echte Pull-Effekte für Industrie, Mittelstand und private Haushalte. Eine Folge über IT als Möglichmacher der Energiewende – realistisch, optimistisch und mit klarem Blick auf das große Ganze.

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NextEra’s $67B all-stock Dominion deal targets data center alley. Plus China’s top five each outpace Vestas, and 80% of Swedish wind producers ran at a loss. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! [00:00:00] The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape, protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now, your hosts Speaker 6: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with three other people, Matthew Stead, Rosemary Barnes, and, uh, Yolanda Padron down in Texas. Uh, we’re all getting ready to go to American Clean Power in Houston, Texas, where it will be practically 150 degrees and 99% humidity, and we’re all looking forward to those warm, wet days that we will spend It is very similar to New Orleans. New Orleans was also very warm and very humid. So there’s a trend going on here with American Clean Power, although we were up in Minneapolis not too long ago, uh, but I guess we were in Phoenix too, so we gotta find a middle ground, everybody. Can we go someplace like– [00:01:00] Rosemary says we should always go to the Maldives, Tahiti. I got a lot of requests from Tahiti from people. We never go there. We never go to Hawaii.  Rosemary Barnes: I’ve suggested Hawaii so many times, and I’ve been told that Americans are not gonna be given permission from their manager to go to Hawaii.  Speaker 6: It’s kinda like Las Vegas.  Rosemary Barnes: Maybe one day we’ll make it to San Diego or something and get, um, beach adjacent facility And if your presentation is too boring, then everyone will be at the beach. So that will be how we ensure quality control of the speakers, which is a big problem at these events now, right? Like you can’t, um, there’s– It’s more like the norm is fairly boring sales pitches rather than informative discussion.  Speaker 6: We used to have OMNS, when I say we, I mean the wind community used to have OMNS out in San Diego in Coronado at the Del Coronado is, I think that’s the hotel name. And the one time that I went, I think I’ve been [00:02:00] there, I would say one time, uh, everybody was outside on the, at the beach, basically on the patio. So they’re holding all these talks and discussions, and it’s… I’m looking around, it’s like me and five other people. Everybody else is out there next to the water. So they had a problem with that. So I guess what they figured, either make it really cold or make it really hot, so it forces everybody into the climate-controlled conditions of, uh, the, uh, auditorium to watch the speakers. Maybe that’s the, the plan. All right. Let’s, let’s, let’s talk about what happened with NextEra and Dominion because there’s going to be a huge merger. So if you thought utility business was boring, it’s not anymore. NextEra announced a sixty-seven billion dollar all-stock deal to acquire Dominion Energy, a move that would create the largest regulated electricity utility in the world by market cap. Uh, [00:03:00] the combined company would serve about ten million customers accounts across Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, where I’m based, and South Carolina with one hundred and ten gigawatts of generation across renewables, nuclear, and natural gas. Uh, but the real driver here is data centers, of course. Dominion sits in the heart of Virginia’s data center alley, where it has connected more than four hundred and fifty data centers, and NextEra is building thirty data center hubs through its NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary and has partnered with Google Cloud on paired generation campuses. So together, they would control about a hundred and thirty gigawatts of large load pipeline. And the question is whether the regulators will let it happen. And I think that’s, having watched some of the news articles over the last several days, uh, the news broke pretty much Sunday morning or late Saturday night that this was happening and [00:04:00] The first thing that came to mind, are the regulators going to let it happen? And the concern is going to be, and you can well imagine how this plays out, they’re going to drag Dominion and NextEra up to Washington, D.C. and berate them about how electricity rates cannot increase due to data centers. And if they don’t swear to that, then this merger won’t happen. That’s my interpretation of what’s about to happen. It may not, but how does this play out? How does everybody else on the team at Uptime see this play out?  Matthew Stead: Seems like a good idea to me. So more economies, more geographic diversity, more opportunity for renewables.  Yolanda Padron: I can’t speak to Dominion, um, but being relatively close to the NextEra engineering team, they, they really know their stuff, right? So I think it’s something that should kind of give us a, a sense of relief here that it, [00:05:00] it’s a big team, but it’s a really smart and competent team taking over a big undertaking.  Speaker 6: You would like to see renewables and data centers work together. This would be the perfect match of the two, right? The, the largest renewable owner management company, along with the biggest data center, uh, region. Connecting those two would make infinite sense, but in the, our political environment today in the United States, that may be the reason to oppose it.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, why would it be a bad idea?  Speaker 6: Windmills, Matthew. Windmills. Windmills are bad. Can’t even call them wind turbines anymore. They’re windmills.  Rosemary Barnes: I used to mock people for saying windmill instead of wind turbine, but then when I moved to Denmark, um, you know, who, you know, have a firm, firm ownership of modern wind energy, or at least did back 10, 20 years ago They say windmill when they speak English. Um, the Danish word for it is vindmølle, um, which means windmill. [00:06:00]And so I can’t… I couldn’t maintain that, that energy because like, am I gonna, am I gonna mock these, you know, like everybody at that company knew more about wind energy than I did. Am I gonna mock them for not, not knowing the difference between a windmill and a wind turbine? No. So yeah, that’s, that’s something that I, I don’t do anymore.  Matthew Stead: That is really valuable to know, um, Rosie. I must admit, I did not know that, and I would mock people saying w- windmill, so thank you for setting me straight.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, there are plenty of, um, plenty of people who don’t know the difference between a windmill and a wind turbine and think, “Oh, why you only got three blades with so much air between them? You know, you’re gonna… Y- if you would just put twice as many blades, you’d get twice as many energy. Everybody who works in wind energy is just an obs- obvious complete and utter idiot.” Um, so there’s that kind of person, but then there’s also the industry. Another fun fact that they call the blades wings. Uh, um, yeah, in Danish they call them blade wings, which they are. [00:07:00] Speaker 6: In Spanish, isn’t it shovels? ‘Cause when I always translate those, uh, Spanish questions over to English, it always comes out shovel. At least early on, y- the early versions of Google Translate would translate it to shovel. Like, what are they talking about shovel on a wind turbine? That doesn’t make any sense.  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, like a shovel or a stick or like a, what you row with.  Speaker 6: Oh, like an oar. Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Okay. Thank you, Yolanda.  Matthew Stead: I think it’s really interesting that, um- We don’t have much material on NextEra, Dominion. Um, yeah, we just don’t think it’s a good– We all think it’s a good idea. There’s no controversy here.  Speaker 6: Oh, there’ll be controversy. Don’t worry about that. There’s always controversy. Welcome to America.  Matthew Stead: But among the four of us-  Speaker 6: We all think it’s great.  Rosemary Barnes: Well, it’s, um, I mean, some of the interesting facts that I read was that they’ve got 130 gigawatts of load, um, that they’re bringing to the table, and 51 gigawatts of that is contracted data centers. So that’s, that’s interesting. [00:08:00] And I think large amounts of new data centers on the grid are controversial because in– if you’re not very, very careful about how you integrate them, then you can end up just making electricity more expensive for everybody in the area that doesn’t necessarily get, you know, profit sharing from the data center. So, um, I think that, uh, like, you know, the wind ind- in the wind industry, we’ve obviously been through and are still in the phase of where social license, um, community acceptance is one of the most important things, maybe the most important thing when you’re developing a new project. And I think that we’re just at the start of that realization for data centers as well. Companies that are building the, the data centers, they need to do more than what’s required of them because otherwise they have big risks of project delays. It’s millions of dollars delay, um, for the delay for, um, yeah, for every, every day that, um, a data center is held up. And so how can you afford to risk annoying anybody? [00:09:00] You know, you just wanna be like the just, just perfect, um, addition to the community so that everybody is just happy and, and lets the project proceed. So, yeah, I thought– think that that’s, that’s quite an interesting aspect that I think I’m gonna s- we’re gonna see changing as, you know, all these planned data centers become real data centers. There’s a real risk that everybody hates data centers soon as much as they, um, hated wind tur- um, wind farms for a while.  Yolanda Padron: For the consumer, aren’t there, like, I don’t know if they’re in Virginia, but aren’t there price caps too for the market? When you’re– When it comes to how expensive the megawatt hour is? Speaker 6: Not necessarily. Re- remember that AEP in Ohio, uh, was requiring data centers to buy electricity at a certain amount. Because they both basically committed not to raise prices for electricity to the local communities, and that would be really hard to do. And okay, great, if, if they can pull it off, awesome. But there’s already a lot of [00:10:00] pushback about it, and it hasn’t even gotten to the point of being real yet, so it’s only gonna get worse. I see. And all the data centers are gonna be up in space no matter what. Everybody’s talking about building data centers on the ground. There’s no shot that that’s gonna happen. I’m just telling you, ’cause they can’t do it. They don’t– They can’t build gas turbines fast enough. There’s just limitations there, and transformers and everything else. It’s gonna be in space. It’s so much easier.  Yolanda Padron: And all the approvals you have to get and everything.  Speaker 6: It will be easier to do it in space In space, you don’t have neighbors. Matthew Stead: I said it before, it’s just crazy. The key issue around data centers is it’s actually the transmission rather than generation. I mean, you know, at least in Australia, and correct me if I’m wrong, Rosie, but you know, less than half the price in Australia is generation. The other half is sort of retail and transmission and this and that. And so actually, you know, the generation cost shouldn’t really increase. It’s really the transmission and the, the poles and the wires, which are the problem. And [00:11:00] you know, to your point, Rosie, social, social license for poles and wires.  Rosemary Barnes: I’m actually really surprised at Allen, ’cause normally, Allen and I have this, um, you know, we’ve played out this scenario probably 50 or 100 times over the, over the years with emerging technologies, and it’s always me that’s like, “You know what? I think, uh, I think there’s something to this one.” Um, and Allen always poo-poos it, and in this case, Allen’s, Allen’s excited. I, I’m on Allen’s– So I also, I also think space data centers is, is a thing that’s more likely to happen than not, at least to some extent. Um, so yeah, but I think, Matt, you’ve got the more mainstream opinion. Speaker 6: The voice of the common man. I  Yolanda Padron: think for all of our listeners out there, this is the first time Rosie and Allen agree on anything, so round of applause team.  Speaker 6: It won’t last long, Yolande.  Rosemary Barnes: It’s not true because, you know, nine out of 10 new technologies I also think are stupid. Um, so Allen and I agree on the bulk of them, but then of that one in 10, you know, nine out of 10 of those I, I [00:12:00] like and Allen doesn’t, so this is the, you know, the one-tenth of the one-tenth, so. Speaker 6: I don’t like gas turbines. Can we all agree we don’t like gas turbines? It’s– That would be insane to scale.  Rosemary Barnes: You know what? I, I don’t have a particular problem with gas, gas turbines. I don’t want a lot of new gas turbines. Um, I guess that that’s– We can all agree on, on that. I don’t think the– I think we have most of the gas turbines that we need, or at least, um, will in the next couple of years. And, um, yeah, I do think that their existence supports faster electrification, um, and faster growth of wind and solar. So I’m definitely not someone that wants to see all gas turbines turned off tomorrow.  Speaker 6: No, I don’t, I don’t want to turn them off. I’m  Matthew Stead: just saying you can’t get to scale. Speaker 6: Delamination and bond line failures in blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. CIC NDT are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become [00:13:00] expensive burdens. Their non-destructive test technology penetrates deep into blade materials to find voids and cracks traditional inspections completely miss. CIC NDT maps every critical defect, delivers actionable reports, and provides support to get your blades back in service. So  Matthew Stead: visit cicndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you  Speaker 6: millions. Well, for the first time, five Chinese turbine manufacturers have all individually outpaced Danish wind giant Vestas in annual installations. Goldwind topped the global list with twenty-nine point seven gigawatts installed in twenty twenty-five. Behind them, Envision put up twenty-one point eight, Windy nineteen point eight, Mingyang at eighteen point six, and Sany at fifteen point one gigawatts. Vestas came in [00:14:00] sixth at twelve point nine gigawatts. The Chinese dominance was fueled by an enormous domestic market that has accounted for about ninety-four percent of those five manufacturers’ sales. Uh, but exports are obviously growing out of China too. The five captured nearly sixty percent of the hundred and seventy-eight gigawatts installed globally in twenty twenty-five, a year that saw the world market grow forty percent over twenty twenty-four. So Vestas still holds the crown for cumulative installations at two hundred and one gigawatts, but the gap in annual volume is now almost impossible to ignore. So Vestas has a lot of competition over in China. The, the amount of, uh, gigawatts coming out of the largest manufacturers in China is quite impressive, almost, well, more than double than what, uh, Vestas is doing, and Vestas is doing a pretty brisk business. What are, what are the outcomes of this, everyone? Is, can this be sustained in China [00:15:00] for very much longer? Can they continue to, to create at, at that rate?  Rosemary Barnes: Yes. Okay, move, move on to the next segment  Speaker 6: Well, that’s a, that’s a huge amount of gigawatts coming out of China. And if 94% of it’s staying in China, eventually you run out of China to put wind turbines in. Rosemary Barnes: They– I mean, we’re a long way from running out of places in China to put wind turbines in, because China is gigantic. A lot of it is not that populated. They’ve got a lot of offshore area still. But I just think it’s gonna follow the same playbook as, as solar probably, where you see, you know, early on heaps of domestic market, which is totally rock solid because it’s not relying on people to see a positive business case in doing it. You know, like it’s really… You know, targets are, are really mandated and people make sure that they are met. Um, and then the incentives are also different as well. Like my understanding is that [00:16:00] there’s a lot of incentives about installation of megawatts, um, and then, you know, the, the operation is like, we’ll figure that out as we go. The volume, the number of manufacturers that are there, they’ve got, you know, like such a great supply chain all there in the same area, so you can move fast and like I, I don’t see anything can get in the way of, you know, continuing to pump out these turbines at that speed. It’ll keep going until, you know, the government basically decides we’ve got, uh, enough wind energy now and then puts the, the brakes on it. And, you know, that’s what we’ve just been through in solar recently. China is, um… You know, they’ve just– they’ve got a big economy and they’ve just got like rock solid resolve to follow through on, on things that they commit to. Um, whether we can, you know, argue about whether it’s a smart strategy or not, but you know that they will follow it, they will execute on, on it. I don’t think anyone would, would say that they won’t. So I think, [00:17:00]can it continue forever? No. But do I think it can continue for another 10 years? Yes. And is that long enough to cause massive problems for any other manufacturer? I think also yes.  Matthew Stead: Hey, Rosie, can I ask you a question? You know, obviously there was some cable was proposed, you know, between Australia and Singapore. Do you see China going in that direction? You know, putting rather than pipes with gas in it, um, pipes with electrons? Uh,  Rosemary Barnes: I don’t see China– I’m actually working on a video at the moment about a global sub-sea grid, and I just interviewed, um, uh, Xlinks, you know, that was originally a project from Morocco to the UK, and then the other one, which is super cool, um, we might have an argument about the plausibility of it, is NATO L, which is just in like early development stages. It’s going to connect the UK to Canada. Um, and yeah, so that’s, um, a few thousand kilometers long. The ocean depth is maximum [00:18:00] three, I think, kilometers, maybe even a tiny bit more than that, um, which is like right on the edge of what is possible. N-none of those projects really actually rely on big technological improvements. Um, they’re possible with today’s technologies. Um, but I don’t see China doing so much of that. I think that one thing that might actually stop that is that, um, when you have big interconnectors like that, I think the engineering part is not the hard, the hard part. I think that the, it’s the politics. I do see them exporting their, um, you know, they’ve got really good ultra high voltage DC technology, but the transmission lines, they have exported a little bit. There’s some projects in Brazil that are Chinese made. There’s one in India. I don’t actually know if that is Chinese made, but you know, like I could really imagine them also rolling out projects in Africa, for example. Um, but beyond that sort of thing, I, I wouldn’t tip China as the country to, you know, develop a global [00:19:00] sub-sea grid. Speaker 6: Do you think the low solar prices have hurt the wind manufacturers in China a little bit? Obviously, there’s a lot of solar panels that are able to be shipped immediately, which is what’s happening right now. But turbines, not so much. It’s a little harder to do. But you, you would think that a lot of these countries and communities would be putting in wind But solar is so cheap right now that, that is what is winning at the moment, and it must be hurting the Chinese wind manufacturers, you would think. Rosemary Barnes: I don’t think they’re really in a competition with each other, um, at the moment. In Australia, I think yes. I think that, um, the, like, roaring success of solar and especially batteries is, um, making wind less appealing to develop. But globally, I think that it’s, you know, it’s a race between, um, fossil fuels and renewables. It’s a race between energy security and continued reliance on, you know, countries that [00:20:00] you don’t really want to rely on for fossil fuels. I think that those are the, the much bigger, um, competition at the moment. It’s a bit short-sighted because, yeah, wind and solar is really easy for the, the part of the, uh, energy transition that we’re doing now, and, uh, if you just don’t build any wind until you reach the limit of solar and batteries, then you’ll find yourself quite far behind. So that’s what we’re really struggling with in Australia and finding, like, what is the right level of government, um, support because people… You know, like in an electricity market like Australia, you’re not supposed to rely on governments, you know, planning out the system and deciding what thing to build, and I think that that has been a real strength of the Australian market that it has, you know, the government has got out of the way. It is hard to see, um, us getting to where we need to go in a orderly fashion without some planning for this, like, lumpy middle part of the energy transition. I don’t know. What do you think, Matt? Is that how you see it in Australia as well?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think there’s a place [00:21:00] for everything, and, you know, wind, solar, battery is a perfect match and the right places for the right thing. Rosemary Barnes: It’s really hard because, you know, like, when you look at the system as a whole, you know, like you plan out what, what full energy system is cheaper and better, you know. Is it the, you know, the current fossil fuel system and all of the, you know, annual maintenance and, um, improvements like, um, extensions that need to go along with that to support, you know, things like data centers and population growth, or is it the fully renewable system? And, you know, if you look at the end state, then I don’t think that many studies or maybe any studies come to the conclusion that anything other than renewables is the, the cheaper, better system. But it’s just, it doesn’t mean that every step along the way is cheaper, and so you end up with this, yeah, like this hump in the middle that you’ve gotta, you’ve gotta get over if you wanna get from one to the other, and it’s, um, it’s complicated. Speaker 6: I just listened to a podcast about this half an hour ago, uh, and it [00:22:00] was very contentious. And I won’t get into the details of it, but it was just one or the other. We wanna have all petroleum-based, coal-based generation in the UK, or we want zero emissions. They never got into anywhere in the middle, which is where it’s going to have to be. So why don’t we talk about that? I– It doesn’t… The political atmosphere of the UK is, is a little unstable, as we’ve all read in the newspapers and seen online. Uh, but it, but it’s just causing the both sides to go to extremes. And on the renewable side, some of the arguments that are being made were so outlandish that I could hardly continue to listen to it. Same thing on the gas and coal side. Like, what are we gonna do? The UK is really in a pinch. They’re gonna have to do something, and it all– as Rosemary’s pointed out, doing nothing is real ex- it’s gonna be tremendously expensive too. So there’s, there’s gonna have to be a, a reckoning somehow, but it, it’s all tied to the [00:23:00] economy at the moment. Like most things that happen in a country, decisions are made about what’s happening right now, not what’s gonna happen five years from now.  Yolanda Padron: Right. And to your point, like countries need to protect themselves, right? Like what are you gonna do, bank on world peace?  Speaker 6: That’s a bad bet historically.  Matthew Stead: But, um, how many, how many of those charts have you seen in the last one to years where you’ve got the, the fossil fuel, say the coal generation versus renewable generation? How many of those, um, charts have crossed over in the last few years where, you know, renewables generation is, is higher than coal generation? It’s just, it’s happening all over the world. It’s just happening, and you look at the graphs, it’s just happening.  Speaker 6: It’s less expensive, so that’s why they’re doing it. The decision’s made with the dollar. You know, the financing and the bankers and insurance are all gonna drive that, and it’s not gonna be the decision you, the homeowner, are gonna have a lot of influence on. It’s all gonna be done at a higher level, and it’s gonna be whatever’s cheaper and whatever’s available. Back to Rosemary’s point, [00:24:00] solar is cheap and available, people are gonna do it. Wind is cheap and available, they’re gonna choose it no matter who’s in office, right? I… Yeah, that’s the engineer talking, not the politician.  Matthew Stead: Battery, wind, and solar is only gonna get cheaper. Is, um, is, uh, gas turbines and coal gonna get cheaper? Speaker 6: They can’t. In order to get the efficiency up where they need to, it’s gonna be super expensive, which is what we’re at today. That’s why gas turbines are s- you can’t mass produce them, and that’s why they cost so much money. It’s a great business if you sell a couple a year. You can’t sell thousands of them. There’s just not a way to do that. 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 new to wind, PES Wind has the high-quality content you need. Don’t miss [00:25:00] out. Visit peswind.com today. Over in Sweden, they built all the wind farms, and here at Weather Guard we’ve talked to a number of operators over in Sweden, so has EOLOGIX-PING, uh, and the– So but the wind farms and the customers haven’t really showed up, and researchers in Sweden have analyzed two hundred and forty-four Swedish wind power producers owning more than about thirty-seven hundred turbines covering eighty-five percent of the country’s total wind generation. So it’s a pretty large study. They found that eighty percent were effectively operating at a loss in twenty twenty-four. The total sector losses reached six point three billion Swedish kronor, uh, about six hundred and twenty million euros. The sector’s profit margins fell to a negative fifty-one percent. That’s right, negative fifty-one percent. Uh, and here’s the real paradox. Although wind production actually [00:26:00] rose from thirty-four point two to forty point six terawatt-hours, revenues fell for the first time in at least six years. Uh, the more they produced, the less they earned. And the real culprit is overcapacity. So they have so many turbines up in northern Sweden, uh, that it’s driving the energy prices down, much like Australia. Uh, and the missing link is obviously transmission because it is big demand to the south. It’s just getting the power there. Vattenfall alone lost eight hundred and seventy million euros in its wind business in twenty twenty-four, and one of its subsidiaries curtailed seventeen percent of the potential production because of, uh, shutting the turbines down was less expensive than selling into negative prices, which would make sense. So the price has gotten so low in Sweden that it’s better just to turn the turbine off and, and eat the loss than to generate power at a, at a negative price. This is a common theme [00:27:00] as wind has grown, and solar for the same matter, is that when you have so much of it, the price of electricity will drop. And until you can get that power out to other areas that has high demand It becomes a losing proposition. How does this play out? Will the– Now will countries finally take transmission seriously and start to even out the grid? Is that where we’re going?  Yolanda Padron: I mean, I hope so. The idea of curtailing potential energy isn’t something new, right? It happens here in Texas all the time. It happens in a lot of places all the time, um, just to, to not overflow the grid. And it makes sense, but it doesn’t make sense too much, at least to me, that in the same country you have parts of it where you have an electricity surplus and negative pricing, and other parts of it where you just, you don’t have enough energy for the whole, uh, region, right? So, uh, I really hope they take it a bit more seriously than they, than they currently are.  Matthew Stead: Uh, I think the interesting thing about Sweden is [00:28:00]that they’ve got a lot of hydro as well, and so those two things tie together. Um, you know, much like Australia, we’re building the, like the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, um, hydro scheme, and, um, maybe that’s part of the missing puzzle is the actual, the storage element. So if they had more pumped hydro, you know, they could, um, perhaps store that excess energy and then, then reuse it. But, you know, unless there’s no pipes from the north to the south, you know, that’s not gonna help anyone.  Speaker 6: Hydro is expensive. The more recent news articles I’ve seen about pumped hydro is it’s way less expensive to put in wind or put in solar or put in some batteries than to do pumped hydro projects. It’s complicated. It’s a lot of construction, obviously, and, uh, the pumps and the equipment are not cheap. So, uh, yeah, so although if you do have hydro and it’s currently running, you would leave that alone, but I think some of the newer pumped hydro projects probably won’t happen. Even if they’re on the– have [00:29:00] been planned and, and even started, I think they’re really reevaluating that it’s probably cheaper to do batteries. Matthew Stead: In Australia, in Snowy 2.0, I think the original budget was, was it 3 billion? And now it’s up to 12 to 15 billion.  Rosemary Barnes: Anybody that was working on that would’ve known that the price was very likely to blow out because that particular project has a really long tunnel. The two reservoirs that, like the reservoirs were existing, so you think, okay, that’s good, you save money. But the expensive part of pumped hydro is the tunneling and then, and it’s a very long tunnel. Um, and it’s just so super predictable that when you have a super long tunnel, you one, increase the cost a lot, but two, increase the risk of a massive cost blowout. So I think it’s not a good predictor of, of projects as some other ones that are, that are happening. I think the biggest problem with hydro is that, um, the project lives are so long, like 100 years e- easily, [00:30:00] but that doesn’t mean anything in today’s dollars, y- you know? So it’s like no one can, no company is gonna assign any value to the electricity they’re gonna generate in 100 years time, you know? So it’s, um, it, it’s really hard for it to stack up to, as a project today unless it’s a government doing it. Matthew Stead: But I mean, once Snowy 2.0 is done, it will still be reasonably cost-effective as a long-term storage source.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. If it had been made on time, then I think it would’ve, it would’ve been a real enabler for the energy transition for getting heaps of wind and solar. But it wasn’t done on time, and we barely we- storage isn’t our problem right now. We have actually got lots of, of storage. That’s not what’s stopping people from building projects. So, um, I think it is a bit of a shame.  Speaker 6: Back to your point, Rosemary, how old hydro is in terms of electricity generation. I, I went to go look up when Niagara River, Niagara Falls in, in the States first [00:31:00] started producing power, 1895. That’s how long we’ve been using water power in the States to create electricity. Hoover Dam, which also does something very similar, is in the 1930s, 1935, ’36, around that timeframe. So it’s almost been 100 years there too, 90 years. Yeah. It’s, it’s amazing. So you don’t plan for those, those pieces of, uh, infrastructure to run that long, but they do. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. And if today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. For Rosie, Yolanda, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:32:00] podcast.

