Offshore Wind Energy and the Offshore Industry

 

International Conference

Offshore Wind Energy and the Offshore Industry

during the International Maritime Exhibition BALTEXPO 2011

7 September 2011, Gdansk

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Session 1: Offshore wind energy development perspectives in Europe and Poland

9:30 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 10:20

Official opening and welcome speeches:

- Bogdan Gutkowski - President of the Polish Wind Energy Society

- Jan Kozłowski - Member of the European Parliament

- Piotr Ołowski - Member of Polish Parliament, Commission of Infrastructure

10:20 – 10:40

European offshore wind development in Europe for 2020 – Anne-Benedicte Genachte - European Wind Energy Association

10:40 – 10:55

New legal regulations enabling the offshore wind energy development in Poland

- Ministry of Economy

10:55 – 11:15

Offshore wind energy planning and development in the maritime areas in Germany – Dr Nico Nolte - German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)

11:15 – 11:30

Development potential of the offshore wind energy in Poland – Julisz Gajewski, Maritime Institute of Gdansk

 

11:30 – 11:50

Coffee break

 


 

 

 

 

 

Session 2: Offshore Wind Energy - experience, opportunities and challenges

 

11:50 – 12:10

Offshore Wind Energy and regional development – case of Rostock – Gert Proba, Rostock Business and Technology Development

12:10 – 12:30

Alpha Ventus Wind Farm: experience in project development – Michael Zehfuss, German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation

12:30 – 12:50

Offshore Wind Farms Operation and Maintenance – Issues and Risk Mitigation
- Jan Talaśka, DNV

12:50 – 13:10

OWF Project preparation experience: assessment of wind conditions at the FINO1 offshore research platform – Peter Frohboese - Germanischer Lloyd

13:10 – 13:30

Technical and economic aspects of the offshore grid development according to the ‘OffshoreGrid’ Project – Katarzyna Michałowska-Knap - Institute for Renewable Energy

 

13:30 – 14:15

Lunch

 

Session 3: Building the supply-chain for the offshore wind industry

14:15 – 14:30

South Baltic OFFER: support to the industry development towards offshore wind energy – Mariusz Witonski – Polish Wind Energy Society

14:30 – 14:45

Research and development for the offshore wind energy industry – Marcin Łuczak
- Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk

14:45 – 15:00

Offshore Service Vessels for Offshore Wind Farming  - Rasmus Stute

- Germanischer Lloyd

 

Presentations of the Polish enterprises active in the offshore wind industry sector:

15:00 – 15:10

-      GSG Towers Sp. z o.o.

15:10 – 15:20

-      CRIST S.A.

15:20 – 15:30

-      Polskie Sieci Morskie S.A.

15:30 – 15:40

-      Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia Sp. z o.o.

15:40 – 15:50

-      H.Cegielski – Poznań S.A.

15:50 – 16:00

Summary and conclusions