GE’s 15.5MW Offshore Cap, New York’s Canceled Projects, and Colorado’s Manufacturing Wins

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Allen, Joel and Phil discuss GE's decision to stop at 15.5MW for offshore turbines, the impact of cancelled New York offshore wind projects, challenges for Siemens Gamesa's rumored 21MW turbine, and Colorado attracting wind manufacturing jobs. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Joel, we're getting close to American Clean Power up in Minneapolis. What are the warmer destinations in the states in May? Joel Saxum: Actually, the weather doesn't look like it's going to be too bad. It's going to be, it's going to be what sounds like I've been talking to some of my friends that they're, what you would expect is a traditional spring in Minnesota. Not snow, not 80 degrees. It looks like 65. So it'll be nice where you can wear a blazer and do your things and not sweat too much. Allen Hall: Is that a promise, Joel, or a wish? Joel Saxum: Weather in the Midwest, it's a wish. Bring flip flops and winter boots. Allen Hall: And Weather Guard will be with AC 883 at ACP. And so if you want to come talk to us, stop by, you'll see us wandering around the halls and making all kinds of noise and reporting, recording podcasts. If you have a company that's involved in wind energy and you want to be on the podcast, that's a good time to talk to us. Our podcast numbers have exploded. So there's a lot of listeners at the moment. And if you want to get your company out in the industry, heard of all around the world. We're a good way to do it. We're absolutely free. And we'd love to talk to you. The other thing that's happening which is I think going to create an earthquake up in Minnesota is that Phil is actually going to go to ACP. You can't believe the amount of leverage it took to get him out of sunny California and go to Minnesota in May. We worked on it for weeks. Joel Saxum: He'll be there though. Smiling. Philip Totaro: This is actually something I'm pretty excited and interested about this time though, because I've never had so much so many potential, partners and customers show up to an event before and so many existing ones as well, there's a lot of people that I'm going to have. It almost feels like we're back to before the pandemic, which is when I was, a lot more enthusiastic about going to these these events and trade shows. There was a lot more payback, frankly when you participated and that diminished a lot. For obvious reasons with the pandemic and whatnot, we weren't getting together in person. But it feels like they're starting hopefully to create an environment that is conducive to the industry flourishing and actually transacting some business. And so that's what's attracting me to, to participate in this thing. I hope that continues and, I'm happy at this point to dip my toe back in the water of participation. Joel Saxum: So if you're in Minnesota, be prepared for a hundred percent increase of people that grew up next to Rick James. Allen Hall: All right, over in New York State the offshore industry has been really hit, and this is due to the state's third solicitation, what they call a third round for offshore wind, and they aim to add four gigawatts offshore. Everybody goes back in time and remembers they had all the sort of the cancellations happened and they re bid everything at the end of last year. That got approved, there were three projects approved, Attentive Wind, Community Offshore Wind, and Excelsior Wind.