GE Pushes Factories, NY Showdown, Aerones, Iberdrola Sale, Nucor Steel, Elk Wind Farm

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

This week we discuss new technology, jobs, and some interesting business developments. Aerones' latest modular robot is 5x faster than humans,repairing up to Level 3 LEE damage and halting progression of up to Level 5 erosion. Then we leap from Latvia to Kentucky, where Nucor's new factory is making Elcyon, "creating the first domestic supply chain of sustainable steel" in the US - and it's specifically for designed for the demands of offshore energy. Rosemary posits that the economics of recycled steel may outweigh the environmental benefits, but it's a win for the state and the industry. New York could be the big winner in jobs, with BP and GE including new factories in their bid packages, while Invenergy signed a MOU with North America's Building Trades Union to sweeten its bid. Joel thinks he understands why Iberdrola is selling wind sites in the US, but says there may be more to it. The wind industry is not slowing down. Keep up with Uptime! 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 151 Allen Hall: So we came on the podcast today, Joel, Rosemary checked in and her first comment was about the sweater I'm wearing. It took like maybe five seconds before she's on top of me about my sweater. Joel Saxum: It's beautiful, Allen. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful cardigan. It's not a sweater, it's a cardigan. It's fantastic. Allen Hall: It's a cardigan, right? There you go. And I'm here to the whaling territory of America. Right? This is sort of like's what the whalers used to wear. It's cold in Massachusetts. It's awful. And it's wets Allen Hall: too. It's awful. Joel Saxum: If you're new to the podcast, what you'll understand from that comment is that Rosemary usually doesn't have a filter. She's gonna tell you how it is and what she feels, and that's why we love her. Joel Saxum: Yeah. So this, this is a really fun episode, because Rosemary is completely filterless this week. And we're gonna talk about Aerones over in Latvia. Talking about really going after a big marketplace. Joel Saxum: They're, they're going to be doing leading edge repairs with AkzoNobel has the sealant fixed to keep those leading edges clean and making power. And then we, then we shift gears over to New York State and there's a lot happening offshore in New York State with the New York State bid process. All the companies that are just offshore trying to make bids into the state, the state's only looking for two gigawatts, and there's a lot more power offshore than two gigawatts at the moment. Joel Saxum: So, A bunch of shuffling, including GE proposing to, to build two new facilities in New York State, a new blade facility with LM Wind Power, and then an a cell facility right next door. Lot of action Joel Saxum: there. We're also gonna talk about ebra Jola. So for the technicians in the field that may be working on one and wind farm, and they come to work the next day and it's owned by someone else what we see is that with the availability of capital for, for their developments, that's going to become more commonplace and Iberdrola is making some big moves to shift around their capital base to, to put some more renewable energy in the ground. Joel Saxum: That's actually, that's what we're thinking, right? We don't work for iro, so we don't know. And then we're gonna get back to Rosemary talking losing her filt...