Wind Turbine Technicians are in short supply. A recent report on the US states with mechanically-inclined workers provides insights into where to find future technicians. Joel, Rosemary and Allen discuss the report and the potential salaries for workers willing to move to the east and west coasts.







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EP 150 Bonus



Allen Hall: This is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast bonus episode. In this episode, Joel Rosemary and I discuss where the mechanically inclined employees are in the United States, and they may be in places you haven't thought of because some of them were surprised to me. So this is a good discussion because wind turine technicians are gonna become one of the primary expanding roles in America.



So it'll be a great time to be a wind turbine technician. Question is where are they gonna come from? It looks like mostly in the middle of United States, but not all. So we have a, a good back and forth here. It's stay tuned. This is a, an excellent episode, bonus episode of.



A, a really interesting article in construction coverage.com. Not a place that I frequent very often, but they had an article that just popped out called American Cities with the most mechanically Inclined Workers in 2023. Oh. . Maybe my little town's in that. Curious, not like that, but, so let's just, just curious to see.



Right. And they've sort of break down the mechanically inclined occupations from laborers and people who move freight stock around to people driving tractor trailers to general maintenance, repair people, construction carpenters, electricians, automobile mechanic. , kind of the general categories there.



But if you look at the growth where they say mechanically and client occupations in the energy sector have the highest growth projections, it is in wind turine service technician. There you go. So the two year and tenure growth, they are number one in that list. there. In the 10 year projections, it's wind and wind turbines, number one, solar's number two.



Wood pattern makers is number three. I, I guess that's, that's furniture makers probably. That makes sense. Derrick. Workers for oil and gas model makers. More oil and gas. Oil and gas. Oil and gas. So in terms of the growth, it's gonna be wind, solar, oil, and gas. Is that, that's not shocking, Joel, is it?



And I guess that would make 



Joel Saxum: sense. No. , I would think that the oil and gas wouldn't be, wouldn't be growing as hard or as fast as the renewable side. But makes sense. You know, it makes me think back to Rosemary. You wouldn't know this one cuz you're, you're not in the US but when you are 17, I think in high school they make you take a test called the asvab.



And the ASVAB is the military aptitude test. They 



Rosemary Barnes: make you do a test to. If you would be good in the military or what you should do. They, they, yeah. They 



Joel Saxum: like, they, they literally come, they came, they came to our school and were like, all right, all of the juniors into the auditorium and like 10, 10 guys and you know, two guys from the Marines, two guys from the Navy, two guys from the Army stood up there and they gave you this big speech about the military.



And then had you take this test. And the test, you don't know it while you're taking it, but how it scores you basically is, are you.