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The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

著者: Allen Hall Rosemary Barnes Joel Saxum & Phil Totaro
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Uptime is a renewable energy podcast focused on wind energy and energy storage technologies. Experts Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum and Phil Totaro break down the latest research, tech, and policy. 地球科学 生物科学 科学
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  • Funding vs Engineering, Edinburgh and WOMA Plans
    2025/11/25
    Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss Modvion's €39M grant for wooden wind turbine towers, leading to a discussion about funding vs. engineering readiness in the wind industry. Plus they highlight Veolia's blade recycling advances in PES Wind Magazine. And the Weather Guard team announces they'll be in Edinburgh for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia 2026!Learn more about CICNDT! 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! Allen Hall: A portion of the Weather Guard team. We're headed to Scotland for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight, which is gonna happen on December 11th in Edinburgh. We're gonna attend that and it's gonna be a, a number of great offshore companies there. We're hoping to interview a couple of them while we're there. But Joel, this is a real opportunity, uh, for offshore companies in the UK to showcase what they can do and they can get on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel Saxum: Of course. So we're flying over the sixth and seventh there over the weekend. And we will be, uh, in Edinburgh, uh, on the eighth. So Monday morning through Thursday. Thursday and Thursday is the or E Catapult event. And yeah, we're excited to see some of the companies that are gonna be there, interview some of them, get the, the picture, uh, of the uk um, supply chain, right? Because I think it's a really cool event that they're doing. I'd love to see other countries do that. I'd love to see the US do that. Um. Just say like, Hey, this is, these are the companies, the up and [00:01:00] comers and the, the people that are changing the game and, and kinda give them a platform to speak on. So we're excited to do that. It's gonna be a one day event. Um, love to see some people join us, but the other side of that thing is we're gonna be over in Scotland. So we're, well, we've got a couple meetings in Glasgow, a couple meetings in Borough. So if you are around the area, um, of course we're linking up people on the uptime network, but, uh. If you're around the area and you want to, you wanna chat anything wind, or maybe you got lightning protection problems, get ahold of us. 'cause we'll be over there and, uh, happy to drop in and uh, share coffee with you. Allen Hall: It's just part of Weather Guards and the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast outreach to the world. So we're gonna be in Scotland for an entire week. We're heading down to Melbourne, Australia for probably a couple of weeks while we're down that way. And we will be somewhere near you over the next year probably. It's a really good, uh, free service that we provide, is we want to highlight those businesses and those new technology ideas that need a little bit of exposure to grow. And that's what the Uptime podcast is here to do. So join us [00:02:00] and if you want to reach out to us, you can reach us via LinkedIn, Allen Hall, Joel Saxon. We'll respond to you and hopefully we can meet you in Speaker 3: Edinburgh. You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here's your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Hall in the Queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Soon, the home of Maersk North America, I think we're going to find out. And also the new Home of Scout, if you haven't seen the little, what was formerly a MC little vehicle that's gonna be made, well engineered in Charlotte and then built in South Carolina. So we're looking forward to that. And with me as Yolanda Pone in Texas. Joel Saxons up in the great state of Wisconsin and Rosemary [00:03:00] Barnes is back in Australia. And there's plenty of things to talk about this week, and I, I think our pre-recording discussion has centered on wooden wind turbines. And if everybody's been following, um, mod Vion, they have received a 39.1 million Euro grant and they are making of all things. Wooden wind towers. So, uh, up in Sweden, there's plenty of wood to make towers out of, out of it. And it's a laminated process. And if, if you've looked online, I encourage everybody to go look online. It's kind of an interesting technology they have where they're layering wood together to build these towers sections. And so instead of using steel or other materials, concrete, you can make them outta wood. Uh, so the European Union is backing this, and as Joel has pointed out. This is not the only money...
