Ship Hits Turbine, DNV Earthquake Problem, 9 GW-hr Battery, Fish in Jackets, Nabrawind Funding, RWE buys 1GW from SGRE

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast team covers a variety of interesting stories this week. The first story is about a ship carrying 1500 tons of grain that hit a wind turbine in German waters. The team discusses how such accidents can be avoided in the future. The next story is about DNV starting a joint project to investigate geotechnical and design considerations for earthquake protection for offshore wind in different areas of the world. The team also talks about NTPC in India requesting to build nine gigawatt hours of battery capacity and Ming Yang's development of fish farms in offshore wind jackets. In addition, they discuss Nabrawind's financial backing to get their ideas into reality, and RWE selecting Siemens Gamesa for a large number of wind turbines. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.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!  Uptime 164 Allen Hall: On my trip back home, I seem to. Have caught some sort of Danish infection and I'm, I'm gonna struggle through this entire episodes. I do not blame the Danes, I blame the American. That's my own damn fault. Joel Saxum:  Is the Danish infection gonna take cause you to take a month off this summer or something? Or what? What happened?  Allen Hall: I may have to go to Costa Rica to recover. Yeah, there you go. I went to the doctor today and said, Hey, I was over in Denmark and he gave me that little kind of scared look like scared doctor look like, oh really? This could be serious. And I thought I was in Denmark. Denmark is full of nice people. What, what could they possibly have there that could kill me? You know what I mean? It's a beautiful country. It's, I I, yeah. We had a great time in Denmark. We had a great time in Denmark. We really did. And we saw a lot of sights and I was very, Pleased that the weather was good. So, uh, my kudos to everybody in Copenhagen and Denmark for throwing a great event last week. We really enjoyed it this week in the news. A bunch of, uh, interesting stories.  Joel Saxum: So the first one we're gonna chat about is not too far from Denmark, actually, just to the, uh, the East Easter in German waters. Uh,