Commonwealth Wind Impasse, Staten Island Boom, Floating Solar & Wind

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Rosemary's back, and the full Uptime crew has a lively discussion about PPAs, wind's political problems, shipping challenges, and the future of QC for offshore blades. PLUS, if you'd like to double your retention rate for wind turbine techs, don't miss the 3S Lift interview. Earlier this month, New York's Arthur Kill Offshore Wind Terminal Project got a $48M grant to begin work on the offshore wind staging and assembly facility off Staten Island, NY - and other ports got funding, too. But all is not well on the US side of the Atlantic: Avangrid said its Commonwealth Wind project is "no longer viable" and asked for a one-month delay to review and renegotiate PPAs. Massachusetts DPU denied the request. Who will blink? What will it take to get the project back on track? Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com 3S Lift - http://www.3Slift.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! Uptime 138 Audio Pod Cut 1 Allen Hall: Well, it's been a busy week at Uptime. We have a pack show in Rosemary's back. We're Joel Saxum: happy to have her as well. So we're gonna speak about Avan grid raising some red flags in their US offshore development plans with pricing and PPAs, and also kind of slide into what that means for the US ship builders and, and what they're thinking about of being a little bit hesitant to start building some of these vessels. And then also along the same lines of the US offshore push is a Staten Island area is getting some. To build out a good port facility to get these New York facilities Allen Hall: up and running. And China is building the first offshore solar and wind combined facility. And then I have a great interview with RS Lift, America's President, Jill Shone, and we talk about all things lifts. So stay tuned. It's, it's a great episode. I'm Allen Hall, President of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with Australian Blade Wiz Rosemary Barnes, and my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxon. And this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Rosemary Barnes: Well, Allen Hall: Rosemary's back. After a long break and welcome Rosemary to the show again. . Thank you for being here. We had a really nice break, I take it. We missed Rosemary Barnes: you. Yeah. Very relaxing. Yeah. , I've got a three and a half old little boy now, so. Yeah, he's been taking up my time, but he's with his dad now, so hope we can get through a podcast without any crying babies. Allen Hall: we have a new policy. We're calling it the Rosemary policy and, and Rosemary, you can't leave anymore because since you left, the Queen died. UK has two, has had two prime ministers, , Right? We're in some sort of conflict in Ukraine. No one can figure out quite yet. And you know, inflation is rampant. The world's practically on fire at this point. You know, it all seems to correlate about the time you. Took off. So welcome back. Maybe the world will come Rosemary Barnes: back in order. I think some of those things happened before I went away, and others, I'm not a hundred percent sure that I'm directly responsible. Joel Saxum: And we got no diesel fuel after the United States either. Allen Hall: And no diesel fuel. That's exact. Yeah. Right. Really? Yeah. Pretty much out of everything in the states right now. Rosemary Barnes: More Allen Hall: electric cars than That's right. It's so, it's, it is a, a great time to have rosemary back because we have a lot to talk about...