Greetings,
Attached FYI ( NewBase Special 27 January 2016 ) , from Hawk Energy Services Dubai . Daily energy news covering the MENA area and related worldwide energy news. In todays’ issue you will find news about:-
• UAE: ADWEA continues its leadership role in the area of sustainability in support of renewable energy
• Saudia: Solar power revolutionizes irrigation in Kingdom
• Omani start-up ventures into solar energy
• Morocco: Sound Energy acquires further further interest in Sidi Moktar
• Iran's petroleum production seen rising as many sanctions are lifted
• China Energy Giant Signals Nation's Fuel Oversupply Is Worsening
• Russia, OPEC hint at oil production cuts
• Oil falls around 2 percent as profit-taking kicks in
• World Bank slashes 2016 oil price forecast
• How Cheap Oil Is Squeezing Russia's Economy
• It's expanding the deficit and spurring inflation Distress in the Shale Oil Patch Spurs New Type of Joint Venture
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Khaled Al Awadi
Energy Consultant & NewBase Chairman - Senior Chief Editor
MS & BS Mechanical Engineering (HON), USA
Emarat member since 1990
ASME meme since 1995
Hawk Energy since 20
PV Manufacturing in Europe - European Technology and Innovation Platform Phot...Cluster TWEED
The PV Manufacturing in Europe Conference organised by the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) took place on 18 & 19 May 2017, at the BIP House in Brussels.
Key industry leaders, scientists, engineers, and policy makers joined to debate the status and future of "PV Manufacturing in Europe". Over 120 PV specialists from 16 European countries attended the conference.
Sébastien Feit's presentation at Cap40 Business Wednesday at SolaireDirect Te...Cap40
Sebastien Feit, Managing Director of SolaireDirect Technologies, presented his company, his factory and the challenges and opportunities faced by his industry to tge Cap40 community.
Greetings,
Attached FYI ( NewBase Special 27 January 2016 ) , from Hawk Energy Services Dubai . Daily energy news covering the MENA area and related worldwide energy news. In todays’ issue you will find news about:-
• UAE: ADWEA continues its leadership role in the area of sustainability in support of renewable energy
• Saudia: Solar power revolutionizes irrigation in Kingdom
• Omani start-up ventures into solar energy
• Morocco: Sound Energy acquires further further interest in Sidi Moktar
• Iran's petroleum production seen rising as many sanctions are lifted
• China Energy Giant Signals Nation's Fuel Oversupply Is Worsening
• Russia, OPEC hint at oil production cuts
• Oil falls around 2 percent as profit-taking kicks in
• World Bank slashes 2016 oil price forecast
• How Cheap Oil Is Squeezing Russia's Economy
• It's expanding the deficit and spurring inflation Distress in the Shale Oil Patch Spurs New Type of Joint Venture
we would appreciate your actions to send to all interested parties that you may wish. Also note that if you or your organization wish to include your own article or advert in our circulations, please send it to :-
khdmohd@hotmail.com or khdmohd@hawkenergy.net
Best Regards.
Khaled Al Awadi
Energy Consultant & NewBase Chairman - Senior Chief Editor
MS & BS Mechanical Engineering (HON), USA
Emarat member since 1990
ASME meme since 1995
Hawk Energy since 20
PV Manufacturing in Europe - European Technology and Innovation Platform Phot...Cluster TWEED
The PV Manufacturing in Europe Conference organised by the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) took place on 18 & 19 May 2017, at the BIP House in Brussels.
Key industry leaders, scientists, engineers, and policy makers joined to debate the status and future of "PV Manufacturing in Europe". Over 120 PV specialists from 16 European countries attended the conference.
Sébastien Feit's presentation at Cap40 Business Wednesday at SolaireDirect Te...Cap40
Sebastien Feit, Managing Director of SolaireDirect Technologies, presented his company, his factory and the challenges and opportunities faced by his industry to tge Cap40 community.
GE조선해양 비지니스를 소개합니다. 한국에는 GE의 Global Offshore & Marine 본부가 위치하여, 조선해양 비지니스를 선도하고 있습니다.
GE코리아 뉴스레터를 구독하세요! http://goo.gl/IE8WS8
GE코리아 YouTube 채널을 구독하세요! http://goo.gl/M2gc8m
상상을 현실로 만듭니다. Imagination at work.
GE가 꿈꾸는 가치입니다. 아니, GE는 단지 꿈만 꾸고 있는 것이 아닙니다. 상상을 현실로 만들기 위해, 불가능했던 것을 가능하게 만들기 위해 쉬지 않고 움직이고 있습니다. GE는 에너지, 의료, 항공, 수송, 금융 등의 여러 분야에서 고객과 인류사회의 진보를 위해 더 편리하고 빠르며 친환경적인 솔루션을 찾아냅니다.
