Agenda from Offshore & Floating Wind Europe 2020

• Understanding how major developers have been impacted by the pandemic and how they have adjusted, what this means for your business strategy going forward
• The impacts of the oil price drop and whether this is speeding up energy transition, following positive signs of investments in the first half of the year
• How developers have worked with the supply chain to keep projects on time and on budget with insight into latest operating costs and trends

• The latest and up-to-date industry forecasts and projections including lucrative emerging markets, giving insight for developers and the supply chain to explore the next avenues for growth
• Cost trends in development, construction and O&M to prepare your projects for the 2021

• An honest assessment on the year and how equipment providers can still thrive under challenging manufacturing conditions
• Technology updates - onto 14 MW turbines and beyond, how Siemens Gamesa are continuing to transform Wind Turbines to generate more power more reliably

• How investors stay competitive within the Offshore Investment space and what this means in practical terms
• Challenges in securing project finance and adapting to the rise of PPAs, an opportunity assessment
• An overview of M&A activity and reaching financial close, has COVID-19 heavily impacted this?

• In discussion with leading Offshore Wind developer, Iberdrola, on their plans ahead and Offshore Wind's place in the Energy Transition
• Project updates, a glimpse in East Anglia ONE and successfully developing a mega project

• How are developers and OEMs seeing the potential for changing 'business as usual' approach when it comes to tendering and contracting and prospects for lowering CoE?
• Exploring whether the industry is ready for collaborative bidding and assessing the main obstacles, from a commercial, cultural and legal perspective
• The next steps to ensure savings in the construction and operational phases

• Focusing on the market opportunity in Taiwan and growth projections
• Update on regulatory changes and challenges within the market

• Executive insight into the opportunities in Poland and the Baltic Sea, including how developers adapt to and win bids in these markets
• Regulations and government actions that are required to attract the next wave of fleets

• What if you could use analytics to automatically know the most probable corrective action on turbines, using your organization’s existing knowledge
• Learn how RWE partnered with NarrativeWave to deploy a digital solution to reduce turbine visits and improve the accuracy of corrective maintenance, resulting in an automated solution that uses technician feedback to get smarter over time

• Discussion on the key pain points for operators when managing fleets and which solutions are driving down costs
• Automating services and the latest technical innovation, simplifying the management of Offshore Wind assets

• Discover the unique technical challenges of designing fixed and floating offshore wind turbine platforms and find out how to take advantage of comprehensive engineering analyses and interoperability
• Explore how Digital iTwin technology, together with automated workflows, mitigates risk and improves effective collaboration when designing, constructing and safely operating offshore wind farms

• The real and perceived conflicts between offshore wind and other sectors, such as fisheries, while assessing potential synergies for effective stakeholder engagement
• What kind of structure and process for multi-sectoral engagement will best enable the conflicts to be understood?

• Cost-benefit analysis, local or global?
• Effective business models to successfully transfer expertise to local hubs, benefiting all stakeholders

• How much of a hit has Floating Wind taken in midst of Covid-19? Analyse significant market updates and how they are impacting development opportunities
• Regulatory updates and policies in emerging markets including Scotland, France, the Mediterranean and Ireland, explaining the opportunity to

• Floater: a serial product for competitiveness
• Naval Energies, a strategic partner
• Focus on the Groix & Belle-Île project - A global market, a local content

• Translating lessons from the Hywind Scotland to Hywind Tampen
• An insight into Equinor’s immediate and long-term floating wind strategy, including how the supply chain can be prepared for growth
• Particular expertise from Oil & Gas that has been transferred to floating, assessing the costs and risks

• Exploring the key points of risk from the developer to minimise unexpected costs, such as in electrical connection and cabling, during the construction stage
• Best practice for countering commercialisation risks, including substructure and wind turbine compatibility

• Initial results from BlueSATH, first offshore testing using SATH technology
• Scaling up from BlueSATH to full-scale DemoSATH
• Saitec’s vision on industrial production of concrete floaters

• Reflection on floating wind concepts into reality, exploring the key challenges and the points of success with projects across the globe
• Keeping innovative in an increasingly competitive market, latest technology updates that are propelling commercialisation

• Best practice for working with commercial banks, alternative investors and securing public funds to finance the development stage
• Debating the risks to technology bankability and how to overcome these hurdles to get more projects online

• Inside the EFGL Pilot project

• Inside the WindFloat Atlantic, including project ins and outs

• EIB’s commitments to Floating Wind projects, where and long-term strategy

• Simply Blue Energy developing with Total in the Celtic Sea

• Ask our panel of floating wind developers about their projects

• The latest innovation in mooring systems and methods to minimise CAPEX and OPEX while reducing project risk
• Optimisation methods for improving system reliability, monitoring and maintenance
• How can Oil and Gas expertise for FOWT applications be transferred?

• Consideration of how changes to the project design envelope to accommodate floating technology may affect potential project impacts
• Advantages, disadvantages and opportunities arising from new technologies
• Undertaken on a location- and consent mechanism- neutral basis

Rick Campbell, Head of Offshore Markets, Natural Power

• Session details coming soon.

Andrew McKeran,Commercial Director - Marine & Offshore, Lloyd's Register
Simon Potter, Marine Discipline Manager, KBR
Thomas Choisnet , Chief Technology Officer, Ideol
Maurits Ornstein - Business Development Manager, SBM

• Getting Started: exploring the key financial, legal and regulatory issues in the early stages of a project and examining the landscape for off-shore wind in a merchant / non-subsidy world
• Pitfalls: how to avoid or deal with common issues that can arise at the outset of or during the operational phase of a project and lead to disputes
• Risks and Opportunities: adapting to the changing face of offshore wind, discerning real life risks from the theoretical and exploring the opportunities for integration of hybrid renewable energy and storage systems

Hosted by DLA Piper

• Cable installation, technology transfer versus innovation
• Floating wind specific technologies, integration and management
• Implications for maintenance and repair

Hosted by Osbit

• Market overview and data sets for Floating Wind in Europe and globally

Erik Rijkers, Director Market Development & Strategy, Quest FWE

• Overview of the supply chain costs and trends

Tom Whittle, Country Manager - Taiwan, Offshore Wind Consultants

• The Asa Branca Project
• Offshore wind market in Brazil
• Legal and regulatory frame for offshore wind in Brazil

Marcello Storrer, CEO, Asa Branca

• Size of current and future projects and the market at large
• Soluble PPA issues, and an overview of FiT vs Auctions
• The key supply and demand points - opening up the opportunities in the region, who does what, how a European wind energy consortium can unlock it, and what political powers need to do too

Alastair Jackson, Energy Analyst, Greenpeace
Energy Analyst, Greenpeace