Uptime 71 – Australian Power Output Surges; Mocean Wave Energy & Port Infrastructure

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

This week, we discuss the proposed 7.9 billion dollars that are needed for port infrastructure improvements to accommodate the surge in offshore wind in Europe, Australia's booming wind power and renewable output, a huge Australian hydrogen and ammonia plant proposal, Mocean Blue X wave energy technology and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Australian Power Output Surgers; Mocean Wave Energy & Port Infrastructure This episode is brought to you by weatherguard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbinesor do for maintenance or repairs, install our striketape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick,easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factorylightning protection system. Forward thinkingwind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the shownotes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptimepodcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and waysto keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome backto the Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host, DanBlewett on today's show. First, we'll talk a little bitabout port infrastructure. Over in Europe. It looks like about seven point nine billion dollars is the estimateof some upgrades that might be needed just to handle some of the increased volume of,you know, shipping from offshore wind. We'll talk about spiral welded towertechnology, which could be a major player as far as, you know, construction on sitewithout having to ship these really long towers. We'll talk about the emotion borlooX wave energy prototype, which is now off the Orkney Islandsin testing phase. And the U.S. is actually investing in thatto see if we can get some of this wave power upand running on the West Coast. And lastly, we will talk about Australiabreaking an output, a record with five thousand eighthundred ninety nine megawatts. And some of the while,the plans for this very big energy hub in the southwest side of Australiato potentially create green hydrogen and other fuels for use in heavy industries,power stations, shipping and more. So, Alan, let's start with infrastructure. Obviously, this isthis is was going to be a problem. We've talked about thisjust the need for bigger ships, for installationvehicles, for bigger ports as these things growand there's more demand for it, like this is going to stress everything. So, I mean, I assume youyou just see this as a natural progression for all these countriesjust to to make this work, right? Oh, sure. Can can you. Well, imagine thatif you have an existing port that close in the 60s or 70s,which is probably at least in the United States, waswhat a lot of ports are going to be. All the infrastructureyou have to put in to make them viable, to handle offshore wind,it can be roads, right. Heavy duty roads, a carryheavy things for trucking, all the power requirements, because you maybe putting factories near the ports. So all the on the powerdemand you're going to put there, all the other bits and bobs of buildings. You know, it's just going to be massive amounts of infrastructure,sewer, water lines, the whole thing. I always guess that when they come upwith numbers for infrastructure projects, it's roughly 50 percent ofwhat is actually needed to finish the job. So they probably need twice that thatamount to do it, because it's always so