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In this episode, Allen discusses Nordex's successful Q1 2025 turbine orders, Ørsted's innovative suction bucket jacket foundations in Taiwan, and Europe's proposed offshore wind deal aiming for 100 gigawatts by 2040. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! 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! Welcome to Uptime Newsflash, industry News Lightning fast. Newsflash is brought to you by IntelStor. For Market in intelligence that generates revenue, visit www.intelstor.com. Leading off the week German wind turbine manufacturer, Nordex secured orders for 2100 megawatts of turbines in the first quarter of 2025. A 5% increase from the same period last year. The company received contracts to deliver 337 wind turbines for projects across 10 countries with Turkey, Germany, Finland, Latvia, and Brazil being the largest markets. The average sales price increased slightly to 870,000 euros per megawatt from 850,000 euros per megawatt a year earlier. CEO Jose Louise Blanco expects this positive momentum to continue throughout 2025. Nordex has installed approximately 57 gigawatts of wind [00:01:00] power capacity in over 40 markets globally, and operates factories in Germany, Spain, Brazil, India, USA, and Mexico. The first suction bucket jacket foundation has been installed at Ørsted's Greater Changhua 2B and 4 Offshore Wind Farm Site in Taiwan. The 920 megawatt project will comprise 66 Siemens Gamesa 14-236DD wind turbines all mounted on suction bucket jackets foundations. This marks the first large scale use of this foundation type in the Asia Pacific region. According to Ørsted, the suction bucket jacket design minimizes seabed disturbances, generates almost no noise during installation, and can be fully removed at the end of the wind farm's life. The foundations are being installed by Heerema Marine Contractors, heavy lift vessel Aegir and supplied by HSG Sungdong in South Korea and Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation in [00:02:00] Vietnam. Europe's wind industry has proposed a new offshore wind deal calling on European governments to auction at least 100 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity between 2031 and 2040. The proposal announced at Wind Europe's annual event in Copenhagen. Recommends using two-sided contracts for difference to provide revenue, stability, and reduce investment risk. The plan calls for more coordinated offshore wind development among European countries with capacity evenly distributed over time at approximately 10 gigawatts annually. In return, the industry commits to reducing offshore wind costs by 30% by 2040. Major developers and suppliers, including Ørsted, RWE, Vattenfall Iberdrola, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa have signed the proposal pledging to invest in projects, manufacturing capacity and workforce development.

Allen discusses the WindEurope 2025 conference in Copenhagen, EDP Renewables' equipment sale in Colombia, RWE's rescue exercise in Germany, and the milestone of U.S. renewable energy surpassing coal. We also highlight Oklahoma's wind energy growth and the UK's Rampion Two offshore wind farm expansion. 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! Welcome to Uptime Newsflash, industry News Lightning fast. Newsflash is brought to you by IntelStor. For Market in intelligence that generates revenue, visit www.intelstor.com. Speaker: Well, this week the Premier Annual Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition Wind Europe 2025 kicks off from April 8th to 10th at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. With over 15,000 attendees and more than 550 exhibitors at the event. This year's conference is going to be huge. It's going to have over 350 speakers covering wind Energy's role in the future of energy systems sectors. Coupling through electrification and power to X technologies for decarbonization. Now students receive free entry and can participate in a dedicated program exploring careers in the industry. Rosemary Barnes and I will be attending wind Europe this week, so if you'd like to be on the podcast, please meet with us on the show floor. Over in Columbia, EDP renewables is selling equipment earmarked for its alpha and beta wind farms as part of its exit from Columbia. The Portuguese company is auctioning 90 complete Vestas V 1 62, 5 0.6 megawatt units through its Spanish portal. The auction includes nacelles, hubs, powertrains, 450 tower sections and 270 blades. And all the turbines have been maintained by Vestas and audited by an independent certified company. If you're interested in these 90 turbines, reach out to EDP renewables for more details. RWE recently conducted a six hour rescue exercise at its North Sea Ost Offshore wind farm in Germany, simulating various emergency scenarios. The company temporarily suspended operations to practice rescuing injured technicians under real conditions, uh, scenarios included evacuating and injured worker from inside a turbine and rescuing a technician [00:02:00] from a service vessel. The exercise was planned in collaboration with the German Association for Maritime Emergency Management and involved a rescue helicopter and paramedics. A new report from Global Energy Think tank. Ember shows renewable energy from wind and solar generated more electricity in the US than coal last year, a first since coal peaked in 2007. Coal generation has fallen to a historic lows of 15% of total usage while wind and solar produced 17% of the nation's electricity. In the middle of the United States, Oklahoma now generates about 41% of, of its electricity from wind and solar outpacing coals since 2016. Now this transition continues despite state legislators considering bills that would restrict the location of new renewable energy projects. Over in the uk the Rampion two offshore wind farm off England's Sussex coast has received government consent to add up to 90 new wind turbines. The expansion project will nearly double the [00:03:00] size of the existing 116 turbine facility. Developers say the enlarged wind farm could power over 1 million homes and reduce carbon emissions by about 1.8 million tons annually. Construction is planned to begin in 2027 with completion expected by 2030. 

This week, we cover the unionization of Vestas technicians in Michigan, and research revealing significant blade damage occurs in short but intense weather events. At the Atlantic Shores offshore farm, an environmental permit was remanded by a judge. Dermot Wind Farm in Texas, also known as the Amazon Wind Farm, is our wind farm of the week. Register for the start of our webinar series with SkySpecs! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! You are listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here's your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Before we start the program this week on March 26th. At 11:00 AM Uptime sits down with Josh Goryl CRO of SkySpecs, and their newly appointed CEO Dave Roberts for an exclusive conversation in our new joint webinar series. You may have heard about Dave recently stepping into the role. Now's your chance to hear from him directly and we'll dive into what's new at SkySpecs, the latest industry insights, and what their newest announcement means for the future of wind turbine inspections. Wind o and m. And asset health management, so don't miss it. Tune in on March 26th, 11:00 AM Eastern, and we'll include the webinar registration link in the show notes. Up in Michigan, wind turbine technicians who perform operations and maintenance on Vestas turbines have voted to join the Utility Workers Union of America. Marks the first Vestas wind technicians in North America to unionize. The 11 member group voted nine to one, so someone abstained obviously in favor of organizing and will become members of the UWUA local 2, 2 3, which also represents winex at DTE in Michigan. Now these workers are responsible for operations and maintenance on about 120 odd turbines, including MCE. So Joel, this one's a little unique and maybe 'cause it's Michigan unions are really strong in Michigan, have been for a hundred years. 'cause the auto workers, and this seems like an outgrowth of that, but what is the relationship with Vestus in unions? Is that something that they have done in Europe quite often and this is just carrying over into the United States? Or is this. An American move. Joel Saxum: I think it's an American move. If you look at the state of Michigan, like you said, auto workers are there. They're heavily unionized. And because they're heavily unionized and that state has looked at them as, they do well. It's in good middle class incomes and, that, that's driven some progress over the last a hundred years in Michigan. My, some of my in-laws are from Michigan and they're boilermakers and they're all unionized. And when they say get that union job, they've got it. They've made it right. So I understand the city or the state of Michigan and some of the ideas around there. And I think that if you, in wind, if you were to pick a state that would've unionized first. Michigan would be at the top of your list probably. So I don't think it's a Vesta thing necessarily. I think this is a local Michigan thing, but I don't also believe, Vesta is being a Danish company and they have, a lot of trade representation there from in all trades in that northern part of Europe. I think that's, it's not abnormal to Vestas either. It's probably abnormal to Vestas. United States Management, but Vestas as a company, eh, pretty standard thing. I'm curious to see what their package looks like, because now we're in this era of IRA bill things, right? So we,

I poddens 122:a avsnitt gästas vi av Anders Runevad, styrelseordförande för danska Vestas, en av världens största vindkrafttillverkare. Mellan 2013 och 2019 var han även vd på företaget, och i avsnittet får vi höra om de senaste tolv åren i den globala vindkraftsindustrin sett ur Anders perspektiv. Om du gillade samtalet med Anders kan vi även tipsa om följande, tidigare, avsnitt av podden: Henrik Stiesdal, Om rötterna till det danska vindkraftsundret Erik Dölerud, Om världens högsta vindkraftverk av trä Vill du föreslå en gäst till ett framtida avsnitt? Har du förslag på hur vi kan göra podden bättre? Fyll jättegärna i vårt feedback-formulär.

