The world's first compressed air energy storage, in China, is now in operation. It's expected to power up to 60K homes. The technology is solid but it's less efficient than other energy storage systems. We consider the pros and cons. What did European Commission President von der Leyen and US President Biden agree to in their meeting last month regarding incentives in green tech? Joel and Rosemary speculate, and offer some suggestions for a stronger renewables market. (Hint: they're not fans of hydrogen subsidies.) A unique partnership between Onyx Insights and Nearthlab could pay off for both companies and for operators, too.



GE is investing in carbon capture - is it worthwhile? Ask 3 engineers, get 3 perspectives. In Germany, Nordex is knocking down four 4.5MW turbines. What do we know about why? In the Gulf of Mexico, Shell and Gulf Wind Technology are working to develop, test and deploy a Cat 5 Hurricane-proof turbine by 2024. What's at stake, and what will we learn? Our Wind Farm of the Week, the Strauss Wind Energy Project in Lompoc, CA, has been more than 20 years in development. Find out why its time is now!



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EP 159



Allen Hall: Well, I am in Åre, Sweden at the moment for winter Wind, which is the icing winter blade conference held in, in Sweden every year. And Joel, it's just like I imagine Sweden. It is beautiful, but it is ultra cold and very 



Joel Saxum: snowy. The people are nice, though. The people are nice. Oh 



Allen Hall: yeah. It's a lovely people actually enjoying the food.



And the company here, and it's a pretty well attended conference. It, it starts off tomorrow. They had some, a little bit of adventures this afternoon, but the, the conference itself starts tomorrow. Really looking forward to learning a lot about wind turbine anti icing, some of the issues they're having with a e p and icing, and trying to keep these wind turbines running in these really harsh winter conditions.



And, I'm used to cold. It's cold here. This is beyond cold. So this, this week we have a number of great topics. China has a compressed air energy storage system, 100 megawatt system that is pretty unique, and Rosemary goes through some of the details there. Then we look at the, the the EU and the United States are doing battle on, on how much money they can pour into renewable energy and, and how that's gonna end up as, as both United States.



And the European Union try to keep their technologies in their countries. And then GE is demonstrating a scalable director capture system for CO2 removal. And we, we look into that and where that technology may be used, and we're 



Joel Saxum: jumping back from in directly into the wind world with Onyx Insights, a company that we know for some CMS monitoring, but also starting to partner up with Nearthlab.



South Korea with their drone technology to help some of their clients with blades. Alan and I've been talking in the background about some Nordex towers made outta concrete that are gonna get actually blown and have a demolition due to some defects in the towers themselves. So.



Little, little bit of trouble there with the concrete towers. And then jumping down in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about a cat five hurricane proof wind turbines that that Gulf wind and shell are teaming up on to be able to deploy in the Gulf.