How much of a threat are the four Federal lawsuits against Vineyard Wind? All of the cases charge that the BOEM's environmental review was inadequate. We discuss what's at stake and how we see the cases progressing. Legal cases may be harder to predict than wind: GE and Siemens Gamesa just settled their patent dispute. Meanwhile, the US DOE has released its Offshore Wind Energy Strategy to reach 110GW by 2050 and lower PPE by a third. Allen and Joel wonder how the DOE plans to do it. Will there be R&D grants? Does DOE have a wondrous new technology up its sleeve? Or will we buy Chinese turbines? 



Speaking of innovation, RWE and BP are both looking for projects to fund. RWE is looking for innovations that improve circularity and reduce waste and also for systems integrations that improve system flexibility. The winners get to test their concepts with RWE team and other experts. Similarly,BP's Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge wants to see concepts that reduce waste and other potential negatives of wind while balancing energy supply and demand. See show notes for application details and deadlines. Scottish Power Renewables has ordered 95 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines for the East Anglia 3 wind power project in the North Sea. There's a great repowering project (actually, eight!) going on in Texas, thanks to the IRA and a new partnership between ACEN and PivotGen, to be completed in less than a year. And our Wind Farm of the Week is Rattlesnake Creek Wind Farm, in Nebraska, which will power both Adobe and Facebook facilities. But are there any rattlesnakes? Grab your earbuds...there's a lot more in this episode! 



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Allen Hall: Joel, we just celebrated our third. Of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast,



Joel Saxum: Man, time flies when you're having fun. 



Allen Hall: Yeah, we're entering year four. I can't even believe it, that we've been doing the podcast that long every week pretty religiously. And bringing our faithful listeners the information they want to hear in regards to win energy.



It, it, it's a lot of work. Joel, you, you've seen me deep dive into the, the news effort that goes on every week. We're trying to bring everybody the, the latest and greatest. And the news you probably haven't seen in regards to wind energy, not only in the United States, but a across the world. And this week is no e exception.



To start off this week, we have a, a couple of legal items. Vineyard, wind is involved in. Four different lawsuits at the moment that are dealing with fisheries and landowners. And those are coming to a close here shortly, we hope. And then GEs and Siemens cesa have finally settled their patent dispute.



And then that's good news for. Both sides. And then Joel and I take a, a, a deep dive into the Department of Energy and their new US offshore wind strategy and what that means for the wind industry over the next couple of years. 



Joel Saxum: And sticking with the talk on the US trying to sh ha put forth the strategy with offshore wind.



We also chat about R W E and bp both launching offshore wind innovation challenges.