Where these ones being put up?

 

Looks like they were shipped by rail and are now being loaded onto a truck for the rest of the trip to the final location. By the way they have to make huge wide corners on the roads to get these things in and the thing i find very stupid around here anyway is as soon as they get them in they rip back out all the improvements on the corners = lots of money wasted what happens when they need replacement parts or need to take one down (of course they will NEVER brake ) and they want to put more of them up. Kind of reminds me of our government at work with our money also how much oil and carbon footprint is their in all of this great GREEN technology haul the material in build the road tear it out repeat again .

 

Chetwynd B.C 50kms down the moberly river road.
We might be unloading some more this year in Tumbler Ridge.

 

An unanticipated danger of working in the renewable energy field - UFO's or possibly unmanned U.S. stealth drones attack wind turbines:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...32_468x351.jpg

It happened in Britain; it could happen here!

 

Speaking of unanticipated danger around renewable energy, I was just talking to a guy at work who used to supervise the jail work crew that did cleanup work in the vacinity of windmills.

He said that they were warned that in the right weather conditions the things build up ice on the blades, and that BIG chunks of ice would get slung off in unpredictable directions.

I was also talking to a gal who works with the GF, and her husband works with the windmills. He's got one of the gigs doing routine service and repair on the windfarm once it is up. Crawling into the hub while the thing sways around in the wind sounds kind of spooky, but having a windmill job where you aren't living out of a motel and can have a house and a family sounds like a plus.

 

I might want to invest.

Some of you in the industry may be coming here if this wind farm passes. Lots of neat impact view if the windmills are put up.




http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEP...temtnwind.html

 

hey everyone...thanks for all the information.

for those of you in oregon, i'm thinking of heading into the program out there. one thing I like is that there's lots of options within the field. Lots of different technical skills involved in erecting the turbines, setting up the transmission lines, etc. good info about the millwrights and ironworkers, I didn't know of those two specific terms in relation to the work.

my girlfriend doesn't feel the same way, but I have a travel trailer and would actually enjoy moving around and working in new areas, the per diem is a plus as well.

One question, of the many, that comes to mind. Anyone who has traveled, or knows someone who has traveled, to work on building a new wind farm...do you go from job to job, are you sort of an independently contracted employee, are there firms that get you gigs, can you take time off if you want, etc.

 

I got to talking to a few guys who work for a company that does the trenching in relation to wind power.

It appears they are employees of that company, and I assume they then get assigned to projects wherever the company won a bid or whatever.

It sounded like the pay check was nice, but living out of a motel and working constantly would get old. I would guess a person might get time off between projects, but probably hard to get time off when you want to schedule it.

There are a ton of rental Dodge Ram's with Utah plates at motels here, along with other trucks from related contractors. I've noticed some of the Utah Dodges are now parked in residential neighborhoods. I don't know if some of the employees have chosen to rent houses, or if some of our locals got hired on for the duration of the construction in the area.

 

hi guys

here from switzerland
http://www.bkw.ch/de/energie/energie...nd/juvent.html
http://www.juvent.ch/

 

Here in Coleman, Texas there is a company that bead blasts the towers and paints them and then hauls them out to location. They just laid off over 400 people and told them not even to try to file for umemployemnt because it is a government funded organization. The Company is called Wind Clean.

 

Most of the parts are built overseas. Ive seen hundreds of the blades sitting in a shipyard in India getting ready to be shipped to the US.

 

in about 4-5 months they are going to start the biggest wind farm project so far in the state of Oregon 345 some towers, it is going to be in Sherman county near wasco, Bad thing about up in that area not many places to have a trailer. I just spent 9 months of the year working up there on the Indian village, the weather was pretty bad this year though. Jeff u must be in The D yes ?

 

that looks like lightning to me.

that is where our tower sections came from, started in fort worth, then went to coleman for all the internals., ladders, bus bars and such.

o ps. I am at the North American Wind Research and Training Center, in Tucumcari, NM. it is a community college, i will attain an Associates in Wind Energy Technology after the completition of 4 semesters and 2 internships.

if you have any questions PM me.

 

If you wouldn't mind, give us the details...

What's the course work like?

What do you expect your typical day will be like, once you've finished and are working in the field?

Do you expect to live out of motels various places in the country as windfarms go in, or are you intending to be able to put down roots in a region where you could mostly do service and/or repair?

If it isn't too personal, what does it cost to get through the college program? Any idea of the salary range you might be looking at?

 

I see there is a job listing just posted for windmill repair/service. Looks like they prefer people with mechanical, electronic, hydraulic or mechanical experience and start at $15-$20 depending on experience...