EWEA Offshore 2013 Day Two

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world in the not-too-distantfuture in which Europeanoffshore turbine suppliers nolonger own the worlds besttechnology, Tommerup warns.

In contrast to more modularforms of renewable energy,offshore wind is vulnerable tostop-and-start markets, given the

scale and time needed to buildprojects, says EWEA preisdentAndrew Garrad.

e politics are different foroffshore wind, he points out.Whatever we decide nowdetermines what will be done ina decade in the offshore arena.

[Nevertheless] given thepresent economic climate, itspossible that in March we dont

get a [renewables] target, Garradconcedes.

Another critical issue iswhether the EU again adoptsseparate goals for renewables,greenhouse-gas emissions andenergy efficiency as it did for2020. Some member states,including the UK, believerenewables should be forced tocompete with other low-carbon

technologies such as nuclear,rather than given its owncarve-out.

All arguments are on thetable, says Jos Delbeke, director-general for climate action at theEuropean Commission. We arestrongly convinced we need tocontinue with three targets, butthe ultimate decision will betaken by the heads of state.

European renewables decision crucial for offshoreFrom page 1

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KARL-ERIK STROMSTA

CHRISTOPHER HOPSON

Industry leaders are coming toterms with the likelihood thatGermany will slash its 2020

offshore wind target to 6.5GW

from the 10GW previouslyenvisaged.

A preliminary version of thecoalition contract between theChristian Democrats (CDU) andthe Social Democrats (SPD) probable partners in theincoming government agreesto lowering the target.

e deal prompted EnBW chiefexecutive Frank Mastiaux to tellthe party negotiators the lowertarget could cause a collapse ofthe appropriate expansionefforts in the sector.

But Andreas Nauen, chiefexecutive of Suzlons Germany-based REpower unit, is far lessdramatic, acknowledging thatthe industry would not havebeen able to erect 10GW offGermanys coast by the end ofthe decade anyway.

e reduction to 6.5GW, ifyoure honest, is an adaptation toreality, Nauen told RechargeinFrankfurt. Its no disaster.

Looking at it from the outside,one might think that the

industrys future is completelydiminishing, but a more realistictarget can actually be motivating,he told the audience at EWEAOffshores opening panel.

Dong Energy chief executiveHenrik Poulsen believes offshorewind has the potential to play alarger role, but nevertheless saysthe lower goal still represents astrong, tangible politicalcommitment to the sector.

e new targets proposed bythe German coalition are, webelieve, solid targets, Poulsensaid. We find them soundenough to continue investing inGermany.

On Monday, Dong gave the

green light for its largest everinvestment, the 582MW, 2.2bn($2.97bn) Gode Wind 1 and 2projects in the German NorthSea.

e coalition negotiators alsoagreed to lower the countrys

2030 offshore goal to 15GWfrom the previous 25GW. etargets still hinge on whether theparties can agree to form agovernment. SDP members will

vote on the coalition deal in aparty referendum next month.

STRONG SIGNAL:

Dong chief executiveHenrik Poulsen onthe EWEA panel

Germantargetcut not adisaster

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In spite of the obvious dangersof hustling new, ever-largerturbines onto the market, the

offshore wind industry doesnot have the luxury of patientlyrefining existing models,industry sources say.

Major industry exhibitions suchas EWEA Offshore 2013 oen feellike a competition in bringingnew products to market,acknowledges Michael Hannibal,chief executive of Siemens

offshore wind division.Some in the sector feel the

seemingly endless product-launchcycle has a destabilising effect inthe minds of offshore windinvestors, who would prefer thatturbine platforms are perfectedover longer periods of time beforebeing overhauled and upsized.

But Samuel Leupold, executivevice-president for Dongs winddivision, says such patience is notan option given the cost pressureson the industry.

We need to optimise existing

platforms, but at the same time weneed some bold steps, saysLeupold.

What we want to achieve [as anindustry] by 2020 is so big that weneed a combination of both. Weneed larger rotors, we need higherratings, otherwise we wont beable to make it.

Jukka-Pekka Mkinen, chiefexecutive of Finnish generatormaker Te Switch, agrees. Teonly way to be successful in theoffshore business is to have biggerand better turbines, he says.

Siemens 6MWturbine earnstype certificate

CHRISTOPHER HOPSON

Siemens 6MW offshore windturbine has received theProvisional ype Certificatefrom GL RenewablesCertification (GLRC).

Te award is a key step on theway to final certification for the6MW machine, which hasprototypes installed in Denmarkand the UK.