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  • Nordex Crypto Theft, Goldwind Turbine Asbestos
    2025/11/24
    Allen covers positive developments like EDF's 261 MW Serra das Almas wind farm in Brazil, Ørsted's offshore progress in the US, and Shell's hydrogen deal in Germany. Then the troubling stories: a Nordex technical manager caught mining cryptocurrency inside turbines, and the discovery of asbestos in Goldwind turbine brake pads across multiple Australian wind farms. 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! The wind industry is having quite a week. Some stories are blowing in the right direction. Others... well... you'll see. Let's start with the good news. In Brazil... EDF power solutions just powered up the Serra das Almas wind farm. Two hundred sixty-one megawatts. Fifty-eight Danish Vestas turbines spinning in Bahia state. Six hundred thousand homes... now running on wind. Up in the United States... Ørsted is making waves with two offshore wind projects. Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind. Cable installation is underway. Offshore substations are being commissioned. By next year... more than sixteen hundred megawatts will be flowing into Connecticut... Rhode Island... and New York. Over in Germany... Shell is turning wind into hydrogen. They've signed a five-year power deal with Nordsee One. Starting in two thousand twenty-seven... offshore wind will feed a one hundred megawatt electrolyzer. Clean electricity making clean fuel. To power everything from trucks to chemical plants. But now... the other stories. In the Netherlands... a technical manager at Nordex wind farms thought he'd found the perfect side hustle. He had the keys. He had the access. He had giant wind turbines spinning out free electricity twenty-four hours a day. And he had a plan. Between August and November of two thousand twenty-two... the man installed three cryptocurrency mining rigs at the Gieterveen wind farm. He plugged them straight into a Nordex router. Inside a substation. Then he drove to Waardpolder. Another wind farm. He climbed inside the turbines. And he hid two Helium network nodes. Connected them to Nordex's internal network. Month after month... while the turbines spun... his crypto wallet grew. Nobody noticed. Why would they? He was the technical manager. He belonged there. But then... Nordex got hit with something much worse. A ransomware attack. The Conti cybercrime crew. The company was scrambling. Investigating their networks. Looking for breaches. That's when they found his mining rigs. The courts heard the case earlier this month. The prosecutor was not amused. This wasn't just theft. This was a man who'd been trusted with critical infrastructure. Giant turbines. Automated systems. Industrial networks. The prosecutor wanted two hundred forty hours of community service. But the judges saw something else. A first-time offender. A man suffering from depression and burnout. Someone who admitted everything. They cut the sentence in half. One hundred twenty hours. Plus four thousand one hundred fifty-five euros in damages. About forty-four hundred dollars. And if he doesn't pay? Fifty-one days in custody. If he doesn't complete his community service? Sixty days in jail. The court made one thing crystal clear. He'd shown no concern for the potential disruption to the turbines. No concern for the company's trust. No concern... that he was running a side business... inside critical infrastructure. But here's the story that's really stopped the industry cold. In Tasmania... at the Cattle Hill wind farm... inspectors made a disturbing discovery. Asbestos. In the brake pads. Inside the turbine tower lifts. Now... Tasmania is just the beginning. The turbines were built by Goldwind... And Goldwind supplies turbines to wind farms all across Australia. New South Wales. Victoria. Queensland. WorkSafe Victoria and SafeWork NSW confirmed Friday... asbestos has been found at multiple wind farm sites. White Rock. Gullen Range. Biala. Clarke Creek. Moorabool. Stockyard Hill. The brake pads were imported into Australia. Importing asbestos has been illegal there... since two thousand three. Beijing Energy International says the risk is extremely low. Access to affected turbines is restricted. They're working with regulators. Testing is underway. But here's what everyone's thinking... Last week... asbestos was found in colored sand products from China. Schools shut down. Childcare centers closed. In the Australian Capital Territory. Queensland. South Australia. Now it's wind turbines. So the wind industry had quite a week. Clean power spinning up in Brazil. Offshore cables going down in America. Hydrogen flowing in Germany. Cryptocurrency crimes in the ...
