This week the gang discusses international news from the U.S., France, Turkey, Scotland, Vietnam and more. Is New York killing gas plants a good move, or short-sighted? Scotland is lending a hand to Vietnam, helping them stand up their wind industry - will we see more of this? And, how do floating Lidar studies work in helping to identify good wind farm sites?







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00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy.



00:01:00:02 - 00:01:21:21UnknownAll right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's episode big global sort of news cycle we're in talk about GE overtaking vessels here in the U.S.. An interesting, cracked foundation issue over in Canada that we'll talk about might have some really expensive repairs due for that wind farm.



00:01:22:12 - 00:01:39:06UnknownWe'll talk about New York state and their contentious relationship now with gas power plants. We'll talk about Scotland lending some aid to Vietnam, France and their next presidential contender and how hostile she is towards wind energy. We'll talk about some funding coming out of the U.K. government.



00:01:39:21 - 00:01:53:09UnknownTurkey's wind power record and last it was a little bit about floating light hours and how they assess wind farm sites. So before we get going on our mind you, no one definitely subscribe to Rosemary YouTube channels you'll find in the show notes of this podcast.



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00:02:09:21 - 00:02:29:04Unknown. So sign up for that today and get that update every week, every Thursday morning, so we're going to jump right into it. So first thing is now has arrested that top spot over investors, accounting for 34% of new installations in the first nine months of 2021 versus 30% for Vestas.



00:02:29:04 - 00:02:49:09UnknownAnd of course, that is 2.44 gigawatts of turbines for GE versus 2.2 gigawatts for Vestas. And then, interestingly enough, and Nordics really seems to fly under the radar. But Nordics was third and of course, a German manufacturer with a 20% share of this market, with Siemens Gamesa coming up behind and 16%.



00:02:50:07 - 00:03:10:02UnknownBut you know, everyone talks about GE versus Siemens Gamesa, but Nordics has had some pretty strong year. So I'll start with you. Does it surprise you? I mean, this is, you know, GE is home turf, after all. Yeah, it's a little surprising because he has recently struggle, but they lately have been putting things together and have been