Connect with GE Online:
GE코리아 웹사이트: http://www.ge.com/kr/
GE리포트코리아: http://www.gereports.kr/
GE코리아 페이스북 페이지: hhttps://www.facebook.com/GEKorea
GE코리아 슬라이드쉐어: http://www.slideshare.net/GEKorea
A game changer in electrical generation with 12 to 14 % less polution and fuel consumption ! Aircraft regional ( short haul ) savings of 30 % reported.
Water Swirled In Gas Turbine - Water Swirled In Gas Turbine United States Patent 8,671,696 is available for mutual beneficial business interaction. GE , Shell and Siemens seem very interested with there people having spoken to me! What I heard is
1. Twelve % gas , fourteen% liquid up in fuel to electricity or mechanical energy output compared to combined cycle now in use !
2. Low capital cost combined cycle units, smaller and in greater numbers.
3. The efficiency of gas turbine electrical generator units 1 to 400 MW is nearly the same which would greatly reduce electrical distribution losses.
4. Use in transportation marine, train combined cycle gas turbines.
5. Fit in aircraft for fuel savings the number given me was 30 % for Inter-European use and 20% for Trans Atlantic.
Guest speaker presentation at 'Seminar Offshore Wind Energy' UGent – June 201...Pieter Jan Jordaens
Introduction seminar to the new study program in 'Offshore Wind Energy' organized by the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the KU Leuven and the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Ghent (UGent). Goals of the seminar was to give an overview of the current developments in the Belgian Offshore Wind industry. This seminar gave an overview in fields such as offshore wind energy technology, grid integration & operation and maintenance. My contribution gave an overview of the current drivers, technological evolutions, ongoing market trends and technical challenges within this relative new industry. Also insights in reliability issues, risk mitigation pathways and case studies from testing and monitoring projects within OWI-Lab have been presented.
Lost at sea? Charting wave energy’s difficult innovation journey towards comm...Matthew Hannon
The UK has a rich history of wave energy technology innovation stretching back to 1976 when it launched its first wave energy programme. Whilst funding was discontinued in the 1980s a new programme was established in the 2000s as wave energy was considered a critical solution to meeting the government’s climate change, energy and economic objectives. Despite committing approximately $150m to wave energy development over the past 15 years the UK has still failed to deliver a commercially viable wave energy device. This raises questions about the effectiveness of government policy designed to support wave energy innovation. Drawing upon 32 expert interviews, investment data and extensive documentary evidence the research examines how the level and type of innovation support from UK government has contributed to this slow progress and how these weaknesses could be addressed to help accelerate wave energy innovation in the future.
The research finds that government policy was indeed partly to blame for this slow progress including poor coordination of policy support, duplication of investment, stop-start R&D programmes that fostered knowledge depreciation and schemes that encouraged developers to go ‘too big too soon’. Despite these failures significant ‘policy learning’ has taken place, triggering a major reconfiguration of UK wave energy innovation support such as a refocusing on component versus device development, treating wave and tidal energy innovation separately and greater coordination of innovation programmes. Even so outstanding policy recommendations include strengthening coordination between UK and Scottish governments and collaboration between universities and device developers. Finally, the research finds that government policy wasn’t the only factor that contributed to this slow progress such as developers overpromising and under-delivering, as well as the high capital cost and practical difficulties associated with device testing at sea.
Detailed industry report based on a large number of international and domestic studies, including Taiwan energy status, government regulation, key market players and supply chain, analyzed risk assessment and future trends by SWOT and PESTEL.
The ORE Catapult and Future Opportunities,David Arnold,Technology strategy BoardInvest Northern Ireland
Presentation from the Supply Chain Opportunities in the Onshore and Offshore Wind Operation and Maintenance Sectors held at Down Royal Racecourse, Lisburn 27th November 2013
GE조선해양 비지니스를 소개합니다. 한국에는 GE의 Global Offshore & Marine 본부가 위치하여, 조선해양 비지니스를 선도하고 있습니다.
GE코리아 뉴스레터를 구독하세요! http://goo.gl/IE8WS8
GE코리아 YouTube 채널을 구독하세요! http://goo.gl/M2gc8m
상상을 현실로 만듭니다. Imagination at work.
GE가 꿈꾸는 가치입니다. 아니, GE는 단지 꿈만 꾸고 있는 것이 아닙니다. 상상을 현실로 만들기 위해, 불가능했던 것을 가능하게 만들기 위해 쉬지 않고 움직이고 있습니다. GE는 에너지, 의료, 항공, 수송, 금융 등의 여러 분야에서 고객과 인류사회의 진보를 위해 더 편리하고 빠르며 친환경적인 솔루션을 찾아냅니다.