Te certificate confirms thatthe turbine design,manufacturing and testingprocesses meet all safetyrelevant items with thenormative references.

ype certification is required inmany countries around the worldand is oen a condition to applyfor international wind powerplant tenders, says GLRC.

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UK engineering outfit Ricardois installing an innovative life-extending drivetrain bolt-on in aScottishPower turbine in Irelandthat promises to boost bearinglife by as much as 500%.

Te companys MultiLifetechnology being developedunder the UK Department of

Energy and Climate Changesrecently announced OffshoreWind Drivetrain Innovationscheme uses a piston-drivensystem to spread wear damagearound a rolling-element gearbearing with a fixed inner race.

Te other two technologiesbeing advanced in the Ricardo-led project are a hydraulic-torquetruncation concept that deflects

wind loads at they hit the rotorand blades, and a retrofittablenext-generation condition-monitoring and prognosticssoware package.

Te award of funding for thisproject provides the opportunityfor industry to make significantprogress in developing anddemostrating them throughpractical deployment in

challenging wind environments,says Ricardos head of cleanenergy and power generationPaul Jordan.

Our broad solutions approachto improving reliability alsoensures that a wide range offuturewind turbine drivetrainsstand to benefit from the cost ofenergy that these innovationscan provide.

Bolt-on designed to extend bearing life by 500%

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Epower is confident it

will soon win a Germanoffshore order of about300MW, but may be forced toaxe 300 jobs at its blade factoryin Bremerhaven if the deal doesnot go through.

REpower chief executiveAndreas Nauen told the openingpanel at EWEA Offshore that the

jobs hinged on the manufacturerwinning a project within the nextsix months, but was a bit more

upbeat when talking to Rechargein a subsequent interview.

I am very confident that thenext offshore order will come,

Nauen told Recharge. Ten wewill also have work again for thestaff [at the blade factory].

If we dont get an offshoreorder, then we will need to seewhat to do with our offshoreblade factory. But at the moment,we prefer to negotiate with ourclients and try to find solutions.

Te company is in veryadvanced negotiations over anorder for about 50 of its 6.2MW

offshore machine with a126-metre rotor diameter, Nauensaid. alks with the prospectiveclient involve discussions about

cost reductions, he acknowledged.REpowers vice-president foroffshore, Norbert Giese, addedthat what the industry needsnow is the confidence of clientsto invest in offshore.

Te key offshore markets ofGermany and the UK do nothave stable frameworks in place,meaning investors will not investthe huge sums required to buildoffshore wind farms about

1.5bn ($2bn) per project without knowing the future levelof support, Giese said.

REpower would like Germanys

incoming government to extendthe deadline for the so-calledcompression model for twoyears. At present, offshoredevelopers can receive a higherfeed-in tariff for the first eightyears of operation to help withthe high upfront investmentcosts, but only to wind farmsthat will be grid-connected bythe end of 2017.

6.2MW MODEL: Page 17

REpower: 300 factory jobs at risk

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CONFIDENT:

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Aerodyn has unveiled theworlds first two-bladed8MW offshore wind

turbine in Frankfurt, and partnerMing Yang is already scoutingfor prototype installation sites inthe Taiwan Strait and SouthChina Sea.

e 8.0-168, which has a168-metre-diameter rotor, is adown-wind design featuringpitch-controlled blades and amedium-speed drivetrain with

pioneering electrically excitedsynchronous generator. Buildingon the Hamburg companys3MW and 6MW designs, themachine is made to withstandwinds of more than 250km/h.

e old arguments againsttwo-bladed turbines noiselevels and visual impact fallaway offshore, Aerodynpresident Snke Siegfriedsentells Recharge.

And there are manyadvantages: you can assemble thewhole turbine, including the

blades, in a harbour, shuttle itout to site by barge and mount iton the tower. e installation ismuch quicker.

Compare the total weight andenergy yield of a three-bladed[3MW] turbine and ourtwo-bladed one, and they aremuch the same.

e 8.0-168 will fly 82-metrecarbon-capped glass-fibre bladespowering a 2.5-metre-long,3.5-metre-diameter super-compact-drive transmissionsystem, designed by Aerodyn.

Doing everything in-housemeans we have a real insight intothe detailed design of allcomponents, says Siegfriedsen.And you can avoid the mistakesthat can happen duringproduction at companiessupplying your technology.

e 6MW prototype, which isin the final stages of assembly ata shipyard in Nantong on theYangtze River, is due to beerected in March on a six-legged

jacket in five to six metres ofwater off China.

