Sandia Blade Conference, California Wind Auction, Martin Huus Bjerge of Rope Robotics

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Joel has first impressions from the 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop, where engineers and manufacturers talked development, standards, and (just a little) about LCOE. The first California offshore wind auction is scheduled for December 6th. If you like risk, there's still time to get your bids in. BONUS: in a brief interview with Rope Robotics CEO Martin Bjerge, find out how new tools and techniques can make structural repairs and improve LEP. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Ping - ping.services Rope Robotics - www.roperobotics.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 136 Allen Hall: Hello everyone. We have a great show for you this week. Joel reports on the Sandia Blade conference down in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And then we have a discussion about the California offshore wind auction, how much money is gonna be bid in that auction in December. And then we have a special interview from our time at Wind Energy Hamburg, where I discussed the latest news from Rope Robotics with their CEO Martin Bjerge. Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, President of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxum, Rosemary is on a well deserved break, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Allen Hall: Well, Joel, you're down in Albuquerque at the Sandia Blade Conference. Do you wanna give us a little bit of highlights of what's happening down there this week? Joel Saxum: Yeah, absolutely. I think the last count, there was about 200 people here which is good turn out for, you know, a technical workshop focusing on just one, one portion. Joel Saxum: So the majority of the people you're seeing here, a lot of owner operators, because it is Sandia. All the, all the smart researchers are here from Sandia and NREL, and Berkeley. And I met a couple of guys from GE that are up by you in the Oh, wow. Schenectady and they're, they're a part of research, but they're like, Oh, we work a little bit in aerospace, a little bit wind, a little bit of this. Joel Saxum: So some really cool smart people here. Of course, but a lot of good, interesting topics. They've got the, the conference or workshops. Kind of neat. I like it because it's four days, right. But if you are just able to come in for, to listen to some panel discussions, all the panel discussions are on Tuesday. Joel Saxum: All the podium talks are on Wednesday, and then it's bookmarked by on Monday. There's like like working group kind of things. And then on Thursday it's the same thing. So they're looking at talking through some standards and some other stuff on those in like more of a, a town hall type situation. Joel Saxum: Wow. Yeah. And then you know, the panels were great. Some of the panels were, one of 'em was full of owners and operators and getting to hear some of their pain points and the things that they're doing was great. And then that led into today, which is Wednesday of a lot of podium talks. Joel Saxum: But one thing I wanted to touch on as well is that this, the people from Sandia put the conference. And, and they opened it with saying, Hey, we're just a bunch of engineers. We threw this conference together in our spare time, in between experiments. But they've done a great job. You know, the, the, the hotel and stuff that we're at has been fantastic. Joel Saxum: They've organized some events put the, the the program together in a very, very good way.