Connect with GE Online:
GE코리아 웹사이트: http://www.ge.com/kr/
GE리포트코리아: http://www.gereports.kr/
GE코리아 페이스북 페이지: hhttps://www.facebook.com/GEKorea
GE코리아 슬라이드쉐어: http://www.slideshare.net/GEKorea
A game changer in electrical generation with 12 to 14 % less polution and fuel consumption ! Aircraft regional ( short haul ) savings of 30 % reported.
Water Swirled In Gas Turbine - Water Swirled In Gas Turbine United States Patent 8,671,696 is available for mutual beneficial business interaction. GE , Shell and Siemens seem very interested with there people having spoken to me! What I heard is
1. Twelve % gas , fourteen% liquid up in fuel to electricity or mechanical energy output compared to combined cycle now in use !
2. Low capital cost combined cycle units, smaller and in greater numbers.
3. The efficiency of gas turbine electrical generator units 1 to 400 MW is nearly the same which would greatly reduce electrical distribution losses.
4. Use in transportation marine, train combined cycle gas turbines.
5. Fit in aircraft for fuel savings the number given me was 30 % for Inter-European use and 20% for Trans Atlantic.
Guest speaker presentation at 'Seminar Offshore Wind Energy' UGent – June 201...Pieter Jan Jordaens
Introduction seminar to the new study program in 'Offshore Wind Energy' organized by the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the KU Leuven and the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Ghent (UGent). Goals of the seminar was to give an overview of the current developments in the Belgian Offshore Wind industry. This seminar gave an overview in fields such as offshore wind energy technology, grid integration & operation and maintenance. My contribution gave an overview of the current drivers, technological evolutions, ongoing market trends and technical challenges within this relative new industry. Also insights in reliability issues, risk mitigation pathways and case studies from testing and monitoring projects within OWI-Lab have been presented.
Lost at sea? Charting wave energy’s difficult innovation journey towards comm...Matthew Hannon
The UK has a rich history of wave energy technology innovation stretching back to 1976 when it launched its first wave energy programme. Whilst funding was discontinued in the 1980s a new programme was established in the 2000s as wave energy was considered a critical solution to meeting the government’s climate change, energy and economic objectives. Despite committing approximately $150m to wave energy development over the past 15 years the UK has still failed to deliver a commercially viable wave energy device. This raises questions about the effectiveness of government policy designed to support wave energy innovation. Drawing upon 32 expert interviews, investment data and extensive documentary evidence the research examines how the level and type of innovation support from UK government has contributed to this slow progress and how these weaknesses could be addressed to help accelerate wave energy innovation in the future.
The research finds that government policy was indeed partly to blame for this slow progress including poor coordination of policy support, duplication of investment, stop-start R&D programmes that fostered knowledge depreciation and schemes that encouraged developers to go ‘too big too soon’. Despite these failures significant ‘policy learning’ has taken place, triggering a major reconfiguration of UK wave energy innovation support such as a refocusing on component versus device development, treating wave and tidal energy innovation separately and greater coordination of innovation programmes. Even so outstanding policy recommendations include strengthening coordination between UK and Scottish governments and collaboration between universities and device developers. Finally, the research finds that government policy wasn’t the only factor that contributed to this slow progress such as developers overpromising and under-delivering, as well as the high capital cost and practical difficulties associated with device testing at sea.
Detailed industry report based on a large number of international and domestic studies, including Taiwan energy status, government regulation, key market players and supply chain, analyzed risk assessment and future trends by SWOT and PESTEL.
The ORE Catapult and Future Opportunities,David Arnold,Technology strategy BoardInvest Northern Ireland
Presentation from the Supply Chain Opportunities in the Onshore and Offshore Wind Operation and Maintenance Sectors held at Down Royal Racecourse, Lisburn 27th November 2013
Webinar: CCS major project development lessons from the ZeroGen experienceGlobal CCS Institute
The ZeroGen Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) with CCS project, was a first-of-a-kind, commercial-scale CCS project proposal in Australia. Lessons learnt from this project include real-life project management experience integrating the key elements of a large-scale CCS project, from the technical to the commercial to stakeholder management.
This webinar was presented by Professor Andrew Garnett, Director, Centre for Coal Seam Gas, The University of Queensland. The Q&A session also included Martin Oettinger, Deputy Director, Low Emissions Technology for ACALET. Martin's career includes 6 years in a senior technical leadership role with ZeroGen.
The prevalence of offshore wind is growing globally. According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the total installed capacity worldwide climbed to 57.2 GW at the end of 2021. Offshore wind technology has key advantages such as eliminating the need for large areas of land and harnessing energy from better wind conditions than onshore. Currently, India does not have any installed capacity. However, there has been a recent build-up in momentum. Tamil Nadu has been identified as one of the highest potential states for harnessing offshore wind energy in India. But the State faces technical, social, and financial barriers for phasing-in this new technology. In this regard, the Tamil Nadu Government can play a key role in unlocking this significant source of energy by (i) providing the overall infrastructure required, (ii) engaging with local stakeholders, and (iii) facilitating the clearance process for offshore wind projects, among others.