Joe DeMare talks about how the whipsaw weather hurts wildlife like robins as well as being super dangerous for human beings. Next he interviews Pavlo Bilodid from DTEK, the company working with Vestas to build a 500 MW wind farm in Ukraine in the middle of the war with Russia. Rebecca Wood interviews her black friend on attitudes towards the environment for Black History Month. Ecological News includes a ton of news from Australia which is experiencing both record heat and record cold, as well as Trump's massive attacks on the environment.

We discuss Siemens Gamesa's advanced blade de-icing system, their blade root repair fix, and a tower designed by Vestas with its own permanent crane system. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! 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! Phil Totaro: This is Power Up, where groundbreaking wind energy ideas become your clean energy future. Here's your hosts, Allen Hall and Phil Totaro. Allen Hall: We have really interesting patents this week, Phil, including this first one from Siemens Gamesa, and it is a wind turbine blade with an advanced de icing system. Now, you say to yourself, well, there's been a lot of de icing systems on wind turbine blades. In fact, Rosie has worked on a number of them for LM. But this one's a little bit different. So it It uses a kind of a matrix setup of thermal heating areas arranged in sort of series and parallel connections, and it creates overlapping heating zones that can be very precisely controlled. Now that is very beneficial because a lot of times you More temperature, more heat towards the tip than you do at the root. So you would like the temperature to be graded up towards the tip. It's kind of hard to do a lot of times. But in this situation, you can adapt it to the situation. And this seems smart, but I haven't seen it implemented. And I know Siemens Gamesa owners. Like the icing system. So maybe this is coming out in the near future, Phil. Phil Totaro: Yeah, this would be interesting because this is very different than your conventional like blown air solution, like Enercon and other companies use. Where you could have a scenario where you've got like hotspots and, and heat concentrations at different points along the blades, particularly where you have ribs or bulkheads or something that would kind of get in the way of the airflow. a thermal heating mat with again, different zones where you can kind of trigger, on off to, to try and either prevent ice accretion or actually provide deicing for the blade. So it's, it's a really interesting approach in that it gives you more granular control over where you want to be able to, to de ice and again, based on ice thickness, and you can, monitor your Phil Totaro: performance, or you might have a more sophisticated system that actually monitors how much ice is still stuck on the blade. So. The, the implementation of this I think would be welcome. And it's probably something that, I mean, heating mats are almost inevitably, they do introduce a certain amount of challenges, especially with lightning interactions. But generally speaking, they are a good way for wind turbine blades to to be de iced. So hopefully this does make its way into more commercially available products in the future. Allen Hall: Well, it looks like it will save somewhere between 20 and 50 percent of energy consumption to, to heat the blade. That would be remarkable if you could make a, even a 10 percent change in the amount of power required to heat the blade up. Going to 50 percent would be astounding. And that makes me think you're going to see this, this patent idea Phil Totaro: show up pretty soon. I mean, to be blunt, like, and I'll do respect to Enercon that pioneered a lot of this technology, but volumetric heating is just wildly inefficient, so it's like, something that's a more, cost efficient and thermally efficient solution is probably desirable. Allen Hall: Our next patent is from Vestas and this. Seems like a relatively simple idea, but it evidently isn't because they were able to patent it. So,

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Welcome to the Wind Power news review – hosted by Windpower Monthly senior reporter Robyn White and Windpower Monthly reporter Orlando Jenkinson – along with our panel of experts, independent analyst Shashi Barla and K2 Management's analysis and due diligence director Will Sheard.This time on the news review, we ask our panellists for their views on President Donald Trump's turbulent first week of attacks on US wind energy. We also take a closer look into the impressive sales figures from wind turbine manufacturers Vestas and Nordex in 2024. Meanwhile, our panellists give their view on how the ongoing German election could impact wind energy in that country. Finally, we discuss the massive new floating offshore wind prototypes currently being installed in China, and how they might impact other markets around the world. This episode was produced by Inga Marsden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wind Power LAB's blade expert Morten Handberg explains a critical wind industry problem: new turbine blades are failing years too early. These massive blades - now stretching over 100 meters - are experiencing unexpected structural damage due to complex aerodynamic forces. Handberg shares Wind Power LAB's essential strategies for detecting and preventing these costly blade failures before they shut down your turbines. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: As wind turbines reach unprecedented heights and blade lengths stretch beyond 100 meters, unexpected challenges are emerging from the field. This week we welcome back Morten Handberg. The renowned Blade Whisperer from Wind Power LAB. In this eye-opening discussion, Morten reveals why modern blade designs are showing structural issues earlier than expected and what operators need to watch for to protect their turbines. Stay tuned. Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining Light on Wind Energy's brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering tomorrow. Allen Hall: Morten, welcome back to the show. Morten Handberg: Thanks, Allen. It's great to be, be back again. Allen Hall: You are one of our most popular guests. You are the Blade Whisperer. And any time I'm at a trade show, people ask, how's Morten doing? How's the Blade Whisperer doing? Like, well, Morten's great. Morten's super busy, but Morten is great. And they want to have you back on. So here we are. We're back on again. And. The topic of today's discussion is about aerodynamic stresses that happen to blades, and we're seeing more problems with that than some of the quality issues. I think it's a combination of quality and aerodynamic issues. What is happening in the field right now with aerodynamic loading on some of these new, longer, more flexible blades? Morten Handberg: Well, it's, it's something that's been been happening over time. So if we look 10, 15 years back, then the blades were of course shorter. The and they were a lot stiffer than they were today. They were heavily reinforced and you could say maybe they were. They were under optimized that they had a lot more load capacity and that were then what they needed. And, and in, in process of the, in, in, as the blades have been become longer than the, then that buffer have gone away, so, because the, in order to build a logger blade, you had to reduce the the, the thickness of your laminates to avoid an overly, you know, bulky structure, but something that could harness the wind in a more efficient way So that leads to slender, thinner blades that are a lot softer. And we can see that in the natural frequency that the, that the flap wise and edge wise frequencies, they have kind of gone down. And that's because the blades become softer. And that also means that the way that the blade behaves with the wind direction means that the gravity loads are still a major, a major component, but Aeroelastic loading, which adds to shear and torsion loads, have become much more prominent loading conditions on the blades that we see today. Allen Hall: That's interesting. Yeah, obviously the blades are lighter than they ever been for the length. I remember being at DTU a year or so ago and looking at one of the first offshore wind blades that Vestas had made,

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Nicholas Gaudern, CTO at PowerCurve joins the show to discuss advanced blade upgrades that improve turbine performance and reduce noise. PowerCurve's technology helps operators make smart decisions about maintenance and upgrades. Gaudern explains why combining repairs with performance enhancements is a cost-effective strategy that benefits both operations and community relations. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxon. Today, we're diving deep into the world of wind turbine aerodynamics and blade optimization with one of the industry's leading experts. Our guest is Nicholas Gaudern, the Chief Technology Officer at PowerCurve, a company that's revolutionizing how we approach wind turbine performance through advanced Aerodynamic solutions. Now, Nicholas has over 15 years of industry experience and his journey includes significant roles at industry giants like Vestas, where he led the design of next generation blades. And as CTO of PowerCurve, Nicholas and his team are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in wind turbine optimization. They've developed innovative solutions like AeroVista, which helps operators make data driven decisions about blade maintenance and upgrades. Their work spans from custom designed vortex generators to trailing edge serrations, all aimed at increasing AEP while reducing turbine noise. So please welcome to the Uptown Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight, Nicholas Gaudern. Nicholas Gaudern: Thanks, Allen. Yeah, good to see you as well, Joe. Allen Hall: We have a lot going on in the United States in terms of rotors on the ground. Variety of reasons, but anytime that Joel and I are running through the Midwest, we see rotors down, and when I run into those people, I always ask, why are you not putting arrow improvements on your blade? It is the lowest cost way to do it. There's an opportunity there Nicholas? Nicholas Gaudern: Yeah, there, there really is, and I find it very surprising as well, because whilst you can put upgrades on at lots of different points in a turbine's life cycle, if you do have that roach on the ground it just makes everyone's lives that bit easier, and also it's going to save you a lot of money on installation costs. So yes, I think it's a great thing to be considering because you can be working on different parts of the blade at the same time. And if you're going to increase the AEP with those devices you put on, you can consider that as a way of paying for some of the other work you might be doing while the rotor's down. Allen Hall: Yeah. And we've run into many operators that have talked to us about noise of all things in the middle of the United States where there's not a lot of neighbors to them. But neighbors are concerned about the noise produced by the turbines and in very windy places. Yeah. like Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, there is blade noise. It's there. And most of the equipment out in service does not have trailing edge serrations. And I'm beginning to wonder if that is trying to be, if there's needs to be an adjustment made there that you may not technically need trailing edge serrations for noise quieting, but to be a good neighbor.

