This week's episode covers Eversource exiting offshore wind, delays at Dogger Bank wind farm, honorees of the Queen Elizabeth engineering prize, and the return of Wind Farm of the Week featuring Kay Wind farm. Allen and Joel also look forward to attending ACP OMS in San Diego!







Allen Hall: Joel, I think being in the podcast business is a lot easier than being in the AM radio business, clearly because down in Jasper, Alabama the station was alarmed by some guys taking care of the grounds. They had come out to, to mow and weed whack and whatever they're going to do. And. At the tower site.



And when they got there, there was no tower. The tower was gone. I was left with a bunch of cables on the ground. And so the tower evidently was stolen. And the station manager at down there in Alabama doesn't have any leads. They can't figure out where this, all the equipment went to. And it wasn't like it was a little tiny.



20 foot tower. It's like a 200 foot tower. So talking about taking down a really big structure and somehow dragging it off into the woods and never to be found again. So there's a, that's a big problem. If the people are starting to steal your radio tower, you got



Joel Saxum: issues.



I just can't see what anybody would do with it.



You're not going to cut it up and sell it for scrap. Like every If this is national news now, every scrapyard is going to know. First off, look, so what are you going to do with it is one, if, and if you reinstall it eh, we're going to install it so we can get TV from fricking Germany.



I don't know. But if you're going to reinstall it, someone's going to see it. They're going to be like, there's the 200 foot tower. So I don't know, unless it's just a really extravagant prank that someone's pulling, I'm not sure what you're going to do with this tower. But kudos to the people that pulled it down.



I don't know how you did that overnight.



Allen Hall: They don't have any insurance coverage, because who would steal a tower, right? So now the station's in trouble because the FCC which license all the radio stations in the United States has pulled their license. So they had an FM station and an AM station, the AM station got stolen.



The FM station evidently is still operational, but the FCC told them to turn it off. So now they're stuck. They gotta go buy a new tower. Those things are not cheap, by the way, so that's a big problem. And it just reminds me when you and I were been down in Oklahoma and Texas. That a lot of wind turbines now, thank goodness, are well locked up because there's a lot of vandals out there and some of these wind turbines are located in remote places that we make sure that all those things are closed and secure like we hope that they are because there's a lot of crazy stuff going on right now.



Joel Saxum: So one last question, Allen, at what point in time do we just get rid of AM radio?



Allen Hall: As soon as podcasts take over the world, that's when, or when you can listen to it on a podcast on AM radio, that's when you can do it.



Joel Saxum: That's our next frontier, back to AM.



Allen Hall: Back to AM, amen.



Well, Joel, Eversource is pulling out of the offshore wind business here in the United States. Now, Eversource is a large electricity provider on the East Coast. They operate New England's largest energy system with about 4. 4 million electric natural gas and wind Water customers in sort of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and up in New Hampshire, so they cover Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts, two big metro areas because they published their financials for 2023 and they had booked a 1.



9 billion dollar impairment. For its offshore wind investments for last year, and evidently, as part of that, they decided to sell their 50 percent stake in South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind projects to global infrastructure partners. Now, in return for selling those, you're going to receive about 1. 1 billion in cash.