How are you today?
Talos is an innovative wind energy solution supplier and uses original innovative technologies to reduce the cost of clean power.
Talos had a long story in China before 2019. The project was invested totally more than $5million for R&D in China since 2005. I closed my assembly wind turbine factory of China at end of 2018 when my EB-1A visa was approved on March 2, 2018. Talos is planning to move the wind turbine assembly factory from China to US. The factory and HQ could settle down any city. The turbine cost won't be increased. Because, Talos doesn't needs many assemblers and requires bigger space for installation.
Talos sells four types products including three original innovative products(future will be five types) and provide aftermarket service.
1. Different specifications VAWT which installed more than 3000 units in 60 countries since 2007. Talos VAWT is the only one that met the commercial standard in the world
2. Super Turbine. Its power generation cost is very low. It can replace most of traditional wind turbine in short future.
3. Air-water turbine. It is used in compressed air storage energy industry as peak shaving. Its cost is less than 1/10 of gas turbine. It will replace gas turbine.
4. Windship power package. It is a wind-ship propulsion system using sails to driving the ship when the ship is driving. It will become a large vertical wind turbine to power generation when the ship stop in a port. Not only its efficiency is higher much than U type sail and rotor sail, but also can power generation when the ship stop in a port.
5. Wave power generation device (future). It uses the waves of Sea to power generation
Talos is applying some grant from SBIR of NSF and once won SBIR of NSF(19-554). Talos will take off very soon.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-yan-0007b532/
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John
For US election, it seems USA is heading toward new Future (real count map) while D TRUMP is criticizing election administration and results, telling it might be fraud or delay that are not acceptable. He also said during meeting he would "fire" Antony FAUCI if he would be re elected, the man who is telling the truth about pandemic and health management in North America. Joe Biden is doing is best for winning last votes. It has more interesting aspects to follow american election campaigns since events happened every hours. The current President says he may declare winner before the end of count and would not recognise election process if he is not winning himself. This is often the case in african countries, he also declare "what is happening in this country?". CNN hectic women presenters help a lot to increase interest in the topic they cover.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
1. Taiwan 24th and 25th january 2013. Taipei Offshore Wind Development Forum 2013
This network expect to improve oportunities in Green Technologies business.
International Clean Energy & Sustainability Network http://www.icesn.com
8h30 Opening by Mr Robert Yie-Zu Hu, Researcher.
Industrial Technology Research Institute. TWEA.
Taiwanese Offshore Farms are on the top of world's systems. The total of potential is more than
147 Gw around Taiwan. Feasible is around 3 Gw within 2015. 20 years price garantee for feed-in-
tariff. Offshore demonstration incentive program on-going. Offshore zonal development is under
planning. Three demonstration Wind Farms, but only qualified projects will get incentives.
However it is possible to make independant projets without incentives.
Typhoons are a major security problem here in Taiwan, as well as hearthquakes. Environment
impact, risks and infrastructures matters are under review for each project submitted to
taiwanese government. Even if the government says it is not under his control, representatives
are asked to share results and investigations. A lot of countries have much experience and are
welcome to come here in Taiwan to help development.
8h45 Panel discussion, Offshore Wind Projects, programs and incentives. How to speed up
development?
Moderator, Mr Mathias Steck SVP for Asia Pacific wind projects.
Panel: Mr Wei-Hsien Lu, Mr Jong Hoon Lee, Mr Michael Wang, Mr Tommy Fukuda.
Mr Wei-Hsien Lu, Senior Engineer.
A map shows already on-going project in green countries like China, India, Australia, Japan and
Taiwan. Other, located around Philipines ans Indonesia have to setup projects.
Korea have developed Industry support structure with Public Domain, Private Domain and
Developer with givernment. It is called Office of Offshore Wind Power. Korea have just launched a
brand new installation. Total 283 turbines for 472 MW. Vestas, Accionas are the two majors
actors. 5 actors are participating to the Offshore Wind Farm project 2.5 Gw at the western coast
of Korea.
5 Gw instalation is on-going with 4 Gw Offshore and 1 Gw inshore. The Government is support
this development. Test beds, ports and infrastructures are involved for support. Government want
to setup an efficient Policy and several topics are under discussion. Long term planning is one of
them. Actually around 20 Gw are highly feasible.
Mr Tommy Fukuda, japanese projects.
Achieving 50 Gw will be around 2050, with half offshore (and fifteen percent founding offshore).
Demonstrations are already functionning, Choshi and Hibikinada locations. Floating projects are
also scheduled for 2013. Fukushima demonstration project and Goto island in Nagasaki. East
coast has a good situation for connecting to Tokyo power network. In Goto, Wind Mills have a 78
m depth foundation.
