Bonus Episode – Where will the US will find Wind Technicians?

Wind Turbine Technicians are in short supply. A recent report on the US states with mechanically-inclined workers provides insights into where to find future technicians. Joel, Rosemary and Allen discuss the report and the potential salaries for workers willing to move to the east and west coasts. 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!  EP 150 Bonus Allen Hall: This is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast bonus episode. In this episode, Joel Rosemary and I discuss where the mechanically inclined employees are in the United States, and they may be in places you haven't thought of because some of them were surprised to me. So this is a good discussion because wind turine technicians are gonna become one of the primary expanding roles in America. So it'll be a great time to be a wind turbine technician. Question is where are they gonna come from? It looks like mostly in the middle of United States, but not all. So we have a, a good back and forth here. It's stay tuned. This is a, an excellent episode, bonus episode of. A, a really interesting article in construction coverage.com. Not a place that I frequent very often, but they had an article that just popped out called American Cities with the most mechanically Inclined Workers in 2023. Oh. . Maybe my little town's in that. Curious, not like that, but, so let's just, just curious to see. Right. And they've sort of break down the mechanically inclined occupations from laborers and people who move freight stock around to people driving tractor trailers to general maintenance, repair people, construction carpenters, electricians, automobile mechanic. , kind of the general categories there. But if you look at the growth where they say mechanically and client occupations in the energy sector have the highest growth projections, it is in wind turine service technician. There you go. So the two year and tenure growth, they are number one in that list. there. In the 10 year projections, it's wind and wind turbines, number one, solar's number two. Wood pattern makers is number three. I, I guess that's, that's furniture makers probably. That makes sense. Derrick.