Location:
Address/link: Eemshaven - Groningen
Three day course - November 25 - 27 - The New Energy Business School
Discover how wind power is leading the shift towards cleaner, sustainable energy sources and why it is the cornerstone of our future energy landscape. This programme will give you a complete overview of an offshore wind energy strategy by integrating the benefits of theoretical material, practical offshore wind cases with serious gaming and discussions, where actual examples will be contemplated.
This three day programme is a must for anyone who wants to gain a critical understanding of the developments in offshore wind energy while gaining a strong network of peers within the wind energy sector.
The Programme:
- Introduction to wind energy
- Global offshore wind energy market
- Current status and growth expectations
- Current big and growing companies
- Introduction to offshore wind energy technology
- Characteristics of the wind resource: wind instrumentation, measurement and prediction
- Fundamentals of wind power: fluid mechanics and power generation
- Wind energy and the electric power system
- Introduction to wind energy economics
- Integrating hydrogen value chains
- Hydrogen value chain
- Reusing existing infrastructure
- Offshore hydrogen production: advantages, challenges, and potential - hydrogen production onshore vs. offshore
- Business case
- Government support
- Direct current vs alternating current explained
- The Role of the Port for Offshore Wind Developments
- Port development, logistics, operations & maintenance
- Harbour as hydrogen hubs
- Offshore Energy Game (Serious Gaming)
- The goal of the Offshore Energy Game is to meet the energy demand of the mainland with green energy from the sea. By using existing energy pipelines and cables and different kind of energy sources (electricity, hydrogen, heat, methane, and CO2), we show the different kind of possibilities to reach the game’s goal – as well as the complexity of it all.
- Operations & Maintenance
- Vessels, equipment, service operations, maintenance, and inspection (OEM) Operations, Transport and Installation (TNI)
- Sustainable Decommissioning Scenarios & Optimizations
- Technology developments in the offshore wind sector
- Blade and controller designs
- Design of support structures
- Tools for the optimization of wind farms, floating wind farms
- Flexibility innovations (e.g. cable pooling)
- Financing offshore wind farms:
- Capital costs and sources of financing
- Project financing and risk management
- Subsidies and incentives
- The role of investors
