Tower Tips, Spiral Towers, Monopiles, SENSEWind, Spies, Black Rock Wind Farm

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Joel Saxum and Allen Hall review the latest info from the tower tip-over at the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm in Illinois. Keystone Tower Systems completes its first spiral welded tower for GE, and signs a big agreement for many more. The first monopile for Vineyard Wind is shipped from Germany to kick-off the build. SENSEWind developed a new method of assembling a wind turbine - could it be a game changer? The Netherlands is tracking submarines in their offshore wind farms, and our Wind Farm of the Week is Black Rock Wind Farm in West Virginia. 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 154 Allen Hall: Joel, I'm working on six different time zones today, , and that's the way it's been for the last two or three weeks. All around the world. We're getting phone calls and Zoom calls Northern Hemisphere, Southern hemisphere. It, it, it does add up for a small business when you're dealing with so many time zones. Joel Saxum: Oh, man. I was, I was thinking before when, before you hopped on here today and I was, we were talking, I was, I have talked through four. and I thought I was busy. And you're over here with six different times. Those under your belt. And then it's, it's not even dark yet. Yeah, Allen Hall: it's not dark. I, I still have time. Australia will be calling here in a minute. . There you go. You're up to Joel Saxum: seven. Lucky number seven. Allen Hall: Number seven. There it is. I think I've set the record at least for this week. There you go. Well, we have a lot of wind energy news this week. The big win in America is that a wind tur been tipped over in Illinois. While that's the, a big talking point, I'm not. But it is all the rage on LinkedIn, so we'll, we'll talk about it. More importantly Keystone and GE connect on the spiral steel towers, and that's something I have been waiting for, for uhno a year or two. And I'm just on Looker, but I think that's a really cool Joel Saxum: project. We'll jump over since wind and we're gonna talk about this company coming outta the UK that is doing something. Okay. Basically a cli, a self erecting tower, or Alan during the episode has his own New term for this tower technology. And then we'll speak about the Netherlands accusing Russia of spying on some of their offshore wind farms. Not sure why or how Google Earth is your friend to find this stuff out, but the Russians are in that corner of the world peeking around also. Touching again on some tower technology. We speak a little bit about the first monopile that's on its way to vineyard wood one off the CO east coast of the us. So that's happening now. And then to close out the episode our new. Feature is the Wind Farm of the week. We're gonna talk about the BlackRock Wind Farm in West Virginia and what they're doing over there with the new five megawatt Siemens Kamasa machines. I'm Allen Hall: Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard, lightning Tick. And I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxum. And the soon to be guest host, fully charged Live. Rosemary isn't here today, but should be back next week, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel officials for R W E Renewables are investigating what caused one of their wind turbines to fall over at its Pioneer Trail Wind Farm up in Illinois. The turbine was taken offline earlier because it was leanin...