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Future Offshore
Wind Foundations
Strategic Design, Installation & Maintenance In Deeper Water & Further Offshore
8-10 November 2011
Maritim Hotel, Speakers
Bremen, Germany
Cat Brown Antony Zymelka
Construction Manager, Senior Manager,
Find the right offshore foundations for long- Lead - Installation Submarine Cable
and Logistics Operations
term, low-cost operations in deep water and Round 3
far offshore:
Sayee Raghunathan
• Which innovative foundations will go the distance and Associate Director
Dr Indrasenan
the depth? Are jackets really the way forward?
Thusyanthan
• What are the designs, availability & potential setbacks Head of R&D Professor
Feargal Brennan
of future foundation installation vessels? Head of the Offshore,
• How must the industry gear-up for the industrialisation Process and Energy
Julian Garnsey
Engineering
of foundation production to reduce costs? Head of Offshore
Department
Civil Engineering
• Is noise from piling a serious, long-term issue? What
solutions have been found to mitigate the Bernard Casey
environmental effects of foundation installation? Henrik Carstens Head of Civil
Project & Technology Engineering
Plus! Director, Offshore Wind
Floating Turbines & Foundations Briefing, Professor Finn
10 November 2011 Gunnar Nielsen
Jorge Dahl Senior Advisor,
Join a select group to explore the future developments,
Head of Project Floating Structures
viability & cost predictions of floating structures Certification
Jan Pedersen
Sponsored by:
Lead Specialist -
Bruce Valpy Offshore Structures
Managing Director and Technology
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2. Day 1 - Tuesday 8 November
08:30 Registration and morning coffee – how do foundations perform offshore in comparison to their design
assumptions?
09:00 Chair’s opening remarks – how to prepare ourselves for the desire to extend design life
Bruce Valpy, Managing Director, BVG Associates • How to work around pressing project timescales to incorporate
experience and research into designs
– how can we facilitate transfer of operating data to researchers?
DESIGN & SUITABILITY – how can we accelerate the transfer of research into live projects?
09:10 Challenging the ‘Jacket-fits-all’ assumption* 13:00 Networking lunch
Speakers include:
Bernard Casey, Head of Civil Engineering, Mainstream Renewable Power FABRICATION
Henrik Carstens, Project & Technology Director Offshore Wind, Ramboll
The offshore wind industry is at a crossroads and must find new 14:15 Looking towards the industrialisation of foundation
foundation solutions for installing wind turbines in varied subsea terrain
and deeper water far offshore. This industry-shaping, focused morning will
production to reduce costs
Chris Punshon, Consultant, TWI
delve into the key questions on everyone’s mind. Each concept will have
Sayee Raghunathan, Associate Director, TWI
time to prove its merits before having to answer to questions from the
floor. Speakers will compare and contrast solutions on the 5 key questions • Serial production needs for the different concepts to meet large-scale
the industry is asking: development demands
– locations and storage
1. What are the specifics around suitability for different water depths?
– fabrication facilities
2. What kind of geotechnical conditions can each be installed in?
– speeding-up manufacture times to avoid increasing costs for developers
3. What are the capital costs vs. installation costs? Can these be
• Lowering fabrication costs
lowered?
– bringing costs of building new foundations designs in line with monopiles
4. How will each cope with higher loads as turbines increase in size?
5. What are the drawbacks? – removing cost constraints specific to the newer foundation concepts
• What is the viability of standardising fabrication across the concepts?
Each will also answer specific questions about the individual concepts: • Lessons from oil and gas
Jackets – can there be collaboration rather than competition for these materials?
• Can the design, fabrication & installation processes be streamlined?
• How far will costs come down? 15:00 DONG case study: foundation industrialisation in
• Are variations on the original concept more effective? practice
Monopiles Jan Pedersen, Lead Specialist - Offshore Structures and Technology,
• Is today’s cut-off depth the final word? DONG Energy
• True constraints in ability to support larger turbines • How and why is DONG working to industrialise foundation production to
• Can the monopile design be amended to extend suitability? meet future project needs?
Tripods – why is this so important?
• What improvements on the design could lighten the structures? – decisions made so far
• Is installation truly as simple as floating them out? • Negotiating long-term frame agreements
– impact of the sea bed and sea movements – optimising manufacture processes
– influencing material choices
Gravity-based
– improving design
• How to you get this big structure into the water?
• What are the specifics of vessel needs? 15:30 Afternoon refreshments
• How do you guarantee the structure lands upright?`
Suction-buckets & other novel foundation designs SITING CHALLENGES
A space for foundations that do not come under the well-known categories
to showcase their solutions 16:00 Conducting & understanding geophysical &
If you would like to join this panel please contact mb@windpowermonthly.com. geotechnical surveys to make the right
* Chair will call 30 minute recess during the session foundations choice
Mike Southall, General Manager, SEtech (Geotechnical Engineers) Ltd
11:45 Understanding the process of certifying new • What surveys need to be conducted?
– timelines
foundation concepts & developments to the standards • Assessing site feasibility through geophysical and geotechnical surveys
Jorge Dahl, Head of Project Certification, DNV Wind Energy – soil characterisation
• Certification procedure – physical challenges to installation
– purpose • How will sea and sea bed conditions affect your foundations options?