Aerodyn harnesses the power of two

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ADVANTAGES:Aerodyns8.0-168 turbine

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ong Energy has givenGerman offshore wind a

huge boost afer making afinal investment decision (FID)on its 2.2bn ($2.97bn), 582MWGode Wind 1 and 2 projects and placing an order or 97Siemens 6MW turbines.

For most o this year, investorshad shied away rom taking FIDson German offshore projects,earing that they may miss theend-o-2017 deadline or theso-called compression model which offers higher eed-intariffs or the first eight years andhelps developers meet highupront investment costs.

While many companies areworried that long constructiontimes and grid-connectiondelays could cause them to missthe 2017 deadline, Dong was inan exceptional situation or GodeWind 1 and 2. Transmission

system operator TenneT hasgiven the utility an unconditionalgrid-connection confirmationor the two North Sea projects,and is already building theDolWin 2 converter platorm

and grid connection that willlink them to the mainland.

But or urther projects, Dongalso needs the incominggovernment to throw its supportbehind offshore wind.

We remain hopeul that thenew German government willsoon announce a viable supportramework or the periodpost-2017, says Dong executive

vice-president Samuel Leupold.For an industry with project

lie cycles o 30 years, it iscritically important to obtain

visibility beyond 2017 in order tocontinue to innovate and maturethe technology [and] bring downproduction costs.

Siemens Wind Power chieexecutive Markus Tacke addsthat his company intends toreduce offshore wind costs by upto 40% over the next ten years.

To accomplish this, it isessential that we have clearlydefined and reliable rameworkconditions or the expansion ooffshore wind power inGermany, Tacke stresses.

Siemens has six Germanoffshore projects in its orderpipeline.

2bn Dong FID lifs German sector

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Samuel Leupoldis optimistic thatGermany willsoon announce aviable post-2017offshore support

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doing or theres a higher chanceof losing money, she adds.

Rifai says that participants inoffshore wind will eventuallysettle in to the UKs newContract for Difference supportmechanism, just as they did withthe former system of Renewables

Obligation Certificates.She notes the new system

has significant advantages andfavours a long-term reduction inconsumer costs, while providingadequate opportunities forgenerators.

Te smart investors will dothe work to get their headsaround it and take advantage ofthe premium the government isoffering early movers, becausethey too have a lot riding on itssuccess. It may not be an entirelysmooth ride, but the politicalwill is there to make it happen,she says.

Rifai says that there is no silverbullet for de-risking offshorewind. What we need are manyincremental improvements,nurturing the breadth and depthof companies experience to

handle the bigger investmentscoming, she says.

Getting financial investorsinto the sector is not just aboutinvesting in projects, she says,noting that with its recent 1bn($1.35bn) investment in Dong,Goldman Sachs has effectivelytaken significant offshoredevelopment risk. It is alsoabout investing in supply-chaincompanies such as installation

vessel provider SeaJacks, whichhas seen investment fromRiverstone and Marubeni.

Rifai is confident that thesector will see large amounts ofinvestment from players suchas sovereign wealth funds andcapital-rich countries like Japanand China.

However, she points out thatthere is a big difference betweenJapanese and Chinese investorswilling to take higher risksin order to gain experiencein offshore wind, and apension fund making a purelyfinancial investment, whoseprimary concern is preservingpensioners savings.

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The Next Boom: New Market

Opportunities in Europe

09:00 - 10:30 (Panorama 1)

Discover the specific operating

conditions in different markets and

what impact they have on cost-effective electricity production.

What do investors think about these

markets? What are they looking for?

What do we have? What do we need?

Finance sessions

Financing is one of the key issues for

the offshore wind industry. Where will

the money come from to build new

offshore projects, as well as the grids,

ports and vessels needed to make

them operational? For the first time,

were including a dedicated financing

track, designed by finance specialists,

to examine the impact of the

regulatory environment and explore

how the sector can attract investors.

Delivering Grid Connections on Time:

Dealing with Transmission Risk09:00 - 10:30 (Panorama 3)

Understanding, Quantifying & Pricing

Offshore Wind Generation Risk

11:00 - 12:30 (Panorama 3)

Financing Offshore Wind Projects:

Whose Risk is it in the Capital

Structure?

