Floating Wind training course (online)

Floating wind introduction training course from the global experts

DNV is presenting a half day introduction course about floating offshore wind covering the market, the technology and project phases from design to operation.

The next phase of the energy transition demands committed implementation of new technologies. Floating offshore wind is opening new possibilities for wind power locations and will play a critical role in the transition to a cleaner energy supply, contributing significantly to an increase in offshore wind power. According to DNV, the technology is predicted to grow worldwide, rising from the around 100 MW today to more than 10 GW in 2030 and 260 GW in 2050.

Led by our team of world leading experts in floating offshore wind and augmented by DNV’s 14 years’ experience in this area, this half day course will provide attendees the basic knowledge to succeeded with this new and promising technology.

The training will be “inter-active” meaning that participants are asked to send their questions in advance of the course and have further opportunities during and at the end of the sessions to file questions to the trainers.

On completion, attendees should get a good understanding of the market and how floating wind differs from bottom fixed with regards to the components and the various project phases. For more details, see the agenda further down.

Speakers

Rachel Spiegel, Kimon Argyriadis, Benjamin Child, Alireza Bayat, Elisabeth Purk, Lars Helge Verde and Irene Rivera Arreba.

Rachel Spiegel is a senior consultant in the Project Engineering & Due Diligence team. Rachel has since 2021 worked in technical due diligence, strategy support, and cost- and risk-assessments of floating wind. She has led several projects for investors, lenders and project developers and has extensive experience both as a project manager and team member, with a special focus on environmental and permitting aspects. Rachel holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology from the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) and a bachelor’s in Environmental Economics from University of California, Berkeley.

Kimon Argyriadis is floating wind energy director in Renewables Certification. He has a Naval Architect Degree (Dipl. Ing.) from Hamburg University (1990). After a period in marine engineering consultancy, he joined Germanischer Lloyd (GL) wind energy certification business in 1994. There he performed load and site-specific analysis of several offshore wind turbines and wind farms. He has also participated in research projects, international standardization and published several technical papers in his field of expertise. He is member of IEC TC88 MT 3-2 standard maintenance team for floating wind turbines. He has acted as member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) committees "Loads“ and "Ocean Wind and Energy Utilization". In 2013 and 2018 he received the IEC 1906 award. After the merger between, DNV and GL in 2013, Kimon served as innovation manager in DNV Renewables Certification, having responsibility for service document development (service specifications, standards and recommended practices) as well as planning and control of internal and collaborative research and development projects.

Benjamin Child is currently Technical Lead for Floating Wind Energy, coordinating research, business development and strategy in this area, as well as Offshore Team Lead, managing a group of ten interdisciplinary engineers within the Turbine Engineering section. An engineer with 15 years’ experience in the offshore renewables sector, he initially explored numerical modelling through an MSc dissertation project and later a PhD, where he established novel hydrodynamic analysis and optimisation techniques. After joining DNV (formerly Garrad Hassan), Ben applied his research to consultancy work as well as leading software development related to hydrodynamics and wave energy farms. Since then, he has continued to have deep involvement in research and development, addressing some of the key challenges facing floating wind energy system design. However, with a rapidly growing floating wind industry, his focus in recent years has primarily been on commercial projects, providing expert advice, analysis and design services to help get the first full-scale system concepts into the water and ensure that the next generation of concepts meet ambitious targets on performance and cost.

Alireza Bayat is a senior consultant in DNV renewables advisory. He primarily provides technical consultancy services to various stakeholders in the global offshore wind industry. Alireza has deep understanding of design and engineering, project economics, interfaces, technology risks and commercial aspects of both bottom-fixed and floating wind development projects. He has performed numerous feasibility, technology and market assessment, technical due diligence, techno-economic analysis, cost analysis and cost of energy assessment, benchmarking and concept selection, design verification and technology qualification projects in the offshore wind industry. He has worked on development and standardization of floating wind technology through development of DNV international Standards in the offshore wind industry. Alireza holds a Master of Science in Applied Mechanics from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked in DNV since 2009.

Elisabeth Purk is a Project Engineer with an electrical engineering background. She is working in DNV’s Project Engineering & Due Diligence team and responsible for  undertaking and managing technical due diligence works for offshore wind farms since  September 2017, especially focused on contractual aspects, O&M and HSE. In addition, she is part of the turbine inspection team in Northern Europe and performed WTG inspection work for both on-and offshore wind farms. Prior joining DNV she was working in the O&M unit of Siemens Gamesa and has gained experience as service technician from various offshore wind farms in Germany. 

Lars Helge Verde has a Master of Science from NTNU in Mechanical Engineering and has worked in DNV since 2020. He has been working with dynamic slender systems including power umbilicals and cables in both Oil & Gas and  renewable market. He is working on behalf of both manufacturers, EPCI contractors and operators providing technical advice, analyses or assessments for safe design, installation and operation of cable systems. His expertise is in global dynamic analyses of floating platform systems including various floating wind concepts. His main focus is within the structural and mechanical part of both static and dynamic cable systems; global response and fatigue of dynamic cables. Since 2021 he has been product owner and part of the development teamin DNV responsible for the software Helica which is a specialized tool for cross section analyses of helix components. 

Irene Rivera Arreba is an engineer in the Project Engineering & Due Diligence team. Since she joined DNV one year ago, she has been involved in advisory for floating wind projects. She holds a Master of Science  in Marine Technology from NTNU and a Master of Science from TU Delft with specialization in Offshore Wind. Before joining DNV, she was a researcher at NTNU, during the completion of her PhD. Her focus of study for the last five years has been on the low-frequency effects of wake meandering in non-neutral atmospheric conditions on floating structures and mooring lines. 

For whom?

The target group for this training are professionals working in the wind industry (or wants to become part of it), developers, investors, insurance, OEM’s and regulators – who aims a fast learning of floating wind technology.

Full Q&A-note and presentation materials will be become available after the course.

For more information please contact:
Irene Rivera Arreba at irene.rivera.arreba@dnv.com | +4539454965