Programme | EoLIS 2022
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End-of-Life Issues & Strategies Seminar
1-2 December 2022 • Ghent
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Programme

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All days Day one Day two

Thursday, 01 December

08:00

Welcome coffee

08:00 - 09:00
Minnenplein
09:00

Repowering: a case for made-in-Europe

09:00 - 10:15
Auditorium
Business models Maximising value (Lifetime extensions, repowering)
10:25

Preparing for the end-of-life of offshore wind farms

10:25 - 11:25
Auditorium
Maximising value (Lifetime extensions, repowering) Supply chain Sustainability
11:25

Coffee break

11:25 - 11:55
11:55

Repowering and lifetime extension in practice: case study 1

11:55 - 12:55
Auditorium
Business models Maximising value (Lifetime extensions, repowering)

A second life for decommissioned turbines and components

11:55 - 12:55
Jan Van Eyck
Business models Sustainability
12:55

Lunch

12:55 - 14:25
Minnenplein
13:15
14:25

How end-of-life turbines feed into the circular economy?

14:25 - 15:25
Auditorium
Business models Creating new value Maximising value (Lifetime extensions, repowering) Technology
15:25

Coffee break

15:25 - 15:55
15:55

How to incentivise end-of-life: making the most out of end-of-life turbines

15:55 - 16:55
Auditorium
Circularity Decommissioning Policy Recycling
17:00

R&D projects on sustainable end-of-life: opportunities to commercialise and scale-up

17:00 - 18:00
Auditorium
Circularity Maximising value Networking Recycling Sustainability
18:00

Networking reception

18:00 - 19:30
Minnenplein

Friday, 02 December

08:00

Welcome coffee

08:00 - 09:00
Minnenplein
09:00

Encoding sustainability in wind energy’s DNA

09:00 - 09:30
Auditorium
Policy
09:40

Circularity by design: end-of-life begins at start-of-life

09:40 - 10:40
Auditorium
Creating new value Design Technology
10:40

Coffee break

10:40 - 11:10
11:10

Repowering and lifetime extension in practice: case study 2

11:10 - 12:10
Auditorium
Business models Maximising value (Lifetime extensions, repowering)

R-strategies

11:10 - 12:10
Jan Van Eyck
Business models Circularity Maximising value Re-use Recycling Repurpose
12:10

Lunch

12:10 - 13:40
Minnenplein
12:30
13:40

Composite material waste: a cross-sector challenge

13:40 - 14:40
Auditorium
Partnerships Recycling Value chain
14:50

Blade recycling: value chains

14:50 - 15:50
Auditorium
Business models Circularity Creating new value Partnerships Recycling Supply chain
15:50

Closing remarks: conclusions and next steps

15:50 - 16:00
Policy Supply chain