New Ørsted US Head, Mingyang Blade Collapse, Holiday Party Etiquette

In this episode, we explore Meta's shift to natural gas for AI data
centers, analyze a major Mingyang offshore turbine blade failure,
and discuss Shell's head of renewables moving to Ørsted'. Fill out
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Hall: If you want to know why turbine blades are disappearing from
social media and why Shell's Renewables Chief is jumping to worsted
and why META is betting big on natural gas, stick around. Plus,
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Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: We've got
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Houston, Joel, we have Active Training Team. They're going to be
giving a demonstration of their Thrive USA product, which is a
safety training seminar, a live interactive. It's the most
impactful training seminar for safety I have ever been at. You want
to Talk about what is all involved in the Thrive USA, Joel. Joel
Saxum: Yeah, it's a step change in training. It's experiential. I
know that's a weird word, but Alan and I and Claire, our producer,
went through this training in Boston a few months ago. And we're
sitting in the crowd and we're at tables with people from all kinds
of different companies and levels of the company so that
everybody's intermixed. And then all of a sudden, They're going
through a little bit of a presentation and a few actors, real
actors, like Screen Actors Guild, card carrying people come through
the door and they're fighting and yelling at each other and going
through the scenario. And then all stop. There's someone that
maintains the, that would be flow of the event. And they say, okay,
what do you think about this? And you're getting engaged and you're
thinking. And just talking about this right now, it reminded me of
what happened while we were there. And I have goosebumps on my arms
that are popping up because they're it's. It hit me when we were
there internally. I've never been through a training where I left
in thinking like, wow, that was impactful. I am actually thinking
about this. I'd like to action some of these things in my day to
day life. We did breakout sessions. We talked through things. It
was fantastic. So if you have the opportunity we would love to see
you in Houston. It's going to be January 24th. Down by the medical
center. And if you want some details on it, of course, you can get
a hold of us at the show any either Alan or I can point you in the
right spot. Joel.saxum@wglightning.com or feel free to reach out to
Florence at the active training team. She's guiding the whole
process, so florence@activetrainingteam.co.uk can be your contact
there, and we hope to see you in January there in Houston. Allen
Hall: Yeah, we'll see you in Houston and the website for Active
Training Team in the U. S. is ActiveTrainingTeam. us, so check that
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PES Wind Magazine, it's Q4 of 2024. You can go online and read it
yourself at peswind. com. Interesting article from DSHIP carriers,
and DSHIP has designed a new carrier of blades. And it's really
interesting because it's a new approach on how to move blades
around offshore. And Joel, being our offshore expert, you want to
explain these fun things about the D500 ship? Joel Saxum: Yeah, I
think that what we need to understand first is that we've been
doing offshore wind for a long time. And we're ready for a step
change. We're ready to see things turn over into new innovative
techniques that are going to make things better. So when you talk
shipping with anything, it's always about efficiency, fuel burn,
how can we get things on offshore better and The the DSHP team has
taken all of this into consideration and making a purpose built
vessel just for transport, transporting wind turbine parts. And
when you say that offshore, usually that doesn't happen. A vessel
is usually multi purpose because you want to make sure that you
have a contract where someone can rent it out and have it on the
lease for a long time and use it for multiple kinds of different
things and transporting this or transporting that. But what they've
done here is made a vessel that's super efficient, that's
specifically designed and built for optimum use for transporting
wind turbine parts. So the hull has been optimized. The way you
load things has been optimized. The way you unload things has been
optimized even all the way down to how the crew gets around the
vessel and what their walk times are in between areas of the vessel
that they need to do their jobs. That's crazy impressive. The other
things that they've done is make sure that this thing is future
proofed. And future proof means the next generation of fuels,
whether we get to the point where we're using ammonia or hydrogen
or some other kind of power the propulsion units in this vessel can
be swapped over to what that next generation looks like. The D Ship
team in their new D 500 vessels, this is what they're calling this,
they have taken some really innovative steps to making offshore
wind in their part of the supply chain, More efficient and more
cost effective. Allen Hall: Yeah, it's a really interesting ship
design. It's going to be built in China. But if you want to read
more about this ship and all the things that DShip is up to, go to
PESWind. com, download your issue, and read it for yourself. Good
stuff in there. As wind energy professionals, staying informed is
crucial, and let's face it, difficult. That's why the Uptime
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content you need. Don't miss out. Visit peswind. com today. Allen
Hall: In a significant shift in data center power strategies, Major
technology companies, energy companies are turning to, of all
things, natural gas to bridge the power for these growing, power
hungry artificial intelligence infrastructures, these data centers.
And Meta is probably the key one at the minute.