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Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.
Rosemary Barnes and I are in Copenhagen at Wind Europe 2025 at the Bella Center, which is a full with about 15,000 visitors and 350 exhibitors. This is a massive show. It's the second largest, I would say, in Europe typically. Right? So Hamburg is bigger, but this is, this is. Still massive.
Rosemary: I haven't been to Hamburg.
This is the biggest probably conference that I've been to. I think probably, 'cause I used to go to, I used to go to a lot of European conferences, but like niche ones, you know, on specific topics like winter wind or, I don't know, various types of manufacturing. But this is, yeah. All wind and you say 350 exhibitors.
If you had told me three and a half thousand, I, I would've believed you because I feel like I have seen so, so few. I mean, I've seen so many good exhibits, but not, I haven't scratched the surface of what's here. And we've only got, I've only got one day left. You're going home, so yeah, your time's over.
We've [00:01:00] just
Allen Hall: walked. Through the hallways quite a bit and the highways to see what is here. It's a different vibe than what you would see in Australia or see in the United States. It is much more focused on offshore.
Rosemary: Yeah.
Allen Hall: And big scale offshore wind projects.
Rosemary: Yeah. But you know what the Australian NCES are all about offshore wind as well.
It's like a, a, a weird thing that those of us. Working in the industry, you know, in operations. Can't quite get our head around how little people talk about the kind of wind energy that we actually have. Um, but here in Europe, obviously they do actually have offshore and a lot of the future development will be in offshore.
So it makes sense here.
Allen Hall: Bristol's here. R B's here. Ge Renova. Vestus. Of course, they all have massive displays.
Rosemary: Za not a lot. Nordic
Allen Hall: had some. Yeah. New, new items.
Rosemary: I haven't seen much, um, Chinese presence here, like
Allen Hall: almost none. Yeah.
Rosemary: Which this time, time surpris me a little bit. [00:02:00] Yeah.
Allen Hall: And there's not a lot of American presence here either, besides ge Renova as the American, but they're sort of split, right?
They're all over the world.
Rosemary: Americans are busy right now. There's stuff going on at home
Allen Hall: just a little bit. Sure. Uh, but I, uh, I think some perspective there would be good as we get going, because I'm gonna, I'm bringing the American perspective, Rosie, you're bringing the Australian perspective a lot of.
Uncertainty about the United States at the minute. Uh, much talk of aren't you super concerned about what's happening in America? And I said, it's just another day in America really. And uh, what you read in the papers is not necessarily what's happening on the ground, uh, but I think other, and Europeans have a different perspective and that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Allen Hall: Uh, but it does lead to some weird discussions and maybe Australia, well, you, Australia has a similar problem with America at the moment, but. It, it's, it's still, it's, it feels real.