2. Mr Michael Wang, Taiwan Generation Corporation.
In total thirty turbines are under project around Taiwan. The Government is wiling to have new
technology coming into the local projects. The Government have not yet come to an agreement
about wich technology to choose and how to make the decision. This is why consulting part is
actually important to give help to developers and Government. It means for foreign companies to
have more ambitious projects for working in Taiwan.
Mr Jong Hoon Lee.
About consulting matters: the most important is to remove political barriers and coordinate the
offices involved in the discussions around green energies. Bureau of Energy have pointed out the
main problems for the Green Energy Development. There is no restriction to invest in projects
with foreign funds, but the Governement thinks it is a good oportunity for local development of
industry.
The moderator asks if it is possible to organise international sharing of equipments for
development of installation.
The answer about Korean projects is a small market and installation vessels for that projects
would be two or three.
Question to Mr Fukuda about japanese point of view concerning taiwanese futur development:
Japan is focused on japanese market and Offshore projects are considered to be setup around it's
coastal area.
Question about installation vessel to Mr Wang: Taiwan is looking for solution of local made
installation vessel with new technologies that could come with foreign participation.
Conclusion for moderator: we know that Offshore technology has risks and opportunities and this
is why the next session must study this important aspect of ambitious projects.
9h45 Risks, Wind farms and Offshore operations.
Mr Ming-Chang Wu, Technical service Bureau veritas.
Mitigation of risk in Offshore Wind projects in Veritas experience.
The offer of Bureau Veritas is connected to technology projects and insurance companies
amongst other clients.
It is more a global company than french. Experience comes from Marine and Offshore
installations like Oil platforms, flexible cables. Certification is recognised by several leading
countries. All this experience is ready to be used for Offshore Wind Power. The first certification
was delivered in 1974 for fixed platforms. Floating and fixed plateforms are included in BV offer
for assesment and verification. Components are checked for better knowledge on working
attitude. Hydroanalysis is made with advance software calculation. Also the structure can be
tested by modeling elements.
Certifications are listed conresponding to specific structure and components. It is including other
technologies with Offshore location. Rules and tools are also a concern for software based
troules.
There are not many standard for Offshore systems and assesments of Wind Turbines. The
knowledge from experience in Offshore verification is reliable for Offshore Power Systems.
3. 11h00 Challenges and Strategies for Offshore wind projects.
Mr Dayton A Griffin, Business director Renewable Energies.
Technical challenges and Mitigation Strategies. DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability is a company
starting by association. It has offices in most interesting parts of the world and Wind farms
actually functionning. It is a global leader in wind energy advisory, testing and certification
services.
Offshore Wind farms are getting larger, build on deeper water and this is leading to new
challenges. These projects have higher costs in term of Construction and turbines cost.
Wind Energy still uncertain due to wind ressource, losses like turbulences. Transparency of
Energy estimate also might be enhanced. It seems that cross technologies are better than using
only one technology. Wind evaluation shows variations that are the cause of Energy loss, it is just
not produced but remain a loss.
For project timelines, Western type is quite long, roughly five years. It is compressing, but is not
as fast as asian projects.
For Wind measurement it is important to consider the shape of structure and its heigh. Wind
turbine have long pipe as support. Also, an oil plateform may have effect on Wind Farm Power
plant efficiency. Various approaches used for a single project may have better results for
reliability, and also it is important to realise that each project has unique parameters.
Technology changes, rotors are now around 1.8 m and blades need full bed boats to carry out
installation. Control technology is reaching industry level for a better commercial hability.
Maintenance is limited by one third because of weather conditions, it must be taken into account
while studying cost. Any logistic constrain may turn into week of delay in changing some parts.
The weak link will always be found during operation and it will brake. Any case of maintenance
may lead to major energy loss while high winds should be the moment for best production.
Advisory role is to study each parameter and evaluate the influence of failure in term of
exploitation.
Some new players have limited experience. Return of investment depends on wind power and its
stability.
The question of Onshore testing for Offshore turbines structure makes appear a dilemna between
testing cost and testing reliability. Is a protype is tested Offshore it will lead to hight cost. But
testing fundation on the ground appears strange for a structure that is supposed to work
Offshore.
The answer of the speaker says that it is possible to test Inshore for Offshore structure.
11h45 New generation turbines.
Mr Frederic Hendrick, ALSTOM Wind SLU.
The new machine of ALSTOM respond to simple key words: Robust, Simple, Efficient. The
coupling technology helps to keep only rotating power to be transmitted to the rotor, and banding
load is transmitted to the structure. Only the torque is passing through the coupling, Pure Torque.
Offshore gear boxes is not reliable and is out of question actullay. Each gear box needs
maintenance and it does not bring to much trouble Inshore but would be very touchy Offshore.
