High Altitude Turbines, AES Goes Big on Renewables, Nordex Stumbles, GE-NREL Study Jet Streams, Wood Mackenzie Prediction, SeaMade Wind Farm

Meet Joel and Allen at ACP in New Orleans! Visit the Weather Guard Lightning Tech and Ping display at Booth 810. Rosemary kicks off this episode with an analysis of a 14,700 ft high wind farm southwestern China. Do the blades need to be designed to handle the less dense air at high altitude? AES is getting out of coal fired plants and plans to triple its renewable capacity - Yay! Q1 for Nordex wasn't great but Joel think the future is much brighter. GE and NREL explore Low-Level Jetstreams (LLJ) off the US Atlantic coast using super computers. Will these air disturbances create massive power losses?In the land down under, RWE wins an eight-hour energy storage bid with a battery, beating out several pumped hydro projects. Rosemary provides insights in to the shift to lithium battery storage for the grid.Aaron Barr of Wood Mackenzie gave his thoughts on the state of the wind energy in a recent article. Is the future for wind brighter in 2024? Our wind farm of the week is the SeaMade Offshore Wind Project in Belgium! Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWind Power LAB - https://windpowerlab.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com 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!  Uptime 166 Allen Hall: Well, everybody's preparing to go to New Orleans. That's where the big American Clean Power Conference is going to be. And it is going to be huge.  Joel Saxum: Everybody I talk to in the wind industry is going, so it's going to be, I think the attendance is gonna be fantastic. I'm excited for it.  Rosemary Barnes: You guys won't have any fun though, cuz you'll miss me. That's right.  Allen Hall: We'll, think of you while we're at the great New Orleans restaurant,  Joel Saxum: hanging on to B Bourbon streets and music.  Rosemary Barnes: The music I play, grace and why I wanna. We go there,  Allen Hall: We can FaceTime it to you. How about that? Please do. So when this episode release next week, which is be Tuesday, ACP will just be starting. And fyi, there's gonna be some exciting stuff happening on the show floor from what I can hear already. So stay tuned. Next week this week we talk about a, a number of, of. Topics from all around the world. In China, they're building a wind farm at about 14,000 feet 4,500 meters. And Rosemary talks us through like, what does that mean to build a wind turbine farm that high? Do you get to change the blades, air density is less? It's pretty complicated actually. So there's some good input there from Rosemary. And then we move over to AES in the United States and they are really investing in renewables. They're offloading their coal assets and really trying to, to move into the renewable energy economy, which is good to hear. We talked about nordex. Their first quarter report came out, didn't look so hot, but the future is going to be brighter. And then GE and NREL in the states are looking at something new, low level jet streams and what that means off the Atlantic Coast.  Rosemary Barnes: And then we're gonna talk about long duration energy storage or at least eight hours. Yeah. Duration, energy storage. There was a battery that won an auction in Australia, and we talk about how. Energy storage technology is going in general.  Joel Saxum: And then we're gonna touch in with Aaron Barr here from Wood Mackenzie, and he's gonna give us a little bit of a, or he's not gonna be on the show. I'll, I'll be clear on that. But we're gonna re read a little bit about some of his comments on...