Windfall, Part 5: The Just Transition

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

To be profitable, the offshore wind industry requires vast sums of money only accessible to some of the world’s biggest companies. But is the environmental movement ready to welcome oil majors and devoted capitalists into their ranks? Ready or not, here they come. Windfall is the story of a promising renewable technology and the potential of wind power in a changing climate. It’s a story about who has the power to reshape our energy future. Featuring: Henrik Stiesdal, Nat Bullard, Jason Jarvis, and Mijin Cha. Part 5 of 5. SUPPORT Windfall is made possible with member-support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter. LINKS A note about our reporting process CREDITS Co-hosts: Sam Evans-Brown and Annie Ropeik Written and reported by Sam Evans-Brown Senior Producer: Jack Rodolico Executive Producer: Erika Janik Mixing: Justine Paradis Fact-checking: Sara Sneath Editors: Erika Janik, Annie Ropeik, Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, and Hannah McCarthy Special thanks to Sandeep Pai, Bo Quinn, Sammy Roth and Kim Delfino. Music: Ben Cosgrove, Blue Dot Sessions, and Breakmaster Cylinder Windfall Graphic Design: Sara Plourde Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Outside in is committed to journalistic rigor and transparency.
0:04.3	To learn about the reporting process for this series, visit windfallpodcast.org.
0:16.0	This is our final episode of Windfall, so let's go back to where we started this series.
0:21.0	Henrik Steastall, the Danish wind turbine inventor with the unruly hair and the short shorts.
0:26.7	Back in 1976, ended up building a wind turbine for my parents farm and I got kind of hooked.
0:35.2	Henrik was part of an inflection point for the technology of offshore wind.
0:39.6	He helped invent bigger and bigger turbines, built in bigger and bigger factories,
0:44.1	able to capture ever stronger winds.
0:46.8	But the technology was just one of the inflection points that Henrik was part of.
0:50.7	There was another sea change at the same time and the two went hand in hand.
0:54.8	In 1987, Henrik started making wind turbines at a tiny company.
0:59.0	You've most likely never heard of.
1:00.9	Bonus.
1:01.8	When I started in this wind company back in 1987, we were 80 people.
1:07.1	We were 9 people in engineering and we had some wonderful Christmas parties.
1:17.6	Food and drink and they would be dancing and it would be great.
1:21.4	That's how things started.
1:23.1	Then, bonus was bought by the tech giant Siemens.
1:26.4	Today, the company has more than 24,000 workers.
1:30.8	And then around 10 years later, around 98, I was seated for the Christmas party.
1:36.7	Pure little people I didn't know.
1:40.4	And that's why I saw I had lost this family feeling.
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