Energy yield is leading the cost of Wind machine. A larger rotor brings a better reliability and
15% more energy efficiency. Three converters are actually used for the new machine and it does
not stop producing if one fails. The main of new design is to avoid the machie to stop totally
because of failure because this means waiting for good weather condition to operate
maintenance.
4. Mono pipe, even well designed is showing failure because of fatigue. Then jacket have been
choosen for new windmills Héliade 150 - 6 Mw.
Offshore projects of St Nazaire 480 Mw, Courseuil 450 Mw, Fécamp 500 Mw with DONG will start
in 2016. Nacelles and generators will be build in St Nazaire and Cherbourg.
Question about Typhoon raise the problem of these weather extreme conditions. It is considered
as 'Force majeure" by a german builder. Wind is supposed to be around 50 m/s and if it increase
untill 200 m/s it might be a matter of 'Force majeure' for ALSTOM too.
Question about basement for pipe: the base is supposed to deal with soil condition and might not
cause any trouble in design.
14h00 Offshore Wind farm Design.
Mr Bernard Casey, Offshore engineering, Mainstream Renewable Power.
Cost Effective Fabrication and Installation. Developing Horizon and three other projects for
Offshore Generation. Cost breakdown is essential for investors to know what are target cost.
Project cost, Electrical, Turbine and fundation. Fundation choice is linked to the location which is
elected and also deconstruction, maintenance will be affected. Schedule is organized from 2010
until 2018 when the first Giga watt will be produced. The study include Geophysical survey,
Bathymetry and Bedforms. Metocean data collection is about wave, current and wind within the
area of interest. Depending to water depths, the project is created virtualy to compare the
location of Wind Machine lines. Preliminary design of fundation types are changing from monopile
and four legged jacket toward Twinstone jacket and concrete gravity based. Geotechnical
investigation helps to create a model of ground for each line of machines. Tripod leg system is
based on pipes that are installed from the structure toward the ground. Two sections are placed
in each guide. The first pipe to be installed is right in the middle and will be used as a guide for
the main boddy. Up to 9 meters high waves have hit the structure. During 2012, data collection
from accelerator sensors were under review for this first demonstration.
14h45 Challenges in Offshore solutions.
Mr Lutz Mertschat, Sales Manager, Menck Gmbh.
Menck & Acteon Offshore Renewables is specialist from all kind of Offshore piles from non deep
water to 2000 m floating structures. 40 years of experience in Offshore solutions. Engineering,
tools and others services are provided to make projects successful. With the partners of
professional providers, the MENCK company have an excellent reputation. Hammers enable to
install every kind of piles. 500 tons capacity hammer is needed to install the biggest kind of pile.
Adapters have a specific diameter for installing the structure. Other solution, wich can handle
various diameter need more investment. The Offshore Wind segment focuses on renewable
energy exploration using monopiles, tripods, jackets and suction caisson.
Geotechnics mainly is separated in two phases and will enable complete study of the piles. The
type of pile will be choosen according to water depth within solutions from gravity, monopile,
suction caisson, tripod and tripod with suction caisson. Deep water will lead to floating structure.
For mono pile, the hammer is visible and works above the water level. When installing jacket, the
hammer is handled by cable and runs deep under the sea level. Partnership is enabeling success
of complex projects.
5. 15h15 Prospect for Offshore Wind Farms.
Mr Mathias Steck, GL Hassan.
Offshore project starts with feasibility, and a complete offer for each step.
Market predictions UK, Germany and France are the highest investors during this decade. Asia
and America will be untill 2022. With much experience and better vessels the cost per Mw might
decrease again after rising because of investment in new solutions. Installing caps will make the
work easier and smaller hammers will be necessary because piles have not large anymore with
multipile.
Modeling is under review because several solutions availables. Wind turbine will be designed by
complete software. Certification will be possible through GL company.
A vessel cost around one dollar per day when operating, and new concept of supply vessels is to
come. A major demand in Europe. More clever projects will come for support boats used to bring
teams on the spot.
Risk management makes possible to optimise operations and define the project with various
parameters including climate, type of vessels, crew and more. Constraints can be studied
according to regulations and limitations like waves, winds, and weather conditions. By experience
and statistics, project delay can be 50% longer but probability of shorter time is 90%. Working
conditions may vary from situation when everyboddy can work on various tasks during
construction to other while only one operation at time can be achieved.
It means no boat can move around except the one involved in this task.
Taipei 25th january
8h30 Taiwan first Offshore Wind demonstration project.
Taiwan Generation Corp.
Offshore Wind Development goal for 2030 3000 Mw. 20 years plan is encouraging Taiwan
electricity company to get into Wind Power. A test zone as been set away from shore for
environment protection. The site is located in Changhua, West coast. From site selection to test
zone use, a detailed process helped to drive the project. Fuhai Offshore Windfarm is expected to
be commercial in Decembre 2016.
