SeaTwirl has a contract to develop a new VAWT based on their earlier designs - Rosemary provides insights. Wind and solar jobs are abundant in the U.S. with a significant portion in construction with Texas and California leading the nation. Rosemary, Joel and Allen then look into a Siemens Gamesa 5X blade failure at a new wind farm in Brazil. What can done to repair the 5X blades and where there issues during the blade certification?



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Allen Hall: We kind of got sidetracked a little bit because of the Siemens Gamesa 5X blade breaking down in Brazil. 



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, but that's interesting. Everyone wants to hear about that.



Allen Hall: I do because I have a, a real bone to pick about the way that that blade was tested. And, and I I just need to understand from Rosemary in this episode, you, you hear me question her like, what is going on?



Why didn't I catch it in testing? And Joel's being very sly cause I feel like he knows more than he's telling us, but. Between Rosemary and I, we actually have a bet and I'm gonna end up sending her $20. I know that I am. To Australia, but I think it's a good bet. I think we need to hash out what's happening.



Right. Rosemary? I think we need to figure out what's happening with Sema Ga Meza. 



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Yeah. So we, we speculate a lot about what's going on. We're kind of piecing it together. Nancy Drew's story Nancy Drew's style from the little reports that we're, we're hearing, and I, I think, you know, we got a lot more information in the, the latest one that we talk about in today's episode.



Allen Hall: Yeah. And we also talk about renewable technicians being in huge demand in the United States, particularly in construction. And then, The SeaTwirl vertical axis wind turbine that looks like they have another project up in Europe. So it's pretty exciting. I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the Vice President of North America and Sales for Wind Power LAB.



Joel Saxum, an international renewables expert, Rosemary Barnes on this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.



Sea Twirl and Kontiki winds have signed an MOU to explore opportunities for electrifying offshore assets using sea twirls floating wind turbines. So this sounds interesting because we haven't heard a lot outta SeaTwirl lately. So SeaTwirl makes these vertical axis wind turbines. But SeaTwirl has received a purchase order, which is the first step to making money, and that's where they need to get right to develop.



They're gonna develop a smaller wind turbine they call an S 1.5 to, to, to withstand all of the torture of the North Sea. It's SeaTwirls first commercial revenues, and it's a milestone for the company. So that's fantastic. Now Rosemary, this is a little bit different. So what's happening here is they're going to, the contiki wind is gonna combine SeaTwirls vertical axis floating wind platform with an existing farm.



So it's basically gonna plug in a turbine into an existing farm not create a farm for these SeaTwirls. So it sounds like it's sort of a one-off, but it's on a trial basis, but they're getting paid to go make this turbine. That's a really good first step, right? To actually get a part in service. 



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I think it is a logical next step.