This week in business news, Allete is going private in a $6.2B deal, Aeris suffers from financial struggles, and Vestas secures 6, 000 MW in new orders during Q4. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Welcome to Uptime News Flash. Industry news lightning fast. Your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, and Phil Totaro discuss the latest deals, mergers, and alliances that will shape the future of wind power. News Flash is brought to you by IntelStor. For market intelligence that generates revenue, visit www.intelstor.com. Allen Hall: First up, the U. S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given its approval for a 6. 2 billion acquisition of Allete. The buyers are the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and Global Infrastructure Partners. The company brings significant renewable assets to the table, including Minnesota Power and Allete Clean Energy, which operates over 1, 300 megawatts of wind capacity across seven states. Now, Phil, this has been going on for several months now, but it looks like it's finally climbed that last rung in that ladder to become a private company again. Phil Totaro: Yeah, which I think is interesting and important given who the investors are. Keep in mind that GIP just got gobbled up by BlackRock. And the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board has been making, you know, boatloads of investments around the world. Not only in Canada. Companies like this, but also individual assets where they are a usually minority but co owner so this is giving them the diversity, it's giving BlackRock and, you know, through GIP you know, more assets in their portfolio, which they, you know, they're obviously making a concerted effort and it's, it's part of their strategy to you know, to build up that, that pipeline. So this is, I believe You know, a total of 1. 3 gigawatts of operational wind with substantially more in, in the pipeline. So, you know, it's a great thing to, to see this happen and, and usually in a take, in a go private deal The reason you want to do that is to kind of sort out some of the financials and, and there's an opportunity that they could, you know, re IPO Allete at some point. I like the move because Joel Saxum: Allete is a, you know, they're not a huge wind operator, but Clean energy, but I know that they've got ambitions to do some more development. So we are bringing in fresh capital. Also Allete's headquarters in Minnesota power is up in Duluth, Minnesota, which is a small town of about 80, people. And this will bring some hope, hopefully bring some jobs in up there and a little bit of an expansion. Allen Hall: Down in South America, Brazilian wind blade manufacturer Aeris has approached its creditors seeking a 60 day extension on upcoming interest payments. The company's financial strain stems from a slowdown in new wind turbine contracts. Leading to mounting pressure on its balance sheet. Now, current financials show a concerning picture with net debt reaching about 550 million reales and a debt to EBITDA ratio of 3. 2. Joel, Sonoma has made acquisition efforts towards Aeris for the last couple of years. Do those offers become more serious on Aeris part as they run into some financial difficulty? Joel Saxum: I think Aeris as a company has to turn to Sonoma as a more and mo...

Det handler grundlæggende om adgangen til metaller, sjældne jordarter, fossil energi, uran og thorium, når Donald Trump har kastet sine øjne på Grønland, lyder vurderingen fra Sara Sjølin, der har brugt en uge på at grave sig ned i historien. Kort sagt: Penge. Men ved vi hvor mange penge, der gemmer sig i Grønlands undergrund? Vi tager også et kig på de hastigt stigende renter i USA, der nu er slået igennem i Danmark og gjort boliglån dyrere. Til sidst tager vi en status på de grønne aktier som Ørsted og Vestas, der har tabt pusten, og snakker om den tidligere finansminister Knud Heinesen (S), der døde i sidste uge. Knud Heinesen har nemlig spillet en helt afgørende rolle for Danmark og dansk økonomi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ooit was het een van de grote beloftes van de AEX, maar van die droom is nog maar weinig over. De malaise begon met een toezichthouder die dwars lag. Sindsdien kelderde het aandeel naar een tiende van de waarde. Het gaat om Galapagos. Dat denkt nu een nieuw leven te kunnen beginnen. In de vorm van twee bedrijven: Galapagos gaat door met het onderzoek dat het nu doet. Een spin-off gaat zich richten op mogelijke nieuwe medicijnen. Maar in de kern is er niks meer van het bedrijf over. Was dit de beste zet die Galapagos had kunnen doen? Dat hoor je in deze aflevering. En dan hebben we het - hoe kan het ook anders - wéér over Donald Trump. Hij belooft een einde te maken aan nieuwe groene energie in Amerika. In zijn termijn wordt er geen enkele windmolen meer gebouwd. Olie- en gasbedrijven moeten volgens hem volop gaan boren. Maar dat vinden die oliereuzen helemaal geen goed nieuws. Ondertussen hebben twee grote namen in de sector zelf ook niet veel beters te melden. Zowel ExxonMobil als Shell waarschuwen voor een (dramatisch) lage winst. Verder vertellen we je waarom India de place-to-be wordt dit jaar, en waarom je binnenkort vaker Pieter Post tegen gaat komen op de weg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De grønne aktier som Vestas og Ørsted styrtblødte sidste år, men starter året med pæne stigninger. Men holder den grønne optimisme? Vi diskuterer også et dybt kontroversielt økonomisk forslag, som statsministen luftede i sin nytårstale, men som alle de politiske kommentatorer tilsyneladende har overset. Og hvis du overvejer en tur til USA, så vær klar på at det bliver dyrt, for dollaren brager i vejret. Stigningen fortsætter formentlig, lyder vurderingen i studiet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Araceli de Frutos, asesora del fondo Alhaja Inversiones, analiza los movimientos de las bolsas europeas con vistazo a Vestas y Vodafone.

We discuss Vestas' anti-oscillation blade tool, which seems to have a dual purpose, Windspider's self-erecting tower method, and a terrifying way to disguise vaccinations for kids. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Phil Totaro: This is Power Up, where groundbreaking wind energy ideas become your clean energy future. Here's your hosts, Allen Hall and Phil Totaro. Allen Hall: Well, Phil, our first idea of the week is from our friends at Vestas, and it's an anti oscillation tool for wind turbine blades. And how this patent is described, it's like a sock for your wind turbine blade with a little bit of a covering over the trailing edge serrations, and you slide this device on And it stops oscillations during deployment, when the, when the turbine may be a little more vulnerable, it's not a full operation, maybe in lockouts, where you really don't want any lift, and particularly you don't want any oscillations that could, in theory, Phil Totaro: Yeah. And maybe it's an idea that GE should have come up with or LM should have come up with first considering some of the issues they've had this year. But what's kind of fascinating about this though, is that this isn't necessarily a new idea from the perspective of putting a little sock on the end of your wind turbine blade to protect the tip during a lift. Usually it's for making sure that you don't damage the serrations or whatever you've stuck on the trailing edge of the blade. In this case, Vestas and, and I'm, I'm kind of expressing my opinion or suggestion here that I think Vestas is basically trying to get an extra 20 years of life on a patented concept that, They, are potentially using on a daily basis for that construction purpose. They found another way to describe that same technology and as an anti oscillation tool. Allen Hall: You ever seen a device called a slap chopper, Phil? No. It slices and it dices. Oh, that thing. Yeah, I have. I have. So what they've To have done, in a sense, is they've taken the Slapchopper and got a patent for slicing, and then when that got close to expiring, they came back and said, well, it dices too, which is a separate patent, and thereby you can extend the same device for Covering two areas. It's very unique way of patenting and very effective by the way. It's smart. Phil Totaro: Yeah, it is. If, if you're trying to capture and protect your IP, but it also doesn't say much for the patent examiners we've ever had in this industry who can't seem to recognize that this is what companies are doing because this is not the first time this has happened. I can recall a few examples in the past where companies had You know, had, their 20 years of patent protection on a concept and then repatented basically the same thing and said, Oh, well, it's not for cooling. It's for vibration damping, or it's not for one thing. It's for something else. So it looks like that's what's happening here. And, I guess kudos to Vestas for trying and maybe not so many kudos to the U. S. Patent Office for allowing stuff like this to get pushed Allen Hall: through. Roncopeel made a living doing that. If you're familiar with Ronco, it's Christmas time and every Christmas you would have another Ronco product, which slices, dices, cooked a chicken or something.

