Allen and Dan discuss Japan's plan to add 10GW of power in the next 10 years, new wind turbines in India from Siemens Gamesa Renewable energy, and how marine life may be impacted by offshore wind turbines. In segment two, Allen goes into detail on electrical bonding issues in the lightning protection systems of wind turbines.

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Full Transcript: EP17 A Great Quarter for Wind Capacity; Electrical Bonding Issues with Wind Turbines

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Allen Hall: Welcome back I'm Allen Hall.

Dan: I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the Uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection, and ways to keep your wind turbines running.

All right, welcome back to uptime. This is episode 17, Allen. What's going on.

Allen Hall: Hey, busy weekend wind, huh? Uh, a lot of, uh, good activity. You see some awakening a little bit on the wind side and, uh, it looks like Japan's doing some good things trying to expand their, their wind infrastructure and Siemens Gamesa is making some inroads into India.

Great. This has been a, going to be a great week.

Dan: Yeah. So in today's show, we're going to cover a little bit on the, on the news side, like Allen mentioned, um, there's been a good first quarter, uh, for the wind industry. Um, some expansion into India. We're gonna talk about Japan a little bit and, um, kind of briefly.

Check on wildlife in the ocean. So there's a new, um, good article came out about offshore wind and, uh, maybe some of the implications on ocean wildlife. Then we're gonna talk a little bit about bonding and grounding, um, and some of the electrical issues that are posed, uh, by winter by Anson. I know Alan, you've had some questions recently with all that.

So we'll cover that, uh, in the second half of our show today. So first thing on the docket, I mean, so good first quarter for wind. I'm so sorry, nearly 14 gigawatts of wind turbine capacity, Warbird order globally, which equates to an estimated 13 point $4 billion. So what do you, what do you see with all this?

I mean, that's pretty exciting. I mean, this is becoming a, a pretty, uh, main stable in the, not that it hasn't been, but. Things are looking up.

Allen Hall: Yeah, that's a good number. Yeah, that's a good number. Right? So one gigawatt equals $1 billion in sales. That's what that says. That's a great number because as we've talked about doing more and more gigawatts,