Call for abstracts ( Deadline extended: 3 April 2009)
Tracks and topics
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Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting abstracts that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following topics:
Industry development and market deployment
- Economics – investments/finance/insurance
- Regional industrial initiatives: harbour facilities, onshore construction sites, training, service centres
- Transnational planning of offshore sites: European coordination and national cooperation
- Health & safety issues
- Case studies and good practice: Lessons learnt from planning to operation
- Supply chain issues
- Human resources
- Synergies with oil, gas and maritime sectors
Grids
- Wind power plant operation on the network (including forecasting)
- Concepts and technologies for grid connection
- Trading offshore wind energy production in the electricity market
- Concepts and technologies for Europe-wide offshore grid, onshore transmission reinforcements and trans-European overlay grid
Technology and innovation
- Research programmes and test facilities
- Commercial turbine technology: reliability, safety and cost reduction
- New concepts in wind turbine and offshore technology
- Wind resource assessment
- Standards, certification, design conditions and methods
- Offshore substructure design and manufacturing
- Foundation concepts – series production
- Offshore transportation and installation technologies (vessels, platforms etc.)
- Operation and maintenance – access concepts, strategies and condition based maintenance
- Combination of wind power and ocean (wave, tidal) energy converters
Environmental, political and administrative issues
- EU and national policies and programmes
- Offshore wind and 2020 National Action Plans
- Environmental issues
- Social acceptance
- National and international planning methods: siting, concession tendering, permits and requirements