Denmark Offshore Stopped by EU, UK Policy, Arcosa Tower Win, DroneBase now Zeitview

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Rosemary and Allen are shocked by the EU stopping over 30 offshore wind projects in Denmark. In the UK, a variety of policy decisions exasperates wind developers. The new US green policy tsar unloads on Europe and creates chaos. Edge Solutions' new leading edge protection solution (Armour Edge) may change the industry. SGRE reopens their Kansas nacelle plant and Arcosa wins $750M in new orders. Zeitview (formerly DroneBase) raises $55M. And, our Wind Farm of the Week is the Sweetland Wind Farm in South Dakota! Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.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 157 Allen Hall: Rosemary, you just got back from fully charged live in Australia, in Sydney, in the, in the big. How did that go? Rosemary Barnes: I think there were like 15,000 people-ish there. And yeah, the live sessions were mostly packed with all seats filled and a few rows deep of, of standing people for, for most of the sessions that I did. And it was actually, it was. Time that I got a chance to, you know, meet a lot of the, the viewers of YouTube channel. And it's funny because, you know, like YouTube attracts a, attracts quite introverted people I think because you just, you know, like I just sit in my office and make videos on my smartphone and I was a bit surprised that you know, that can lead to people. Interested enough to, you know, stand in line and, and wait to talk to me. Enjoyed the show and I'm looking forward to next year. They've already, yeah, already announced that they're coming Allen Hall: back next year. Wow, that's fantastic. Well, just like the fully charged live event, it was packed full of people. This week's uptime is packed full of news. And a, a couple of different things here. And we we're getting a lot of requests to do more news from the European Union. So we have today is your day. And some of those top items are Denmark is being stopped by the EU on about 30 wind farms because it's possibly violated some EU law. So it's putting a. Denmark offshore, wind on hold for the moment. And, and in the UK there's a lot of concerns about funding an investment for a number of offshore wind projects and onshore solar projects because the economy is just a little bit in chaos and, and there's too many forces at play at the moment. And meanwhile, the United States, cause this has to do with the eu, the Clean Energy Czar in the United States is sort of telling off the eu. And I'm not sure that's a good idea because I thought we were all partners in. Rosemary Barnes: And then we're gonna talk about maybe a consequence of ira, which is a Siemens CESA wind farm opening or, you know, coming out from its moth balling in the US and at the same time closing one in Brazil. And then we're gonna talk about our leading edge protection solution, which is just finished a, a big rollout on a wind farm in Europe. Allen Hall: And we take a look down in New Mexico where Aosa is announced a $750 million. Order. For Towers down in the southwest of the United States. And then we also take a, a quick look back at Drone Base, which is now Zeit View and the 55 million they received in funding our Wind Farm of the week. You have to listen to the end of the program and hear it, but it's based in South Dakota. So if you're in South Dakota listening, make sure you listen because you may be the wind farmer of the week.