14:00 - 15:30 (Panorama 3)

Collect your copy of the new EWEA

publication, Wheres the Money

Coming From? Financing Offshore

Wind Farms, at the EWEA stand

(31C100)lPrinted copies of the full report are

available to EWEA memberslCome and chat to EWEA staff and

discover the benefits of becomingan EWEA member

Poster reception:

one-to-ones with the experts

17:30 19:00 (Poster area)lHundreds of poster presentations

covering the entire spectrum of

track topics can be viewed during

the event in the poster arealDesigned to facilitate information

sharing and networking between

participants and poster presenters

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Announcement of the first Offshore

Comparative Resource and Energy

Yield Assessment Procedure exercise

(CREYAP) during the session:

Offshore Energy Yield Assessments:

Challenges and Lessons Learned:

09:00 - 10:30 (Panorama 2)

Careers daylEmployment and training seminar:

9:00-10:30 (Room Kontrast, Hall 3

via east)lPresentation of the Ten Most

Wanted Profiles in the Offshore

Wind IndustrylMatchmaking and HR advisory

services

10:00-15:00 (Restaurant Trilogie,

Hall 3.1)

Maryland workshop

& networking lunch

13:00 - 14:00 (Room Facette, Hall 3

via west)

Get an overview of how Marylands

policy works and how its

comprehensive strategy offers a path

forward and early access to North

Americas promising offshore clean

energy future. Lunch included.

Franco-German Offshore Wind

Opportunities Workshops

14:00 - 19:00 (Room Kontrast, Hall 3)

The French Wind Energy Association(FEE) and the French-German

Office for Renewable Energies are

organising a two-part workshop on

the challenges and opportunities in

the French and German wind industry.

Followed by a networking reception.

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Siemens stand party

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British ports suffer asignificant disadvantage inwinning North Sea

offshore wind work, despitegovernment efforts to level theplaying field, an expert points out.

With final investment decisionson big projects such as GreenPort Hull and Able MarineEnergy Park still on hold, the UKgovernment unveiled itsOffshore Wind IndustrialStrategy last summer.

But the strategy elicited neitherinvestment decisions nor muchenthusiasm from the industry.

Te truth, says Chris Willow,senior associate at London-based

consultancy BVG Associates, isthat the government has littleleverage, given that it does notown the countrys ports andharbours, or the land they sit on.

Tat is different from manyEuropean countries, and it goes along way towards explaining whythe offshore wind supply chainhas been quicker to set up shopin Germany, France, Denmark,Belgium and the Netherlands.

Uncertainties surrounding thefuture offshore market are largelythe same for port owners aroundthe North Sea, Willow notes.

Te reason ports such asBremerhaven in Germany,Vlissingen in the Netherlandsand Ostend in Belgium can move

forward with speculativeinvestment, while ports in theUK cannot, is because they havea fourth factor they can take intoaccount socioeconomicimpact, Willow says. Teyrequite open about this.

Publicly owned ports on the

continent oen have access tocheaper money than private UKports, and they dont havemeddlesome shareholders toappease. Tat means they caninvest on rates and terms thatwouldnt be acceptable to privatebusiness, says Willow.

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Installation vessels will be thekey bottleneck in scaling upoffshore turbines any further,

with Vestas planned 8MW V164

model at the outer range of whatis feasible, according to an expert.I think the predominant

technology will hover around4-6MW, says Rob van BastenBatenburg, managing director ofthe Marwin Group, a London-based renewables consultancy.

Te incremental cost ofbuilding ships that could dealwith a 10MW turbine, forexample, is so enormous thatyou price yourself out of the

market if youre at that level oftechnology.

Over the next few years, Europewill lock in the vessels andmaritime infrastructure it needsfor the next generation of offshore

wind farms, in effect capping thesize of future turbines, vanBasten Batenburg believes.

Even if it were economicallyfeasible to build vessels capableof installing giant turbines, thereality is that the offshore marketis already starting to suffer froma little bit of an overcapacity ofinstallation vessels.

Tis is a huge shi from a fewyears ago, when the lack ofinstallation vessels was seen as a

critical pinch point for theindustry. In response, severalplayers began investing in new

vessels, resulting in a steadystream now coming onto themarket.

Last month, Rechargerevealedthat RWE Innogy has decided tosell its two offshore windinstallation vessels, the FriedrichErnestineand Victoria Mathias,underscoring the shiing marketmentality.

Tose vessels, costing 100m($134m) apiece, and deliveredonly last year from a shipyard inSouth Korea, are two of the fewcurrently operating in Europecapable of liing 6MW turbines.

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Deltares is spearheading a jointindustry project, Safetrench, totackle the risk of damage to

Europes network of offshorecommunications lines byanchors dragged by ships.

Te cost in lost revenue to cableowners and public services in theunlikely event of such an accidentwould run into millions of euros.