This week, we discuss Siemens Gamesa's MASSIVE 21 MW turbine prototype, Vestas and Siemens Gamesa layoffs in Europe, trade relations between the US and EU in 2025, and the proper out-of-office email etiquette. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: If you want to know why Siemens Gamesa is betting big on a 21 megawatt offshore turbine while others scale back, what Norway's 25 billion oil and gas investment means for renewables, and how manufacturing challenges are reshaping European wind energy, stick around. Plus, we've got big news about Wind Energy O& M Australia and a chance to win an exclusive Uptime Podcast mug in our first ever listener survey. I'm Allen Hall, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by BuildTurbines. com. Learn, train, and be a part of the clean energy revolution. Visit buildturbines. com today. Now here's your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Just the season of giving, and this year we want to give you a voice in shaping Uptime's future. As we wrap up another amazing year of wind energy conversations, we're launching our first in person event. And yes, there's a special holiday surprise involved. Picture yourself sipping your morning coffee from an exclusive Uptime Podcast mug. Which could be yours just for participating. All we need is five minutes of your time to tell us what sparks your interest and what you'd love to hear more in 2025. Whether you've been with us since day one or just caught your first episode, your thoughts matter to us. So dash over to uptimewindenergy. com or slay down to the show notes below. And from all of us at Uptime, thank you for making this community possible. Second, wind energy professionals won't want to miss the premier O& M event in the Asia Pacific region, the Wind Energy O& M Australia conference happening February 11th and 12th in Melbourne. And we're thrilled to have industry powerhouses like Tilt Renewables, Worley, Aerones. Phil Totaro: And we're pleased to announce Sky Specs is actually going to be joining us as a corporate roundtable sponsor for the event. Allen Hall: The conference tackles crucial topics that directly impact your operations, leading into erosion, lightning protection, CMS, insurance, and life extension strategies. This is your chance to connect with the industry leaders and gain practical insights that you can implement immediately. So secure your spot now by visiting And finally, don't miss out on a game changing opportunity for your safety program. Active training team known for their innovative and immersive safety training methods. ATT is hosting a free expo in Houston on January 24th, and this isn't your typical safety presentation by no means. ATT brings safety culture to life through dynamic hands on experiences that have transformed safety programs across the energy sector. So this is a rare chance to experience their methods first hand. Spacers are filling up fast, so register now by emailing florence@activetrainingteam.co.uk or visiting activetrainingteam.us/contact. Unlock your wind farm's best performance at Wind Energy O& M Australia, February 11th to 12th, in sunny Melbourne.

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Dagens erhvervsoverblik: Elon Musk har i julemandskostume erklæret sin støtte til Eli Lillys vægttabsmedicin. Skattetip kan hjælpe dig med at få overskydende skat tilbage allerede i januar. Coop er ikke lykkedes med at forhandle lavere priser med sine leverandører. Inflationen i Danmark er taget af i andet halvår. Investorer opgiver Vestas-aktien.  Vært: Frederik Vincent (frvi@borsen.dk)

On Power-Up today, a pre-tensioning mechanism for concrete towers, Vestas' idea for reducing sway in towers, and the patent behind the Smooth Criminal performances. Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Allen Hall: Alright, our first idea comes from the brain of Max Boegl Wind AG, and it is a really unique patent. When you deal with concrete towers, like you see on Nordex turbines, some Acciona turbines, where they stack the concrete cylinders on one another. Have you ever asked yourself, how do those keep from tipping over and everything landing on the ground? Well, there's a series of tension cables inside of there that keeps those things stacked up properly and provides pressure the whole time. That is a really tricky system. And this patent idea, which is a pretension element, It creates these, this mechanism to provide tension and simply on these concrete towers so they don't fall over and don't come apart like kids blocks. And Phil, this one I think is being used, right? I would assume a this technique, because it's really unique and simple and effective, has to be out in service already. Philip Totaro: Yeah, and we believe it's being used on some of their hybrid concrete and steel tube towers. So just for everybody's benefit too, this is kind of a pretensioned tower anchor concept where you know, the, the benefit of that is, is if you, if you want to be able to control the amount of, of load and deflection pre tensioning can kind of help facilitate that versus post tensioning something where once you've already poured concrete and it's hardened, there's only so much kind of post tensioning you can do without overstressing either the tendons or the concrete itself, which, which could weaken it. So pre tensioning this allows you to You know, have the, the correct amount of tension in the tendons and, and the bolt the anchor bolts. And then when you're laying in your concrete it's, it's going to help facilitate the, the strength and reliability of that connection. Now, what's also kind of fascinating about this is that we haven't, we've seen, kind of pre tensioning and post tensioning used in different areas of, of the turbine before where some of the companies, Vestas, I think, tried a a post tensioned tower with die cables and things like that. So, there, there have been companies that have tried different arrangements and techniques before but it was never really widely adopted, but Max Bogle, obviously has the, the pedigree in, in wind energy to have this more widely adopted and the hybrid towers that they've been deploying. I believe number more than like three or four hundred at this point that they've got deployed mostly throughout Europe, I believe. So, this is fantastic technology and, and again, great to see that somebody's, capturing IP on a technology that they're actually rolling out commercially and, and, getting the commercial benefit out of leveraging. Joel Saxum: I think an important note here, pre tensioning. So just to give example if you're not familiar with concrete pre tensioning or post tensioni...

Novo Nordisk bygger fabrik til 8,5 mia. kr. i Odense. Vestas dropper centralt klimamål. ATP-direktør erkender komplet tab i Northvolt. Dan Jørgesen ser atomkraft som vigtigt for at nå EUs mål. Scholz taber tillidsafstemning. Techaktier slår rekord, men Nvidia falder igen. Vært: Lasse Ladefoged (lala@borsen.dk)

From Omaha, Nebraska where he's called home for 20 years, Lem-raised Danish wind turbine engineer PEDER HANSEN reminisces about his family's role as wind turbine pioneers in Denmark, whereby he credits his mother for getting Vestas into the industry in the 1970s, and his father for getting Vestas wind turbines into the US field in the 1980s. Peder talks about climbing up wind turbines, and the strong Danish immigrant and Danish-American community in the Midwest.Peder selects a work by P.S. Krøyer from the SMK collection.https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3605(Private photograph)----------We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:website: https://danishoriginals.com/email: info@danishoriginals.com----------And we invite you to donate to the American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst and become a patron: https://donorbox.org/american-friends-of-statens-museum-for-kunst

We discuss a PES Wind Magazine article featuring 4cast's methodology for comprehensive wind resource assessment and site planning. Then cover Vestas CFO Hans Martin Smith's departure after 20+ years. Finally offshore wind security concerns follow a Chinese vessel's severance of Baltic Sea cables, and Tilt Renewables is announced as the title sponsor for Wind Energy O&M Australia. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Well, since everybody is getting pardoned recently, uh, I thought it may be a good idea to, to put out there what we should be pardoned for, so we ought to get added to that list. Joel Saxum: How about this one? I would like to be pardoned for not getting my better half's windshield changed in her Jeep from the crack from it. Allen Hall: Ooh, you're gonna need a pardon for that. Yeah, that's, that's definitely pardonable material. Yeah. Phil, have you broken any scooter laws there in California? No, I have not. I don't know, Phil, you ought to get them out now because the pardons are coming. Okay. Well, Rosemary, I'm not sure we can pardon anybody in another country, but we might as well just open it up to everybody right now. Why not? Rosemary, did you commit any offenses when you were in the States, in California, studying composites? Rosemary Barnes: I've got a pretty big one, actually. I don't know if you guys have this, but in Australia, when you're learning how to, to write, handwrite at school, you know, you start with a pencil and then when you pass a test and you can graduate up to a pen, you need a pen license. Um, do you have that? Allen Hall: That is not real. Rosemary Barnes: I did not get my pen license, but I do write with a pen sometimes. So, yeah, including in the United States. Philip Totaro: That's as real as a hoop snake. Rosemary Barnes: That's true. And I, um, I would like to invite Australians to comment on if you're watching this on YouTube or anywhere that you can write comments but look it up on the LinkedIn post about this episode. Please comment and confirm that we do or at least did in the 90s. I have to get a pen license before if we graduate from pencil to pen. I never got it. Allen Hall: It's a scandal. It's an outright scandal. Alan, you have to share yours with us. What are you, what do you need to be pardoned for? Yeah, we could use some pardoning on the production side of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast because there are, there have been some times it's pretty rough to edit and I gotta, I gotta plead guilty. Yes, it is. However. However. Our producer does a very fine job, and what comes out on the airwaves is much better than what we record. Clearly. In this quarter's PES Win Magazine, a number of great articles, and you can download all of them at PESWin. com, but A really interesting article about weather from a company called Forecast. So if you go to their website, it's fore cast. de, they're based in Germany. And the article really describes how you do forecasting. Preliminary studies on wind sites to look at what the winds are now, get a really good understanding of that and how that plays into the yield of this farm and what the weather should be, the long term weather implications going forward, so you can at least have an estimate on the revenue you're going to pay.