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Storkapitalet räddar den gröna omställningens flaggskepp i Sverige, när Wallenbergsfären blir storägare i krisande Stegra. Men omställningen har tappat fart, vissa vill förändra EU:s klimatpolitik och andra varnar för gröna bubblor. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Stegras utmaningar framöverPå en presskonferens tidigare i veckan berättade det svenska stålföretaget Stegras vd Henrik Henriksson att bolaget lyckats säkra nya pengar. Det handlar om 15 miljarder kronor som nu kommer in i den sinande kassakistan och där den ledande ägaren kommer bli Wallenberg Investments.– Det är bra för omställningen i stort att det blir tydlig att det finns stora erfarna industrialister som tror på det här, säger John Hassler, professor i nationalekonomi Stockholms universitet med särskilt fokus på miljöekonomi.Magnus Henrekson, professor i nationalekonomi vid Institutet för näringslivsforskning, säger att beskedet om nya ägare inte innebär att Stegra kommer lyckas.– De är både tekniska och ekonomiska svårigheter som ska övervinnas, säger han.Höga klimatmål från EUEU har höga mål med sin klimatpolitik och för några år sen var förhoppningarna väldigt stora på omställningen. Men de senaste åren har pendeln slagit tillbaka en del. En hel del projekt har fått pausats och ställts in – däribland flera satsningar på just fossilfritt stål.– Om vi går fram väldigt fort och resten, 85 procent av världsekonomin, inte gör det kommer vi att avindustrialiseras, säger Henrekson.Det finns också en kritik mot att omställningen, drabbar vissa delar av befolkningen hårt och slår hårdare mot vissa regioner.– Jag kan hålla med om att det inte funnits tillräckligt mycket tänk kring hur man ska hantera det motståndet som kommer från människor, aktörer och företag, säger Sylvia Schwaag Serger, professor i ekonomisk historia vid Lunds Universitet och vd för Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademin.”Förödande om det ändras”Oskar Ahnfelt på Vattenfall menar att det är avgörande att EU:s linje ligger fast.– Vissa saker vore förödande om man ändrades, till exempel om man inte håller fast vid utsläppstaket som man sagt. Det ska kosta att släppa ut koldioxid. Om man inte håller fast vid det kommer företag inte vilja ställa om.Det är viktigt att omställningen går snabbt, lyfter flera personer.– Vi jobbar under enorm tidspress, inte bara för klimatets skull utan också för att vi har ett globalt konkurrensläge som vi måste förhålla oss till, säger Schwaag Serger.ProgramledareVictor JensenProducent:Olof WijnbladhMedverkande och röster i programmet:John Hassler, professor nationalekonomiSylvia Schwaag Serger, vd för Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademin IVA och professor i ekonomisk historiaMagnus Henreksson, professor nationalekonomiOskar Ahnfelt, ansvarig för policyfrågor och påverkansarbete på VattenfallLeif Johansson, tillträdande ordförande för StegraHenrik Henriksson, vd för StegraMartin Lundstedt, vd för AB Volvo