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  • SkySpecs Supports European Wind Growth
    2025/11/20
    Allen and Joel sit down with Michael McQueenie, Head of Sales for SkySpecs in Europe at the SkySpecs Customer Forum. They discuss the booming European wind energy market, SkySpecs' role in asset management, and their expansion into solar farm operations. 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! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining Light on Wind Energy's brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering Tomorrow. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight. I have Joel Saxum with me. I'm Allen Hall, the host, and we are here with Michael McQueenie head of sales for SkySpecs over in Europe. Michael, welcome to the show. Michael McQueenie: Thanks for having me. Allen Hall: We are at SkySpecs customer Form 2025 and it has been a blowout event, so many operators from all over learning and exchanging information about how they operate their assets. We wanted to have you on today because you're our reference to Europe and what is happening with SkySpecs in Europe. America and Europe are on different pathways at the moment. What is that status right now in Europe? What are people calling you for today? Michael McQueenie: the, European market is really booming. we get calls from customers to support [00:01:00] with internal inspections, external inspections as we always have for, nearly a decade now. We are seeing a lot more, discussions around the, enablement services that we can offer. how did, how do we bring a blade engineer and how do we bring a CMS engineer into support and give us, give us more of an insight on the data that we have or, or the data that Skys fix are producing. things are evolving. and, it's a buoyant offshore industry at the moment. Allen Hall: yeah, there's like thousands of turbines going up right now. it used to be when you thought of. Deployment. Unlike Germany, for example, it'd be three turbines on the hillside. Michael McQueenie: Yeah. Allen Hall: Now we're talking about in the uk have hundreds of turbines hitting the water. Michael McQueenie: Yeah. Allen Hall: And that's change of scale has driven a lot of operators realize I need expertise in blades, I need expertise in CMS. I need an expert in gearbox, but I don't necessarily need them full time. Michael McQueenie: Yeah. Allen Hall: Skys spec. Can you help me? Michael McQueenie: the projects [00:02:00] are, they're fewer projects, but they're, the scale of these projects are massive. the scale of the turbine scale of the projects and the impact the projects can have on, the country, as a whole is, is massive. So yeah, it's, it is a. It's a, it is a great time to be in Europe and to see the growth. it's been, coming for a long time. I've worked with consultancies who are looking at feasibility studies, in offshore, and onshore. But the, the growth has been. Just, it's just around the corner. And I do feel like now with some of these big projects that they're installing, and yeah, just given the size of the turbines, it's it's massive. Joel Saxum: one of the things I want to, I think there's an important context here is that we're talking, we're sitting in Ann Arbor, right? we're in the us You're over in Europe. I worked for a Danish company for a while and it was always like this seven hour delay. Kinda can I get the in, can I get the support? Can they get the support? Can we work? How do we work back and forth? Sometimes it was cool because you'd send an email at two o'clock and when you woke up in the morning [00:03:00] it was done. That was awesome. But also there was these delays. Now this is the interesting thing here is, and Skys facts. This morning we listened to Cheryl. always a great presentation. Yeah. the head of the TEI blade stuff here. She was delivering some insights, but with her was Thomas. Thomas is in Europe. And you have CMS experts in Europe. You have the local talent that's over there that can work with these operators on their timelines, on their regular day stuff. They're not waiting as, and what I'm trying to get to is, is SkySpecs is not a Ann Arbor company. Skyspace is a global company in a big way. And so this, so thinking like, oh, this is an American company, w. Will we use someone that's more local no. No. Skyspace is a local European company as well. Michael McQueenie: Yeah, and we've got the SMEs over there. it's not just Cheryl, who's a fantastic en engineer. Having your at your, disposal, Thomas is phenomenal. customers are seeing real value in integrating him into their team, being the SME [00:04:00] for them, as you, as we said before. Being ...
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    22 分
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