Seminar

Wind Energy Technology Summit, Day 1 - Emerging offshore technologies: floating offshore wind technology seminar

Following two successful summits, Sirris will be organising the Wind Energy Technology Summit for the third time. This year we will link two seminars on emerging technologies in a two-day program. On the first day of the Summit, we will focus on the developments in floating offshore wind turbines and the challenges involved.

The aim of the seminar is to inform and inspire companies and other organisations about emerging technological developments in the (offshore) wind energy sector.

Offshore wind farms are being built ever further out to sea and in deeper water, which makes it very difficult to work with solid foundations. Floating wind turbines can offer a solution here. This also applies to those markets where the nearby coastline is very deep, as is the case, for example, in Portugal, Norway and on the West Coast of the USA. These markets therefore hope for significant cost reductions from floating wind turbines in the coming years, so that they too can make full use of offshore wind energy. This creates opportunities for the Belgian, and, by extension, the European wind sector.

Several Belgian and international speakers will describe the state-of-the-art, new market insights and the latest innovation trends around this emerging theme. Speakers already confirmed: World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO), Basque Energy Cluster, Multi-Engineering, Nautilus Floating Solutions (Wind2Grid floating substation project), Sener (HiveWind), Saitec.

A delegation from the Basque energy cluster will also take part in this seminar. Before the afternoon seminar program, companies will have the opportunity to interact in a B2B session with members of the Basque floating wind energy cluster. For more information about this B2B session, please contact Pieter Jan Jordaens (exclusive offer for members of Sirris, Agoria and Blue cluster).

We conclude the first day of the event with a panel session with Edward Van Melkebeek, Head of Technology at Parkwind, Eric Finé, Business Development Manager at Smulders, Jef Monballieu, commercial manager Offshore Concessies at Jan De Nul, and Louise Efthimiou, Floating Offshore Wind Analyst at World Forum Offshore Wind – WFO..

In the morning of 13 September, we offer you the unique opportunity to visit the brand-new test facility Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB). The COB has a wave tank with unique features which can be relevant to the floating offshore wind sector, located in Ostend.

The visit to the COB test facility is fully booked!

More information about the Wind Energy Technology Summit 2023.

Programme

Topic

Speaker

12h30

Registration & welcome coffee

13h00

Opening words & Setting the scene 'Floating wind power'

Pieter Jan Jordaens, Sirris

13h10

Global Update on Floating Wind

Louise Efthimiou, World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO)

13h30

Floating wind – perspective of a Belgian developer'

Cedric Vanden Haute, Elicio

13h50

SATH: from demonstration towards pre-commercial projects. Industrialisation challenges.

Dr. Carlos Garrido-Mendoza, Saitec

14h10

Coffee and networking break

14h30

Parkwind’s view on different floating markets and technologies

Griet Decorte, Parkwind

14h50

Monitoring the movement of dynamic cables in a floating wind farm through Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)

Simon De Rijcke, Marlinks &
Antoine Vergaerde, Engie-Laborelec

15h10

Floating Offshore Substations and Hydrogen generation and storage

Jesús M. Busturia, Nautilus

15u30

Coffee and networking break

15h50

Moray Base floating platform

Niko Fierens, Multi Engineering

16h10

Modularity as a key to enable floating offshore wind industrialization and scalability

Meng Zhang, Sener

16h30

Panel discussion floating offshore wind perspectives

Jef Monballieu (Jan De Nul)
Louise Efthimiou (World Forum Offshore Wind – WFO)
Eric Finé (Smulders)
Edward Van Melkebeek (Parkwind)
Cedric Vanden Haute (Elicio)
Marcos Suarez Garcia (Basque energy cluster)

17h30

Networking reception

For whom?

The target audience consists of both established companies in the energy sector and its suppliers, and newcomers who want to get involved in offshore wind energy in the coming years. Everyone who wants to gain new insights and knowledge about this growth sector is welcome. It is also an excellent opportunity to network within the industry.

On 12 and 13 September, the Offshore Wind PhD Days will take place. At this event, the Belgian academic community will come together to host an academic poster session at the same event location. To make it a real summit and to maximize cross-fertilisation between industry and academia, we will combine the networking for both events on 12 September.

Price

Thanks to the support provided by Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) under the Industry Partnership, the participation fee for this thematic event is only € 105 (excl. VAT) for companies established in Flanders. Participants from outside Flanders pay € 349.

This thematic event is organised under the 'Industry partnership’ programme.