Vestas Success, Equinor RWE Hydrogen, Purdue HydroDrive, AIRTub, Eolink 5MW Offshore Demo

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

If Vestas' HUGE 4th Quarter portends good news for OEMs - wind is a seller's market right now - what does it mean for smaller manufacturers, third-parties and consumers? Allen, Joel and Rosemary look a few months into the future. GE Healthcare is trading now; what can we expect this year, before the energy holdings, GE Vernova, spin off in 2024? The Uptime crew also discusses hydrogen - green, blue, gray and otherwise - and some cool new technology. Could gearboxes and generators work on the ground? It sounds unlikely, but engineers at Purdue University have some interesting designs. And in France, Eolink will demo a full-scale, 5MW floating pyramid turbine by 2024. How have they moved so quickly when others are still in the concept phase? Tune in for market insight, engineering and technology news and stay up-to-date in the wind business. 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 Eolink - http://eolink.fr/en/ 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! 147 Audio [00:00:00] Allen: Rosemary, I saw that TikTok is now the number one advertising source in the world. It's surpassing Google and Facebook, which is very odd. So I guess we're going to have to transition ourselves from the YouTube world over to TikTok, and I was hoping not to do that because, you know, It's TikTok. [00:00:20] Allen: Yeah, [00:00:20] Rosemary: I'm not, I'm not going to TikTok. Well, it's hard enough to get my video for like 15 minutes. Am I supposed to communicate any kind of meaningful amount of engineerings in 60 seconds? Well, yeah. [00:00:32] Allen: I, I'm just getting familiar with bereal and I think that has something to do with just engineers have a proclivity to talk about things longer than they probably should. [00:00:44] Allen: And this episode's gonna be one of those cases actually, because we, we, we, we, we talked about vestus sales and they had a huge quarter in the fourth quarter. Last year, 2022 5 billion, over 5 billion euros. That's a, that's an amazing number. And meanwhile, GE Ver Nova's market cap looks to be about 13 billion in total when they break off in GE and beginning of 2024. [00:01:10] Allen: So there's a, a big difference between those two. And, and then we take a quick look this week at Equinor RWE working on some hydrogen projects and of course rosemary has a lot of insight on that. Blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, gray, hydrogen. , no hydrogen, all electric And then we there's a really interesting concept coming out of Purdue and I, I kind of poo poo it, but I don't mean to poo poo it in this episode because it, it is, I like new ideas. [00:01:38] Allen: And Purdue has a new idea about using, essentially a hydro drive using water to drive turbine. Drive generators using the turbines as a power source. Makes sense. And then we, at, at the end here, we talk about EO link. And they're, they have that pyramidal shaped wind turbine, very similar tot Omega here in the States. [00:01:58] Allen: But EEO link is massively ahead and they're gonna make a demonstrator five megawatt demonstrator. That's gonna be a big winter bin. They're hoping to have that in the water by 2024 for an offshore demonst. Genius and glad. I'm glad that they're doing it. I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Ticket, and I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxon and the Pride of Australia, Rosemary Barnes,