Frankrigs regering er væltet af flertal og presset på Macron stiger. Dansk regering klar til at opjustere vækstskøn. Uenighed om udenlandsk arbejdskraft. Vestas falder knap 11 pct. efter direktør-exit. Novo-rival flexer i nyt studie. Amerikansk topchef i forsikringskæmpe myrdet på åben gade. Trumps forsvarsminister på vippen. Vært: Lasse Ladefoged (lala@borsen.dk)  

Centramos la atención en Francia y su tormenta política con vistazo a compañías europeas como Stellantis, Vestas, Campari o Rio Tinto. Con Alberto Roldán, profesor de finanzas y economía y consejero de New Growth Capital.

En helt ny tendens breder sig blandt virksomhederne i Danmark - også de største som Lego og Vestas. De vil have svesken på disken, når nye medarbejdere skal ansættes. Send os et bud på din løn, før du i flere tilfælde har sendt dit CV.  Men er det ok, og sparer det tid for alle, hvis nu lønnen ikke matcher? Eller sætter det ansøgeren i en urimelig situation, hvor man enten ryger på at sætte lønnen for højt eller bliver ansat til for lav en løn.  Hør debatten blandt ugens panel i Bundlinjen.  I studiet: Gitte Lillelund-Bech, CEO i Lillelund Bech, prof. bestyrelsesmedlem, tidl. minister. Mette Østergaard, kommunikationsdirektør i DI, tidligere chefred. Berlingske Tidende. Søren Linding, erhvervskommentator, podcastvært, Finans. Vært: Mads Ring, nyhedsredaktør på Finans. Produceret af: Kasper Søegaard, podcastredaktør på Finans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Uptime Power-Up, Equinor's system to keep their offshore floating wind platforms stable, Vestas's patent for customizing blade root angles, and fresh air breathing device for emergencies. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime Podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Well guys, our first idea of the week is from Equinor, and they have developed a system and patented a system about trying to keep their offshore floating wind platforms stable in rough seas. And that technique involves using the turbine blades to actually control the blade angle and the generator torque to counteract the motions of the seas to provide stability. There's a lot of rotating mass on a wind turbine, obviously, so the moment of inertia is there and it's kind of self stabilizing to a point. But the seas are massive, and they're still gonna cause the, the floating platforms to bounce a little bit. This is an interesting patent. I always wonder about these systems, what the effectives on the mechanical system, on the rotating equipment. Does it start to wear on bearings? Does it cause problems further downstream when you try to actively control a turbine from swaying? Phil, this one is interesting in terms of its approach. It's a relatively new patent though, right? Philip Totaro: Yeah. So this, this was just issued a couple of weeks ago and that's why we, we tagged it because we're tracking, new. Patent publications and application publications on a weekly basis. We've cataloged something like 60, 000 plus at Intel Store at this point. But this one stood out because, first of all, it's patents from owner operators and independent power producers are, are usually rare and it's the bigger companies that tend to get them if they get them at all. So the fact that Equinor actually made it a point to, to patent something in general is, is noteworthy. The other thing I take from this is that they originally filed this. In 2019 in the UK and that was the jurisdiction that they claimed the, the patent priority filing in. The Highwind Scotland site was originally commissioned and started producing power back in 2017. So, the fact that they came up with this concept. And wanted to basically, I mean Joel will be able to explain this in, in a bit more detail, but it's almost like they wanted to use the turbine as a giant gyro stabilizer on this floating platform. Joel Saxum: So some quick math here on what this looks like in the real world. In the North Sea, the average wave period is about seven to nine seconds. So period of a wave is between crest to crest. So if we're talking about trying to counteract what a platform might do between a wave, you're talking seven to nine seconds from crest to crest. Okay. And now you look at the these larger turbines and you're looking at about the same RPM. Six to nine RPM, something like that. Six to 10 RPM. So you're talking, and what I'm trying to get to is, is if you're going to use a part of the turbine as an act, an active part of the turbine to counteract some of this movement,

This week on Uptime Power-Up we discuss Vestas' offshore blade repair method, Siemens Gamesa's way of optimizing power production for floating turbines, and a fun way for kid's to collect their Halloween candy. ign 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime Podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right, our first idea is from our friends at Vestas, and it is a a relatively sophisticated system for handling wind turned blades during maintenance, particularly offshore. And if you think about how you try to manipulate a blade offshore to do repair work on it, it's not, it's not easy to do that on the deck of a ship. So the, the concept is you take a crane, get the blade off the turbine, you move it down to the deck of the ship and it sits in these cradles. And they move it from the support cradles to a third device, which allows the blade to rotate. And they could slide it into a shelter that's built up on deck so you can actually repair the blade without getting wet or, or too hot or too cold, probably, probably too cold in most cases which is a really difficult task to do and Vestas, Phil, has, has come up with a really unique idea on how to manage this. Philip Totaro: Yeah, this, this one is very Interesting, because we have comparable systems to this onshore, but it's obviously a lot harder to implement offshore. So, for instance, having the tent, it's going to sound like the stupidest thing ever, just like having a tent around the blade to be able to, protect the, the area that you're scarfing out or whatever, if you're doing that kind of a repair. That's, that's important. That's an important consideration. And while it's obviously possible to do that today offshore the fact that you would have to use the crane to, place and pick or use the, um, the fixtures that are attached to the crane to rotate the blade and then lower it into the cradle. That can be complicated and time consuming and expensive to do with the on board crane on the vessel. So, the fact that you can lower it into this rotating, we'll call it a rotating, cradle. Or fixture and the fact that, they've, they've got this capability to be able to put up the, the, tarp or tent to be able to protect the blade to, to do the repairs, it's, it's really helpful and, and gives you potentially improved quality in, in the repairs pretty much at the same level that you would get from doing it onshore. Joel Saxum: Yeah, I like the idea here that we're basically taking a concept that we know if you've seen major blade repairs on the ground, a lot of times a temporary tent is put up so that you can work in the wind, rain, snow, cold, whatever it may be. Doing the same thing here offshore. Important for operations and maintenance for the future as we have to start doing some, larger and larger repairs to these blades. But a big important part of this is if anybody that's been involved in lifting operations, you want to minimize the amount of times that you actually touch these blades. When you talk about installing them offshore, you build them in the factory, you move them from the factory to the yard,

This episode covers Vestas's manufacturing growth in Italy and Siemens Gamesa's quarterly results showing both gains and ongoing challenges. The hosts explore how the U.S. election results could reshape renewable energy markets, with discussions ranging from grid infrastructure to natural gas expansion. And an in-depth look at quality control concerns at GE Vernova's LM Wind Power blade manufacturing facility in Canada, where allegations of falsified quality control data have emerged. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: An endangered sea turtle that was found about a year ago, some 5, 000 miles from its native waters, has been released back into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Houston Zoo. The sea turtle was found off the coast of, guess where? The Netherlands, after becoming entangled in the net of a commercial fishing boat. The zoo said the turtle apparently was carried by currents until it was found, and the U. S. National Fish and Wildlife Service secured the turtle's return. Guys, there's a really interesting bit. Some fishermen somewhere realized that this turtle didn't belong off the coast of the Netherlands and decided to return it. Of all things. They took it to the Rotterdam Zoo the Rotterdam Zoo where it was nursed back the health. And then had a, must have a first class flight back to Houston where it was put back in the Gulf of Mexico. But this little turtle went a long ways. 5, 000 miles is quite a ride, right? Joel Saxum: I can't imagine it was doing very well in the cold water up there either. Cause right now, even now the Gulf of Mexico is 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah, he, the Allen Hall: turtle at some point had to know it wasn't in the Bahamas anymore, right? It's not gonna swim back from there. Rosemary Barnes: I saw a story recently about a king penguin that that swam from Antarctica to Australia to Perth. It was it's not that far, I think it was like 3, 000 kilometers or maybe a little bit more, but similar thing of yeah. Animal just, just the kind of point in the direction and then just keep going until they reach land. It's some decent persistence. Allen Hall: Isn't it crazy when you think about how animals have moved around the planet? And then you, that's impossible. And then Rosemary says there's a penguin that's got about 1, 500 miles, just taking a light swim. Joel Saxum: That's crazy. There's a book about this called Super Navigators, and it's really fascinating, actually, to be honest with you. Allen Hall: This turtle is back home in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which is a great story, right? Gulf of Mexico for the winter. Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'll be joined by my Uptime co host after these news headlines. Thanks A major expansion of wind turbine manufacturing is underway in Toronto, Italy as Vestas begins production of its V236 15MW offshore wind blades. The facility will produce 115. 5 meter blades capable of powering 20, 000 European households each year. The expansion, supported by EU recovery funds, will create 1, 300 new jobs in the region. The Port of Toronto has granted Vestas a nine year concession to use its logistics platform, establishing the port as a strategic hub for wind energy component manufacturing and distribution.

