Full Eagle, Liquidated Damages, Vineyard Wind Update, Day in the Life Instagrams

Joel and Phil dive in to liquidated damages and how the industry
can avoid big payouts. GE Vernova is dealing with another offshore
blade failure in the UK, and our thoughts on the latest renewable
energy Instagram craze. And, a discussion on a very full eagle! If
you have encountered metal staples in a GE 2.X-116 or 127 blades,
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Hall: All right. Really urgent news story here. A supposedly
injured bald eagle. Now, remember that the bald eagle is America's
bird. Is it America's bird or national animal? National mammal? And
it's also like the national symbol too. It's a national symbol.
There we go. All right. So a supposedly injured bald eagle, which
is America's national symbol. Was rescued from a national park in
Missouri and found it was acting like it was too injured to fly,
but they took poor Eagle in and did an x ray on it and realized.
That it was just full of raccoon. What? It was full? It had too
much food? Yeah, it was found healthy, but engorged with raccoon.
In other words, too fat to fly. Philip Totaro: Is there tryptophan
in raccoons? Allen Hall: Oh, there may be. Joel Saxum: I'll tell
you a fun fact about the eagle as the United States national
symbol. Ben Franklin actually wanted it to be the turkey. And his
reason. His reasoning was, eagles are actually scavengers and they
eat dead things and turkeys don't. Allen Hall: Both of those birds
are huge. If you've ever been anywhere near a bald eagle, they are
massive creatures. I, the thing that bothers me about this is that
eagle was living large, relaxing, chilling, and then somebody
grabbed him! Somebody scooped him up and with the x ray in him, the
next thing he knows, it's like he's waking up in a hospital and all
he wanted to do was watch the Cowboys game, I'm Allen Hall and I'll
be joined by the rest of the Uptime hosts after these news
headlines. Denmark is making waves in the renewable energy sector
with a massive 13 billion euro investment in offshore wind power.
Aiming to boost capacity by 10 gigawatts across three areas. This
ambitious plan, representing the largest tender for offshore wind
power ever issued in Denmark, introduces a novel financing model
where companies are required to make concession payments and co
invest with the state. Which will retain a 20 percent stake in each
project. This initiative is expected to create thousands of jobs
with estimates suggesting that each gigawatt of offshore wind power
could generate around 9, 500. Direct and indirect positions and
require a capital investment of approximately 2. 1 billion euros.
Beyond meeting national energy needs, the expanded capacity is set
to position Denmark as a key exporter of electricity to neighboring
countries. and a producer of green hydrogen. The European
Commission's wind power package is breathing new life into the
continent's wind industry with major players like Vestas and
Siemens Energy expanding their operations. Vestas is establishing a
new nacelle and blade factory in Poland, potentially creating over
1, 700 direct jobs by 2026. While Siemens Energy plans to hire
around 4, 000 new employees across Europe to bolster its grid
equipment manufacturing capacity. To support this growth, the
European Investment Bank has set up a 5 billion euro counter
guarantee facility with the first tranche activated through a 500
million euro deal with Deutsche Bank. Part of a larger portfolio
expected to catalyze up to 8 billion euros in additional private
investments. GE Vernova has encountered a series of setbacks in its
offshore wind operations with the most recent being a turbine blade
failure at the Dogger Bank Wind Farm off England's northeast coast.