Safetrench brings togetheroffshore cable network operators,designers, contractors andinsurers, as well as supply-chaincompanies from the offshore oiland gas industry.

ICE QUEEN:The VictoriaMathiasis on themarket less than20 months afterRWE Innogy

took deliveryof the 100minstallation vessel

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REpower has unveiledits largest ever offshoreturbine, the 6.2M152.

Te 6.2MW 152-metre-rotormodel, an upscaled version of the6M126, is calculated to be capable

of boosting the energy yield of itspredecessor by up to 20% at windspeeds of 9.5 metres per second.

Designed for construction witha hub height of between 95 and110 metres, the 6.2M152 willfeature 74.5-metre glass-fibre-reinforced plastic blades

powering a three-stage gearboxand asynchronous double-fedgenerator.

We are the only manufacturerto have already installed morethan 100 offshore turbines in themulti-megawatt class, statesREpower chief executive Andreas

Nauen. With an eye on theoutstanding availability andenergy yield of the REpower6M126, we have enhanced thisrobust, proven concept: the biggerrotor and correspondingly largerdrivetrain of REpower 6.2M152,combined with tried-and-tested,first-class technology, enables ourcustomers to generate energyeven more cost efficiently on thehigh seas.

Te prototype of the 6.2M152has been sold to an undisclosedbuyer, which plans to install it atan onshore site in northernGermany next year with a hubheight of 124 metres. Te modelwill enter commercialproduction in 2015.

Te 6M126, which has a sweptarea of almost 12,500 squaremetres, has been installedonshore at Germanys Ellh andoffshore at Belgiums TorntonBank 2 and 3.

REpower, which is majority-owned by Indian turbine makerSuzlon, announced last monththat it will change its name toSenvion next year.

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erman utility E.ON hasagreed to sell an 80%

stake in its 207MWRdsand 2 offshore wind farm toDanish energy firm SEAS-NVE.

Te transaction values the windfarm off the Danish island ofLolland at DKr3.5bn ($629m).otal cash proceeds for E.ONwill be DKr3.2bn ($575m).

E.ON will keep a 20% stake inthe wind farm and will remainits operator for its remaininglifetime.

Following on from last yearsdeal with PensionDanmark, weare once again delivering on ourstrategy of more value, lesscapital, says E.ON chieffinancial officer Klaus Schfer.

For E.ON, the sale of amajority stake in one of our

largest offshore wind farms willsuccessfully recycle our capital,ensuring we are able to realisemore of our excellent renewables

pipeline.Rdsand 2 was inaugurated inAugust 2010 with 90 Siemens2.3MW turbines.

Te final transaction is subjectto regulatory approval from theDanish energy agency and theEU.

E.ON sells 80% of Rdsand 2to Danish energy company

DARIUS SNIECKUS

Te Switch has completed ano-load run of its giant 8.6MWpermanent-magnet generator(PMG) for use offshore, clearingthe way for full-load tests to startthis month.

Te medium-speed, rear-mounted PMG design combineslow- and high-speed technologyfor high availability andreliability that boosts totalenergy output, particularly inpartial loads created by turbulentoffshore winds.

Tis latest PMG is bigger,better and stronger than

anything built by Te Switch sofar, says chief executive Jukka-Pekka Mkinen.

Built around a segmentedstructure to give easier access tomechanical and electrical partsfor maintenance, the 27-tonnePMG, which is 2.2 metres longand 3.3 metres in diameter, usesonly 10% of the magnets neededfor a direct-drive generator ofthe same power rating.

It also features a high-specification, full-power

liquid-cooled converter designedto extend the systems life in

hostile offshore environments.Te Switch was born offshore,

starting with an offshore turbineproject for theHundhammerellet wind farmin Norway back in 2003. Telearnings from eight years offield experience have beenbrought into our new designs,says Mkinen.

Te Finnish PMGmanufacturer claims efficienciesthat exceed 97% for the new8.6MW model.

Te Switchs 8.6MW PMG set for load tests

EWEA OFFSHORE 2013

TAKING THE

PLUNGE:

Concretefoundationsbeing installed atRdsand 2


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Photosof the day1) EWEA chief executive Tomas Becker addressing yesterdaysopening session; 2) Te Christmas-inspired Fugro booth; 3) Aworker at the RentOcean (formerly Oceanteam) stand; 4) Executivesenjoy a drink at REpowers stand party; 5) EWEA president Andrew

Garrad speaking yesterday; 6) Siemens Wind Power chief technicalofficer Henrik Stiesdal appearing at the high-level panel yesterdayaernoon

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