Live From New Orleans – American Clean Power 2023

Allen and Joel are LIVE from American Clean Power 2023 in New Orleans! Over 8,000 people in attendance with representatives of wind, solar, and energy storage industries. Allen and Joel discuss the news from the floor including the merger of Ping and eologix. GE Vernova had a large presence on the show floor announcing a new parts business and the opening of a 6.1 MW nacelle production line at their facility in Schenectady, New York. In other news, Siemens Gamesa is pushing European regulators for faster access to cash, and technical schools in the US are having a difficult time recruiting future wind energy technicians. And then Joel and Allen discuss how wind energy is a great vocation for military veterans such as Prometheus Wind's Will Friedl. 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 167 Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm Allen Hall, president, CEO of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the VP from Wind Power LAB, Joel Saxum. And Joel. It has been an insane week. Yes. Yeah.  Joel Saxum: ACP 2023 New Orleans. Absolutely. If, if you can hear this, you'll hear it on today's episode. My voice is a little gruff shot. I wasn't smoking cigars as my team. Thought from from Copenhagen this morning on our morning meeting. It's actually just from talking, right? Right now it is Thursday of the show. We've been here since Monday. So Monday evening, co course opening, reception and stuff. But Tuesday, Thursday, or Tuesday and Wednesday, Absolutely packed. I'm, we're, we're on one, kind of one end of the Yes. Of the conference. We're next to ge. Yeah. And I'm looking and I can't see the other end. That's how long it is. That's how many  Allen Hall: that's, it's a good here, it's a quarter half mile. Yeah, it's huge. It's down  Joel Saxum: the other end. It's, it's, it's a six block walk from one end of this building to the other. But yes, as Allen was saying, absolutely busy here. I think in my. ACP experience? Probably the busiest, not probably the busiest ACP clean power that I've been to. Oh, yeah, by far. Yeah. Yeah. The setup here in New Orleans is great too. If you've, if you've frequented trade shows, it, it can be kind of frustrating navigating through the people. And, but they have a big, nice, like 50 foot wide aisle going, the whole main street going the whole way down. And it's, it's easy to get around. So this has been a great show. American Clean  Allen Hall: Power does a nice job of feeding the people. Yeah. Also, some of the conferences we've been at, We were talking, not wind, but in aerospace. The food option has been almost zero. We're just eating hot dogs all week. And here they actually have some nice, oh, we're food  Joel Saxum: Dumbo and PO Boys. Yeah. And there's, there's plenty of food to eat here. DJ's, coffee, some beignets, all kinds of good stuff. Yeah,  Allen Hall: it has been tremendously good. Rosemary is obviously in Australia this week so she's not gonna be here, but she has been texting us. I got a bunch of text from her this morning. So she's here at Spirit. There's some. Pretty big announcements and then some underlying things that haven't been announced yet. But there, when you get to see everybody on the show floor, you hear a lot of whispers of what's about to happen this summer. There's activity