Big Moves in Renewables: Amazon, Adani, and IPS Drive Growth

Allen, Joel, and Phil discuss Amazon building a major new wind farm in Brazil to power its data centers and operations. Plus India's Adani Green Energy has secured financing for an enormous 17 GW hybrid solar and wind facility. This project aims to leverage Adani's investments in turbine and solar manufacturing. And IPS has acquired Wind Solutions in North Carolina to expand its wind turbine service capabilities. 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: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the founder and CEO of Intelstor, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum, and this is your News Flash. News Flash is brought to you by our friends at Intelstor. If you need actionable information about renewable projects or technologies, check out Intelstor at intelstor.com. Amazon is spurring clean energy growth in Brazil with its first major wind farm in the country. The tech giant announced a 50 megawatt project that will generate over 250 gigawatt hours of renewable power annually. The 92 million dollar wind farm will help supply Amazon's data centers and operations in the region. This is really interesting because Amazon, when they put these new data centers in, no matter where they are in the world, they're trying to create renewable energy to power them, and that can be pretty complicated at times. Philip Totaro: It can, but it's interesting because Brazil's a market where, even though they have recently very low PPAs if they're guaranteeing the power offtake themselves, then it's less of a consideration for them to have to go into, these competitive auctions and tenders for power offtake. It's your CapEx is pretty cheap, there's plenty of turbine supply down there, as, as long as you want it, Vestas. But there, there's plenty of opportunity for them to be able to do this. And obviously co locating your power generation with your load center slash data center is going to be a good move. Brazil's a market where you've got exceptionally high. Capacity factors for most of the capacity that's installed there. So it's it's something that I think makes sense for me. Joel Saxum: Yeah. It's an interesting market down there too. Cause in Brazil, we know that the average wind turbine installed about three megawatts. So the majority of their fleet is pretty new. And you're seeing a lot of growth down there, right? A lot of ISPs, a lot of we have, we talk with our friends with Arthwind there about all the things that they do and the parts of the market that they know, and they're seeing growth in the Brazilian market. Amazon's going down there, they're going to install a 50 megawatt project. While it makes sense for them, the resources to maintain that project from an operations and maintenance position are starting to mature in the country as well. Allen Hall: India's renewable energy ambitions are charging ahead with Adani Green Energy securing over 1. 3 billion dollars in financing for a massive clean power complex. The funds will back the initial development of Adani's planned 17 gigawatt. Hybrid wind and solar park is one of the largest project finance deals ever in Asia. And as we're discussing COP 28, one of those items is what India is doing in terms of getting to renewable energy. Wow, Joel, this is amazing. 17 gigawatts is a Big project.