Dominion Offshore, Siemens Takeover, Gravity Foundations, ArcVera Wakes, AeroLightning with Nicholas Gaudern

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Rosemary and Allen review the latest news from Dominion Energy's offshore negotiations with Virginia and the Siemens acquisition of SGRE. Low-cost offshore gravity foundations are installed France with great results - will they be the future in offshore? Allen is excited about a YouTube video from ArcVera on wake turbulence. Back at WindEnergy Hamburg Allen and Joel discuss the latest in AeroLightning with Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of PowerCurve. 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 ArcVera YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPz5JN0UBoM 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 140 Audio Pod Cut 1 Allen Hall: Rosemary Joel is enjoying himself in sunny California. So it's just you and me for this episode. And we have a, a special guest here, actually. Rosemary, you wanna introduce everybody? Rosemary Barnes: Yep. This is my, my little boy who's. Four and a half weeks old and just so, so keen to get started on engineering communication that he's decided to join the podcast today, So Allen Hall: we're excited to have him along with us. And we, we talk about some really interesting topics this week. Dominion Energy is finally settled with the state of Virginia on their offshore wind costs. And that's good news. Spanish regulators have agreed to let Siemens, me. Be acquired by Siemens in a $4 billion plus takeover. And Siemens is also trying to restructure itself as part of its mystro program to, to really grow that company. And then we have Rosemary. I go back and forth about some gravity based foundations that are being installed in France, which are, is an interesting technology because it just lowers the cost of foundations. It's a little complicated in terms of, of how they're deployed, but it's lower cost and you think you're gonna see that in the United States. And then I, I crossed a video from a ArcVera recently on YouTube, and everybody just subscribed to ArcVera's YouTube channel because they have really cool things there. We talk about wake turbulence on offshore wind farms, and our career has published some of their research in a long webinar. It's about an hour long, but it's well worth the time to, to sit through that and understand the difficulties in the, in the concerns about wake turbulence on offshore winds. At the end of this, we have an interview with Joel and I do over in Germany. We sat down with Nicholas Ern, CTO of Power Curved. We talk about pretty much all things aerodynamics, lightning and wind, Turbin blade, so that's a really great interview. Stay tuned for that. I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with Australian Blade Whiz, Rosemary Barnes and Joel living it up in California. And this. Is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Well, Rosemary, it's, it's great to have you back and Dominion Energy. Is resolved their dispute with the state of Virginia. Like I said before, when Rosemary comes back, the world starts to settle down a little bit. Things are, things are calming down, there's less fires to put out, and one of them is this dominion energy state of Virginia issue. And remember that Dominion's gonna to put about 176 wind turbines off the coast of Virginia and the state of Virginia through some of the regulatory bodies, was asking for a 42% capacity factor in domin. Said no and very strongly said no.