– requirements • Accurate interpretation & integration of survey data
– what are the current challenges in relation to offshore foundations? • Feeding the data into the decision-making process
– how can the process be sped-up and standardised? • What issues are faced on sites which have varying geological conditions
• Exploring the development of standards for offshore foundations within them?
– will these differ between jackets, suction-buckets, gravity-based and
other innovative foundation designs? 16:30 Best-practice environmental impact mitigation steps
Senior Representative To Be Confirmed, Vattenfall
12:30 RWE Innogy research case study: foundation
• How do the different concepts impact on marine creatures and the sea bed?
design – what are we really learning from – impact on foundation choice
operating foundations? • Mitigating noise from piling during construction and decommissioning
Julian Garnsey, Head of Offshore Civil Engineering, – is noise during piling a serious, long-term environmental threat?
RWE Innogy Wind Energy Offshore – what results have been found in industry research projects?
• Lessons from RWE • Implementing these findings in the field
– experience operating a portfolio of offshore wind farm foundations – is noise more of a problem with steel or concrete piling?
– resulting research areas – how will future legislation affect the use of piled foundations?
• Offshore performance monitoring – what are the technological solutions to abate environmental impacts?
– can we use experience to improve new foundation designs? 17:15 Day 1 closing remarks
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3. Day 2 - Wednesday 9 November
08:30 Registration and morning coffee Mark Lawrence, Project Manager, Geophysics and Route Engineering,
RES Offshore
09:00 Chair’s opening remarks • How can foundation design negatively impact on cable installation?
Bruce Valpy, Managing Director, BVG Associates – delays
– cost to project
INSTALLATION & LOGISTICS – correction challenges
• Early collaboration best practice
– locating foundations in such a way so as to stop cable damage during
09:15 Installation-specific cost & delay mitigation O&M as a result of the legs of access systems
• Scouring challenges
considerations
Cat Brown, Construction Manager, Lead - Installation and Logistics
Round 3, Vattenfall LONG-TERM CONSIDERATIONS
• Learning lessons from installing the different concepts
– ease
– speed 14:30 Effective foundation maintenance & life-cycle
– challenges management strategies that prolong structure life
– costs
– availability of suitable installation equipment Professor Feargal Brennan, Head of the Offshore, Process & Energy
• How much can be done onshore? Engineering Department, Cranfield University
• Can installation methodologies be standardised or streamlined? • Lessons from oil and gas
• What preparation is required? • Inspection best practice
– impacts on installation timeframes – divers
– robots
10:00 Morning refreshments – new methodologies for deeper water and longer distances from shore
• Main maintenance challenges
– mitigating corrosion
10:45 Installation vessels for new foundations: designs,
• Which foundation designs are most at risk?
availability & potential set backs – subsidence
• What challenges have already been faced with vessel availability for – movement
foundations? – scouring
• What will future vessels look like? – what will be the effect of increased salinity in ocean environments?
– size • What will you need to consider in terms of safe access to foundations
– cranes once you are in the O&M phase?
– floating – how will this affect maintenance scheduling?
– legs
– vessels dedicated to each foundation vs. multipurpose vessels 15:15 Afternoon refreshments
– will innovative next generation foundations have the vessel as part of
the design?
• Where will they come from?
• Are they going to be capable of operations in varying harsh conditions?
15:45 Understanding the long-term cyclic behaviour of
• The chicken and egg challenge: designing vessels pre-emptively that foundations: R&D project with Cambridge
might not suit all needs vs. waiting for designs and encountering potential University & collaborators KW Ltd, McAlpine, RES
delays
• How can the industry best tackle potential availability bottlenecks?
Group & DONG Energy
Dr. Indrasenan Thusyanthan, Head of R&D for Project,
If you would like to join this panel please contact mb@windpowermonthly.com. KW Ltd & University of Cambridge
• Understanding the long-term performance of wind farm foundations
when subjected to a large number of loading cycles
11:45 Exploring current onshore facilities & future • Testing
logistics needs – centrifuge model tests on monopile offshore wind farm foundations
Frank Coenen, Chief Executive Officer, Belwind using the new 2-D actuator
– In-flight installation
• Finding the right locations for shore-side fabrication and storage hubs – Combined axial and lateral loading tests
– facilities needed • Using results to optimise and improve the design of offshore foundations
• Space by developing appropriate design guidelines
• Proximity to coast
– services needed
• Port suitability 16:15 The Windpower interview: floating structures – will
– requirements they really work?
– are there currently ports that can store hundreds of structures?