This week on Uptime Power-Up, a method from Vestas for modifying control of a wind turbine using load probability, a blade tip swap-out for Cypress turbines from GE, and a wind turbine tower with solar panels installed. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall, and idasaur's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Well, our first idea is from Vestas, and it is an idea where they're monitoring the Turbine tower loads for natural vibration frequency, and you say, well, why would you want to do that? Well, of course, as things change on a wind turbine, maybe something goes wrong. Those frequencies of vibration are going to change, and the system will detect those and say, hey, something is wrong. Here's probably what it is, which is a smart way of detecting failure modes in the turbine fill. But the other thing it could do, is push the turbine harder if it's not being driven hard enough and creating enough power. Philip Totaro: Yeah, and this is actually really fascinating because, again, this might not sound like the world's most revolutionary, innovation, but it's a practical solution to a challenge that is faced out there in the field when you're operating a wind farm. And specifically, in addition to just monitoring the, the tower loads and vibration over time, they have the option to monitor the max extreme load in relation to the original design load limit and readjust that max extreme load value over time as there's an evolution of the, the. Mechanical performance of, of the turbine. And that to me is, is really clever way of approaching this challenge of having additional safety factor. Or as we see in the United States where turbines get run a lot harder. Than they were potentially designed for. Sometimes because companies are trying to maximize their production tax, credit revenue. This is a way for a company like Vestus to keep an eye on whether or not they're exceeding a. Safety criteria, or by how much are you exceeding a safety criteria of, the design load limit versus the max extreme load limit, which will necessarily change over time. As components wear and, and as the tower sees certain load cases on it. So I, I like this one a lot. I think, again, this is a really practical and clever thing. It might not be, or sound like the world's most revolutionary. Invention ever, but I, I like stuff like this. This is a really great one. Joel Saxum: I think it's a functional way of ensuring the safety and operation of the turbine. Right. The, the ability to adjust and to understand what kind of loads are being sensed and of course, When we talk about load changes in turbines, it's every component is completely different, right? The loads in the blades and fatigue loads over time and what can be and can't be exerted on them. To, to look, like a 20 year old blade is a lot different than a one year old blade and a 20 year old piece of drivetrain is a lot different than a 20, a one year old piece of drivetrain. So adjusting those load limits by calculation and understanding as the turbine ages and operations change. It's something that should actually absolutely be d...

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Dagens erhvervsoverblik: De amerikanske aktieindeks sætter lukkerekorder på stribe, og særligt Tesla samt bankaktier fik medvind i handlen på bagkant af valget i USA. Tysklands kansler Olaf Scholz fyrer finansminister Christian Lindner fra regeringspartiet FDP, der umiddelbart efter trækker sine resterende tre ministre fra regeringen - Scholz indkalder til tillidsafstemning, der kan ende i nyvalg i Tyskland. Vestas og Ørsted taber begge over 12 pct. i onsdagens handel.    Vært: Frederik Vincent (frvi@borsen.dk) 

This week on Power-Up, we discuss Siemens Gamesa's method for stabilizing wind turbine blades by installing closeout plates. Then Vestas and ZF's idea to replace the metal torque tube in the gearbox with a plastic piece, protecting from current. And finally, an Enercon patent for painting blades in an ombre pattern to lessen visual disturbances. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right guys, our first idea is what's turbine blades, and it's an idea from Siemens Gamesa, and it In patent form, as they describe it here, it's what they call a novel approach to stabilizing wind turbine blades without the need for traditional trailing edge beam designs. But what they're really doing is they're installing closeout plates on the, between the aft spar and the trailing edge. So, This idea is pretty much making a wind turbine blade look a lot like an airplane wing, Phil. Philip Totaro: Yeah, especially like an older style airplane wing. So those that aren't familiar with the closeout plate, it's like a rib design that has this, vertical element at different longitudinal locations throughout the Kind of the, the max cord section and in inner portion with the exception of like the, the immediate root section of the blade. But it's, it's interesting to me, besides just the, the general concept here, the timing of this was fascinating to me because they filed for this patent back in April of 2024. And the patent has now published in October and the question Is, is this a potential fix to a problem? Is this what's this really doing? Allen Hall: Well, it's stopping torsion is what it's doing, Phil. It's preventing the blade from twisting too much, which makes me think of a couple of blades that I'm familiar with that have torsion problems. Joel? Joel Saxum: Well, if you look at the image here, so I've crawled around in quite a few blades doing RCA's and failures, and you're always looking for failure modes, so you start getting into a different mindset of when you're crawling around in them. But In multiple blades that I've been in, there's an, what looks like an extra shear web in the, in some of like the max cord region and stuff like that, just to make sure that you keep that part of the shell supported and then that structure rigid there. And in this design, they're removing that extra shear web and putting these closeout plates in there. And it is exactly like you guys say, the design looks like an airplane wing with a bunch of ribs in it. And to me, in my mind I'm, I'm not a, trained structural engineer, but from engineering principles and just kind of physics and forces and a little bit of knowledge there, this to me looks like it could solve some, some pretty big issues. However, in maintenance, that makes things a little bit more difficult because maintenance and construction, because it's harder to place these things in construction, of course, and to get them right. We already sometimes have a hard enough time placing shear webs and getting those right. Now you're adding perpendicular components and multiple ...

Stadig ingen afgørelse i USA - Trump ligger stærkt. Aktiefutures i pæne plusser og renter peger op. Vestas falder 12 pct. på ny stor skuffelse. Lettelse for Ørsted i USA. Dan Jørgensen grillet i Parlamentet. Nvidia er nu større end Apple på markedsværdi. Vært: Lasse Ladefoged (lala@borsen.dk)

Der er masser at se til på de finansielle markeder i øjeblikket. Der er fuld gang i den danske regnskabssæson, hvor der blandt andet er landet nye tal fra Vestas, Ørsted og ISS. Og så er det i dag, at amerikanerne bevæger sig hen mod stemmeurnerne for at vælge mellem Kamala Harris og Donald Trump. Millionærklubben vender tirsdag regnskaberne og varmer op til valget i USA. Men vi zoomer også ud og søger efter aktieinspiration hos den danske investeringsforening Snowball Invest. Her er fokus nemlig på 'værdiskabende monopoler', og vi skal høre, hvorfor den type selskaber er interessante for investorerne at kigge efter. Med i panelet er Henrik Sparup, investor og porteføljemanager hos Snowball Invest, og Lau Svenssen, fast porteføljeforvalter i Millionærklubben samt chefanalytiker hos Svenssen & Tudborg. Vært: Adam Geil See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tesla-aktien brager op og Elon Musk scorer 180 mia. Vestas er faldet 40 pct. i år til laveste niveau siden 2020. Eli Lilly lancerer Mounjaro i Danmark. Volvo vil ikke hjælpe Northvolt. Europa halter efter USA. Trump har momentum i målingerne. Vært: Lasse Ladefoged (lala@borsen.dk)

