The U.S. Senate is proposing Tax Credits for manufacturing - will it work? Plus, business news - GE Stock, Orsted earnings, Vestas guidance and will Iberdrola spin off offshore? We also discuss how to develop young engineers, plus thermoplastic wind turbine blades and their lightning and manufacturing issues, something we didn't cover in episode 73.



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Transcript EP74 | GE Stock Climbing? Thermoplastic Blades & Lightning, Plus Iberdrola, Orsted & U.S. Tax Credits



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Let's talk about this tax credit. So it sounds like Senator Markey, who is from your neck of the woods, Allen and others are introducing a tax credit that's going to create a 30 percent investment for qualified facilities that manufacture when components for offshore here in the U.S..



And it looks like that will eventually be phased out between December twenty, twenty eight and completely around 20, 30. So, Alan, do you think this is going to work or are we going to be able to put up some of these facilities in the U.S.?



Well, big corporations will take that tax break immediately and hopefully put it to work. The question is who and where and how? It's easy to make proposals like this. And this is the trouble I think was sort of the Massachusetts delegation, because this comes up quite a bit where they want to make some world altering proposals.



And then you check up on six months later, nothing has happened. And it is super frustrating to watch this go into something I'm more familiar with, which is just offshore wind and wind turbines. Massachusetts itself doesn't have a lot of wind turbine manufacturing to so to speak.



The university system does some research, and it is one of the national leaders in some wind turbine technology stuff. But in terms of manufacturing, there's very little. And it's unlikely that a lot of that will happen locally in Massachusetts.



And there's a variety of reasons for it. Resources, access to roads, all all those things play into it. So in terms of wind turbine manufacturers or component manufacturers for wind turbines, my little company is probably one of the more probably one of the larger ones at the moment.



And, you know, what are we gonna do with a 30 percent manufacturing break that'll never come to a company like ours? So it's it is you know, in one sense, I think they're trying to promote the industry. And I get all that.



And on the second sense,