EP54 -Orsted’s Wind and Solar Plans; Biden Administration Pledges 30GW plus Autonomous Offshore Inspection Drones?

In this episode, we discuss Orsted's new 518MW wind farm plans, the Biden administration's proposal to put 30GW of wind energy in the ocean off of New Jersey, a Chinese company's plans to connect floating wind turbines with seabed offshore turbines, plus offshore inspection drones in both seagoing and aircraft versions. 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. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - EP54: Orsted's Wind and Solar Plans; Biden Administration Pledges 30GW plus Autonomous Offshore Inspection Drones? this episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at weather guard we make wind turbine lightning protection easy if you're a wind farm operator stop settling for damaged turbine blades and constant downtime get your uptime back with our strike tape lightning protection system learn more in today's show notes or visit weatherguardwind.com striketape welcome back i'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett and this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running all right welcome back to the uptime podcast i'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show we're going to talk about a new new plans for a GE uh wind turbine blade manufacturing plant we're going to talk about the bite administration and their plans they've got some ambitious ideas to get 30 gigawatts of power into offshore wind by 2030. talk about a uh orsted project that's really interesting it's a hybrid 518 megawatt project that's combining wind turbines and solar some interesting technology being used in china connecting a fixed bottom offshore wind turbine with a floating wind turbine of course they're also installing their first one their first floating turbine there and lastly we'll talk about some interesting technology about drone swarms both by land or i'm sorry by sea and by air so Allen first how are you sir great dan how are you i'm doing well a lot of travel last week but we're back it's exciting um we've got ge offshore uh well not offshore but uh they're creating a new plant for lm wind power to manufacture their 107 meter long blades for the halle 8x course 107 meters is second best now because they have 108 meter blades you know it seems mesa and of course vestas it's it's so funny they're all just going to add like six inches to each blade but um this is up in t side which is uh that's pretty close to scotland isn't it alan it's way up north in england on the sort of the north sea coast on the on the eastern coast of northern england yeah which is getting to be the norm lately dan is that as these wind turbines get bigger and bigger and bigger and require uh ships to move them around and offshore obviously offshore is going to be the biggest growing marketplace then a lot of facilities that are located near the shoreline are going to be big opportunities a lot of towns that may not have seen that sort of industry in a while uh in terms of large industrial growth industries like that like wind turbines will be are going to see a boon right it's going to employ hundreds or thousands of people uh to make wind turbine blades that big and to get them on ships and to get t...