Allen Hall of Uptime Podcast fame and CEO of Weatherguard Lightning Tech has written a powerful call for the wind industry in the USA to clean up its game.
In The Mechanicsville Monster: How NOT to handle wind turbine end of life, Hall describes a horror story of abandoned wind turbines on a farm in Iowa. Reminiscent of the abandoned wind turbines that once littered California’s windy passes, Hall uses the tale to illustrate how the wind industry must banish its demons, in this case the Godzilla of abandoned wind turbines, before it can call on support against the Trump juggernaut to stop the expansion of wind energy.
We got rid of the dead and derelict turbines in California–finally. It’s long past time we get rid of them wherever they are.