– depth of water Interviewer:
• Will there be enough room for future vessels to moor? Paul Garrett, Associate Editor, Offshore, Windpower Monthly
Interviewee:
12:30 Networking lunch Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Senior Advisor, Floating Structures, Statoil
Windpower Monthly’s Paul Garrett will grill a leading expert from Statoil on
13:45 Joining-up thinking between your foundation & floating structures on when and where floating turbines and foundations will
become viable and cost-effective.
cable installation strategies
Antony Zymelka, Senior Manager, Submarine Cable Operations,
RES Offshore
16:40 Day 2 closing remarks
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4. Briefing - Thursday 10 November
Floating Turbines
& Foundations
Future Development, Structures,
Viability & Cost Predictions
Morning Briefing • 10 November 2011 • Bremen, Germany
09:00 – 12:30 (registration begins at 08:30)
Floating wind turbines are considered by many to be the next step in
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development of offshore wind energy after the present generation of shallow Very good event, well
water fixed turbines. Advocates claim that floating structures will allow effective organised and attended.”
wind energy generation in deeper areas with more wind and more space.
However, selecting the most economical platforms with minimal motion and Technical Director, Submarine Technology Ltd
correct design is a considerable technical challenge.
This half-day briefing will provide you with up-to-the-minute information on the
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This event allowed/forced like-
developments in this area and space to debate the questions the industry is
going to have to ask to figure out the future of these innovative structures. minded individuals across race,
Chair:
gender and generation to openly
Danny Bonnett, Lead Structural Engineer, RES Offshore share in a small group setting
Presenters: through short sound bite topics.
Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Senior Advisor, Floating Structures, Statoil Great job! People were here until
Neal Bastick, Chief Executive Officer, Blue H Technologies BV
the very end, what a compliment!
More speakers to be announced
Your entire team was engaging,
Designs kind, supportive and competent.”
• What stages are the various concepts at? Senior Vice President EHS, PCG Wind
• Who is leading on the technology?
How do the economics look?
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• At depths of 50m+ Very well put together.”
• For medium depths of under 50m Operations & Maintenance Manager,
• What data is available to compare floating structures with fixed- Acciona Windpower
bottom structures?
What are the opportunities for optimisation?
“
Great opportunity for networking,
• Will they be mass produced?
• Will they have to be designed specifically for each project? and keeping up with innovations.”
International Project Management, Availon Inc
Market size
• Where will the designs be suitable for?
• What conditions would OEMs accept to put a turbine on top of
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floating foundations?
This conference was very informative
– levels of movement and a great place to network.”
– vibration National Co-ordinator, Elevator Industry Work Fund
– pitch
– yaw
• What do developers and utilities think of them?
• Who will install them?
Commercial Opportunities: If so, you should contact us about sponsoring Sponsored by:
this event. To build a bespoke package which
Do you want to showcase your can range from pre-event to on-the-day
products or services to a room full of exposure, contact:
wind colleagues looking for solutions Michael Baker on +44 (0)208 267 4847
to their foundation needs? or e-mail mb@windpowermonthly.com
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5. Foundations for
Future Offshore Wind
Strategic Design, Installation & Maintenance In Deeper Water & Future Offshore
8-10 November 2011 • Maritim Hotel, Bremen, Germany
Dear Colleague,
Foundations currently account for around 20% of the CAPEX of an offshore wind project according to
RenewableUK.* As more wind projects are developed in deeper water, this fraction is likely to increase and if
the industry is to succeed in driving down lifetime cost of energy, there is going to have to be a significant
change in the cost of foundations and their installation in water depths of 30-60m.
That is why Windpower Monthly will be running its inaugural Foundations for Future Offshore Wind Forum
on 8-10 November in Bremen, Germany. One of the biggest challenges for the industry in adopting new
foundations for future sites is the lack of reliable information currently available on how new concepts will fare
in terms of ease of installation, suitability for sites with differing geological conditions and their full lifetime
costs. We are on the cusp of a significant change from the dominant use of monopiles to more complex
structures and are now starting to see trials of some of these next generation designs and investment in serial
manufacturing methods.
On 8-9 November, this forum will give you up-to-the-minute information on the latest thinking in terms of
design, fabrication, environmental challenges, and lifetime cost of installing and maintaining foundations.
I first read Windpower Monthly back when I started in the industry in 1987 and have found it the best source
of reliable information and informed comment on ‘my’ industry over all the many years since. That is why I am
proud to be chairing this event and working with the industry to address costs and risks relating to the key
area of offshore wind foundations. Join me and other foundations experts from companies such as Vattenfall,
RWE Innogy, DONG Energy & Ramboll for what promises to be a key event in the offshore calendar.
Plus, join a select group on 10 November for a high-level briefing, Floating Turbines & Foundations: Future
Development, Structures, Viability & Cost Predictions to find out where we are on the road to floating
designs being a robust, cost-effective option for deep water wind farms.
With a 1st class engineering degree from Cambridge University, I have been working hands-on with wind
industry technology for well over 20 years. I have led design activities within a number of turbine
manufacturers for onshore turbines from a few hundred kW up to offshore turbines as large as any operating
today. Now I advise Governments, trade associations, The Crown Estate, R&D supporting organisations, wind
farm developers, offshore turbine manufacturers, supply chain players large and small and international
investors, covering the fields of market, economics, supply chain and technology.
I look forward to meeting you on 8 November in Bremen.
Best wishes
Bruce Valpy
Managing Director
BVG Associates
* Offshore Wind: Forecasts of future costs and benefits, RenewableUK, June 2011
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