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Kristdemokraternas partiledare Ebba Busch (KD) om Liberalernas kris, om kärnkraft, migration och om varför hon nyligen utropade 'leve shahen' i ett tal på en demonstration. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Trots att Liberalernas partiledare i veckan svängt och meddelat att hon kan tänka sig att släppa in Sverigedemokraterna (SD) i regering efter nästa val så vill Ebba Busch inte sätta ner foten i frågan:”Det är bra att de har tagit bort de röda linjerna men jag har inte tänkt förhandla bort den pucken i förtid. Det får vi prata om som en helhet. Det är inte min uppgift att dela ut ministerposter”, säger Ebba Busch.Kärnkraft valfråga igenKristdemokraternas partiledare Ebba Busch propagerat för ny kärnkraft sedan 2018 och som energiminister i den nuvarande regeringen har hon drivit fram flera lagförändringar som möjliggör byggandet av ny kärnkraft.För att minska den politiska risken med ny kärnkraft har Ebba Busch försökt få till en energiöverenskommelse med Socialdemokraternas (S) Magdalena Andersson, så att planerna ska bestå även efter ett regeringsskifte. Men på grund av oenighet mellan Tidöpartierna blev det ingen uppgörelse.I samband med att Liberalerna (L) i veckan öppnade för att släppa in Sverigedemokraterna (SD) i regering efter valet så presenterade L och SD sitt Sverigelöfte med 15 politiska punkter. Där står bland annat att ”behov av energiförhandlingar med partierna till vänster saknas”. Betyder det att det inte blir nån överenskommelse nästa mandatperiod heller?”Nej. Linjen har hela tiden varit att vi inte kommer att vänta på att Socialdemokraterna landar i vad de tycker om svensk energipolitik och avstå ifrån att göra det vi tror är rätt för Sverige så fort som möjligt. Det är ju anledningen till att vi har gått vidare med kärnkraftsarbetet”, säger Ebba Busch.Regeringen har talat om att det behövs motsvarande tio nya stora reaktorer. Hittills finns en ansökan från Vattenfall om ett bygga mindre reaktorer i Ringhals. Men många osäkerheter kvarstår, och ett investeringsbeslut kan dröja länge. Bland annat vill Vattenfall att staten ska gå in som majoritetsägare.Så vad händer om det inte finns något avtal med Vattenfall och inte heller något blocköverskridande överenskommelse vid valet, kommer nästa regering kunna riva upp alla kärnkraftsplaner? ”Jag skulle säga så här: Har man likt Svenskt Näringsliv och väldigt många andra analyser konstaterat att det var dåligt att stänga sex kärnkraftsreaktorer i förtid, vi behöver ha nya, då är det en risk att rösta på Magdalena Andersson. För man vet inte om det är Nooshi Dadgostar eller Daniel Helldén som avgör energipolitiken framåt. Så jag skulle låta bli det om man tycker att det är viktigt”, säger Ebba Busch.”politiska debattörer” i Klimatpolitiska rådet Under mandatperioden har utbyggnaden av vindkraft bromsat in, både till havs och till land. I Klimatpolitiska rådets senaste rapport konstaterar de att Sverige har kommit längre ifrån att klara klimatmålen under den här mandatperioden. Experterna i rådet skriver: ”Förutsättningarna för investeringar i ny kärnkraft har förbättrats, men för andra fossilfria kraftslag har de försämrats”. Klimatpolitiska rådet konstaterar att industripolitiken behöver ändras under nästa mandatperiod om det ska bli någon elektrifiering innan kärnkraften är på plats. Hur ser Ebba Busch på kritiken?"Det är flera delar som jag menar är politiska avväganden som Klimatpolitiska rådet gör. Det är som att sitta med vilken politisk debattör som helst, jag håller helt enkelt inte med. Om vi tittar på fakta: ett, vi har nu lyckats öka den installerade produktionskapaciteten i Sverige med 7 000 megawatt under vår tid vid makten. Det motsvarar ungefär 5–6 kärnkraftsreaktorer i installerad produktionskapacitet.Det där var väl beslutat redan under förra mandatperioden?”Ja, självklart. Det är så ledtiderna ser ut i energipolitiken. Men ibland kommer det anklagelser om att det inte blivit nån ny produktionskapacitet och det stämmer helt enkelt inte. Det har levererats rejält och de har inte stannat av ur det perspektivet. Det andra är att effektbalanserna förbättrats rejält. Vi kan ansluta fler företag, fler hushåll. 2 000 megawatt har vi lyckats öka effektbalansen”, säger Ebba Busch.”Död åt diktatorn, leve shahen”I helgen talade Ebba Busch på en Irandemonstration i Stockholm. Hon påpekade i talet att hon är vice statsminister och utropade på persiska fraserna Död åt diktatorn och Leve shahen. Varför?”Därför att det här är ett av de stora, viktiga frihetsslagorden. Det har blivit ett ytterst uttryck för att man önskar ett fritt och demokratiskt Iran. Sen är det ju tydligt, och det har jag också sagt i många intervjuer: Det är inte den svenska regeringens uppgift. Det är heller inte min uppgift som partiledare för Kristdemokraterna att bestämma åt ett fritt och demokratiskt Iran vem som ska leda det. Det är det iranska folkets rätt och uppgift. Men jag stämmer in i frihetsropen och ropen som efterfrågar ett fritt och demokratiskt Iran.Du tar också tydligt ställning för USA:s och Israels anfall på Iran på ett tydligare sätt än vad jag har hört statsministern och utrikesministern säga. Hur är det då med regeringens linje i utrikespolitiken? Har du en egen linje?”Nej, jag uppfattar att vi ligger helt i linje och Statsministern och jag har ju pratat mycket om de här frågorna de senaste veckorna, såklart. Det är klart att det går att sätta sig i en seminarieövning nu kring folkrätten och huruvida det här var rätt eller fel agerande från Israel. Då kommer man att landa i att det är svårt att se att anfallet är förenligt med folkrätten. Men frågan är: Är det där vi ska lägga vår tid och kraft nu? Det är en av mänsklighetens värsta tyranner som nu äntligen är död. Det har inte funnits sen 1979 en så tydlig möjlighet för att omkullkasta en av de värsta förtryckarregimerna. Det är klart att då ska vi ta den, och då bör vi snarare diskutera vilka folkrättsbrott som den här regimen utövar varje dag på sin befolkning, snarare än att fastna i långa utläggningar kring huruvida detta gått till på rätt sätt eller inte”, säger Ebba Busch.Får ”alla som sköter sig” stanna?Ebba Busch brukar säga att migrationspolitiken ska bygga på sunt förnuft och att ”de som sköter sig, bidrar till samhället och vill göra gott ska såklart få möjlighet att stanna”. Samtidigt innebär flera av regeringens reformer att många som ”sköter sig” inte får stanna. Den senaste ändringen är att arbetskraftsinvandrare från och med i juni kommer behöva tjäna minst 33 400 kr i månaden för att få stanna i Sverige. Hur går det ihop?”Det är ju ett sätt att sammanfatta den politiska grundprincipen. Men vi är alltså inte för fri invandring. Vi är för att vi ska ta hit arbetskraftsinvandring med arbetskraft som vi inte kan täcka behovet av själva.”, säger Ebba Busch.Gäst: Ebba Busch (KD), partiledare, energi- och näringsminister och vice statsminister Programledare: Anders JelminKommentar: Helena GissénProducent: Maja Lagercrantz och Johanna Palmström Tekniker: Maria StockhausIntervjun spelades in fredag den 20 mars 2026.

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Morgen wählt Baden-Württemberg — und das Rennen zwischen CDU-Spitzenkandidat Manuel Hagel und Cem Özdemir (Grüne) ist nach monatelangem CDU-Vorsprung wieder völlig offen. Sachsens Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer sieht Hagel trotzdem auf Kurs.[01:33]Vattenfall will bis 2028 mehr als fünf Milliarden Euro in erneuerbare Energien in Deutschland investieren — doch neue Gesetzespläne gefährden dieses Vorhaben. Deutschlandchef Robert Zurawski warnt aber vor falschen Weichenstellungen der Politik.[20:27]Quantencomputer könnten Kryptographie und Pharmaindustrie revolutionieren — und idealerweise sind Deutschland und Europa mit dabei. Alexander Glätzle, CEO des Münchner Startups planqc, sieht sein Unternehmen auf einem guten Weg. Aber die Konkurrenz aus China und den USA ist groß.[35:33]Hier geht es zur Anmeldung für den Space.TableTable Briefings - For better informed decisions.Sie entscheiden besser, weil Sie besser informiert sind – das ist das Ziel von Table.Briefings. Wir verschaffen Ihnen mit jedem Professional Briefing, mit jeder Analyse und mit jedem Hintergrundstück einen Informationsvorsprung, am besten sogar einen Wettbewerbsvorteil. Table.Briefings bietet „Deep Journalism“, wir verbinden den Qualitätsanspruch von Leitmedien mit der Tiefenschärfe von Fachinformationen. Professional Briefings kostenlos kennenlernen: table.media/testenHier geht es zu unseren WerbepartnernImpressum: https://table.media/impressumDatenschutz: https://table.media/datenschutzerklaerungBei Interesse an Audio-Werbung in diesem Podcast melden Sie sich gerne bei Laurence Donath: laurence.donath@table.media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cemvision: Building Climate Solutions Without Subsidy Dependence Host: Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO Decarb ConnectGuest: Oscar Hållén, CEO of CemVision Oscar Hållén talks with Alex about how his Cemvision is disrupting one of the world's highest-emitting industries without relying on green premiums or subsidies. Cemvision reuses alternative chemical processes plus existing production infrastructure and circular feedstocks from steel and iron production to create a one-to-one replacement for Portland cement. This eliminates the calcination process, the primary cost and emissions driver in traditional cement production, while maintaining cost parity with incumbents from day one.Hållén argues that effective decarb requires industrial solutions that can survive policy shifts and stand on their own economic merits. He traces Cemvision's commercial partnerships with Vattenfall and Storex, explaining how trust-building, technical iteration and alignment on long-term vision enabled these collaborations. The conversation examines the current market moment, where industrial commitments to transition often outpace the politics, and explores the mental model of "creative destruction" as a forcing function for climate action rather than perpetual subsidisation of incumbent carbon-intensive processes.Key Takeaways:Design for cost parity from day one – find out how CemVision achieves price competitiveness immediately eliminating dependence on green premiums or policy supportBuild partnerships through technical iteration – explore how years of testing, trials and responsive iteration with partners like Vattenfall built the trust required to sell into a complex value chainCompeting with incumbents– listen to how the team position themselves to compete with traditional producers creating a competitive market positionCreate momentum independent of policy fluctuations  - how to find the right partners and investors in the private sector Match partnership timescales to scaling requirements - finding partners with visibility into future projects and willingness to invest early vs. those seeking immediate deploymentEpisode links: Find out about Cemvision's work and its teamConnect with Oscar Hallen, CEO, CemvisionDownload info on Cemvision's project with StorexConnect with Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO of Decarb ConnectLearn more about Decarb Connect: Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support leaders driving industrial and energy innovation.  Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.  We have webinars monthly and in-person summits coming up in Houston, London, Hamburg, Boston and Toronto and the opportunity to find the biggest brains in energy and carbon management - your future collaborators.  For year-round introductions and meaningful insights, get in touch about your membership of the Decarbonization Leaders Network – so many benefits, hundreds of people equally focused on creating a resilient and profitable future for industry – find out more and talk with Jack Figg, Community Director.   

Sometimes maximizing asset value is less about short-term optimization and more about building resilience over decades. In this episode of Assets UNSCRIPTED, host Berend Booms speaks with Markus Göring, Director of Asset Value Controlling at Vattenfall, about why resilience has become astrategic priority for asset-intensive organizations operating in an increasingly uncertain world.They explore where organizations most commonly lose assetvalue across the lifecycle, why risk-based maintenance is not optional but foundational to staying in control, and how deliberately balancing performance, cost, and risk over time is what ultimately creates resilient operations. Markus shares a pragmatic view on the realities of data and AI in assetmanagement, the role of operational readiness in preventing value erosion between projects and operations, and why transparency, clear ownership of assumptions, and cross-functional alignment matter more than tools or certifications.For leaders navigating short-term pressures, long assetlifespans, and growing volatility, this conversation offers a grounded, experience-based perspective on resilience as a strategy-not by trying to predict the future, but by staying in control and being prepared for it.

