In this episode we discuss the news of New York State soliciting for 2.5GW of off shore wind power, the UK betting on battery storage, and lightning strikes on trees.



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Full Transcript: EP19 New York State Adding 2.5GW of Off Shore Wind; UK Bets on Batteries; Lightning Strike Research on Trees



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Allen Hall: Welcome back. I'm Allen hall.



Dan: 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. This is the uptime podcast. This is episode 19. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. And in today's episode, we're going to cover a bunch of different news related topics in wind energy. So first New York. Has released some recent solicitation for two and a half gigawatts of wind power to be located somewhere off shore, which is pretty exciting.



Um, we're going to talk about a little bit about ways or people are actually still getting struck by lightning, which is scary to think about and, um, self driving cars, all sorts of stuff. Alan, you can't laugh yet. I haven't introduced you. All right. And then, um, the UK has cleared a path for some giant batteries to source some of this solar energy.



And wind power energy, which is also something that's, uh, I mean the battery potential in the sector is pretty exciting for the future. I mean, we don't think about homes being able to be powered by batteries and businesses, but that might be reality pretty soon. Um, we'll talk a little bit about lightening strikes and how does credible, how incredible the numbers daily lightening strikes.



There are all throughout the world. I mean, 8 million a day, essentially. And then last arranged some Alan's takes, uh, takeaways from the Dallas, um, virtual wind, uh, seminar, the wind operations from this past week. So Alan heard you over there. How are, how are you today?



Allen Hall: Yeah. Lightning strikes to people are really serious.



And you always cringe when you hear that, because there's so many ways to avoid them today. And some parts of the world's a little harder than others, but, uh, you still read about it and it's a very common event. It's not zero and it's not thousands, but it's somewhere in between. And yeah. I've gotten better over time, but I did, did, uh, attend a number of the wind operations, Dallas, uh, virtual conference, that Reuters events, uh, I had going this past week and that was really interesting.



Uh, I got a lot of, uh, new insight into the industry in particular, the. Um, the, the, the monitoring that happens and all the technology that's evolved around it and performance and how the performance of the turbines is monitored and how, how it's interpreted and how they try to maximize, uh, the full power business, the full power of generators.



It was, it was interesting.



Dan: Yeah. So wind operations. Dallas is a yearly conference this year. They went virtual obviously. Um, so they claim to have a 2,500 virtual attendees, which is pretty good. And it's the mainly for asset owners and operator, uh, and operators and looking for just insights into when O and M.



So, um, any particular takeaways, any topics that really grabbed your attention?



Allen Hall: It's actually the last presentation that there were a lot of good presentations and I've watched some...