The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

By: Allen Hall Rosemary Barnes Joel Saxum & Phil Totaro
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  • Uptime is a renewable energy podcast focused on wind energy and energy storage technologies. Experts Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum and Phil Totaro break down the latest research, tech, and policy.
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  • China’s Offshore Dominance and U.S. Market Reactions

    China’s Offshore Dominance and U.S. Market Reactions
    Nov 26 2024
    This week Allen, Joel, and Phil discuss Bonfiglioli's advanced servo motors featured in PES Wind magazine, China's offshore wind dominance, and the economic challenges facing U.S. offshore projects. The Wind Farm of the Week is the 170MW English Farms facility in Iowa, the recipient of the Envision Platinum Award. 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.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: We've all had our rental car problems over the last couple of years, ever since COVID. It's been as Joel put it, a crap show in rental car land. Over in Syracuse, which is not very far from me, I was just over there a few weeks ago now the employees at the Syracuse Airport Hertz location left their counter unattended, and they left about six hours early. There's a number of people that had landed in Syracuse and needed a car and there was no one at the counter. So what they decided to do is and about 20 of them decided to do this, they just took the keys that were available at the counter and then went on their way. And one of them was Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, was one of them that needed to be somewhere and didn't have ability to get a car and just grabbed some keys and left. Now, this created a lot of problems, right? Because all of a sudden these cars have disappeared. They don't know who have them, and they were starting to look for them. And now they're concerned that people that did this are concerned what's Hertz going to do to us? But I think they felt like at the time, Joel, that What else am I gonna do? If your employee's left, I need to get a car, I gotta go. Joel Saxum: Yeah, that's a Hertz problem. That's the way I look at it. Technically, it's probably theft, right? Like grand larceny or something like that. I don't know if it's larceny. Grand theft auto? Video games? GTA? Yeah but, it's illegal when you look at it, right? But I can understand being that I've been in that situation where you show up at 11 p. m., you've been traveling all day, and you're like, Worst. Where's my damn car? Like, where's the dang car that I want to go? And I don't know if there's one person in that group who was the first mover, right? There was a pioneer before the settlers. One person was like, screw it guys. Let's go. I'm grabbing these keys. I don't know who that is, but this, that's I don't know. There's some cojones there. Allen Hall: My recent experience with Hertz in Oklahoma was getting to the counter at about 1230 in the morning. And there not being a single car there. And then I was the second one into the little office they have. And then another person came and another person came and then pretty soon there's about 10 of us standing there and the Hertz employee who was attending the place and was trying to do the best that she possibly could said, I have two cars. I'm picking you and you. Just pointed at people. Wow. Yeah, I got one. I never get that. Philip Totaro: Allen, that's like a Seinfeld episode right there. You guys know how to take a reservation, but you don't know how to hold a reservation. Allen Hall: I felt horrible because I was meeting Joel the next morning. I really needed this car. We were going far off into Oklahoma, but there were all kinds of military people there that had things to do, too. Everybody had something to do. So they're, Uber was their best friend at the moment, but man,
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    34 mins
  • Investments in Indian Renewables, Enel €38B in Grid & Renewables

