The document outlines the programme for today which includes welcome and presentations from various experts on offshore wind energy. It will conclude with visits to the climate chamber, networking and a walking dinner. The climate chamber will be officially inaugurated by the Flemish minister-president. The document also provides background information on the Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab (OWI-Lab), including its goals of supporting innovation in the offshore wind industry through testing infrastructure and collaborative research projects.

1. Programme of today
 15h Welcome on board!
 15h15 Presentations by
 Dr. Jos Beurskens, ECN
 Dr. Stefan Lammens, ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV
 Hans Vercammen, Stefan Milis, Sirris – OWI-Lab
 16h20 Arrival at DP World
 16h40 Official inauguration of the climate chamber by
Kris Peeters, minister-president of Flanders
 16h50 Visits to climate chamber, networking, walking dinner
 21h30 End (shuttles back to parking from 18h onwards)

2. Offshore Wind Infrastructure
Application Lab (OWI-Lab)
For efficient and reliable offshore wind energy.

3. Sirris
Federation Collective centre
for the technology industry of the technology industry
• Non-profit organisation
• Industry owned
Mission: To help companies implement
technological innovations

4. Sirris locations
Antwerp
Offshore Wind Infrastructure
Application Lab
Ghent
Materials Engineering
Materials Research Cluster Gent Hasselt
Materials Engineering
Leuven Production Technology
Smart Coating Application Lab
Mechatronics
Technology Coaching
Sirris Leuven Composites Application Lab
Liège
Brussels Additive Manufacturing
Materials Engineering
Software Engineering & ICT
Sirris Microfabrication Application Lab
Technology Coaching
Charleroi
Additive Manufacturing
Bio- manufacturing platform

5. 4th Sirris Application Lab
Sirris Leuven Sirris Smart Coating Sirris Offshore Wind
Composites Application Lab Microfabrication Infrastructure
Application Lab Application Lab Application Lab
“The Sirris Application labs focus on technological
themes that will be crucial for the future of our companies
in the coming years”.

6. Why OWI-Lab?

7. 1) The offshore wind energy market fast expanding !
 Interesting alternative energy technology
 Grid parity forecasted in 2030 by IEA (the point that the cost of offshore wind energy
becomes equal to the cost of utility power from coal, natural gas, nuclear)
EWEA 2011 EWEA 2011
EU MARKET FORECAST:
The coming 4 years 12 GW will be installed
offshore, this is 3 times the amount of what
has been realized over the last 20 years.

8. Belgian pioneering at the North sea
 Belgium committed to realize 13% of energy mix out of renewable energy
 1/3 of this  Offshore wind energy
- planned offshore wind capacity = 1,6 Giga Watt -
Phase 1 = 165 MW
Annual generation for 175.000 inhabitants
Phase 2 = + 165MW
Phase 1, 2 and 3: 325,20 MW 50km
Annual generation for 600.000 inhabitants
Coming up: Northwind, Phase 3 C-Power,
Norther, Rental, Seastar, Mermaid

9. 2) Creation of jobs and export opportunities
Actual figures – Source: Agoria
40 % of Belgian wind energy jobs are related to ‘offshore wind’
Strong potential growth

10. 3) Innovation needed to make this industry a succes
1352 - 1521 2015 (?)
 Not so much datasets yet available (or accessible) to optimize components
 Operations and maintenance cost needs to go down to reach grid parity
 Harsh environmental conditions (wind loads, temperatures, salt,…)
 Bigger turbines (12MW in design) ; Bigger means better design

11. What does OWI-lab do?
 Investing 5.5M € in test - and monitoring
infrastructure  4 investment programs
 Platform to initiate industry driven local and
European research projects
 Innovation projects with / for companies in
the wind power sector

12. Introduction OWI-Lab 09/2012
10/2012
01/2012
2010
2008
Development of Expansion of the
Operationalize infrastructure Innovation projects
R&D infrastructure research infrastructure
Proposal OWI-project Launch
Kick-Off  Inauguration OWI-Lab Kick-off
submitted to the OWI-Lab
OWI-Project Test Facility
Flemish government Platform Shared R&D project
OptiWind (SBO)
 24 Companies / universities
participating in user group
 Kick-off feasibility study
Flanders Wind Farm Test Site

13. Growing industrial involvement
2008
Founding members
Involved partners
2012

14. 5.5 mio € investments in state-of-the-art
test & monitoring infrastructure
Stationary and Wind turbine
Floating LIDAR component
(FLIDAR™ ) Test Lab with
large climate chamber
(Temperature testing)
Remote
measurement Development of
& monitoring tools for
systems smart O&M
(SHM & CMS)

15. 1

16. 2

17. Large climate chamber - why
Testing, simulation and validation are key to
improve reliability of WTG components
 Model validation / prototype testing
 Reduction of design cycle
 Offshore / remote testing = €€€€€
 Offshore / remote reparation = €€€€€€€€€€€

18. Large cold climatic test chamber
 Unique test infrastructure in EU
 Components up to 150 ton
 -60°C to +60°C
 +60°C to -40°C air in 1 hour

19. 3

20. What is next?
OWI +
“expanding the
SBO lab”
Flanders Wind Farm
(Offshore test site)

21. Eerste project TINA-fonds