WindEnergy Hamburg Review, GE & SGRE announce layoffs

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

What did we really learn at WindEnergy Hamburg? Joel and Allen offer more insight and perspective from the show and say the US has a lot to learn from its European wind counterparts. But with those challenges, they see major opportunities as well. What can US companies learn about structuring operations, providing solutions, and other things? Of course Siemens Gamesa and GE have made headlines recently, too. With Siemens' layoff of 2900 employees and GE's 20% reduction of staff in onshore wind, we discuss how the industry may respond. GE Renewable Energy's CEO already responded - by resigning - and last week, Siemens Gamesa replaced its CEO of onshore wind. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.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 134 Allen Hall: Hello, Hello, Hello everyone. We have a great show for you. This. We just got back from Wind Energy Hamburg. So we're gonna have a, a big review of all the sites and sounds from WindEnergy Hamburg, and the things that Joel Saxum: we learned. So one of the other things we're gonna dive into this week is some of the big news from some of the OEMs. A lot of layoffs happening. So ge doing some layoffs some executives leaving Siemens Gamesa as well, and what that means to the general wind. 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's on maternity leave, and you are listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. All right, Joel, we just got back from Wind Energy Hamburg, where we had a really busy show, and I, I just wanted to get your thoughts on what you saw at the show and some of the new technology and impressions from, that big conference. Joel Saxum: Yeah. You know, I've been around multiple industries of, of trade shows for the last 10, 15 years, and I have never seen one that. I think the preliminary numbers, we saw 30,000 people the size of the show and all the different conferences and, you know, in areas. I mean, it was, Hey, I want to go over to the Danish pavilion and it's a 10 minute walk across this place. Yes. That's how big it is to get there. And, you know, us as Americans as opposed to the Europeans not used to walking as much. So that, that, that factored in. But you know, just, just to kind of give the the listeners and, and the YouTube viewers here, just a little bit of a thought. This is how it was. Sometimes we are carrying, go somewhere to get a cup of coffee to one of the little, you know, canteens or whatever, try to walk back to go have a meeting or, or go to a booth or chat with someone else. And you had to specifically pick which aisle you would walk down. To avoid the people. So you didn't spill your coffee. That's how busy it was. Yeah. So great turnout in Hamburg for everybody that was there. And it was the same from everybody I talked to. Every busy or every booth was busy. I had couple of times, you know, I tried to talk to some of the, the guests we've had in the show in the past, you know, the rope robotics guys and stuff and Yeah. And some of the other cool tech companies, Blade Bug and whatnot. And he would walk by their. Four or five times, and they were busy every time and you didn't want, you know, they don't wanna barge in. They might be talking to a customer who's actually gonna, you know, buy some services. So I don't wanna, I don't wanna mess with that. But then the, the conference was so big that you didn't,