Allen, Joel, and Yolanda discuss the North Sea Summit where nine European countries committed to 100 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity and the massive economic impact that comes with it. They also break down the federal court ruling that allows Vineyard Wind to resume construction with a tight 45-day window before installation vessels leave. Plus GE Vernova’s Q4 results show $600 million in wind losses and Wind Power Lab CEO Lene Helstern raises concerns about blade quality across the industry. 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, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum, and Yolanda Padron.  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Alln Hall. I’m here with Yolanda Padron and Joel Saxum. Rosemary Barnes is snorkeling at the Greek Barrier Reef this week, uh, big news out of Northern Europe. Uh, the Northeast Summit, which happened in Hamburg, uh, about a week or so ago, nine European countries are. Making a huge commitment for offshore wind. So it’s the, the countries involved are Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, question Mark Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Norway. That together they want to develop [00:01:00] 100 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in shared waters. Uh, that’s enough to power about. 85 million households and the PAC comes as Europe is trying to wean itself from natural gas from where they had it previously and the United States. Uh, so they, they would become electricity in independent. Uh, and this is one way to do it. Two big happy, uh, companies. At the moment, Vattenfall who develops s lot offshore and Siemens gaa of course, are really excited by the news. If you run the numbers and you, you, you have a hundred gigawatts out in the water and you’re using 20 megawatt turbines, then you’re talking about 5,000 turbines in the water total. That is a huge offshore wind order, and I, I think this would be great news for. Obviously Vestas and [00:02:00] Siemens cesa. Uh, the, the question is there’s a lot of political maneuvering that is happening. It looks like Belgium, uh, as a country is not super active and offshore and is rethinking it and trying to figure out where they want to go. But I think the big names will stay, right? France and Germany, all in on offshore. Denmark will be Britain already is. So the question really is at the moment then. Can Siemens get back into the win game and start making money because they have projected themselves to be very profitable coming this year, into this year. This may be the, the stepping stone, Joel.  Joel Saxum: Well, I think that, yeah, we talked about last week their 21 megawatt, or 21 and a half megawatt. I believe it is. Big new flagship going to be ready to roll, uh, with the big auctions happening like AR seven in the uk. Uh, and you know, that’s eight gigawatts, 8.4 gigawatts there. People are gonna be, the, the order book’s gonna start to fill up, like [00:03:00]Siemens is, this is a possibility of a big turnaround. And to put some of these numbers in perspective, um, a hundred gigawatts of offshore wind. So what does that really mean? Right? Um, what it means is if you, if you take the, if you take two of the industrial big industrial powerhouses that are a part of this pact, the UK and Germany combine their total demand. That’s a hundred gigawatt. That’s what they, that’s what their demand is basically on a, you know, today. Right? So that’s gonna continue to grow, right? As, uh, we electrify a lot of things. And the indus, you know, the, the next, the Industrial Revolution 4.0 or whatever we’re calling it now is happening. Um, that’s, that’s a possibility, right? So this a hundred gigawatts of offshore wind. Is gonna drive jobs all up all over Europe. Right. This isn’t just a jobs at the port in Rotterdam or wherever it may be. Right? This is, this is manufacturing jobs, supply chain jobs, the same stuff we’ve been talking about on the podcast for a while here with [00:04:00] what the UK is doing with OWGP and the, or e Catapult and all the kind of the monies that the, the, the Crown and, and other, uh, private entities are putting in there. They’re starting to really, they’re, or this a hundred gigawatts is really gonna look like building out that local supply chain. Jobs, all these different things. ’cause Alan, like you, you mentioned off air. If you look at a hundred gigawatts of offshore wind, that’s $200 billion or was to put it in Euros, 175 billion euros, 170 billion euros, just in turbine orders. Right. That doesn’t mean, or that doesn’t cover ships, lodging, food, like, you know, everything around the ports like tools, PPE, all of the stuff that’s needed by this industry. I mean, there’s a, there’s a trillion dollar impact here.  Speaker 2: Oh, it’s close. Yeah. It’s at least 500 billion, I would say. And Yolanda, from the asset management side, have we seen anything of this scale to manage? It does seem like there’d be a lot of [00:05:00] turbines in the water. A whole bunch of moving pieces, ships, turbines, cables, transformers, substations, going different directions. How, what kind of infrastructure is that going to take?  Yolanda Padron: You know, a lot of the teams that are there, they’re used to doing this on a grand scale, but globally, right? And so having this be all at once in the UK is definitely gonna be interesting. It’ll be a good opportunity for everybody to take all of the lessons learned to, to just try to make sure that they don’t come across any issues that they might have seen in the past, in other sites, in other countries. They just bring everything back home to their countries and then just make sure that everything’s fine. Um, from like development, construction, and, and operations.  Joel Saxum: I was thinking about that. Just thinking about development, construction, operations, right? So some of [00:06:00] these sites we’re thinking about like how, you know, that, that, that map of offshore wind in, in the Northern Atlantic, right? So if this is gonna go and we’re talking about the countries involved here, Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Belgium, you’re gonna have it all over. So into the Baltic Sea. Around Denmark, into the Norwegian waters, uk, Ireland all the way over, and Iceland is there. I don’t think there’s gonna be any development there. I think maybe they’re just there as a, as cheerleaders. Um, offtake, possibly, yes. Some cables running over there. But you’re going to need to repurpose some of the existing infrastructure, or you’re not, not, you’re going to need to, you’re going to get the opportunity to, and this hasn’t happened in offshore wind yet, right? So. Basically repowering offshore wind, and you’re going to be able to look at, you know, you’re not doing, um, greenfield geotechnical work and greenfield, um, sub c mapping. Like, some of those things are done right, or most of those things are done. So there, I know there’s a lot of, like, there’s a, there’s two and [00:07:00] three and six and seven megawatt turbines all over the North Atlantic, so we’re gonna be able to pop some of those up. Put some 15 and 20 megawatt machines in place there. I mean, of course you’re not gonna be able to reuse the same mono piles, but when it comes to Yolanda, like you said, the lessons learned, Hey, the vessel plans for this area are done. The how, how, how we change crews out here, the CTVs and now and SOVs into port and that stuff, that those learnings are done. How do we maintain export cables and inter array cables with the geotechnic here, you’re not in a green field, you’re in a brown field. That, that, that work. A lot of those lessons learned. They’re done, right? You’ve, you’ve stumbled through them, you’ve made those mistakes. You’ve had to learn on the fly and go ahead here. But when you go to the next phase of Repowering, an offshore wind farm, the the Dev X cost is gonna go way down, in my opinion. Now, someone, someone may fight back on that and say, well, we have to go do some demolition or something of that sort. I’m not sure, but [00:08:00] Yolanda Padron: yeah. But I think, you know. We like to complain sometimes in the US about how some of the studies just aren’t catered toward us, right? And so we’ve seen it a lot and it’s a lot of the studies that are made are just made in Europe where, where this is all taking place. So it’s gonna be really, really interesting to see such a massive growth where everything’s being developed and where the studies are localized from where. You have this very niche area and they can, they’ve studied it. They know exactly what’s going on there. And to your point, they’ve seen a lot of, they’ve minimized the risk, like the environmental risks as much as they could. Right. And so it’s, it’s going to be really, really interesting to have them  Joel Saxum: ensuring and financing these projects should be way easier  Speaker 2: when Europe is saying that the industry has pledged to cut costs by 30% between. 20, 25 and 2040. So you would think that the turbine [00:09:00] costs and the installation costs would have to be really cost conscious on the supply chain and, uh, taking lessons learned from the previous generations of offshore wind. I think that makes sense. 30% is still a lot, and I, I think the, the feeling I’m getting from this is, Hey, we’re making a hundred gigawatt commitment to this industry. You have to work really hard to deliver a efficient product, get the cost down so it’s not costing as much as, you know. Could do if we, if we did it today, and we’re kind of in from an offshore standpoint over in Europe, what a generation are we in, in terms of turbines three? Are we going into four? A lot of lessons learned. Joel Saxum: Yeah. The, the new Siemens one’s probably generation four. Yeah. I would say generation four in the new, because you went from like the two and three megawatt machines. Like there’s like Vesta three megawatts all over the place, and then you went into the directive [00:10:00] machines. You got into that seven and eight megawatt class, and then you got into the, where we’re at now, the 15, the 12 and 15 megawatt units, the Docker bank style stuff, and then I would say generation four is the, yeah, the Siemens 21 and a half machine. Um, that’s a good way to look at it. Alan four we’re on the fourth generation of offshore wind and, and so it’s Generation one is about ready to start being cycled. There’s some, and some of these are easier, they’re nearer to shore. We’ll see what, uh, who starts to take those projects on. ’cause that’s gonna be an undertaking too. Question on the 30%, uh, wind Europe says industry has pledged to cut cost by 30% by 20. Is that. LCOE or is it devex costs or is it operational costs or did they, were they specific on it or they just kinda like cut cutting costs?  Speaker 2: My recollection when that first came about, which was six months ago, maybe a little longer, it was LCOE, [00:11:00] right? So they’re, they’re trying to drive down the, uh, dollars per, or euros per megawatt hour output, but that the capital costs, if the governments can help with the capital costs. On the interest rates, just posting bonds and keeping that down, keeping the interest rates low for these projects by funding them somehow or financing them, that will help a tremendous amount. ’cause if. Interest rates remain high. I know Europe is much lower than it is in the United States at the minute, but if they interest rates start to creep up, these projects will not happen. They’re marginal  Joel Saxum: because you have your central in, in, in Europe, you have your central bank interest rates, but even like the f the, the Indi Individual nation states will subsidize that. Right? Like if you go to buy a house in Denmark right now, you pay like 1.2%. Interest  Speaker 2: compared to what, six and a half right now in the states? Yeah, it’s low.  Speaker 4: Australia’s wind farms are [00:12:00] growing fast. But are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Pullman on the park for Wind energy o and M Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at WMA 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and m Australia is created by wind professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches,  Speaker 2: as we all know. On December 22nd, the federal government issued a stop work order. On all offshore winds that included vineyard wind up off the coast of Massachusetts, that’s a 62 turbine, $4.5 billion wind farm. Uh, that’s being powered by some GE turbines. Uh, the government [00:13:00] has, uh, cited national security concerns, but vineyard went to court and Federal Judge Brian Murphy rolled the, the administration failed to adequately explain or justify the decision to shut it down. Uh, the judge issued a stay, which it is allowing Vineyard went to immediately resume work on the project now. They’re close to being finished at a vineyard. There are 44 turbines that are up and running right now and creating power and delivering power on shore. There are 17 that are partially installed. Uh, when the stop order came. The biggest issue at the moment, if they can’t get rolling again, there are 10 towers with Noels on them, what they call hammerheads. That don’t have blades. And, uh, the vineyard wind. Last week as we were recording this, said you really don’t want hammerheads out in the water because they become a risk. They’re not assembled, completed [00:14:00] items. So lightning strikes and other things could happen, and you really don’t want them to be that way. You want to finish those turbines, so now they have an opportunity to do it. The window’s gonna be short. And Yolanda listening to some GE discussions, they were announcing their Q4 results from last year. The ships are available till about the end of March, and then the ships are gonna finally go away and go work on another project. So they have about 45 days to get these turbines done. I guess my question is, can they get it done work-wise? And I, I, I guess the, the issue is they gotta get the turbines running and if they do maintenance on it, that’s gonna be okay. So I’m wondering what they do with blade sets. Do they have a, a set of blades that are, maybe they pass QC but they would like them to be better? Do they install ’em just to get a turbine operational even temporarily to get this project quote unquote completed so they can get paid?  Yolanda Padron: Yeah. If, if the risk is low, low [00:15:00] enough, it, it should be. I mean a little bit tight, but what, what else can you do? Right? I mean, the vessel, like you might have a shot of getting the vessel back eventually, or being able to get something in so you can do some of the blade repairs. And the blade repairs of tower would require a different vessel than like bringing in a whole blade, right? And so just. You have a very limited time scope to be able to do everything. So I don’t know that I would risk just not being able to pull this off altogether and just risk the, you know, the rest of the tower by not having a complete, you know, LPS and everything on there just because not everything’s a hundred percent perfect. Joel Saxum: There’s a weird mix in technical and commercial risk here, right? Because. Technically, we have these hammerheads out there, right? There’s a million things that can happen with those. Like I, I’ve [00:16:00] personally done RCAs where, um, you have a hammerhead on this was onshore, right? But they, they will get, um, what’s called, uh, Viv, uh, vortex induced vibration. So when they don’t have the full components out there, wind will go by and they’ll start to shake these things. I’ve seen it where they shook them so much because they’re not designed to be up there like that. They shook them so much that like the bolts started loosening and concrete started cracking in the foundations and like it destroyed the cable systems inside the tower ’cause they sat there and vibrated so violently. So like that kind of stuff is a possibility if you don’t have the right, you know. Viv protection on and those kind of things, let alone lightning risk and some other things. So you have this technical risk of them sitting out there like that. But you also have the commercial risk, right? Because the, the banks, the financiers, the insurance companies, there’s the construction policies and there’s, there’s, you gotta hit these certain timelines or it’s just like if you’re building a house, right? You’re building a house, you have to go by the loan that the bank gives you in, you know, in micro [00:17:00] terms to kind of think about that. That’s the same thing that happens with this project, except for this project’s four and a half billion dollars and probably has. It’s 6, 8, 10 banks involved in it. Right? So you have a lot of, there’s a lot of commercial risk. If you don’t, if you don’t move forward when you have the opportunity to, they won’t, they’ll frown on that. Right? But then you have to balance the technical side. So, so looking at the project as a whole, you’ve got 62 turbines, 44 or fully operational. So that leaves us with 18 that are not. Of those 18, you said Alan? 10 needed blades.  Speaker 2: 10 need blades, and one still needs to be erected.  Joel Saxum: Okay, so what’s the other seven?  Speaker 2: They’re partially installed, so they, they haven’t completed the turbine, so everything’s put together, but they haven’t powered them up yet.  Joel Saxum: I was told that. Basically with the kit that they have out of vineyard wind, that they can do one turbine a day blades. Speaker 2: That would be, yeah, that would make sense to me.  Joel Saxum: But, but you also have to, you have 45 days of vessel time left. You said they’re gonna leave in March, but you also gotta think it’s fricking winter in. The, [00:18:00] in the Atlantic  Speaker 2: they are using jackass. However, there’s big snow storms and, and low uh, pressure storms that are rolling through just that area. ’cause they, they’ve kind of come to the Midwest and then shoot up the east coast. That’s where you see New York City with a lot of snow. Boston had a lot of snow just recently. They’re supposed to get another storm like that. And then once it hits Boston, it kind of hits the water, which is where vineyard is. So turbulent water for sure. Super cold this time of year out there,  Joel Saxum: but wind, you can’t sling blades in, in probably more than what, six meters per second’s? Probably your cutoff.  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is not the best time of year to be putting blade sets up offshore us.  Joel Saxum: Technically, if you had blue skies, yeah, this thing can get done and we can move. But with weather risk added in you, you’ve got, there’s some wild cards there.  Speaker 2: I It’s gonna be close.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. If we looked at the, the weather, it looks like even, I think this coming weekend now we’re recording in January here, and [00:19:00] this weekend’s, first week in February coming, there’s supposed to be another storm rolling up through there too. Speaker 2: It was pretty typical having lived in Massachusetts almost 25 years. It will be stormy until April. So we’re talking about the time span of which GE and Vineyard want to be done. That’s a rough period for snow. And as historically, uh, that timeframe is also when nor’easters happened, where the storms just sit there and cyclone off the shore around vineyard and then dump the snow back on land. Those storms are really violent and there’s no way they’re gonna be hanging. Anything out in the water, so I think it’s gonna be close. They’re gonna have to hope for good weather. Don’t let blade damage catch you off guard. OGs, ping sensors detect issues before they become expensive, time consuming problems from ice buildup and lightning strikes to pitch misalignment and internal blade cracks. OGs Ping has you covered The cutting edge sensors are easy to install, giving you [00:20:00] the power to stop damage before it’s too late. Visit eLog ping.com and take control of your turbine’s health today. So while GE Ver Nova celebrated strong results in its Q4 report, in both its energy and electrification business, the company’s wind division told a different story. In the fourth quarter of 2025, wind revenue fell 24% to $2.37 billion. Uh, driven primarily by offshore wind struggles, vineyard, wind, uh. The company recorded approximately $600 million in win losses for the full year up from earlier expectations of about $400 million. That’s what I remember from last summer. Uh, the, the culprit was. All vineyard wind, they gotta get this project done. And with this work stoppages, it just keeps dragging it on and on and on. And I know GE has really wanted to wrap that up as [00:21:00] fast as they can. Uh, CEO Scott Straza has said the company delivered strong financial results, which they clearly have because they’re gas turbine business is taking orders out to roughly 2035, and I think the number on the back order was gonna be somewhere in the realm of 150 billion. Dollars, which is an astronomical number for back orders. And because they had the back orders that far out, they’re raising prices which improves margins, which makes everybody on the stock market happy. You would think, Joel? Except after the, the Q4 results today, GE Renovo stock is really flat,  Joel Saxum: which is an odd thing, right? I talk about it all the time. Um, I’m always thinking they’re gonna drop and they go up and they go up and they go up. But today was just kind of like a, I don’t know how to take it. Yeah. And I don’t know if it’s a, a broader sentiment across what the market was doing today because there was some other tech earnings and things of that sort, but it’s always something to watch, right? So. Uh, there, [00:22:00] there’s some interesting stuff going on on in the GE world, but one thing I want to touch on here, we’re talking like vineyard wind caused them this, these delays right there is a, a, a larger call to understand why there was these delays and because it’s causing. Havoc across the industry. Right. But even the, like, a lot of like, uh, conservative lawmakers, like there were some senators and stuff coming out saying like, we need more transparency to understand these 90 day halts because of what it’s doing to the industry, right? Because to date there hasn’t been really any explanation and the judges have been just kind of throwing ’em out. Um, but you can see what it’s done here to ge. Recording $600 million in win losses. I mean, and that is mostly all vineyard wind, right? But there’s a little bit of Dogger bank stuff in there. I would imagine  Speaker 2: a tiny bit. Really? ’cause Dogger has been a lot less stressful to ge.  Joel Saxum: But it is, yeah. The, the uncertainty of the market. And that’s why we kind of said a little bit, I said a little bit ago, like when this thing is done, when Vineyard [00:23:00] Point is like, and when you can put the final nail in the coffin of construction on that, it is gonna be agh sigh of relief over at GEs offices For sure.  Speaker 2: Our friend Alina, Hal Stern appeared in Energy Watch this week and she’s spent a long time in the wind industry. She’s been in it 25 years, and, uh, she commented that she’s seeing some troubling things. Uh, she’s also the new CEO of Wind Power Lab over in Denmark, and they’re a consultancy firm on wind turbines and particularly blades. Uh, Lena says that she’s watched some. Really significant manufacturing errors in operational defects and wind turbine blades become more frequent. And in 2025 alone, Windpower lab analyzed and provided repair recommendations for over 700 blades globally. And I assume, or Blade Whisperer Morton Hamburg was involved in a number of those. Uh, the problem she says is that the market eagerly, uh, [00:24:00] demanded cheap turbines, which is true. And, uh. Everything had to be done faster and with lower costs, and you end up with a product that reflects that. Uh, we’ve had Lena on a podcast a couple of times, super smart. Uh, she’s great to talk to, get offline and understand what’s happening behind the scenes. And, uh, in some of these conference rooms between asset managers, operators, and OEMs, those are sometimes tough. Discussions, but I, I think Lena’s pointing out something that I, the industry has been trying to deal with and she’s raising it up sort of to a higher level because she has that weight to do that. We have some issues with blades that we need to figure out pretty quickly. And Yolanda, you ran, uh, a large, uh, operator in the United States. We’re dealing with more than a thousand turbines. How locked in is Lena, uh, to [00:25:00]some of these issues? And are they purely driven just by the push to lower the cost of the blades or was it more of a speed issue that they making a longer blades in the same amount of time? Where’s that balance and, and what are we going to do about it going forward as we continue to make larger turbines?  Yolanda Padron: She’s great with, with her point, and I think it’s. A little bit about the, or equally about the OEMs maybe not being aware of these issues as much, or not having the, the bandwidth to take care of these issues with limited staff and just a lot of the people who are charge of developing and constructing these projects at a very short amount of time, or at least with having to wear so many hats that they. Don’t necessarily have the, the bandwidth to do a deep dive on what the potential risks could be in [00:26:00] operations. And so I think the way I’ve, I’ve seen it, I’ve experienced it. It’s almost like everybody’s running a marathon. Their shoe laces untied, so they trip and then they just kind of keep on running ’cause you’re behind, ’cause you tripped. And so it just keeps on, it’s, it’s, it’s a vicious cycle. Um. But, uh, we’ve also seen just, just in our time together and everything, that there’s a lot of people that are noticing this and that are taking the time to just pause, you know, tie those releases and just talk to each other a little bit more of, Hey, I’m the one engineer doing this for so many turbines. You have these turbines too. Are you seeing this issue? Yes. No. Are, how are you tackling it? How have you tackled it in the past? How can we work together to, to use the data we have? Right? That, I mean, if you’re not going to get a really great answer from your OEMs or if you’re not going to get a lot of [00:27:00] easily available answers just from the dataset that you’re seeing from your turbine, it’s really easy now to to reach out to other people within the industry and to be able to talk it over, which I think is something that Lena. Is definitely encouraging here.  Joel Saxum: Yeah. Yeah. It’s, I mean, she, she makes a statement about owners needing to be technically mature, ensure you have inspections, get your TSAs right. So these are, again, it’s lessons learned. It’s sharing knowledge within the market because at the end of the day, this is a new, not a new reality. This is the reality we’re living in. Right. It’s not new. Um, but, but we’re getting better at it. I think that’s the, the important thing here, right? From a, from a. If we take a, the collective group of operators in the world and say like, you know, where were you two, three years ago and where are you today? I think we’re in a much better place, and that’s from knowledge sharing and, and understanding these issues. And, you know, we’re, we’re at the behest of, uh, good, fast, cheap pick. [00:28:00] Right. And so that’s got us where we are today. But now we’re, we’re starting to get best practices, lessons learned, fix things for the next go around. And you’re seeing efforts at the OEM level as well to, uh, and some, some of these consultants coming out, um, to, to try to fix some of these manufacturing issues. You know, Alan, you and I have talked with DFS composites with Gulf Wind Technology. Like there, there’s things here that we could possibly fix. You’re starting to see operators do. Internal inspections to the blades on the ground before they fly them. That’s huge. Right? That’s been the Wind Power lab has been talking about that since 2021. Right. But the message is finally getting out to the industry of this is what you should be doing as a best practice to, you know, de-risk. ’cause that’s the whole thing. You de-risk, de-risk, de-risk. Uh, so I think. Lena’s spot on, right? We know that this, these things are happening. We’re working with the OEMs to do them, but it takes them a technically mature operator. And if you’re, if you don’t have the staff to be technically mature, go grab a consultant, [00:29:00] go grab someone that is to help you out. I think that’s a, that’s an important, uh, thing to take from this as well. Those people are out there, those groups are out there, so go and go in, enlist that to make sure you’re de-risking this thing, because at the end of the day, if we’re de-risking turbines. It’s better for the whole industry.  Speaker 2: Yeah. You want to grab somebody that has seen a lot of blades, not a sole consultant on a particular turbine mine. You’re talking about at this point in the development of the wind industry, you’re talking about wind power labs, sky specs kind of companies that have seen thousands of turbines and have a broad reach where they’ve done things globally, just not in Scandinavia or the US or Australia or somewhere else. They’ve, they’ve seen problems worldwide. Those people exist, and I, I don’t think we as an industry use them as much as we could, but it would get to the solutions faster because having seen so many global [00:30:00] issues with the St turbine, the solution set does vary depending on where you are. But it’s been proven out already. So even though you as an asset manager. May have never heard of this technique to make your performance better. You make your blades last longer. It’s probably been done at this point, unless it’s a brand new turbine. So a lot of the two x machines and three X machines, and now we’re talking about six X machines. There’s answers out there, but you’re gonna have to reach out to somebody who has a global reach. We’ve grown too big to do it small anymore,  Yolanda Padron: which really should be a relief to. All of the asset managers and operations people and everything out there, right? Like. You don’t have to use your turbines as Guinea pigs anymore. You don’t have to struggle with this.  Speaker 2: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, and if today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. [00:31:00] And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show for Rosie, Yolanda and Joel. I am Alan Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

