Towards commercialisation of floating offshore wind

Floating wind

When: Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 15:15 - 16:45
Where: Luxua 1

Session description

Floating offshore wind (FOW) is a fast-maturing technology with the potential to cement Europe’s leadership in renewables globally. FOW can extend the frontiers of innovation in renewable energy technologies and is no longer confined to R&D. It has now reached a high ‘technology readiness level’ with a very positive cost-reduction outlook and the focus is now moving into the mainstream power supply. This session will discuss which actions are needed in order to ensure that cost reduction continues through economies of scale, low financing costs, improvement of the supply chain and R&I actions.
The first panel will focus on the strategies that the industry and the government need to put in place to make floating wind commercially available and the second is on the technical challenges on how to get there.

Learning objectives

• State of the art of the current FOW development and public policies supporting FOW;
• Lessons learned from existing projects;
• Key challenges: costs and financing, supply chain, harbours and infrastructure;
• Perspectives of floating wind: industry and national ambitions;
• Innovation priorities;

Session chair



Giles Hundleby

Director, BVG Associates



Matthieu Monnier

Head of Industry, Offshore, Technical Works and Territories, France Energie Eolienne

Part 1 : what the industry and governments need to do to make floating wind commercially available



Bruno Geschier

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer / Chairman of the Floating Task Force , IDEOL / WindEurope



Jesús Busturia

General Manager, Nautilus



Anne Marit Hansen

Project Leader Project Management & Control, Equinor

Part 2 : how to get there



Melchior Karigl

Deputy Advisor, Structured Finance and Joint Initiatives, European Investment Bank



José Pinheiro

Project Director, EDPR



Bjorn Sanden

Europacable expert