The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Jacob Kronborg, founder of Kronborg Consult, joins to discuss blade factory quality, carbon pultrusion repairs, serial defects, and LEP.

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Octopus Investments buys Golden Plains stage two for over A$2 billion. Plus, the blade defects new owners miss in due diligence, internal inspections, and the hosts’ conference hotel pet peeves.

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Allen covers Ming Yang’s firewall from Beijing and Octopus Energy deal, US turbine orders hitting a three-year high, and Norway’s floating wind funding.

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Teemu Vekkeli, Principal at Vekkeli Advisory, joins to discuss VC versus bootstrapping, budget cycles, and problems worth solving. Plus why trust drives sales in Japan, what site technicians know, and why every pitch eventually has to convince the CFO.

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Ming Yang plans a 33 MW turbine while China pulls European tech out of its wind farms. Plus white-hat hackers reach 7.8 GW in Germany, Vårgrønn eyes a Greenvolt exit, and who really owns turbine data.

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