Monday 14/06/2010

8.30 - 9.15

Registration and welcome of participants at the Research Council of Norway
(Hall of the Research Council of Norway)

9 .15 - 10.10

(ABEL room - Research Council of Norway)

• Welcome by Arvid Hallén Director General of the Research Council of Norway >>
• Robin Martin Kåss, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy >>
• Chantal Jouanno, State Secretary of Ecology, French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Seas >>
• Olivier Appert, President of the French-Norwegian Foundation for Research (FFN-FNS)
• Marie-Marguerite Bourbigot, Project Manager at Pôle Mer, France
• Fridtjof Unander,
  Director Energy and Petroleum at Research Council of Norway >>

Workshop 1

10.15 - 12.45

(ERASMUS room - Holbergs Terrasse)

• Wind resource mapping
• Wind, surge, and currents modelling
• Forecasting
• Bathymetry and soils.

Speakers

• Birgitte Rugaard Furevik, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET), Norway
  "Offshore forecasting and wind resource mapping" >>
• Fabrice Collard, CLS, France
  "Assessment of offshore wind resource from SAR wind data" >>
• Idar Barstad, Uni Research, Norway
  "An extensive numerical model tool for offshore wind energy research" >>
• Christophe Maisondieu, IFREMER, France
  "Characterizing the environment for design engineering and operations" >>
• Dr. Nenad Keseric, Statoil, Norway
  "Hywind - experience and challenges in off shore forecasting" >>

Workshop 2

Technology, machines and foundations

10.15 – 12.45 (AUDITORIET - Holbergs Terrasse)

• Marinisation of the machines and components
• Foundations
• Floating structures (for wind turbines)
• Specific materials, etc...

French moderator:
AUDELOR, Nicolas Teisseire
n.teisseire@audelor.com

Norwegian moderator:
SINTEF, Bård Wathne Tveiten:  bard.w.tveiten@sintef.no

• Professor Arnfinn Nergaard, University of Stavanger, Norway
  “At the outset of a new era for offshore wind energy” >>
• Bertrand Fazio, CEO Nass&Wind Industrie, France
  “An integrated floating wind turbine efficient from 50m depth:
  the WINFLO project” >>
• Per Bull Haugesøen, Managing Director OWEC Tower AS, Norway
  “OWEC Tower – wind turbine foundations for deeper water and large turbines” >>
• Dr. Christian Simon, SINTEF, Norway
  “Advanced Multifunctional Coatings Applied to Offshore Wind Turbines” >>
• Jean-François Dhedin EDF – HydroEngineering Centre / EDF R&D, France
  “Paimpol-Bréhat: Development of the First Tidal Current Array in France” >>

Workshop 3

14.30 – 17.00 (AUDITORIET - Holbergs Terrasse) 

• Techniques of offshore assembly
• Sea-feedback of real experience 
• Maintenance, etc...

French moderator:
TECHNIP, Stephane His shis@technip.com

Norwegian moderator:
SINTEF, Jørn Heggset
jorn.heggset@sintef.no

Speakers

• Simen Elvestad, Statkraft, Norway , “Vision of an operator“ >>
• Charles Smadja, Nenuphar, France,
  "Vision of an innovative wind turbine manufacturer" >>
• Richard Cooke, Areva T&D (Alstom), France,
  “Vision for the substation“ >>
• Ove T. Gudmestad, UiS, Norway
  “Vision of a researcher: University of Stavanger“ >>
• Sverre Trollnes, Norway, “Innovation: Statoil with Hywind“ >>

Workshop 5

Development of projects including any types of renewable marine energies

14.30 – 17.00 (ERASMUS room - Holbergs Terrasse)

• Offshore wind energy (spatial planning, economic and environmental issues)
• Floating offshore (legal and economic issues)
• Other energies (short presentation of project)

French moderator:
Secrétariat Général de la Mer
Christophe Le Visage,
christophe.le-visage@pm.gouv.fr

Norwegian moderator: NVE
Linn Silje Undem, lsu@nve.no

Speakers

Offshore wind energy : spatial planning, economic et environmental issues

• Linn Silje Undem, NVE, Norway
  “Spatial planning and GIS as a decision support system (DSS)“ >>
  
• Christophe Le Visage, Secrétariat général de la mer, France
  “Spatial planning issues and windfarms (fixed/floating) – Integration with maritime spatial planning issues other than energy“ >>
  
• Kjell Olav Skjølsvik, Enova, Norway, “Offshore Wind – The cost of uncertainty“ >>
• Geocean
  "One example of approach for EIA of a tidal turbine project on cetaceans" >>
  

Floating Offshore : legal and economic issues

• Anne Rogstad, NVE, Norway
  “Norwegian legal framework for development of projects relating to offshore renewable energy resources“ >>
  
• Michael Forland, SWAY, Norway
  “Floating Wind Power in Deep Water – Competitive with Shallow-water Wind Farms?“ >>
  
• Jean-Jacques Le Norment,  Agence Economique de Bretagne, France
  “Comparison with shallow water windfarms, determinants“ >>
  
• Christophe Chabert, DCNS, France,
  “OTEC. Presentation of La Réunion project" >>
  

19.00 - 21.00

Dinner at the Lofoten Fiskerestaurant