Renew Holdings purchases Full Circle for £50M, following the UK decision lift restrictions on offshore wind. BlackRock's holding of voting rights and share in Vestas has increased to 7.59%. And EQT has acquired renewable developer OX2 for $1.58 Billion. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the founder and CEO of IntelStor Phil Totaro and the Chief Commercial Officer of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, Joel Saxum. And this is your News Flash. Newsflash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want mar, ket intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at intelstor.com. Renew Holdings and engineering service company base in Leeds has purchased full circle. Group Holding BV, a Dutch firm specializing in onshore wind turbine repair and maintenance. The acquisition, valued at 50 million pounds, was funded through Renew's existing resources and banking facilities. This move follows the new labor government's decision to lift restrictions on new onshore wind projects in England. Well, UK government changed and they have become more proactive on onshore wind. That made a nice little market for all the repair companies in the UK to be gobbled up by larger players. Philip Totaro: Yeah, precisely, and at the end of the day Full Circle is one that already has a lot of contracts in place on the aging fleet, so there are going to be repowering opportunities in addition to new build in, both Lower England, Scotland, Wales, et cetera. So you're, you're going to see a company like Full Circle continue to thrive, but all the other O& M shops and, and independent service providers over there are going to start probably getting a lot more attention and potentially work if you start seeing more build out in the market. The funny thing about the UK is even a lot of the, well in Ireland you'd have to say too, a lot of the new build, doesn't always get the OEM full service agreement. So they've tended to rely a little bit more on the independent service providers in that market, again, particularly for the older assets. So, this is a, it's, I guess it's a good time to be in the The service and repair business. Joel Saxum: I think you're going to continue to see a lot more of this happen. We've been talking about for the last few years is this market consolidation of these smaller ISPs. And I say smaller, but 50 million or 50 million pound acquisition is not a small acquisition. So full circle repairs, but having those contracts in place makes them attractive for an acquisition. So I know that you've seen some, there's been some larger ones scooping up and buying up and buying contracts and a little bit of mark margin compression and things over there in that market. I would still continue to look for, like, Renew Holdings. I don't know anything about the internal workings of that company, but I would bet this is not their last acquisition. And you've seen other large groups doing the same thing. Mulahan and some others. So, keep watching that space. Especially, like Phil, like you said, as the Labour Party has lifted that moratorium on work in the, in the UK. Allen Hall: Vestas has disclosed a notification from BlackRock regarding a change in its group structure. Following the acquisition of Global Infrastructure Management,

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This week on Uptime Power-Up, we discuss Siemens Gamesa's unique leading edge protection solution which uses a shock absorbing cavity for added cushion. Then Vestas' Utopus Insights patent that uses vibration monitoring to determine turbine health. And finally, a diaper for your bird, which Joel may be in the market for. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Phil, our first idea is a Siemens Gamesa, and this leading edge protection is a little bit different than things we have normally seen. It includes basically a cavity. So it's like a shell sort of device that would go on the leading edge, but it has a cavity with a shock absorbing medium. Inside of it. So it take the blows of the raindrops or the bugs or the hail. So it absorbs that energy. And then the, the wind turbine lives a long time. That's a interesting concept. I haven't seen Philip Totaro: it implemented yet though. I think because this patent application is also recent is probably something they're still testing. They've got a blade tip with a double layer with an elastomeric. Or, I mean, I guess they've described it in the patent as it could be anything kind of squishy, let's call it polymeric material, any kind of, squishy type material. But what their, what their theory is behind this is that Because the leading edge, the, particularly around the tip, your tip speed is so high on a wind turbine blade that when you impact a raindrop or you impact a bug, obviously it makes little dents and you hit enough, especially if you've got like a swarm of bugs or flies or something, it can actually act like you're, you're sandblasting the leading edge of the blade. And, everybody in the industry has probably seen, leading edge erosion and knows what it is. But the idea behind this is to say, all right, behind, the, the blade leading edge and the gel coat, there's this cavity with this, elastomeric damper kind of in there that would theoretically absorb some of that impact and also provide a, um, so it, it provides a rebound on the tip to, to allow it to maintain the aerodynamic profile. The elastomeric material can be shaped to conform to the cavity so that it will, it will maintain It's aerodynamic profile on the leading edge, regardless of the amount of tip damage. So there's, there's a potential performance and certainly noise benefit to it. But I mean, Joel, I'm, I guess I'm curious about this. There, there's other concepts out there, one from polytech included that seems kind of similar to this. Is this gonna be a thing? Joel Saxum: What i'm looking at this material is like I see it the concept makes sense. Everything is great We have been installing shells on turbines because that's what the installation of this will look like it'll look like a shell We've been installing shells for a long time You have armor edge polytech like those things those solutions are out there but the reason i'm looking at this one with a little bit of a side eye is If this thing starts to fail, if that front edge opens up and then you have this shock absorbing elastomeric compound all of a sudden exposed and this thing starts to open itself up,

Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Philip Totaro, and Joel Saxum discuss the evolution of wind turbine blade inspections, from external drones to internal rovers. They debate the potential of AI in predicting damage progression and managing repair priorities, with Rosemary emphasizing the complexity of crack propagation in composites. Joel highlights Top 7's innovative drone technology for detecting lightning protection system faults in blades, as featured in 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: On the mean streets of Lowville, New York, Phil that's your neck of the woods. The local Kraft Heinz plant has reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the largest cheesecake. Tipping the scales at a whopping 15, 008 pounds. Yes, that's right. That's seven and a half tons of creamy goodness. Joel Saxum: I absolutely love cheesecake. My brother loves cheesecake so much that's what he had at his wedding. He had a smorgasbord of different kinds of cheesecake that you could pick from. Allen Hall: They broke the record, almost double the record that was held from a team from Russia. So here we go. Now we're back into the 1980s. Olympic hockey Philip Totaro: exit no that's great that's good that's a good thing we should be world domination in cheesecake size Allen Hall: and Philip Totaro: wait. Allen Hall: Yeah why did we get an invite joel i don't understand we should've been top of the list to come to lowville. Philip Totaro: That's yeah that's what i'm saying like did they pass it out to everybody in town like how do you eat a cheesecake seven tons of cheesecake. Allen Hall: They donated to local food bank is what they did after everybody had a slice or two or three. But 15, 000 pounds of cheesecake. What's that in metric tons, Phil? Come on. I need a sense of this for the Europeans in our audience. 6. 8 metric tons. That's a lot of metric tons, but this, these are the things you got to keep your eyes open for, right? So if they're going for a world record. And anything food related, they need to be calling the Uptime Podcast and at least give us a heads up so we can plan our travel accordingly, because this cheesecake thing seems like we missed out. I'm Alan Hall and here are this week's top news stories. In our first story, Vestas has secured its largest onshore wind project to date in Japan. The company has received a 134 megawatt order from Invenergy. for the Inaniwa Wind Energy Center. The order includes 32 V117 4. 2 megawatt wind turbines and a 20 year service agreement. Deliveries are expected to begin in the first half of 2027 with commissioning planned for Q1 2028. Moving to Spain, Windar has started preparatory work to construct a new monopile factory. The facility will have the capacity to manufacture monopiles up to 12. 5 meters in diameter, 3, 500 tons, and 130 meters in length. With an annual capacity of 100 to 120 monopiles, the factory aims to supply wind farms in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, as well as the East Coast of the United States. In a significant development for the Mediterranean region, nine Southern European Union member countries have pledged to turn the area into a renewable energy hub. Officials from Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain are focusing on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy. They aim to set up a joint renewable energies project across borders and ...

This week we discuss Vestas' system to determine the quality of wind turbine blades before recycling and Siemens Gamesa's noise reduction idea. Then Crosswind's blade pitching system to increase wake mixing and a seemingly common to patch a hole in the wall. Visit https://www.intelstor.com/ to inquire about their IP Prism services! 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power-Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall and IntelStor's, Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right, Phil, this week, a number of really interesting ideas. This first one comes from Vestas and it is about recycling a wind turbine blades. And it's a, it's sort of a different approach. The quality of the material that they can recycle out of a wind turbine blade is obviously based upon how that blade has been treated or how, what its life looked like ahead of time. So they're The patent idea is to use machine learning to determine the quality of the recycled material up front, so they can process the blades more efficiently. That's an interesting approach. Come on. Vestas, Philip Totaro: obviously, very creative company. And to be able to characterize the, the lifespan of the material prior to trying to take it into the recycling phase. Because the quality of the material that you're recycling may end up impacting the, post recycling usage. So for instance, if you're trying to put it into concrete, you may need a certain grade of, fiber. That, that is something that could, as, as the industry continues to kind of grow with this recycling initiatives. This could come into play in the future, again, I don't know that you necessarily need machine learning to facilitate all this, I think that's a bit of a buzzword y, aspect of the invention, but Joel Saxum: In the grand scheme of things, the way I'm looking at this problem is this, recycling a blade engineer, or blades, hot topic. AI machine learning, hot topic, great way for Vestas to throw these together and boost this thing out for an ESG stamp that says, we're working on this and we're using AI to blah, blah, blah. At the end of the day, you need the bill of materials with what the blade was originally built with, and you need to know whether they got some crazy kind of LEP on it, or different blade coding for de icing or something, and that's it. Allen Hall: The second idea comes from Siemens Gamesa and. It's the, the Bose headset of wind turbine blades. That's the only way I can describe this thing where it's a noise reduction system. It's active noise. So what they do like Bose does is they create an opposite signal. To, to knock, to cancel the, the noise that the blade is making. So they have an actuator that sits on the blade and then it has speakers in it and a little gas chamber to improve its sound ability. And they can do active noise canceling on a blade. Now Phil, what I'm wondering is, it's a, it's a cool idea and it's been used in aircraft for a long time. Is it something that would be used on a Winturn blade? I mean, they only have very, very narrow applications, I would think. Philip Totaro: Here's what's interesting about it, is you're correct that I, I haven't actually seen this in use.