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Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss a German study finding 99.8% of birds avoid wind turbines, challenging long-standing collision risk models. They also cover Pattern Energy’s SunZia project nearing completion as the Western Hemisphere’s largest renewable project, lightning monitoring strategies for large-scale wind farms, and offshore flange alignment technology. Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia 2026!Learn more about CICNDTDownload the latest issue of PES Wind Magazine Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! You are listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now, here’s your host. Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host Alan Hall in the queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina, where a cold front is just blown through, but we’re not nearly as cold as Joel was up in Wisconsin, Joel, you had a bunch of snow, which is really the first big storm of the season. Joel Saxum: Yeah, the crazy thing here was the Wind Energy Podcast. So since that storm I, we, we got up in northern Wisconsin, 18 inches of snow, and then we drove down on last Saturday after US Thanksgiving through Iowa, there’s another 18 inches of snow in Des Moines. I talked to a more than one operator that had icing and snow issues at their wind farms all through the northern Midwest of these states. So from [00:01:00] North Dakota. All the way down to Nebraska, Northern Missouri, over into Indiana. There was a ton of turbines that were iced up and or snowed in from that storm, Allen Hall: and Rosemary was in warm Australia with other icing knowledge or de-icing knowledge while the US has been suffering. Rosemary Barnes: But you know, on the first day of summer here, a couple of days ago, it was minus one here overnight. So. Um, yeah, it’s, uh, unseasonable and then tomorrow it’ll be 35. Allen Hall: The smartest one of us all has been Yolanda, down in Austin, Texas, where it doesn’t get cold. Yolanda Padron: Never. It’s so nice. It’s raining today and that’s about it. Traffic’s going crazy. Joel Saxum: Rain is welcome for us, isn’t it though, Yolanda? Yolanda Padron: It’s sweet. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does. Very rainy for like 24 hours. Allen Hall: We’ve been saving a story for a couple of weeks until Rosemary is back and it has to do with birds and a year long study over [00:02:00] in Germany. And as we know, one of the most persistent arguments against wind energy has been the risk to birds and permitting and operation shutdowns have been the norm, uh, based on models and predicted collision risks. Well. A new study comes, has just come out that says, what if the models are all wrong? And the new German study suggests that they may be wrong. The Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy, known by its German acronym, BWO Commission Research to examine. Actual collision risk at a coastal wind farm in Northern Germany. The study was conducted by Biocon Consult, a German research and consulting firm, and funded by eight major offshore wind operators, including Sted, Vattenfall, RWE, and E, roa, and. Rosemary using some of the newer technology. They were able to track bird movements with radar [00:03:00] and AI and stereo vision cameras to, to watch birds move through and around, uh, some of these wind farms. And it analyzed more than 4 million bird movements and over 18 months, and they searched for collision victims and what they found was pretty striking more than 99.8% of both day migrating and night migrating birds. Avoided the turbines entirely. The study found no correlation between migration intensity and collision rates. And BD and BWO says The combination of radar and AI based cameras represents a methodological breakthrough. Uh, that can keep turbines moving even when birds are in transit. This is pretty shocking news, honestly, Rosemary, I, I haven’t seen a lot of long-term studies about bird movements where they really had a lot of technology involved to, besides binoculars, to, to look at bird movement. The [00:04:00] 99.8% of the migrating birds are going around The turbines. No, the turbines are there. That’s. Really new information. Rosemary Barnes: I think. I mean, if you never heard anything about wind turbines and birds, I don’t think you’d be shocked like that. Birds mostly fly around obstacles. That’s probably an intuitive, intuitive answer. Because we’ve had it shoved down our throat for decades now. Wind turbines are huge bird killers. It’s kind of like, it’s been repeated so often that it kind of like sinks in and becomes instinctive, even though, yeah, I do think that, um, it’s. Not that, that shocking that an animal with eyes avoids a big obstacle when it’s flying. Um, but it is really good that somebody has actually done more than just trying to look for bird deaths. You know, they’ve actually gone out, seen what can we find, and then reported that they found mostly nothing. We already knew the real risks for birds, like hundreds or thousands, even millions of times [00:05:00] more, um, deadly to birds are things like. Cats. Cars, buildings, even power lines kill more birds than, um, wind turbines do. In fact, like when you look at, um, the studies that look at wind, um, bird deaths from wind turbines, most of those are from people driving, like workers driving to site and hitting a bird with their cars. Um, you know, that’s attributed to wind energy. Not a surprise maybe for people that have been following very closely, but good to see the report. Nonetheless. Joel Saxum: I think it’s a win for like the global wind industry, to be honest with you, because like you said, there’s, there’s no, um, like real studies of this with, that’s backed up by metric data with, like I said, like the use stereo cameras. Radar based AI detection and, and some of those things, like if you talk with some ornithologists for the big OEMs and stuff, they’ve been dabbling in those things. Like I dabbled in a project without a DTU, uh, a while back and it, but it wasn’t large scale done like this. A [00:06:00] particular win this study in the United States is there’s been this battle in the United States about what birds and what, you know, raptors or these things are controlled or should have, um, controls over them by the governments for wind installations. The big one right now is US Fish and Wildlife Service, uh, controls raptors, right? So that’s your eagle’s, owls, hawks, those kind of things. So they’ll map out the nests and you can only go in certain areas, uh, or build in certain areas depending on when their mating seasons are. And they put mild buffers on some of them. It’s pretty crazy. Um, but the one rule in the United States, it’s been kind of floated out there, like, we’re gonna throw this in your face, wind industry. Is the Federal Migratory Bird Act, which is also how they regulate all like the, the hunting seasons. So it’s not, it’s the reason that the migratory birds are controlled by the federal government as opposed to state governments is because they cross state lines. And if we can [00:07:00] prove now via this study that wind farms are not affecting these migratory bird patterns or causing deaths, then it keeps the feds out of our, you know, out of the permitting process for. For birds, Rosemary Barnes: but I’m not sure this is really gonna change that much in terms of the environmental approvals that you need to do because it’s a, you know, a general, a general thing with a general, um, statistical population doesn’t look at a specific wind farm with a specific bird and you’re still need to go. You’re still going to have to need to look at that every time you’re planning an actual wind farm. That’s it’s fair. Yolanda Padron: And it’s funny sometimes how people choose what they care or don’t care about. I know living in a high rise, birds will hit the window like a few a month. And obviously they will pass away from impact and the building’s not going anywhere. Just like a turbine’s not going anywhere. And I’ve never had anybody complain to [00:08:00] me about living and condoning high rises because of how they kill the birds. And I’ve had people complain to me about wind turbines killing the birds. It’s like, well, they’re just there. Joel Saxum: If we’re, if we’re talking about energy production, the, if everybody remembers the deep water horizon oil spill 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. That oil spill killed between 801.2 million birds. Just that one. Speaker 6: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Poolman on the park for Wind energy o and M Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at W om a 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and m Australia [00:09:00] is created by wind professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches Allen Hall: well in the high desert of Central New Mexico, near a lot of what were ghost towns that were abandoned during the Great Depression. If there is a flurry of activity pattern, energy sunzi, a project is near completion after 20 years of planning and permitting. When. It’s supposed to be finished in 2026. It’ll be the largest renewable energy project in the Western hemisphere. More than 900 turbines spread across multiple counties. A 550 mile transmission line stretching to Arizona and then onward to California, and $11 billion bet that’s being made on American wind. Now, Joel, it’s a kind of a combination of two OEMs there, Vestus and ge. The pace of building has been really rapid over the last six, eight months from what I can [00:10:00] tell. Joel Saxum: Yeah. We have talked to multiple ISPs, EPC contractors. Um, of course we know some of the engineers involved in building a thing on the pattern side. Right. But this sheer size of this thing, right, it’s, it is three and a half gigawatts, right? You’re talking 900 turbines and, and so big that one OEM really couldn’t, I mean, it’s a, it’s a risk hedge, right? But couldn’t fulfill the order. So you have massive ge tur set of turbines out there. Massive set of vestas turbines out there. And I think one thing that’s not to be missed on this project as well is that transmission line, that high voltage transmission line that’s feeding this thing. Because that’s what we need, right? That was when we built, started building up big time in Texas, the cre, the crest lines that were built to bring all of that wind energy to the major cities in Texas. That was a huge part of it. And we have seen over the last six months, we have seen loans canceled, uh, permits being pulled and like troubles being in hurdles, being thrown up in the face of a lot of these transmission lines that are planned. [00:11:00] These big ones in the states. And that’s what we need for energy security in the future, is these big transmission lines to go. So we can get some of this generation to, uh, to the market, get electrons flowing into homes and into industry. But this thing here, man, um, I know we’ve been talking about Sunz, the Sunz project, uh, and all the people involved in it, in the wind industry for a, what, two, three years now? Oh, at least. Yeah. It’s been in planning and development stage for much longer than that. But the. The, the big bet. I like it. Um, bringing a lot of, um, bringing a lot of economic opportunity to New Mexico, right? A place that, uh, if you’ve driven across New Mexico lately, it needs it in a dire way. Uh, and this is how wind energy can bring a lot of, uh, economic boom to places that, uh, hadn’t had it in the past. Allen Hall: And this being the largest project to date, there’s a, I think a couple more than a pipeline that could be larger if they get moving on them. We see another project like this five years [00:12:00] from now, or we think we’re gonna scale down and stay in the gigawatt range just because of the scale and the things that Sunzi went through. Joel Saxum: We have the choke chair, Sierra Madre project up in Wyoming that’s been chugging the Anschutz Corporation’s been pushing that thing for a long time. That’s, that’s along the same size of this unit. Um, and it’s the same thing. It’s, it’s kind of hinged on, I mean, there’s permitting issues, but it’s hinged on a transmission line being built. I think that one’s like 700. 50 miles of transmission. That’s supposed to be, it’s like Wyoming all the way down to Las Vegas. That project is sitting out there. Um, it’s hard to build something of that size in, like say the wind corridor, the Texas, Oklahoma, uh, you know, all the way up to the Dakotas, just simply because of the massive amount of landowners and public agencies involved in those things. It’s a bit easier when you get out West New Mexico. Um, I could see something like this happening possibly in Nevada. At some point in time to feed that California [00:13:00] side of things, right? But they’re doing massive solar farms out there. Same kind of concept. Um, I, I think that, um, I would love to see something like this happen, but to invest that kind of capital, you’ve got to have some kind of ITC credits going for you. Um, otherwise, I mean, $11 billion is, that’s a lot of money Allen Hall: since Zia will have PTC. Which is a huge driver about the economics for the entire project. Joel Saxum: Yeah. But you’re also seeing at the same time, just because of the volatility of what’s happening in the states wind wise, uh, there was a big article out today of someone who got wind that EDF may be selling its entire Allen Hall: US onshore renewable operation or US renewable operation. That was Wood Mac that. Put that out. And I’m still not sure that’s a hundred percent reliable, but they have been 50% for sale for a while. Everybody, I think everybody knew that. Joel Saxum: Yeah. I don’t know if it’s a hundred percent reliable as well. I would agree with you there. However, there’s, it’s the [00:14:00] same thought process of European company pulling outta the United States. That’s where a lot of the renewable energy capital is, or it has been fed to a lot of that capital comes from Canada and other places too. Right. But that’s where it’s been fed through. Um, but you’re starting to see some, some. Uh, purchasing some acquisitions, a little bit of selling and buying here and there. I don’t, I don’t think that there’s, uh, massive ones on the horizon. That’s just my opinion though. Allen Hall: Well, won’t the massive ones be offshore if we ever get back to it? Joel Saxum: Yeah, you would think so, right? But I, that’s gonna take a, uh, an administration change. I mean the, the, all that stuff you’d see out in California, like when we were originally seeing the leases come out and we were like, oh, great. More offshore opportunity. Ah, but it’s California, so it’ll be kind of tough. It probably won’t be till 20 32, 20, something like that. I don’t think we’ll see possibly California offshore wind until 2040 if we’re lucky. Allen Hall: Joel, what were the two wind turbines selected for Sunz? They were both new models, right? One from Renova and then the other one from [00:15:00] Vestas, Joel Saxum: so the Vestas was 242 V, 1 63, 4 0.5 megawatts machines, and the, and the GE Renova. Just so we get, make sure I get clarity on this. 674 of its three. They were 3.6, but they’re 3.61 50 fours. Allen Hall: Okay. So both turbine types are relatively new. New to the manufacturer. CZ has two new turbines styles on the site. Joel Saxum: Yeah, we were told that when they were originally like getting delivered, that they didn’t have type certificates yet. That’s how new they were. Allen Hall: So Yolanda. As Sania starts to turn on, what are things that they need to be aware of blade wise, Yolanda Padron: besides the lightning and the dust in New Mexico? It’s probably gonna tip them. I don’t know exactly what they’re counting with as far as leading edge protection goes. Allen Hall: Pattern usually doesn’t, uh, have a full service agreement. Joel, do you remember if that was an FSA? I don’t think so. Joel Saxum: I would say [00:16:00] because those are Vestas turbines on the one that, yes, Vestas really doesn’t sell a turbine without it. Knowing internally how big patterns engineering group are, I don’t know if they can completely take on the operations of a thousand more turbine, 900 more turbines overnight. Right? So I think that there is gonna be some OE EMM involvement in these things, uh, simply to be at that scale as well. I don’t know of anywhere else with a 1 54 install a GE 1 54. So the things that I wouldn’t looking out is the. It’s the brand new type stuff, right? Like do internal inspections when they’re on the ground. You don’t know what kind of condition these things are in, what, you know, what is the, you haven’t, nobody’s seen them. Like you’re the first ones to get to get your hands on these things. