Turbine Removal, Project Delays, Mining Rights – The High Costs Plaguing Wind Projects

This week we discuss Enel removing turbines from Osage Nation land, Dominion's 2.6GW offshore wind farm, delays and fallout from offshore wind projects in MD, NJ and NY, the impacts of long project timelines, energy trading opportunities in Denmark, and differences in mining rights between the US and Australia. 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: Okay, Rosemary, over in Turkey, there was an interesting flight. So they were headed from Istanbul to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the passengers, weirdly, heard somebody in the cargo hold. Yelling for help and I thought oh my gosh. This is a horror movie scene. So the passengers Alerted the evidently the flight attendants or the stewardess is there and then they went to the cockpit and told the pilots Hey, wait, there's somebody stuck in the cargo hold and They diverted the flight and when they got on the ground, they couldn't find anybody. Rosemary Barnes: Anymore. Allen Hall: Oh, anymore which is what didn't what the stories indicate. Rosemary Barnes: Isn't that the obvious Unless someone hit a tape recorder in a loudspeaker in their bag, I would like to think that's what it was, but it doesn't really seem you can divert the flight, but that's surely only going to reduce the risk of harm to this stowaway by a tiny amount. Once you've gone up to Altitude and gone down again, the landing gears come up and gone down and then, yeah, that's horrible. Allen Hall: Yeah, if they're in the landing gear area, that's not a good place to be. Philip Totaro: If it was a stowaway, because there have been cases where baggage handlers have sometimes, unfortunately, been, like, caught in the plane. And that's happened even in the United States. It's extremely rare, thankfully, but that does happen. But to land after everybody's this is like a Twilight Zone episode, Allen. Everybody's like hearing a knock on the thing, and somebody crying for help, and then there's nobody in there? What's going on? Ghosts? Allen Hall: That is so weird. Rosemary Barnes: Was the Twilight Zone always so gruesome? I don't know. This is the way to start in a high note for the episode Allen. Allen Hall: I just thought of you when I was thinking of Rosemary when she flies. She's got to fly for 14 hours at a time. What do you do when you're over the Pacific Ocean and here's everybody knocking from the cargo hold? It's that is a horror scene. Philip Totaro: Hopefully you don't, jeez. Allen Hall: My, my first thought was hopefully it was like a cat or a pet that, sometimes cats can sound like humans and make that kind of helping noise or a bird or something, please let it be something like that. But Rosemary had to go to the human level and scare us all. So there you go. Philip Totaro: Gaslighting Rosemary again. Allen Hall: All right, Rosemary, Equinor. Has entered into an agreement with BP to independently pursue separate offshore wind projects under bids for those New York actions that are going on. BP is going to take full control of Beacon Wind off the coast of Long Island, and then Equinor is going to take Empire Wind. Which is right nearby. The deal provides both companies flexibility to pursue priorities, obviously, for their individual corporate strategies, so they broken the ties financially. This has financial impacts, though, Phil. Equinor is expected to have a write down of about 200 million,