TGC as been awarded as first place winner for the government grant scheme.
Permits and Consents are delivered after complying with 14 criterias. Amongst them, aviation
safety and technical requierements. Feasibility studies and semi-Offshore test zone are included
in the process. Extreme winds probability to break the machine is 0.36 %, this IEC Class IA
turbine type.
Near-shore and Further-shore soils are under review and graphics give information about how it
is. Installing process using hammers produce some noise that may disturb sea animals like
dolphins. In order to be ecology friendly, noise impact is reduced by using smaller pipe diameter
for the jacket and fundation. It is also easier for local providers to produce the steel elements.
Construction Execution Structure is based on engineer participation to each step of processes.
The first row of tasks is about Feasibiltiy, Finance, Construction team and Marine Operations with
vessels. Vessels will later be used for other Offshore projects around Taiwan. Turbines are
designed for taiwanese wind conditions, including full study of technical details.
6. 9h00 Offshore Wind Turbine technology.
Moderator Mr Rob A J Van Basten Batenburg, Director, Marwind group.
Offshore, Consulting and Finance. Business Strategy and Development. Installation and
Maintenance Company. Marketing Support and Windpark efficiency analysis.
Panel: Mr Huseyin Kizilagac, Mr Ramon Terrones, Mr Frederic Hendrick, (Mr Zen-Jey Guey).
Mr Ramon Terrones, GAMESA.
Question about new technologies for Wind machines. Maintenance difficulties will lead to develop
more reliable turbines because costs are too high. From 100 M USD for Inshore project, Offshore
cost is up to 300 M USD.
Prevented Maintenance would reduce cost and it has been said several time that bringing the
wrong parts or any element may harm the maintenance efficiency. There is a feeling that there is
still much to learn in Offshore conditions, the technology is still very young.
Turbines has been hit by Typhoon in Taiwan and Cuba. Now the Class 1 project are designed for
winds up to 260 km/h. It's up to 80 m/s speed. Fundation and type of pipe are important
specificities for extreme condition resistance. Above 25 m/s the machine may stop because it is
becoming to dangerous for the mecanism. Around 70 m/s wind speed, the turbine is stopped
already a long time ago. Waves or anything hitting the blades would be a disaster. Even if pitch is
helping the safety of the machines there is still a delay for rotation. This may be enough for
heavy damage to occur.
Mr Frederic Hendrick, ALSTOM.
Moving to the Offshore sector. Energy driver is an issue and 45% cost is about the turbine.
Turbine is the point that already shows the best technological evolution. The oportunity of using
ship even in difficult sea condition may reduce the costs. Direct drive instead of gearboxes will
solve the reliability issue. Much maintenance time is used for changing gearboxes.
The design of the new turbine allow to use it in any conditions. The software part is adapting
turbine to wind conditions, regardless the location, and it is important to keep in mind that each
project have wind specific data.
Class 1 and 2 can survive typhoons because there is a pitch system for changing blades angle.
The problem is more about turbulences than wind speed, but of course it is linked to wind speed
and location. Impact of Typhoon is also on the pipe and big typhoon is considered to have waves
up to 22 m maximum. Then, the Wind Farm may resist up to 20 m, wich is typhoon normal wave.
A Floating version of the turbine is already made. Access of turbines is always possible by
helicopter, but the cost seems so high that every other solution should be used before using air
access.
Comment: also frequency limit may damage the machine because it can be caused by blade
reaction. Safety system is designed to put rotor i safe condition while typhoons occur.
Comment: Safety for blades and rotors is an important task for electronic monitoring system. It is
actually possible to make blades ready for pitch change in extreme conditions.
10h45 Japan Floating project.
Mr Tommofumi Fukuda, integrator, Fukushima Floating project.
Marubeni Corporation is a very large company involved in food, energy, even mining and more.
7. Due to Tsunami that hit the east coast a large part of the shore and energy portfolio have
changed. Only two nuclear power plants are still active. The Government have decided to rise
Green energy for 10 to 30% in Japan. Renewable energy will come from new technologies
because hydro power is already efficient and to the maximum. Wind is a major solution for power
generation with 22 yen/Kw to 26 yen/Kw. It is not easy to promote Inshore power solution
because agricultural land can not be used for Wind power. Offshore is then the next project for
Japanese power. Also supporting Fukushima reconstruction. Away from the coast, the ressource
for Wind generation gets better. The high quality of the ressource comes from stability. There is
no constraint for transmission line capacity because Floating project can be connected to the
main electric bone. This summer, a floating substation will be ready in July. Right in front of the
Fukushima nuclear plant will be installed four floater in a 120 m water depth zone. It has six
chains. The floater is 30 m under the sea but the deepest port of japan is 20 m. Yokohama
factory will build the equipement and it will be transported toward Tokyo. It is the first floating
wind power substation and it will be connected together by a new type of cable made by
Hitachi. Embeded monitoring system will give information about sea condition for fishermen. The
second floater will also being installed during this summer. It has only 6 m depth and can be
assembled in any port of Japan. It has 6 chains.