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I think they’re definitely gonna have to go with some sort of consulting or something externally as far as what exactly they’re dealing with. I know, Rosemary, you’ve touched on it a lot, right about. [00:17:00] How the changing the blade types and changing the turbines every x amount of years is really not conducive to, to being able to repeat the same results. And if you’re having that for hundreds of turbines at a new site that you’ve already had so much time and money invested in creating, it’ll, it’s, it’s a big undertaking. Rosemary Barnes: It’s really interesting because. When you have such a large wind farm be, I’m assuming one of the first wind farms may be the first to get this new turbine types, then if there’s a serial defect, it’s gonna be very obvious. ’cause with smaller wind farms, one of the problems is that, uh, the numbers are too small to definitively say whether something is, um, serial or just random bad luck. Um, but when you get. So how many wind turbines is it? Joel Saxum: Almost a thousand total. It’s [00:18:00] 674 GE turbines and 242 Vesta turbines. Rosemary Barnes: You can do statistics on that kind of a population and this area. I mean, there’s lightning there, right? Like this is not an area where you’re not gonna see lightning. You know, in know the first couple of years, like there, there will be. Hundreds of turbines damaged by lightning in the, the first couple of years I would suggest, um, or, you know, maybe not. Maybe the LPS are so, so great that that doesn’t happen. But, you know, the typical standard of LPS would mean that, you know, even if you only see, say we see 10 strikes per turbine to year and you get a 2% damage rate, that is, you know, lots of, lots of individual instances of blade damage, even if everything works as it should according to certification. And if it doesn’t, if you see a 10% damage rate or something from those strikes, then you are going to know that, you know, the, um, LPS is not performing the way that the standard says that it should. It’s not like that’s a slam dunk for, um, [00:19:00] proving that the design was not sufficient or the certification wasn’t correct. It’s always really, really tricky. My recommendation would be to make sure that you are monitoring the lightning strikes, so you know exactly which turbine is struck and when, and then go inspect them and see the damage. Ideally, you’re also gonna be measuring some of the characteristics of the lightning as well. But you do that from day one. Then if there is a problem, then you’re at least gonna have enough information within the, um, you know, the serial defect liability period to be able to do something about it. Joel Saxum: Let me ask you a question on that, on just the, that lightning monitoring piece then. So this is something that’s just, it’s of course we do this all the time, but this is boiling up in the thing. How do you, how do you monitor for lightning on 916 turbines? Probably spread, spread across. 200 square miles. Rosemary Barnes: Well, there’s, there’s heaps of different ways that you can do it. Um, so I mean, you can do remote, remote lightning detection, which is [00:20:00] not good enough. Then there are a range of different technologies that you can install in the, um, turbines. Um, the most simple and longest standing solution was a lightning cart, which is installed on the down conductor at the blade route. That will just tell you the amplitude of the biggest strike that that turbine has ever seen when it’s red. I have literally never seen a case where the lightning card definitively or even provided useful evidence one way or another when there’s a, a dispute about lightning. So then you move on to solutions that, uh, um. Measuring they use, uh, Alan, you’re the electrical engineer, but they, they use the, the principle that when there’s a large current flowing, then it also induces a magnetic field. And then you can use that to make a, a, a change and read characteristics about it. So you can tell, um, well first of all, that that turbine was definitely struck. So there are simple systems that can do that quite cheaply. The OGs ping [00:21:00] sensor, does that really cost effectively? Um, and then OG Ping. Phoenix Contact and Polytech all have a different product. Um, all have their own products that can tell you the charge, the duration, the um, polarity or the, yeah, the, the, if it’s a positive or a negative strike, um, yeah, rise time, things like that. Um, about the strike, that’s probably, probably, you don’t. Need to go to that extent. Um, I would say just knowing definitively which turbine was struck and when is gonna give you what you need to be able to establish what kind of a problem or if you have a problem and what kind of a problem it is. Joel Saxum: I think that like an important one there too is like, uh, so I know that Vest is in a lot of their FSA contracts will say if it’s struck by lightning, we have 48 or 72 hours to inspect it. Right. And when you’re talking something of this scale, 916 turbines out there, like if there’s a lightning storm, like [00:22:00]we’ve been watching, we watch a lot of lightning storms come through, uh, certain wind farms that we’re working with. And you see 20, 30, 40 turbines get struck. Now if a storm comes through the middle of this wind farm, you’re gonna have 200 turbines get struck. How in the hell do you go out without ha Like you need to have something that can narrow you down to exactly the turbines that we’re struck. That being said that next morning or over the next two days, you need to deploy like 10 people in trucks to drive around and go look at these things. That’s gonna be a massive problem. Pattern has about 3000 turbines, I think in their portfolio, and they, so they’re, they’re familiar with lightning issues and how things happen, but something at this scale when it’s just like so peaky, right? ’cause a storm isn’t through every night, so you don’t have that need to go and inspect things. But when you do. That is gonna be a massive undertaking. ’cause you gotta get people out there to literally like, at a minimum, binocular these things to make sure there isn’t any damage on ’em. And it’s gonna be, there’s gonna be storms where hundreds of turbines get hit. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, well [00:23:00] those three companies, those three products that I mentioned are aiming to get around that. I mean, it will depend how contracts are worded. I know in Australia it is not the norm to check for lightning ever. So if the contract says someone has to, you know, use human eyeballs to verify lightning damage or not, then. That’s, you know, that’s what has to happen. But all of these technologies do aim to offer a way that you wouldn’t have to inspect every single one. So Polytech is using, um, different lightning characteristics and then they’ve got an algorithm which they say will learn, um, which types of strike cause damage that could. Potentially progress to catastrophic damage. Um, and then the other one that is interesting is the eLog Ping solution because they’ve also got the, um, damage monitoring. That’s their original aim of their product, was that if there’s a damage on the blade tip, say it’s been punctured by lightning, it, it actually makes a noise. Like it makes a whistle and they listen out for that. So if you combine the [00:24:00]lightning detection and the, um, like blade. Tip structure monitoring from Ping, then you can get a good idea of which ones are damaged. Like if it’s damaged badly enough to fail, it is almost certainly gonna be making a noise that the ping can, um, detect Allen Hall: as wind energy professionals. Staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it, d. 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 PE ps win.com today and this quarter’s PES WIN Magazine. There’s a lot of great articles, and as we roll into December. You’ll have time to sit down and read them. You can download a free copy@pswin.com. And there’s a, a really interesting article about [00:25:00] offshore, and there’s a number of articles about offshore this quarter. Well, two Dutch companies developed a solution to really one of the industry’s most persistent headaches. And when it’s flange alignment. So when you’re trying to connect the transition piece to the mono paddle out in the water, it’s not really easy to do. Uh. So PES interviewed, uh, Ontech and Dutch heavy lift consultants to explain their flange alignment system known as FAS. And it started when a turbine installation needed a safer, faster way to try to align these two pieces. So if you can think about the amount of steel we’re talking about, these are really massive pieces you’re trying to line and put bolts in, not easy to do out in the ocean. Uh, so what this new device can do is it can align the flanges in a couple of minutes. It can reshape deformed, flanges and Joel, as you know, everything offshore can get dinged warped. That’s pretty easy to do, so you don’t want that when you have a, a heavily loaded, bolted joint, like those flanges to be [00:26:00] perfectly, uh, smooth to one another and, and tight. So these two companies, Amek and Dutch heavy Lifting consultants have come up with some pretty cool technology to speed up. Installations of wind turbines. Joel Saxum: Yeah, I would say anybody who’s interested in wind, offshore wind, any of that sort, and you have a little bit of an engineering mind or an engineering, uh, quirk in your mind. As, as I think we said earlier in the episode today, engineering nerds. Um, I would encourage you to go and look at some heavy lift operations offshore, whether it is offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, offshore construction of any time or any type even pipe lay operations and stuff. Just to take, just to take in the, the sheer scale. At how, uh, at how these things are being done and how difficult that would be to manage. Think about the just tons and tons of steel and, uh, trying to put these pieces together and these different things. And then remember that these vessels are thousands of dollars, sometimes a minute for how specialized they are. Right? So a lot of money gets put into [00:27:00] how the, like when we’re putting monopiles in that these transit transition pieces get put on. A lot of money has been spent on. The ver like technology to get, make sure they’re super, super tight tolerances on the verticality of those when they’re driving the actual piles in. And then you’re doing that offshore in a nasty environment, sometimes from a jack up vessel, sometimes not from a jack vessel, sometimes from a mor or like a, you know, a pseudo mor vessel on, uh. Dynamic positioning systems, and then you’re swinging these big things with cranes and all this stuff, like, it’s just a crazy amount of engineering eng engineering and operational knowledge that goes into making this stuff happen. And if you make one little mistake, all of a sudden that piece can be useless. Right? Like I’ve been a part of, of heavy offshore lifting for oil and gas where they’ve. It’s built a piece on shore, got it out to the vessel, went to go put it off sub sea in 2000 meters of water, lowered it all the way down there and it didn’t fit like you just burned [00:28:00] hundreds and hundreds and thousands of millions of dollars in time. So this kind of technology that Anima Tech is putting out in Dutch Heavy Lift consultants. This is the key to making sure that these offshore operations go well. So kudos to these guys for solve for seeing a problem and solving a problem with a real solution. Uh, instead of just kind of like dreaming things up, making something happen here. I’d like to see it. Allen Hall: Check out that article and many more in this quarter’s. PES Wind Magazine downloaded free copy@pswind.com. Well, Yolanda, as we know, everybody’s out with Sky Specs, uh, doing blade inspections, and so many turbines have issues this year. A lot of hail damage, a lot of lightning damage and some serial defects from what I can tell. Uh, we’re, we’re getting to that crazy season where we’re trying to get ready for next year and prioritize. This is the time to call C-I-C-N-D-T and actually take a deep hard look at some of this damage, particularly at the blade root area. We’ve seen a lot more of that where, [00:29:00] uh, there’s been failures of some blades at the root where the bolt connection is. So you’re gonna have to get some NDT done. Boy, oh boy, you better get C-I-C-N-D-T booked up or get them on the phone because they’re getting really busy. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, you definitely need to schedule something. Make sure that you know at least where you stand, right? Be because imagine going into try to fix something and just have a hammer and then close your eyes and then see what you can fix. That way, like sometimes it feels like when you’re in operations, if you don’t have the proper. The proper inspections done, which sometimes there’s, there’s not enough budget for, or appetite or knowledge, um, in some of these projects to have early on. You come in and just, you, you see the end result of failure modes and you might see something that’s really, really expensive to fix now. Or you might think of, oh, this problem happened at X, Y, Z. [00:30:00] Site, so it’ll probably happen here. That’s not necessarily the case. So getting someone like NDT to be able to come in and actually tell you this is what’s going on in your site, and these are the potential failure modes that you’re going to see based on what you’re getting and this is what will probably happen, or this is what is happening over time in your site, is a lot more indicative to be able to solve those problems faster and way. More way, in a way less expensive manner than if you were to go in and just try to fix everything reactively. You know, if you have half a bond line missing. Then later you, your blade breaks. It’s like, well, I mean, you, you could, you could have seen it, you could have prevented it. You could have saved that blade and saved yourself millions and millions of dollars and, and so much more money in downtime. Joel Saxum: Yeah. The first time I ran into Jeremy Hess and the C-A-C-N-D team was actually on an insurance project where it was Yolanda, like you said, like [00:31:00] they let it go. The, the operator and the OEM let it go way too long, and all of a sudden they had a, like wind farm wide shutdown costing them millions in production. Uh, to find these, these issues that, uh, could have been found in a different manner when you talk to the team over there. Um, why we like to recommend them from the podcast is Jeremy has an answer for everything. He’s been around the world. He’s worked in multiple industries, aerospace, race, cars, sailboats, you name it. Um, he’s been a client to almost everybody, you know, in the wind industry, all the OEMs, right? So he knows the, the issues. He has the right tool sets. To dive into them. You, you may not know, not, you don’t need to be an NDT expert to be able to have a conversation because he will coach you through, okay, here you have this problem. Alright, this is how we would look at it. This is how we would solve it. Here’s how you would monitor for it, and then this is how you would, you know, possibly fix it. Or this is what the, the solution looks like. Um, because I think that’s one of the [00:32:00] hurdles to the industry with NDT projects is people just don’t. Know what’s available, what’s out there, what they can see, what they, you know, the issues that they might be able to uncover, like you said, Yolanda. So, um, we encourage, um, anybody that says, Hey, do you know anybody in NDT? Yeah, it’s Jeremy Hanks and the C-I-C-N-D-T team. Call ’em up. They’ve got the solutions, they’ll help you out. Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Just reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show and we’ll catch you next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:33:00] Podcast.

