Nordex Installs 179 Meter Turbine, US Oil Prices Drop

On Uptime this week, we discuss Nordex's installation of a 179 meter hub-height wind turbine in Germany, the expected drop in oil prices in the US, and the emerging "hushed hybrid" trend. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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! Nordex breaks records with their tallest onshore wind turbine. Wall Street predicts conservative oil and gas spending for 2025 and Australia prepares for the wind energy O&M conference. This is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by BuildTurbines. com. Learn, train, and be a part of the clean energy revolution. Visit BuildTurbines. com today. Now here's your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Well, you won't want to miss the Wind Energy O& M Australia event because it's coming up soon, February 11th and 12th in Melbourne. And at this point, Phil, there's like 65, 67 different companies represented at this event. Yes, uh, we've got about 125 people registered at this point and all our sponsors are on board. So a big thank you to Tilt Renewables, GE Vernova, Winergy. Uh, warley rig com. Skys specs and aons. That's gonna be quite a crowd. And, and the, the panels I saw, if you go online to wind australia.com, you can see all the different panels we're talking, leading edge erosion, some lightning strikes, CMS. Pretty much anything to do with wind turbines we're going to be discussing and because we'll have all the experts there at one place It's the right time to get your questions answered and even Rosemary is going to be talking on a panel and hosting a panel A couple in fact, I've got leading edge erosion and then end of life Considerations what to do at the end of life of wind turbines. So looking forward to both of those And Joel, you're hosting a panel on insurance, correct? Yeah, I was actually speaking with some of the people that are going to be involved in it today, and they're super excited about being able to actually engage with the public that they don't get to, or they engage with the wind industry that they don't normally get to. So they want to share their messages in operational strategies and how to deal with your insurers. Yeah, it's a really different crowd to what, um, I typically see at Australian conferences or most, even the international ones where it's much more about, I don't know,