This week, Allen, Joel and Phil discuss RES acquiring drone inspection company Sulzer Schmid, EDF Renewables entering the Korean offshore market, and Equinor's choice to downsize their renewables division. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech. And I'm here with the founder and CEO of IntelStor, Phil Totaro and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, Joel Saxum. And this is your News Flash. News Flash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want market intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at IntelStor. com. RES has acquired Solzer Schmidt. A Swiss firm specializing in autonomous drone inspections for wind turbine blades. This acquisition aims to strengthen RES's digital solutions and operations and maintenance services. Solzer Schmidt's 3DX blade platform uses autonomous drones for wind turbine blade inspections, providing 100 percent coverage and high quality inspection data, which is one of the reasons that RES acquired them, obviously. Phil, there's just, does seem to be a number of inspection companies and O& M companies merging to grow bigger and bigger at the moment. Philip Totaro: There is. And what's interesting about this deal isn't so much, the, the companies specifically getting together. It's the fact that yet another O& M company or an O& M generalist. Is getting a specialist in doing something, whether it's blade inspections, whether it's gearboxes, whether it's anything. This has been happening over the past six or, nine months and we've been talking about it on, on Newsflash. And the reality of this is, this is yet another kind of piece of the puzzle where you're gonna see more and more consolidation in the O& M space because the generalist O& M firms need the, the specialists not only for the contracts that they've got in place but also these capabilities because a company like res can bring scale to what they're doing here and it's it's an impressive thing. We didn't see any financial details of the deal disclosed, but it's still an impressive opportunity for for both companies to be able to. Continue moving forward together. Joel Saxum: So, Sulzer Schmid and the ebb and flow of drone companies has kind of its own carved out spot. They do a lot of work in the, in Europe. They recently had a contract to inspect over 4, 000 turbines with Vestas over in Europe. I think they've had it for two years. So that's very impressive on their side. They've gone in some of the technological directions of some of the others with You can fly your own, train your pilots on site fly your own drone. Here's a smaller drone with an autonomous flight software as a, as as well as their, big enterprise drones to do inspections, but what's really, it really is a shining part of their business is their software as a service. So that 3DX blade platform, if you've ever used it is very, very good. It's seamless. It's easy to look at inspections. The quality is there. So, big, good pickup by R. E. S. to grab Soltar Schmidt in my mind, probably the, the best fit for someone to grab right now of the large drone inspection companies, you have your Skyspecs and stuff, and they're starting to grow arms and legs themselves, whereas Soltar Schmidt has remained in the kind of that The niche that's good for an acquisition.

This week Allen and Phil discuss Siemens Gamesa's accordion nacelle idea, Vestas's innovative yaw control system, LM Windpower's LEP install tool, and a helpful beach relaxation invention. Visit https://www.intelstor.com/ to learn more about their IP Prism services. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and idasaurus Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Hey Phil, the first thing on our list today is a unique patent idea from Siemens Gamesa. Which is for a wind turbine nacelle with movable sections to expand it out. Kind of like Louis Armstrong's cheeks when he's blowing that trumpet. It just pops out. And gives you a little more space to get some work done on the nacelles. This is a pretty cool idea, even though I have, we've seen other versions of this, we haven't seen an expandable version of this, others have tried something similar though, right? Philip Totaro: Yeah, so this, Allen, this is basically what I've dubbed like the accordion nacelle, or bagpipe nacelle, I don't know what you want to, how you want to label it, but the idea here is, and look, the bottom line is, I, to be blunt, I actually think this is a terrible patent, but it's a clever idea, and I'll explain what I mean by all that. So, in the world of going and, capturing innovation, whatever industry you're in, You want to be able to capture Patentable ideas on things that a you're going to use and manufacture because then it's it's protecting your own business or you want to get patents on things that are actually things that a competitor might want to use And by having the patent, you basically blocked them from, from going down that technological path. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is this particular patent from Siemens Gamesa accomplishes that, because I don't think that they're gonna use this idea, and I don't think that Competitors would necessarily use this idea. So, however What I do like about this is the, the inventiveness of the concept and the way that the engineers were thinking and doing the creative problem solving around a legitimate transportation related issue that we have in the industry. So for those of you that aren't familiar, there are certain transportation constraints that we've got in, in wind energy where, particularly if you're trying to ship something, that has to fit underneath a bridge, overpass, or through a tunnel, You might have certain restrictions on things like the nacelle width and height, the blade root, the maximum chord of a blade, things like that, or even the tower diameter, and it creates certain technological challenges. And so that's actually why I flagged this idea to talk about today is because this is really great problem solving and very creative problem solving to say, look, We've got this challenge where in order to transport something, it's got to fit within those constraints of being, approximately 4. 2 meters. Or less it's about, what, 22, 23 feet or less for, for those of us on the, on the English system but the, the, there are different ways to skin a cat, basically Vestas has come up with this idea of having basically, cargo containers that are converted, or specifically manufactured,

Joel and Phil dive in to liquidated damages and how the industry can avoid big payouts. GE Vernova is dealing with another offshore blade failure in the UK, and our thoughts on the latest renewable energy Instagram craze. And, a discussion on a very full eagle! If you have encountered metal staples in a GE 2.X-116 or 127 blades, reach out to Joel at joel.saxum@wglightning.com. There's still time to register for AMI Event's Wind Turbine Blade Conference in October 2-3rd! Click here - AMI Boston Wind Blade Conference Need low-cost lightning strike sensors for your turbine? Email Joel at Joel.saxum@wglightning.com. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: All right. Really urgent news story here. A supposedly injured bald eagle. Now, remember that the bald eagle is America's bird. Is it America's bird or national animal? National mammal? And it's also like the national symbol too. It's a national symbol. There we go. All right. So a supposedly injured bald eagle, which is America's national symbol. Was rescued from a national park in Missouri and found it was acting like it was too injured to fly, but they took poor Eagle in and did an x ray on it and realized. That it was just full of raccoon. What? It was full? It had too much food? Yeah, it was found healthy, but engorged with raccoon. In other words, too fat to fly. Philip Totaro: Is there tryptophan in raccoons? Allen Hall: Oh, there may be. Joel Saxum: I'll tell you a fun fact about the eagle as the United States national symbol. Ben Franklin actually wanted it to be the turkey. And his reason. His reasoning was, eagles are actually scavengers and they eat dead things and turkeys don't. Allen Hall: Both of those birds are huge. If you've ever been anywhere near a bald eagle, they are massive creatures. I, the thing that bothers me about this is that eagle was living large, relaxing, chilling, and then somebody grabbed him! Somebody scooped him up and with the x ray in him, the next thing he knows, it's like he's waking up in a hospital and all he wanted to do was watch the Cowboys game, I'm Allen Hall and I'll be joined by the rest of the Uptime hosts after these news headlines. Denmark is making waves in the renewable energy sector with a massive 13 billion euro investment in offshore wind power. Aiming to boost capacity by 10 gigawatts across three areas. This ambitious plan, representing the largest tender for offshore wind power ever issued in Denmark, introduces a novel financing model where companies are required to make concession payments and co invest with the state. Which will retain a 20 percent stake in each project. This initiative is expected to create thousands of jobs with estimates suggesting that each gigawatt of offshore wind power could generate around 9, 500. Direct and indirect positions and require a capital investment of approximately 2. 1 billion euros. Beyond meeting national energy needs, the expanded capacity is set to position Denmark as a key exporter of electricity to neighboring countries. and a producer of green hydrogen. The European Commission's wind power package is breathing new life into the continent's wind industry with major players like Vestas and Siemens Energy expanding their operations. Vestas is establishing a new nacelle and blade factory in Poland, potentially creating over 1, 700 direct jobs by 2026. While Siemens Energy plans to hire around 4,