De airco is booming. In 2019 had nog geen drie procent van alle Nederlandse huizen een airco, inmiddels hangen er al meer dan twee miljoen! Maar nog lang niet iedere aircobezitter weet dat hij met die airco in de winter flink wat geld kan besparen, stelt energieleverancier Vattenfall. Presentator Hans van der Steeg gaat hierover in gesprek met: * Wouter Wolfswinkel, innovatiemanager bij Vattenfall * Simone Tresoor, Milieucentraal

Im Juli und August völlig überfüllt. Im Winter tot. Geht diese Schlagzeile in Sachen Tourismus auf Usedom? Sicher nicht. Das Reiseradio wirft gerne den zweiten Blick und spricht mit Menschen, die das wissen.   Heringsdorf im Sommer – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Ausgangslage Schlagzeilen sind gerne etwas „knallig“. Deshalb erreichen sie auch das, was sich ihr Erfinder dabei gedacht hat. Des Öfteren steckt zwar ein Quäntchen Wahrheit drin, die ganz große „Wahrheit“ liefern sie jedoch nicht. Grund genug nachzufragen, wenn Touristiker von Belebung der Nebensaison und von Besucherlenkung reden. Michael Steuer, Geschäftsführer der Usedom Tourismus GmbH – Foto: Usedom Tourismus GmbH Nachgefragt habe ich bei Usedom-Tourismus, als ich von Belebung der Insel in besucherschwachen Zeiten hörte. Die ersten Antworten habe ich von Michael Steuer bekommen. Er ist Geschäftsführer der Usedom Tourismus GmbH. Ja, aber… Wie fast immer, ist an der Sache was dran, aber selbstredend ist es nicht die komplette Darstellung eines Problems und der angestrebten Lösungen. In diesem Podcast reden wir über Ankunfts- und Abreisestaus. Das ist ein Problem aufgrund der schwierigen Verkehrssituation, wenn „Alle“ nach Usedom wollen. Sie konzentriert sich auf die Hauptsaison und natürlich auf Feiertage wie Ostern, Pfingsten und die berühmten Brückentage. Auto Südliche Inselzufahrt: Brücke Zecherin – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Usedom ist eine Insel und hatte bisher nur zwei Zufahrten fürs Auto. Das sind die Brücken in Wolgast und Zechlin. Ein Nadelöhr, das sich im Anschluss auf den schmalen Bundestraßen (B 110 und B 111) eher noch verstärkt. Das mag Urlauber abschrecken. Meist ist es jedoch so, dass sich die Menschen, wie bei anderen Zielen, schlechtgelaunt durch den Stau durcharbeiten. Abhilfe schaffen, benötigt nicht nur Ideen, sondern kostet auch Zeit. Michael Steuer berichtet von den teils geplanten, teils im Bau befindlichen und gerade fertiggestellten Alternativen. Günstig Laden vor der Insel : Station in Anklam – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Zusätzlich ist Usedom bisher noch nicht im Elektrozeitalter angekommen. Lediglich Zwei Schnell-Ladestationen mit je 2 Säulen habe ich ausmachen können (Koserow, Kaufhaus Stolz & Vattenfall, Heringsdorf). Viele Hotels besitzen inzwischen Wechselstrom-Ladesäulen mit 11 bzw. 22 KW Ladefähigkeit. Das dauert dann gerne mal 6 Stunden bis der Akku wieder voll ist. Hier gibt es also noch Nachholbedarf. Bahn Usedomer Bäderbahn in Wolgast – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Früher, ja früher (lang ist's her) gab es mal eine direkte Bahnstrecke von Berlin aus. Die Überreste der Bahnstrecke kann man heute noch am Hafen in Karnin sehen. Es ist der Mittelteil der Bahnbrücke, die Ende April 1945 unnötigerweise von der Deutschen Wehrmacht gesprengt worden war. Bis dahin gelangte man auf direktem Weg in zweieinhalb Stunden nach Berlin. Rest der Karniner Hubbrücke: Gesprengt 1945 – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Wie es mit einer schnelleren Bahnverbindung nach Usedom aussieht, steht derzeit in den Sternen. Die Touristiker haben Ideen, erzählt Michael Steuer „off the records“, aber das müsse ja noch nichts heißen. Flugzeug Ferienflug-Winterschlaf: Flughafen Heringsdorf – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Ich gebe es nicht gerne zu, aber wer in Süddeutschland lebt, hat bis nach Usedom per Auto um die 1.000 Kilometer und damit gerne mal 10-12 Stunden Fahrzeit vor sich. Da ist es sicher nicht verkehrt, dass es inzwischen einmal pro Woche (immer samstags) von Mai bis Oktober Flugverbindungen zum „Airport Heringsdorf” gibt (Friedrichshafen – Heringsdorf z.B. 90 Minuten). Ich wollte wissen, was da ging, was künftig geht und ob sich das denn lohnt. In der letzten Saison gab es Verbindungen aus Kassel, Mannheim, Friedrichshafen, Luxemburg, Frankfurt und Zürich. Derzeit ist Winterschlaf in HDF, bis die Saison wieder beginnt. Nebensaison beleben Hauptargument für Usedom, so Michael Steuer, sei die Natur und die sei immer da. An den Strand (wenn auch ohne Baden) könne man auch im November (stimmt und ausprobiert). Das Achterland böte viele Wanderwege und es gäbe auch eine große Zahl von Museen, die geöffnet sind. (stimmt auch und getestet im Historisch-Technischen Museum Peenemünde und im DDR Museum in Dargen). Ja, wetterbedingt gibt es einige Angebote (Beispiel Schiffchen fahren) im Winter nicht. Das historische Kraftwerk Peenemünde – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Usedom habe die höchste Dichte an Wellnessangeboten in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Kulturelle Angebote von Musik über Theater bis zu Ausstellungen gäbe es ebenfalls reichlich. Ferienwohnungen würden immer mehr mit der eigenen Sauna oder einem Kamin ausgestattet. Gastronomische Angebote gäbe es auch überall. Gerade Hotels seien da gute Anlaufpunkte. In den größeren Orten, wie den Kaiserbädern (Ahlbeck, Heringsdorf, Bansin) oder Zinnowitz warte ein vielfältiges Angebot. Preisbewusste Angebote Ein wichtiges Argument für die Nebensaison seien auch die Preise für Hotels und Ferienwohnungen. Welche Abschläge kalkuliert werden können, habe ich mir im Podcast erzählen lassen. So viel nur: Das lohnt sich, auch für Familien oder Großeltern mit Enkeln. Wer schon immer mal davon träumte in einem 5-Sterne Hotel abzusteigen, wird eventuell von den Preisen überrascht sein. Travel in Style: 5-Sterne Hotel Ahlbecker Hof – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Die Hauptsaison mitten in der Nebensaison Wie an vielen Orten, kommt rund um Weihnachten wieder Leben auf. Wer spontan noch eine Unterkunft suche, könne Weihnachten 25 sogar noch Glück haben. Wer allerdings den Jahreswechsel auf Usedom verbringen möchte, dürfte es schwer haben. Bis Januar: Inselglitzern, hier am Kölpinsee – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Der Test folgt Besuchenswert: Die neue Seebrücke in Koserow – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Natürlich war ich nicht auf der Insel, um nur ein einziges Gespräch zu führen. Wenn Nebensaison, dann gleich eine knappe Woche im November. Die Details folgen hier in einem Folge-Podcast noch vor Weihnachten. Seid gespannt. Neben vielen besuchten Angeboten, wird es auch einige Übernachtungstipps (Überraschungen inklusive) geben. Vorweg schon mal: Ich habe weniger erwartet und mehr bekommen. Information Usedom – Tourismus Usedomer Novemberimpressionen alle Fotos aufgenommen zwischen dem 11. und 15. November 2025 Morgenkaffee: Am Balmer See – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Auch im November Sonnenschein: Wasserschloss Mellenthin – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Mittags am Meer: Strandweg in Zinnowitz – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Kurz vor Dämmerung: Golfhotel Balmer See – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Letzte Einfahrt: Peenemünde – Yachthafen – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Romantik am Abend: Strandhotel Seerose – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Regennacht: Promenade in Ahlbeck – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILD Ahlbeck: Seebrücke am Morgen – Foto: Rüdiger Edelmann / ttb-media TON-TEXT-BILDThe post D-RR301 TALK: Usedom – Die Insel und die Nebensaison first appeared on Deutsches Reiseradio (German Travelradio).

Er liggen 100 extra afleveringen voor jou klaar in Borrelpraat Extra. (€3,99 p.m.) Ontdek MobLand, de nieuwe, actievolle misdaadserie van Guy Ritchie, met Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan en Helen Mirren. Nu exclusief te streamen op SkyShowtime.com. Tijdens de actie deze maand stream je het Standaard-abonnement tijdelijk voor €5,99 per maand. Vermijd de piek en gebruik stroom vooral in de Tijdprijs-daluren. Dat heeft bovendien als voordeel dat je in de Tijdprijs-daluren vaste, lagere tarieven krijgt. Ontdek meer over TijdPrijs op Vattenfall.nl Innocent shotje doen? Probeer de innocent shotjes, ideaal voor in de wintermaanden. Een extra heet gembershotje of de nieuwe innocent gut health shot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zin om Borrelpraat te bingen? Er liggen nu 100 extra afleveringen voor je klaar in Borrelpraat Extra. Wat trek jij aan? Zalando helpt je met vertrouwen je eigen stijl te vinden. Bekijk het uitgebreide aanbod op zalando.nl en laat je inspireren! Vermijd de piek en gebruik stroom vooral in de Tijdprijs-daluren. Dat heeft bovendien als voordeel dat je in de Tijdprijs-daluren vaste, lagere tarieven krijgt. Ontdek meer over TijdPrijs op Vattenfall.nlKwaliteit en betaalbaarheid? Schultenbräu Pilsner bewijst het. Het best geteste huismerkblikbier in de AD Blikbiertest en al vanaf 55 cent verkrijgbaar bij ALDI. Probeer het zelf! - NIX18See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In dieser Ausgabe haben wir brisante Entwicklungen aus Justiz und Politik: Der Staat geht strafrechtlich gegen den wohl bekanntesten Islamisten der Stadt, Joe Adade Boateng und sein Netzwerk Muslim Interaktiv, vor. Außerdem: Ein Millionenschaden durch ein Bau-Desaster – wer haftet für die zugeschüttete Toilettenanlage an der Mönckebergstraße?

Germany is experiencing a battery blitz. The market is expected to triple from 2GW to 6GW in less than two years. To give a bit of context, Zach Williams from Modo Energy, gives us the big picture and fundamentals of the German battery market.  Legacy developers have not yet been able to catch that wave, but newcomers have. We bring on one those new pioneers, Philipp Man, CEO of Terralayr.  In less than three years, Philipp has managed to set up a company which operates or currently builds 150MW of batteries in Germany; more importantly he has managed to sign some of the first tolling agreements with heavyweights such as Vattenfall and RWE. His approach combines medium size batteries (10-30MW) rather than gigantic ones.  The Vattenfall-Terralayr deal is a pioneering seven-year, 55 MW multi-asset capacity tolling agreement for a decentralized fleet of battery energy storage systems (BESS) across Germany, announced in May 2025. Described as an industry-first "virtual battery tolling structure," it marks a significant shift from traditional single-asset tolling models, enabling scalable and flexible energy storage solutions without significant capital investment from Vattenfall.  With Philipp, we dissect his lightspeed approach in a seemingly bureaucratic environment, we analyse how he has been to put assets on the ground so fast, and his approach to commercialisation of flexibility combining hard assets and a digital layer.  We discuss the price formation of tolling agreements, the “tranching” of capacity and how he sees the future. Is Terralayr a tech company? Is it an infrastructure play? Well, a bit of both.

LKAB:s vd Jan Moström om vad som ska hända med Kiruna när gruvan tar allt mer mark i anspråk, och om det omdebatterade Hybrit-projektet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I slutet av augusti meddelade LKAB att ytterligare 6000 människor måste flytta från sina hem på grund av sprickor i berget under stan som orsakats av gruvbrytningen. Vilket är ditt budskap till de människor som påverkas nu? ”Tyvärr är det ju så att en förutsättning för vår gruvverksamhet är att vi faktiskt får tillgång till mark. Och tyvärr, den mark som vi måste ha till Kirunagruvan den går in under samhället, den är under staden”, säger Jan Moström, LKAB:s vd.”Jag skulle nog säga att absolut överväldigande majoritet i Kiruna är väl medveten om den situationen. Men givetvis är det ju så att när det händer, och dessutom den storlek, att det påverkar människor väldigt, väldigt mycket.”Jan Moström hoppas samtidigt att de här områdena inte är de sista som LKAB tar i anspråk.”För att vi ska fortsätta att utveckla och vara ledande leverantör av högkvalitativ järnmalm till Europa så måste vi fortsätta att ta mark i anspråk. När vi slutar ta mark i anspråk ser vi ett nedläggningsscenario för Kirunagruvan, och det hoppas jag är väldigt långt i framtiden. För, återigen, Kiruna stad och Kirunagruvan kommer under överskådlig tid att leva i symbios. En förutsättning för att Kiruna ska utvecklas på ett positivt sätt, det är att vi fortsätter att utveckla Kirunagruvan. Det kommer att betyda uppoffringar från båda parter för att möjliggöra att vi kan utveckla båda bitarna”, säger Jan Moström. Hur ska ni få Kirunabornas acceptans för att det här är rimligt?”Jag är helt övertygad om att vi har en väldigt stor acceptans i Kiruna för att genomföra den här samhällsomvandlingen. De som jobbar direkt åt oss eller våra entreprenörer är så väl medvetna om att en förutsättning för att Kirunagruvan ska fortsätta att producera är att vi gör detta. Man kan väl kalla det att av två onda ting så är det mindre onda att göra det här”, säger Jan Moström. ”Nästan all mark runt Kiruna är skyddad av ett eller annat intresse, det betyder att det är väldigt många målkonflikter här. Det är de målkonflikterna som det är viktigt att de tydliggörs, och att de på något sätt beslutas: Vilket ändamål är viktigast och höst prioriterat? Det är väl egentligen den fråga som staten äger, att säga, i de här målkonflikterna, hur ska de lösas ut", säger Jan Moström.Hittills har LKAB inte fått några besked från regeringen."Det svar vi har fått än så länge är att det är under bearbetning. hur det här ska gå till.”När måste ni ha ett besked? "Jag kan inte säga ett direkt datum, men ju mer vi skjuter på det desto mer tidsansträngt blir det", säger Jan Moström. Även runt Per Geijer-fyndigheten i Kiruna finns det målkonflikter och riksintressen som står emot varandra, det gäller inte minst rennäringen. ”Det vi har beskrivit är att från vår horisont ser vi att det måste finnas möjligheter att lösa det här på ett eller annat sätt. Sen hur det här ska gå till, det får vi ta i en dialog. med samebyn eller de som äger målkonflikten att se hur ska det här praktiskt lösas. Men vår utgångsinställning är att det här går att lösa. Kanske kan Gabna sameby inte göra exakt som de har gjort tidigare men med vissa modifikationer så borde det gå”, säger Jan Moström.Fossilfritt stålLKAB håller tillsammans med Vattenfall och SSAB, genom bolaget Hybrit, på att utveckla teknik för att använda fossilfri vätgas istället för kol och koks i bearbetningen av järnmalm, och produktionen av stål. Stålindustrins stora koldioxidtutsläpp skulle då försvinna på sikt. Men LKAB har dragit ner på takten i projektet. ”Jag är fortfarande väldigt övertygad om att ska vi vara i närheten av att klara av vår klimatpåverkan så är det här vägen framåt. Vi har fortsatt att jobba med det här för att få fram ett konkurrenskraftigt järn”, säger Jan Moström.”Att vi kommer att transformera stålindustrin i Europa det tror jag alla är väl överens om. En konsekvens av det kommer att bli att få eller inga investeringar kommer att göras i masugnar i Europa. Det är 70 procent av vår marknad. Ska vi kunna leverera till dem måste vi leverera järn, inte järnmalm. Det är därför vi fortsätter att driva den här utvecklingen. Vi vill säkerställa att det är ekonomiskt lönsamt att göra det här med ett minimum av risker”, säger Jan Moström.Samtidigt finns det starka politiska krafter i Europa som verkar vilja backa från det här (...) Litar du på att fattade beslut inom EU :s gröna industripolitik gäller? ”Man kan nog konstatera att politiska beslut snabbt kan ändras. Det är därför vi jobbar mer med riskminimering. I vilka områden har vi en mindre risk och en större risk. Det är en komplex kalkyl”, säger Jan Moström. Programledare: Johar Bendjelloul Kommentar: Knut Kainz Rognerud Producent: Johanna Palmström Tekniker: Mikael Sarabi Programmet spelades in den 12 september 2025.

Seen by hundreds of thousands, Swedish utility Vattenfall's expletive-laden campaign with Hollywood icon Samuel L Jackson asks the question: Offshore wind farms, yes or no? On this week's episode of Energy Evolution, Vattenfall's head of brand Monica Holmvik Persdotter explains the process behind the campaign and how the utility thinks about public discourse regarding the technology. Effective communication and local engagement have tangible impact on green-lighting new offshore wind projects, David Bidwell, professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island in the US, told correspondent Camilla Naschert. Audio clips sourced via European Commission and Vattenfall AB.

Seen by hundreds of thousands, Swedish utility Vattenfall's expletive-laden campaign with Hollywood icon Samuel L Jackson asks the question: Offshore wind farms, yes or no? On this week's episode of Energy Evolution, Vattenfall's head of brand Monica Holmvik Persdotter explains the process behind the campaign and how the utility thinks about public discourse regarding the technology. Effective communication and local engagement have tangible impact on green-lighting new offshore wind projects, David Bidwell, professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island in the US, told correspondent Camilla Naschert. Audio clips sourced via European Commission and Vattenfall AB.

Vattenfall satsar på små modulära reaktorer. Sverige får Natobas i Enköping. Israel fortsätter markinvasionen av Gaza – och V-kännaren kommenterar uteslutningen av Riazat och Delgado Varas. Programledare: Nathalie Rothschild.

Partiledarna och Vattenfall planerar presskonferens vid Ringhals. Så ska europeiska ledare förhindra ny “förnedring” av Zelenskyi i Vita huset. Är luftkonditionering högerextremt? Frågan het i värmeböljans Frankrike. Rättegången mot Landerholm inledd – den före detta säkerhetsrådgivaren nekar till brott. Programledare: Magnus Thorén.

In this week's episode of Energy Transition Today, we begin with latest goings on in the UK market with the half-hearted outrage at new delivery estimates for Sizewell C nuclear plant. We then delve into the latest developments from the ongoing row between the management of Gore Street Storage Fund and some of its investors.On to Germany with Vattenfall's foray into the country's onshore wind market and the disastrous but predictable failure of its latest 2.5GW offshore wind tender.We also touch on US scrapping offshore wind leasing schedule and Trump administration's plans to rescind $7 billion in solar subsidies previously allocated to low-income households across the country.We round off the conversation with France's €11 billion subsidy package for three floating offshore wind farms, Stellantis' abrupt withdrawal from its hydrogen vehicle programme and the award criteria for European Commission's latest hydrogen bank auction.00:00:33  - Sizewall C00:05:04 - Gore Street00:10:35 - Vattenfall 00:12:32  - German offshore auction failure 00:17:29 - More US offshore drama 00:21:52 - Trump threatens solar subsidies00:23:47 - €11bn for French floating wind00:28:17 -  Death of hydrogen cars 00:32:31 - Death of hydrogen cars00:34:43 - Financing renewables & fashion weekTo buy tickets for the Investing in the Energy Transition in Milan visit our website or write us at conferences@inspiratia.com Send us a textReach out to us at: podcasts@inspiratia.comFind all of our latest news and analysis by subscribing to inspiratiaListen to all our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other providers. Music credit: NDA/Show You instrumental/Tribe of Noise©2025 inspiratia. All rights reserved.This content is protected by copyright. Please respect the author's rights and do not copy or reproduce it without permission.

