A busy week in wind energy! IdentiFlight's bird detection system was approved for use in France - Rosemary has great insights into the effectiveness of the system. BP and Equinor test the ocean floor off the coast of NY, and the US Government Accountability Office promises to look into the effects of offshore wind. GustoMSC is moving towards Modular SOV's to fill the growing need for multi-tasking ship. Massachusetts and New York are dealing with offshore projects in limbo - will the states move to save the projects? Wood Mackenzie has studied the offshore wind supply chain in detail with some eye-catching results. And, our wind farm of the week is the Twin Ridges Wind Farm in Pennsylvania.



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Allen Hall: Up in Canada last week, there was a wind turbine, then it was on fire. Everybody saw it on LinkedIn or TikTok or wherever you get the news from. And then they got struck by lightning and then they got struck by lightning again, from what I could tell. So that wind turbine had a really horrible day because it just completely burned down, unfortunately.



And in the aftermath, a lot of people were calling me like, well why are these wind turbines burning? I think, and this is word to the wise. If you have a lot of oil or grease or debris in your wind turbine just kinda laying around, if you walk into the top of a wind turbine and you see, you know, your ankle deep in, in oil, you probably ought to clean that up because the first lightning strike that happens, that turbine is a torch.



There's your safety tip for the week. Clean your turbine. Well, this week we have a, a, a very short list of topics for a really good episode. We are talking about birds, whales, ships. An offshore wind and maybe some politics, but very little. Thank goodness. So it, it's a, a packed episode. Rosemary has some really good insight into a bird detection system that got approved over in France.



And then we, we get into some Joel things about how we take samples from the ocean bottom and some really cool o v stuff that GustoMSC is working on. So stay tuned. I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the Vice President of North American Sales for Wind Power Lab.



Joel Saxum an international renewables expert Rose, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast,



IdentiFlight Has received acceptance from the Grand East region authorities in France and IdentiFlight is a US based company, I think it's based in Colorado, that provides bird detection systems for wind farms. And their system has, and Joel, I don't know if you've seen this thing, but it's basically a series of cameras wrapped around a, a pole that's looking at all directions.



Then it has a camera that swivels around. The, the, the cameras that are sort of fixed are looking for the bird, and then the, the swivel camera, which has stereo vision, locates it, zooms in on, identifies it. The acceptance of identify is the first time that French authorities have validated an automated system for reducing bird collisions in wind farms.



The system can identify multiple species of protected birds, including the red kite, which is a big deal in France. So the success of the system in reducing sys mortality rates supports obviously French and EU regulations for protecting bird species. And, and Rosemary,