Wind Blade Manufacturing Offload, 100% Renewable Grids, UK Onshore Battery, Fun times in France

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Vestas and TPI agree to blade manufacturing contracts. Will OEM's subcontract manufacturing of blades to lower risk and costs? Australia is planning for 100% renewable grids. What hurdles remain and what lessons can be learned? Tesla installs grid battery onshore near Dogger Bank offshore wind farm - Rosemary has questions...and an employee was terminated in France for not being "fun". Joel, Rosemary and Allen discuss the details. 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 142 Allen Hall: It's almost holiday season. Well, I guess it is a holiday season. Happy Thanksgiving, Joel. I guess we both had Thanksgiving. I, I saw some pictures on, on slack of, of a Turkey slash cranberry. Oh yeah. Delicious Rosemary, you you did see the, you did see that big plate. Joel, Joel was not cutting back at than time. Joel Saxum: You can't see, you can't see my belly underneath the camera here, but it's still big Allen Hall: Yeah, so US Americans are pretty full from the, the Thanksgiving holiday. It, it was actually a really nice holiday. We, we had decent weather in America and there was really no travel hiccups. Thank goodness everybody got home safe. This week for the podcast, we have a lot going on, and again, it's one of these crazy news weeks. Where there's just so much renewable news happening. Vestus is, is working with TPI on manufacturing blades and maybe making some off offshore blades, it sounds like, which would be great for TPI and for Vestus. And then Siemens is gonna be closing a plant in Morocco, a blade plant in Morocco. And it looks like OEMs are starting to get outta the blade business and transfer some of the load onto independent operators and Rosemary Barnes: more good news for investors with a big order in Australia. And then a couple of other Australian stories. There's one gigawatt wind farm plant in Queensland that's now been announced over double in size to two gigawatts. And also looking forward, Australia's energy market operator has mapped out a route to a hundred percent instantaneous renewables, which they expect to happen in 2025. So we'll talk about some of the engineering things they have to take care of before that can happen. Joel Saxum: So then we're jumping back over to the UK and we'll talk about Tesla building a, a, what, what would be Europe's largest battery into the grid. And it's right near where the dog or bank Wind Farm is off or coming ashore. So really cool to see the, those additions to the grid in the UK and see what it can happen in the future. And last but not least, a French man wins the right not to be fun at work. So, we'll, we'll dive into that and have a little bit of a prelude to our holiday season around the world, and have a little Allen Hall: fun with it. I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Garden Lightning Tech. And I'm here with Australian Renewables guru Rosemary Barnes. and my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxon, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. All right. Rosemary Vestus has signed a multi-year agreement with one of your former competitors, TPI Composites. And this gets into the future of who's gonna make blades, particularly in the United States, but I, I think this is gonna move worldwide. TPI is already making blades for Vestus, has made them for a little while,