The crew discusses Vattenfall's ad featuring Samuel L. Jackson and explore NextEra Energy's strategies amid regulatory changes. They also highlight the importance of inspections and CMS and Rosemary's takeaway from an Australian wind conference. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Speaker: [00:00:00] You are listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here's your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxu,, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes.  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast from the Queen City, Charlotte. North Carolina. I have Phil Totaro in California, Joel Saxum's back in Texas, and Rosemary Barnes is here from the great country of Australia where Joel and Rosemary, along with Matthew Stead, will be rolling along the countryside visiting with. Wind turbine operators here soon, right Speaker 3: Yeah, so the, the 11th through the 14th, uh, we're gonna be jumping down to Melbourne because of course that's, that's wind central for operators and, uh, ISPs in Australia. And we're gonna be talking about all kinds of stuff with, uh, anybody that listen to us talk. So if you're listening here, uh, and you're in [00:01:00] Australia, connect up, uh, joel.saxo at uh, wg lightning.com. Uh, we'll get some meetings set 'cause we want to, we want to hear what issues are happening down there, right? What can we help with? What can we solve? Of course, Alan and I on the lightning side here, Rosemary is an independent expert engineer for you name it, in turbines. Uh, and our friend Matthew Stat over at iLogic Ping in the CMS space. And amongst the three of us, we also have a huge network, right? So if we're, if we're, if we getting into conversation, getting a chance to chat, tell us what. You got for problems and we'll help you solve 'em. So we'll be down there the 11th or the 14th of August. Uh, reach out.  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a lot happening in Australia at the minute. It's starting to come out a winter, getting into blade repair season that is, uh, about to fire up in Australia. A lot going on around the world. And today is Wednesday when we're recording. And this is the day where Vattenfall released their Samuel L. Jackson. Add, it's about a minute long [00:02:00] and you see Samuel L out on the shoreline with a bag of what? Seaweed chips. Joel, is that what they are? Or crackers of some sort?  Speaker 3: Yeah, a hundred percent. I gotta be, I'll be a little bit, little honest with you. I had some of those, not the same ones, not the Vattenfall ones, but I had some the other day just to try 'em out. They're not my flavor. I'm gonna be honest with you. Don't they just taste like sea salt? They taste like seaweed.  Speaker 2: That's what it is.  Speaker 3: I know, but they're, they're not that awesome.  Speaker 2: But these, uh, crackers were the output of the seaweed and all the things growing around the offshore wind turbines. I, I assume it's just seaweed, right, Joel? It's not anything else but seaweed. There's no fish involved in that. It's kelp. But see, like kelp, so  Speaker 3: like offshore kelp farming is a complete industry. Right. It's just like offshore fish farming. They put these lines out, it grows on the lines, and then they pull it in and they harvest it. This is a regular thing, however, having infrastructure out in the water, IE turbine foundations helps with all of these things. It's structure there that protects 'em from, um,

In deze aflevering gaan we met Ellie Lust op zoek naar de essentie van Pride: niet alleen een feest, maar ook een herinnering aan wat er op het spel staat. Waarom blijft die zichtbaarheid noodzakelijk? En waarom is het belangrijk dat de politie ook zichtbaar aanwezig is bij de Pride? En is er ooit een moment dat we het niet meer gaan vieren?Ellie Lust houdt een pleidooi om het niet meer over acceptatie te hebben, inclusiviteit voor diversiteit te plaatsen, ze deelt hoe het vroeger thuis ging en roept de straight allies naast degene te staan die het nodig heeft. Ze deelt haar zorgen, maar ook haar visie: wat er moet gebeuren om weer vooruit te komen, richting een land waar gelijkheid niet afhangt van de dag op de kalender, of de plek waar je werkt, woont of liefhebt.

In this week's episode of Energy Transition Today, we start with the most important energy transition news of the week, nay the year, actor Samuel L Jackson's partnership with Vattenfall for seaweed crisps.We move on to financing updates over the past seven days, starting with an exclusive on Elements Green's debt package for its 360MW battery project in the UK, Sonnedix's €2 billion debt consolidation, DESNZ's price caps for renewable technologies under the upcoming AR7 auction and planning consent for, what is set to be, UK's first floating offshore wind farm.For the deeper dives, we touch on the ongoing tensions between the board of Gore Street Storage Fund and a couple of its investors as well as well as Smart Pension UK's investment in Octopus' UK renewables portfolio.We end on a breakdown of the European Commission's proposed budget for 2028-2034 and the European Union's LNG deal with the US.Send us a textReach out to us at: podcasts@inspiratia.comFind all of our latest news and analysis by subscribing to inspiratiaListen to all our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other providers. Music credit: NDA/Show You instrumental/Tribe of Noise©2025 inspiratia. All rights reserved.This content is protected by copyright. Please respect the author's rights and do not copy or reproduce it without permission.

Allen Hall covers the appointment of Catrin Jung as Vattenfall's new head of wind division, the Netherlands reaching 20% renewable energy in 2024, Quebec's $1.1 billion funding for a major wind project, and France commissioning its first floating wind farm. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good news from the offshore wind industry today. Vattenfall has named a new leader for its wind business division. Catrin Jung will take over as Head of Business Area Wind starting July first. Jung currently leads the company's offshore wind operations. She replaces Helene Bistrom, who is leaving the company. Jung joined Vattenfall in two thousand two. She has managed some of the company's largest investments in recent years. The wind division handles both offshore and onshore wind projects. It also manages large solar and battery projects. Jung says staying focused on fossil freedom is more important than ever in these uncertain times. The Netherlands reached a major renewable energy milestone last year. Renewable energy made up nearly twenty percent of the country's total energy use in twenty twenty four. That's up from seventeen point four percent in twenty twenty three. Statistics Netherlands released the preliminary data. The increase comes mainly from new offshore wind turbines and more biodiesel use in transportation. The overall renewable energy consumption reached three hundred fifty eight petajoules. That's a fifteen percent increase from twenty twenty three. Biomass remained the largest renewable source. Wind came second, followed by solar power. Renewables were mostly used for electricity at sixty percent. Heat and cooling accounted for twenty eight percent. Transport fuels made up twelve percent. The share of renewables has more than doubled compared to five years ago. A major wind energy project in Quebec has secured its funding. Invenergy and a consortium of 209 municipalities and territories in Eastern Quebec announced the closing of one point one billion dollars Canadian in financing. The money will fund the PPAW 1 Wind Energy Centre. The work will create three hundred fifty jobs during construction. Construction will happen throughout twenty twenty five and twenty twentysix. Commercial operation is expected in late twenty twenty six. Once operational, the project will add three hundred fifty megawatts to the local grid. France has achieved a renewable energy first. EDF Renewables has fully commissioned the country's first floating wind farm. The Provence Grand Large wind farm has a power capacity of twenty five megawatts. The farm features three floating wind turbines installed seventeen kilometers off the France's Mediterranean coast This is the first floating wind farm in France and across the entire Mediterranean basin. The project uses unique anchoring technology. Siemens Gamesa built the turbines. They're installed on floats with tight anchor lines. The technology was inspired by systems used to stabilize oil platforms. SBM Offshore and IFP Energies Nouvelles developed this technology. It's suitable for deep sea areas and provides excellent float stability. Bernard Fontana, Chairman and CEO of EDF, says the project helps diversify renewable energy sources. He calls it an important project for France's energy sovereignty. The experience will help with construction of EDF's second floating wind farm, Mediterranee Grand Large. EDF was awarded that contract in December twenty twenty four.

Det här är bara utvecklingen, den får vi vika oss för! Så beskriver statsvetaren Evert Vedung den inställning som gjorde att Sverige på kort tid lyckades skapa ett överskott av elektricitet, med ett högt pris för naturen och samerna. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Programmet sändes första gången 20220830.Sveriges elhistoria är den om tidig och snabb utbyggnad av olika energislag som kunde producera el till låga priser. Om innovationer, framsynthet och långsiktighet, men också om naturvärden som offrades i moderniseringens namn. Har vi idag något att lära av den historien, när nu elproduktionen i landet behöver öka kraftigt och snabbt, för att vi ska nå klimatmålen och samtidigt ha en ekonomi i tillväxt?I tre program besöker Vetenskapsradion några olika elhistoriska platser i Sverige. I denna första del bland annat Horndal i Dalarna, som var den sydliga slutpunkten för den första kraftledningen mellan norra och södra Sverige, vilken togs i drift 1936. Horndal är än idag en stor knutpunkt för kraftledningar och inte minst därför har Google planer på att bygga ett gigantiskt datacenter där, som kommer att sluka oerhörda mängder el.Vi får också höra historien om hur det spektakulära Stora Sjöfallet i Lappland offrades för vattenkraften.Medverkande: Magnus Carlson, förvaltare Vattenfall; Kerstin Enflo, ekonomhistoriker Lunds Universitet; Lasse Wallbing, kraftverksveteran och aktiv i Porjus arkivkommitté; Lars-Erik Lindström på museet i Krångede; Evert Vedung, professor emeritus i statsvetenskap på Uppsala Universitet; Börje Forslund, lokalhistoriker från Avesta samt Bengt Söderkvist, boende i Horndal.Reporter: Mats Carlsson-LénartProducent: Björn Gunérbjorn.guner@sr.se

I Forsmarksområdet i Uppland finns tre kärnkraftsreaktorer och där finns också Sveriges kanske tätaste population av havsörn. Flera faktorer tycks gynna örnarna. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Området kring kärnkraftsreaktorerna och den anläggning som ska förvara avfallet från hela det svenska kärnkraftsprogrammet i Forsmark hanteras och regleras på särskilda sätt och det verkar finnas flera faktorer i den här storskaliga satsningen på kärnkraft som har gynnat havsörnarna.Innan kärnkraftverket byggdes i början på 1970-talet minskade antalet fritidsboende i området när Vattenfall köpte upp och rev många sommarstugor. Det rörliga friluftslivet har också begränsats eftersom folk inte får röra sig hursomhelst i området av säkerhetsskäl. Det har gynnat havsörnarna som är känsliga för mänsklig störning.Eftersom kärnkraftverket har släppt ut varmvatten i kustvattnet har fiskar kunnat växa sig större och det isfria vattnet har förbättrat övervintringsmöjligheterna för sjöfågel, vilket sammantaget har gynnat födotillgången för havsörnen.Men där är inte bara gott om havsörn. Det övriga fågellivet och djurlivet är också mycket rikt, enligt forskning som har följt naturens utveckling i Forsmarksområdet i flera decennier.Reporter: Gustaf Klaringustaf.klarin@sr.seProducent: Lars Broströmlars.brostrom@sr.se

In this episode, we speak with Lena Wennberg, Chief Sustainable Development Officer, and Therese Forsström, Head of Environmental Department at Swedavia, which owns and operates 10 airports across Sweden, connecting the country both internally and with the rest of the world.Wennberg and Forsström discuss:Swedavia's achievement of fossil-free operations in 2020 in their own airport operations, backed by committed leadership that views sustainability as a “license to operate.”Their ambitious goal to enable fossil-free domestic flights in Sweden by 2030, primarily through sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), with plans to reach 10% SAF usage.Swedavia's incentive program that covers 50% of the premium cost for airlines refuelling with SAF, plus their procurement of SAF for their own business travel for the last nine years.The airport's preparations for future technologies, including charging infrastructure for electric aircraft at smaller airports and collaboration with Airbus on hydrogen infrastructure.The balancing of sustainability with operational needs in a country where air travel is essential due to the vast geography.As industry leaders working towards fossil-free aviation since long before it became mainstream, Swedavia offers a compelling example of how airports can transform environmental commitments into tangible action while maintaining operational excellence.If you LOVED this episode, you'll also love the conversation we had with Christina Cassotis, CEO of Pittsburgh International Airport, who shares her ambitious vision for transforming the airport into a sustainable aviation hub. Check it out here. Learn more about the innovators who are navigating the industry's challenges to make sustainable aviation a reality, in our new book ‘Sustainability in the Air'. Click here to learn more.Feel free to reach out via email to podcast@simpliflying.com. For more content on sustainable aviation, visit our website green.simpliflying.com and join the movement. It's about time.Links & More:Strategy for sustainability - Swedavia Swedavia allocates SEK40m for SAF incentives - SAF Investor Swedavia raises SEK 2 billion through green bond issuance to support sustainable investments and operations - International Airport Review Airbus, SAS, Swedavia and Vattenfall pave the way for hydrogen aviation in Sweden and Norway - Airbus

EAH co-hosts Christopher Jackson, Alicia Eastman and Patrick Molloy sat down with Dr. Gökçe Mete Gascon to learn more about Vattenfall activities in decarbonizing hard to abate sectors such as steel and transport including methanol and other alternative fuels. As Co-founder and Board Member of Women in Green Hydrogen, Dr. Mete is focused on steel, methanol, and infrastructure. About Dr. Gökçe Mete Gascon: Dr. Mete is Senior Partnership Manager at Vattenfall, building and maintaining strategic partnerships with industrial players, such as chemicals, steel, refineries, industrial gases and transport to jointly tackle the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization, green hydrogen and the electrification of industrial processes. Gökçe is Co-founder and Board Member of the Women in Green Hydrogen Network, Qualified lawyer, PhD, and author of 30 publications. She had over 14 years of business and strategy development, policy & regulatory analysis, leadership, project and stakeholder management experience focused on climate change, international development, carbon markets and green transformation of energy, heavy industry and minerals sectors.Prior to joining Vattenfall, she led South Pole's heavy industry transition and renewable hydrogen portfolio as Global Head of Hydrogen, designing and developing business models and project investment cases for renewable hydrogen.Previously she was the Head of Secretariat of the UN Leadership Group for the Industry Transition hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute which explores how policy, finance and business practices in hard-to-abate industry sectors such as steel, cement, heavy duty transport and chemicals can be aligned to achieve climate neutrality.About Vattenfall:Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat with approximately 19,000 employees. For more than 100 years, they have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised ways of living through innovation and cooperation. They are committed to building a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to move, make and live. Vattenfall seeks to become fossil free itself and looks beyond its own industry to really make a difference. Together with its partners, the Company is taking on the responsibility to find new and sustainable ways to electrify transportation, industries and heating.About Women in Green Hydrogen: Women in Green Hydrogen is a network of passionate women working in the green hydrogen sector. The vision is to increase the visibility and amplify the voices of women working in green hydrogen. The network provides a platform to connect, empower, and change.Diversity is essential for a sector that thrives on innovation and new ideas. The network works to promote the participation of women in conferences, expert talks, and relevant media to shape a more diverse and inclusive discourse in the world of green hydrogen. The goal is to build a community to foster knowledge exchange, connect women in green hydrogen, and create professional opportunities for members.WiGH organizes networking events and panels about relevant topics in green hydrogen, manage an international expert database, and offer a mentorship programme. They are also active on social media to increase visibility, promote activities and facilitate exchange. --Links:Women in Green Hydrogen https://women-in-green-hydrogen.net/Vattenfall: https://group.vattenfall.com/Books by Dr. Mete:The Energy Transitions and Future of Gas inthe EU: Subsidise or Decarbonise? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32614-2The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan,...

When we think of data, we think about numbers and statistics, but we don't often think about people. In the second episode of our Humanizing Data Strategy series, we discuss why storytelling, empathy, and creativity are all crucial parts of a successful data strategy. This podcast is for you if you're a data leader looking to communicate and influence data strategy more effectively in your own organization. You can explore more about data gamification here.   Host: Markus Buhmann, Data Strategy Principal, Thoughtworks   Guests: Tiankai Feng, Head of Data Strategy & Governance, Thoughtworks Sebastian Kaus, Head of Data Governance, Vattenfall