This incident follows a similar blade failure at the same facility
in May. And another off the U. S. East Coast where a fallen blade
has led to beach closures on Nantucket Island after debris washed
ashore. Despite challenges, the global offshore wind sector is
poised for remarkable growth, with capacity projected to surpass
520 gigawatts by 2040. Europe is expected to lead this expansion,
hosting over 70 percent of global floating wind installations,
while Asia aims to capture about 20 percent market share. For The
UK, Germany, and the Netherlands are particularly well positioned,
leveraging their proximity to the North Sea and ambitious carbon
neutral goals to potentially achieve a combined capacity of 150
gigawatts by 2040. In the United States, offshore wind development
remains heavily influenced by the political climate, with capacity
forecasts of up to 40 gigawatts by 2040 contingent on stable
political support. In technology advancements, SenseWind has
successfully completed factory acceptance testing of its innovative
2 megawatt Sense self installing wind turbine system at Cali Ocean
Systems facility in Glasgow, Scotland. The testing witnessed by ABL
Group validated the lifting assembly designed to hoist the fully
assembled turbine rotor nacelle up the tower, verifying crucial
factors such as operational loads, bearing surfaces, repeatability,
and contamination resistance. This milestone marks a significant
step forward in their demonstration program and builds confidence
for the planned installation of a two megawatt wind turbine. Next
year. And the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is setting its
sights on Hawaii for offshore wind development, planning a lease
auction off Oahu's coast for 2028 to support between 500 of wind
energy. The initiative aligns with Hawaii's decarbonization targets
and aims to reduce the state's reliance on imported oil, biofuels,
and hydrogen. This project, agreed upon by Akahi Energy and the U.
S. Department of Defense, would utilize floating wind technology to
navigate the deep waters surrounding Hawaii, with BOEM considering
depths up to 1, 300 meters feasible. That's this week's top news
stories. After the break, I'll be joined by my co host, CEO and
founder of IntelStor, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer
of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum. Lightning is an act of God, but
lightning damage is not. Actually, it's very predictable and very
preventable. StrikeTape is a lightning protection system upgrade
for wind turbines made by Weather Guard. It dramatically improves
the effectiveness of the factory LPS, so you can stop worrying
about lightning damage. Visit weatherguardwind. com to learn more,
read a case study, and schedule a call today. Allen Hall: The AMI
Events Wind Turbine Blades event in Boston is on October 2nd and
3rd. So it's coming pretty soon. If you haven't booked your tickets
to Boston, you better do it now. You won't want to miss this
conference. There's big discussion on blade materials, blade
design, blade manufacturing, and the supply chain. And with the
recent high profile blade events, there will be plenty to discuss.
So just Google AMI Events Wind Turbine Blades Boston, and it should
take you to the proper page. Also, the new low cost Eologix PING
Lightning Sensor is available now. We are getting a lot of great
feedback about the Lightning Sensor's performance in the field. It
has just a little integrated solar panel for power and uses local
cellular network for data transfer, means No wiring to the turbine.
It's just held on there by magnets. It's truly incredible. Clean
and simple, which is what everybody's asking for. And if you want
to purchase some lightning sensors for your turbines, you have to
call Joel. And his number Joel Saxum: is 832 593 2782. And so you
guys know, they're in shipment right now. We've got some of them
heading out to an operator or two different operators. As we speak,
we've got confirmations today. Allen Hall: Phil, what do they call
that in the newspapers where they're giving the corre is it
corrections? Is that what they call that in the Wall Street Journal
and the New York Times? Is there a corrections section of that
newspaper? Philip Totaro: Are they ever wrong, though, Allen? Is
that that is you're correct. That's what they call it, but do they
ever really admit that they're wrong? Allen Hall: Occasionally.
We're not going to be like the New York Times. We're going to be
one better than the New York Times. We're going to talk about the
email that comes in here. Some of it good and happy, some of it not
so happy. So I think there's one here that's not so happy and has a
point actually. So we're going to be the first to correct this.
This has to do with our discussion last week about Vestas or maybe
two weeks ago now about Vestas in their Q2 reports. And how Vestas
did sell a number of turbines and the order intake was pretty good,
right? And we got mired up in the discussion between Vestas
building wind turbines and the Vestas development portion of their
business and Vestas development is, as Bill has described it to me
where they go out and put wind turbines in the field, which is
unique for, I think, a lot of OEMs, like GE doesn't do that. Philip
Totaro: Literally a project development division of the OEM
company. Which, GAMESA used to do this, actually,