Wednesday, January 15, 2025

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Overview

Chairs: Konstanze Kölle, SINTEF and Trond Kvamsdal, NTNU

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Details

09.00 Introduction by chair 09.05 Official opening – Petter Støa, VP Research, SINTEF 09.20 Ocean Grid – New grid solutions for profitable offshore wind development – Sverre Skalleberg Gjerde, Leading Engineer Electrical Power Systems, Equinor 09.35 GoliatVIND – Accelerating the transition from fossil to renewable energy with floating wind – Gunnar Birkeland, CEO, Source Galileo 09.50 Concrete – for constructing cost-effective and sustainable offshore structures – John Sunde, Project Manager, Heidelberg Materials 10.05 NorthWind – Diagnostic Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection in Floating Offshore Wind Energy – Florian Stadtmann, NTNU/SINTEF 10.20 DigiWind – Advancing digital skills in wind and energy systems engineering – Tuhfe Göçmen, Senior Researcher, DTU 10.35 Break 10.50 Panel discussion: Offshore wind industry challenges and the way forward Panellists: Davide Amato, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation; Stephan Barth, ForWind, Coordinator EERA JP Wind; Capucine Vannoorenberghe, WindEurope; John Olav Tande, Statnett, SVP R&D and Innovation. Moderator: Ignacio Martí, DTU 11.50 Closing by chair