For technical point of view and cost efficiency it would be better to make the Offshore windpower
floating stations really bigger.
Japanese Government has two main goals: developing renewable energy and creating
employement to recover the dammages from Fukushima disaster. The 2 Mw substation is under
construction and the second stage with bigger machine will follow.
There was a strong opposition from fisher corporation. It must be set some rules for ship to fish
around these platforms. It might be more fish coming around. Fisher only agree for
demonstration of floating stations. It might move if it not possible to start Energy production on
this site.
The project have very short time development because it came right after Fukushima disaster.
The design of floater is changing almost every week and some are showing poor abilities to keep
stability.
Earthquake impact is reduced by using floating systems, while fixed pile would probably be
dammaged.
11h30 Improving Supply Chain.
(Mr Huseyin Kizigalac, Business development. BDP Project Logistics Gmbh.)
Mr Dayton A Griffin, DNV KEMA.
Mr Joong Lee, KETEP. Haico Van Der HAIJDEN, ECN Nederland. Mr Bernard Casey, Mainstream
Renewable Power.
Logistic for Wind Farms can be supported by Government like is will be done by British. There will
be deep water harbours build on the east coast. Larger storage facilities are needed for
equipement and maintenance.
Major components to be build locally for better convenience.
Access from the shore to the turbine might be considered very early in the project. It may be
easier in Taiwan and Japan due to the island shape. Building Power station away from the
exploitation site might create public questions because the cost of transporting the equipments.
For exemple cost might rise if equipment needs supply from permanent magnet or fiber because
it would in competition with Fast train or Aerospace Industry.
Building equipments very close to the Windfarm is much better for cost reasons. But some
components must come from other coutries in most of Wind Farm projects.
8. Taiwan project is looking into the solution of a regional wharehouse that would provide the whole
asian market. Any parts should be considered to be available for maintenance since the
generation will stop if some parts are missing.
Setting a standardisation for size and type of parts must be considered because various
dimensions will lead to stockage and higher cost to maintenance operations.
Closing comment: by observing trends, the Wind Power generation industry is competing for
ressources with other industries. They probably did not plan to, and also the new type of
Industries rising up these years may also join the market.
14h00 Offshore Maintenance.
Mr Haico Van Der Heijden. Business development. ECN.
ECN start in 1955. This Energy Center is working on Wind power since 1974. Test zone for
turbines up to 7.5 Mw. Interacting with one another, Wind turbines can not be considered as unit,
but farms. There is a center for Offshore activities in Netherlands. Possibilities for Offshore
Energy are to be prepared with tests, measurement and maps. Harsh weather conditions and
access to turbines are important parameters for projects. The distance between turbines will
determine how much it cost to make maintenance. Optimisation is linked to distance, geography,
and weather conditions. Operational maintenance will be determined by a complete analysis.
Scheduling maintenance operation and spare parts availability will help to reach the minus cost.
The request from Industry is to lower down the costs.
Example of Taiwan: Vessels, Ports and Location, Costs, Duration and Logistics. Maintainability,
cabling costs, predictive, preventive and failure expectations.
Maping the weather is an essential step. Season, Climate change and Wind maps are important
studies. Wind turbine influence on the line of Wind Power machines. Advance turbine control
enables better safety in case of Typhoons. Wind Farm control allows to lower the load on the
turbines and also improve the production of the turbine.
New design for floating system enables inspection from inside the floaters because this is empty
wells.
14h45 Wind Turbine installations.
Mr Ramon Terrones, Regional Director Asia-Pacific. GAMESA.
Mega turbines and Technology changes. With an international workforce, more than 25 Gw were
installed so far. Energy, Windturbines and Services are the main activities of GAMESA. Latin
America seems to be the best market for 2013 while other continents are not really enthousiast
because of their economy. Offshore windpower is growing 32% annually. Onshore projects are
not in good position in Taiwan and the major part of Windpower development will be Offshore.
Offshore is not only Wind and Water, but ocean conditions. Larger turbines and larger farms in
deeper water will be the next market trend. The need for larger equipment comes with the
higher costs of installing and maintenance.
Choose reliable first, improve conditions and find specialised skills. Make better maintenance by
knowing what health conditions of each system. Prevent failure by efficient schedule for
interventions.
9. By using new design with attached crane on each nacelle it is possible to reduce costs on big
maintenance for heavy components. Drive train, generator, transformer and the hub can be
extracted with the embeded crane.
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