New Foundations, US SOV, Orsted Liquid Air Storage, Boron Fusion, Red Barn Wind Farm

Let's dive into some of the exciting stories that have been happening in the wind industry this week. From the use of prefabricated foundations for repowering projects in Germany, to the milestone of a US-built offshore wind service ship reaching 50% completion, there's plenty of innovation to explore. And that's just the start – we'll also be discussing the use of non-US flagged vessels for site exploration work, liquid air energy storage technology, and a breakthrough in hydrogen boron plasma fusion. And of course, we'll be highlighting the wind farm of the week, the Red Barn Wind Park Project in Grant County, Wisconsin. So, buckle up and get ready for an exciting episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - 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 161 Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. Just a couple of show notes here. Joel and I are headed to Copenhagen for Wind Europe and we're gonna be enjoying all the sight and sounds of Copenhagen and it's gonna be a big event, Joel?  Joel Saxum: Yeah, exciting. We've got a bunch of meetings scheduled. I know the, the insurance world is gonna be to the wind world innovation. OEMs a lot of ISPs, asset owners, all kinds of new technology. So always excited to see what that one, that show looks like. And it's gonna be just a precursor, just a couple weeks, right before our big ACP show in the United States. So we'll be able to see what are the Europeans doing? What is the rest world doing on that side of the pond? And then, Three weeks later, come back and we will both as be in for ACP in New Orleans as well for that week. And it's always interesting to see. We'll see if we can't bring some bring some technology back with us, maybe. Allen Hall: Yeah, well, Wind Power Lab, Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and Ping share booze at these events. So there's always some activity around us. They'll stop by if, if you're in Copenhagen or we're gonna be in in New Orleans, we. We would love to see you. Well, and this week we have a, a bunch of really interesting stories The wind industry's picking up because it's springtime in America and, and springtime in Europe, and all the projects are starting. So Joel, why don't you give us the highlights of what's happening this week?  Joel Saxum: So we're gonna talk about RWE, so a German company, RWE, using another German company for an innovation project. They're looking at prefabricated foundations for a repowering. It's a pilot project. I don't know if it's technically Repowering because. They're tearing the old turbines down, putting new foundations and everything in, but they're gonna use pre-fabricated foundations, which is really cool. And then we'll jump back onto this side of the pond as well. We'll talk about the first US built offshore wind service ship reaching a milestone, 50% complete Edison West down in Louisiana, doing their part for the transition. And on the. Coattails of that conversation. We're gonna talk a little bit about Dominion Energy's use of non-US flagged vessels and some of the site exploration work that they're doing for their projects  Rosemary Barnes: South Virginia. And then we're gonna talk about tel getting into liquid air energy storage and talk about how that kind of technology fits into the energy storage ecosystem as a whole.