EP113 – Uptime at American Clean Power 2022!

Rosemary Barnes and Allen Hall are joined by Wind Power Lab's Joel Saxum to discuss the latest news from American Wind Power 2022! 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. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  EP113 Allen Hall: We're at American clean power in San Antonio, which is gonna have about eight to 10,000 people from the looks of it. So it's gonna BES gonna be a really, really big show. Allen Hall: Welcome back to the uptime podcast. I am a co-host Allen hall here. Rosemary Barnes all the way from Australia. And we also have Joel Saxon from wind power lab. Yeah. Exciting.  Rosemary Barnes: I came all this way, so that'd be good.  Joel Saxum: in the 95 degree heat. Yeah.  Rosemary Barnes: Was with the heat. I was not expecting this.  Allen Hall: It's really hot in San Antonio this week. Allen Hall: I, I don't know how we manage it. Cause it's, it's the middle of. And it should be in the eighties and it's a hundred plus degrees right now.  Rosemary Barnes: It's high thirties for everybody out there who uses sensible temperature.  Joel Saxum: west Texas set records. The last two weeks, the other weekend, it was the first or the earliest in the year they ever had triple digit temperatures the three days in a row. Allen Hall: Wow. So it's  Rosemary Barnes: too hot. Yeah. And it's interesting cuz I saw when I was just last week, I, it was the first time I looked at the forecast to see what clothes that I should have with me. I saw that they're already, they're giving over the weekend. They were giving requests for people to please, you know, turn your thermostat up and, you know, not use the air con if you didn't need to, because they're worried about the grid already  Joel Saxum: in may. Joel Saxum: I think I read yesterday, Hercu had six plants  Rosemary Barnes: go offline gas plants. Yep. You have to specify because yeah. Gas plants, no matter what it's that happens, you know, it's renewables that are gonna get