Monday, September 12
Featured Speakers
Joan Ferrini-Mundy
WELCOME
President
University of Maine
Senator Susan Collins
KEYNOTE
United States Senator, Maine
Jocelyn Brown-Saracino
KEYNOTE
Lead Offshore Wind Energy
Wind Technologies Office
Floating Foundation Technology Improvements through commercial scale design, deployment, and planning
9:00 – 10:20am | Ballroom
How are floating foundation technologies improving and adapting to address the surge in new floating wind markets? What improvements have been made based on current deployments and the design of new projects?
Jesper Møller
PANELIST
Head of Sales and Business Development
Stiesdal Offshore Technologies
Thalía Krüger
PANELIST
Senior Business Development Manager
Principle Power
Alvaro Urruchi
PANELIST
Lead Structural Engineer
Ocergy
Floating Developers Forum
10:30-11:50 am | Ballroom
What are the Developer’s plans for the US floating market? What are the challenges and opportunities? What suggestions do developers have for the US and State Administrations and policymakers?
Design Codes and Standards for Floating Wind
1:00 – 2:20 pm | Ballroom
What are the Developer’s plans for the US floating market? What are the challenges and opportunities? What suggestions do developers have for the US and State Administrations and policymakers?
Christy Lan
PANELIST
Senior Technical Adviser for Renewable Energy Engineer
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
Casey Reeves
PANELIST
Program Manager
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office or Renewable Energy Programs
Addressing the Unique Ecological and Environmental Challenges in Floating Wind
1:00 – 2:20 pm | Winslow Homer Room
What are the key floating wind co-existence, environmental, outreach, and permitting challenges on the East Coast? The West Coast? What are the fishing concerns and what new solutions are available? What are the mooring systems solutions to reduce fisheries impact in shallow and deepwater?
Jocelyn Runnebaum
PANELIST
Marine Scientist
The Nature Conservancy
Scaling-up Challenges: Ports, Assembly, and Installation
2:30 – 3:50 pm | Ballroom
What are the unique port needs for deploying floating wind turbines? What port facilities exist that can allow the fabrication and deployment of floating wind projects in the US? What upgrades are needed for these facilities? What has been learned from demonstration projects
Todd Griset
PANELIST
Energy and Utilities Law Attorney
PretiFlaherty
Matt McCarty
PANELIST
Principal, Ports and Marine Terminals
Stantec
International Floating Wind Activities
2:30 – 3:50 pm | Winslow Homer Room
Europe has embarked on one of the world’s most aggressive offshore wind plans, including plans for commercial floating wind. What are the European plans for floating wind, and what R&D opportunities in the UK and France pursuing? How can the US and UK, France, collaborate in the nascent floating offshore wind space?
Feargal Brennan
PANELIST
Director of the Renewable Energy Marine Structures Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) (Cranfield, Oxford and Strathclyde), Offshore Wind Champion for the EPSRC Flagship Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Programme; Wind to hydrogen
Bio
Deborah Greaves
PANELIST
Director of Supergen ORE Hub, Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Director of the COAST Laboratory University of Plymouth
Bio
Pierre Warlop
PANELIST
Head of Technical Offshore Wind
WPD France
Charlotte Harris
PANELIST
Trade Officer, Offshore Wind, and Clean Energy,
British Consulate General
Bio
Luke Eatough
PANELIST
Project Engineer
ORE Catapult
tuesday, September 13
Featured Speakers
Angus King
KEYNOTE
United States Senator, Maine
Design, Modeling, and Characterization Tools Advancements
8:30 – 9:20 am | Ballroom
As the technology matures, the tools for modeling and design are continuing to improve as well. Each speaker provides a 5 min talk, followed by a panel discussion
Rob Smith
PANELIST
Vice President – Energies and Infrastructures Business Unit/Senior Oceanographer
Woods Hole Group
Research Needs: Technology and Infrastructure
9:30 – 10:20 am | Ballroom
What are the current research needs in hull technology, modeling, mooring systems, anchors, transmission, fabrication and installation of floating turbines? Where should federal investments be focused? What is the status of the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC) funded research programs in floating wind and what are the upcoming research solicitations? What are the cost economics of bigger turbines?
Katherine Dykes
PANELIST
Head of Section, System Engineering & Optimization
DTU Wind and Energy Systems
What’s Next in Leasing and Policy Activities for US Floating Wind
10:30 – 11:20 am | Ballroom
What is the status of leasing for floating projects in US water? BOEM and State’s updates.
Casey Reeves
PANELIST
Program Manager, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office or Renewable Energy Programs
BOEM
