Vestas CFO Exit and Offshore Wind Security

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

We discuss a PES Wind Magazine article featuring 4cast's methodology for comprehensive wind resource assessment and site planning. Then cover Vestas CFO Hans Martin Smith's departure after 20+ years. Finally offshore wind security concerns follow a Chinese vessel's severance of Baltic Sea cables, and Tilt Renewables is announced as the title sponsor for Wind Energy O&M 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.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Well, since everybody is getting pardoned recently, uh, I thought it may be a good idea to, to put out there what we should be pardoned for, so we ought to get added to that list. Joel Saxum: How about this one? I would like to be pardoned for not getting my better half's windshield changed in her Jeep from the crack from it. Allen Hall: Ooh, you're gonna need a pardon for that. Yeah, that's, that's definitely pardonable material. Yeah. Phil, have you broken any scooter laws there in California? No, I have not. I don't know, Phil, you ought to get them out now because the pardons are coming. Okay. Well, Rosemary, I'm not sure we can pardon anybody in another country, but we might as well just open it up to everybody right now. Why not? Rosemary, did you commit any offenses when you were in the States, in California, studying composites? Rosemary Barnes: I've got a pretty big one, actually. I don't know if you guys have this, but in Australia, when you're learning how to, to write, handwrite at school, you know, you start with a pencil and then when you pass a test and you can graduate up to a pen, you need a pen license. Um, do you have that? Allen Hall: That is not real. Rosemary Barnes: I did not get my pen license, but I do write with a pen sometimes. So, yeah, including in the United States. Philip Totaro: That's as real as a hoop snake. Rosemary Barnes: That's true. And I, um, I would like to invite Australians to comment on if you're watching this on YouTube or anywhere that you can write comments but look it up on the LinkedIn post about this episode. Please comment and confirm that we do or at least did in the 90s. I have to get a pen license before if we graduate from pencil to pen. I never got it. Allen Hall: It's a scandal. It's an outright scandal. Alan, you have to share yours with us. What are you, what do you need to be pardoned for? Yeah, we could use some pardoning on the production side of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast because there are, there have been some times it's pretty rough to edit and I gotta, I gotta plead guilty. Yes, it is. However. However. Our producer does a very fine job, and what comes out on the airwaves is much better than what we record. Clearly. In this quarter's PES Win Magazine, a number of great articles, and you can download all of them at PESWin. com, but A really interesting article about weather from a company called Forecast. So if you go to their website, it's fore cast. de, they're based in Germany. And the article really describes how you do forecasting. Preliminary studies on wind sites to look at what the winds are now, get a really good understanding of that and how that plays into the yield of this farm and what the weather should be, the long term weather implications going forward, so you can at least have an estimate on the revenue you're going to pay.