    Investments in Indian Renewables, Enel €38B in Grid & Renewables
    Nov 25 2024
    This week on News Flash, we discuss CIP and AMPIN Energy Transition's $300 million investment in Indian renewables, Enel investing €38 billion in grid and renewables through 2027, and the Long Beach Harbor's $14 million match for their upcoming state grant. 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.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Welcome to Uptime News Flash. Industry news lightning fast. Your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, and Phil Totaro discuss the latest deals, mergers, and alliances that will shape the future of wind power. News Flash is brought to you by IntelStor. For market intelligence that generates revenue, visit www. intelstore. com. Allen Hall: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Ampen Energy Transition are investing 300 million in joint equity for Indian renewables. The partnership will enable approximately 2 gigawatts of renewable energy projects across India. Their combined portfolio will include solar, wind, hybrid and storage technologies. Now, this new deal creates massive 2. 7 to 3 billion dollars of renewable energy assets as a base in India. Now, Phil, India is a huge market at the minute, and a lot of renewable projects are moving towards India. This is another one by CIP. Philip Totaro: Yeah, and it's, it's fascinating because, as you mentioned, the, the market's really seeing an uptick in wind and hybrid projects, and this is exactly where CIP wants to be able to park themselves with this partnership. So putting the capital behind a local developer and independent power producer that's, had a track record of success is good for both parties but they're capitalizing on it at a time when you know, India's likely to add a, something like 80 gigawatts of renewables over the next, like, five years or six years alone. Which is a massive amount. And again, they've had, big pipe dreams and, and big pipelines in, in India for a long time. But they seem to be getting serious about it, especially when companies start, plowing more and more money into the market and starting to unlock a lot more repowering opportunities in India, where they've gotten their policies all kind of squared away at the state level to, to start doing a lot more project repowering and also their transmission infrastructure which they also recognize they're going to have to heavily invest in to be able to, to get all these renewable projects on their grid. So, they're, they're really starting to push hard, in, in India they've, they've, like I said, have pretty big pretty big ambitions to be able to add a lot of gigawatts here in the coming years. Joel Saxum: I'd like to see CIP's kind of strategy play out wherever you see an emerging market. They're there. They're in every offshore play. They're in a lot of, like in, in, I'm not saying India is an emerging market. It's a very dynamic market right now. A lot of players moving and grooving people in, people out, but there's one thing they have a big renewable energy goals and there's a lot of money coming in there. So CIP, you're seeing them. They've been in, they've been in country in India since 2021. Not only with Ampen, but with Vivid, Vivid or Vivid as well. So they've been in that market for a little while. And as Allen and I know, working in India, the Indian market, it's nice to have a local compadre there to kind of guide what you're going to do to safeguard your assets too. So,
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    8 mins
  • Main Bearing Failures: Detection, Coatings, and Solutions with Malloy Wind

    Main Bearing Failures: Detection, Coatings, and Solutions with Malloy Wind
    Nov 21 2024
    Allen Hall and Joel Saxum talk with Cory Mittleider from Malloy Wind about the complex world of wind turbine main bearings. Cory breaks down why traditional bearing coatings are failing in newer turbine models and explores how electrical discharge, material choices, and monitoring systems play crucial roles in solving these costly failures. Dive into the technical challenges of detecting problems in these massive, slow-moving components and learn what operators should do during warranty periods to prepare for long-term maintenance. 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.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Joel Saxum: Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining light on wind energy's brightest innovators. Allen Hall: This is the progress powering tomorrow. I'm your host, Allen Hall, joined by my co host, Joel Saxum. Today, we're tackling a critical issue that's affecting wind farm operators across the industry, main bearing failures and the evolving solutions to combat them. Joining us is Cory Mittleider business unit manager at Malloy Wind, who brings over 15 years of hands on experience in power transmission and bearing technology. Cory has built his career at Malloy Electric where he's become their go to expert for complex bearing challenges. His journey from technical sales support engineer to wind business unit manager has given him a unique perspective on the evolution of bearing technology and the real world challenges faced by wind farm operators. Malloy Wind, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been at the forefront of developing solutions for wind turbine bearing issues, particularly focusing on advanced materials. and designs to combat common failure modes like peeling damage and premature wear. Cory, welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight. Thanks for having me. You are our go to guy for Anything bearing related. And as Joel and I travel around the United States this summer, we ran into a lot of people with bearing issues and now main bearing issues. And we've seen quite a bit in the press this summer about main bearings and coatings on main bearings and what is the right kind of main bearing to use and a lot of operators looking at different solutions at the minute, and we figured. Cory will know. So let's just ask Cory what his thoughts were on main bearings and try to get a sense of what can be done. Cory Mittleider: Yeah. We've definitely spent a lot of time looking into main bearings, main bearing failures. Joel Saxum: So let's dive into this, Cory, then what is the. Just for our users or users, for our listeners can you give us the rundown basically of what the main bearing is, where it sits in the turbine and what it does? Cory Mittleider: On the wind turbine drivetrain, you've got the blades and the rotor hanging out front, and then ultimately that's connected to a shaft. Which then connects it to the gearbox and the generator. And on that shaft, that's what we'll call the main shaft. On that shaft, there is a really big pillow block. And it's got the main bearing inside. So we'll call it the main bearing, the main shaft bearing, a couple of different nomenclatures there. But that's what helps support that load of this very heavy drive train, but also connect it and allow the rotation to generate the power from the turbine. Some turbines do have two. main bearings on this main shaft.
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    42 mins

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