Siemens Energy €5B Problem, Blade Wrinkles, GE Factory Build-out, ERCOT’s Grid Stability Problem

Siemens Energy's latest updates are pushing their quality driven costs closer to €5B! Phil Totaro looks at the public relations roadmap and what may lie ahead. Fabric ply wrinkles appears to be part of the quality issues at Siemens Energy and TPI - Rosemary Barnes explains the root cause and what can be done about them. GE Vernova is still looking to build two new factories in New York along with upgrades several other facilities in the US. GE is also continuing its partnership with ORE Catapult in the UK with a new investment! ERCOT is proposing new rules that may require hardware upgrades to keep the Texas grid stable, while renewable owners are pushing back on the costly update. And discover our featured Wind Farm of the Week: Patton Wind in central Pennsylvania! 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 178 Allen Hall: Rosemary, Australia may not be the dangerous part of the world. It looks like parts of Texas are. There was a lady just recently who was out mowing her lawn and a snake fell on her from the sky. Just landed on her out of clear blue sky landed on her arm, wrapped around her arm. She starts screaming, help me Jesus, and starts shaking, trying to shake the snake off. The snake starts attacking her face. Starts hitting, but thank God she had glasses on. So the snake is hitting her glasses and broke her glasses. Meanwhile, a hawk just happens to be by now why the hawk is there. We'll answer later, but the hawk comes down, sees a snake on this woman's arm, and attacks this lady's arm with a snake on it, and after three or four times, eventually gets the snake off the lady. She and she lived to tell the story about it. But Rosemary, it's just, I thought this has to be Australia, right? This is not an American situation.  Rosemary Barnes: I assume the hawk, the hawk dropped the snake on her and then went back for it. Is that the, is, is that the conclusion?  Allen Hall: Yeah, I, I think so. Yes. That almost happened to me over the past weekend actually. We have a lot of hawks in the area, and I'm out, when I'm out mowing the yard. There's a lot of like scurrying in the yard of what we call volees, little kind of ground mice things. A hawk loves to come watch when I do that. And the other day I noticed there was a hawk had picked up a little critter in the yard and was on top of the telephone pole and decided to fly over me. And he dropped that, dropped that animal, and I thought, oh my God, I'm gonna get hit by this dead animal because this is right up right over top of me.  Rosemary Barnes: Did you call for Jesus to save you?  Allen Hall: I almost did, but you know what? The hawk did? The hawk dived down and caught that. Dang vole and then flew away. Thank God, because if it had hit me.  Rosemary Barnes: Could've been attacked by a vole! Allen Hall: It would've been attacked by a vole and then attacked by this hawk and that that hawk, those hawks are big. Yeah, it's crazy. It's amazing, you know, when you're mowing outside, I was mowing just like this lady was obviously, but man, mowing is a lot more dangerous than I thought it was.  Rosemary Barnes: Glad you survived to tell the tale. Allen Hall: So we're always looking for those dangerous things in Australia, right? And we, we, we couldn't really find one this week, so it actually turned to America to look for the. With a crazy situation last week it was that Chinese bear.  Rosemary Barnes: It's insane that people are so, so stressed about Australia, like I've been to, to Canada and Bears will just, you, you know,