• What we aimed to achieve with five years of research on the topic in collaboration with SGRE
• Model-scale experiments of ice-induced vibrations of offshore wind turbines
• Should the guidance on ice-induced vibrations in standards be refocused?

• Questions and challenges related to sea ice encountered during five years of

 research and consultancy

• The gaps in guidance in standards and how to close those with(out) more data

• Ice loads from a wind farm perspective instead of individual structures

Share your experiences, ideas, questions and thoughts with your peers. How should future

offshore grids look like? How far are we with new concepts for energy hubs?

• How will DC grids of the future look like?
• Innovative approaches for a more flexible energy transfer
• Moving from point to point connection towards meshed grids
• Interconnection of multiple HVDC links
• Energy Islands as a new electricity hub
• Main challenges for project development and construction

• Design criteria and seal engineering

• Sealing off grouted connections

• Corrosion protection for bolted L-Flanges

• Applications to other connection types

• Reliability of selected tightening methods

• Estimation of preload losses

• Background to the newest developments in IEC 61400-6/AMD1

• Experimental fatigue analysis of corroded welded components

• Surface geometry changes due to corrosion

• Consideration of the surface geometry changes via 3D scans

• Application of replica technique for mapping the surface geometry of existing

 offshore structures

• Determination of stress concentration due to corrosion in welded and non-welded

 components

• Consideration of stress concentrations in local fatigue analysis

• Standardize

• Simplify and de-risk installation

• Reduce costs

• Overview of significant changes for bottom-fixed
• OSSRequirements for floating substations
• Phase 2 of Joint Industry Project

Choose one of the following topics:

Table A - Offshore substation design in view of power 2 gas

Table B - Life extension of substations

Table C - Subsea substations

• Increase of notch class of double-V butt weld from FAT class 80 to FAT class 190

• Elimination of fatigue as governing load case in the design of offshore windtubine foundations

• 600% increase in lifetime of monopiles

• About 30% mass savings of monopiles

• Classification of relevant fatigue design curves for offshore wind foundation application

• Review of the historical data and assumptions for generation of the existing design curves

• Analysis of the large-thickness fatigue test data

• The effect of S-N curve slope change on design and life assessment of foundations

• Other considerations for future research and innovation

• Comparison of production method of jacket nodes with robots

• Characterization of the fatigue strength of the joints

• For fatigue critical structures, application of robot welding can lead to a mass decrease

 of 10 to 20%

• Universal Potential of Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen: Exploring the global

 potential of offshore wind to facilitate green hydrogen production.

• Integration Challenges and Synergies: Identifying technical barriers and synergies

 between offshore wind energy and hydrogen production on a global scale.

• Economic Impacts and Opportunities: Discussing the worldwide economic benefits,

 including job creation, energy security, and regional development.

• Policy Landscape and Public Perception: Analysing the global policy environment and

 public engagement necessary to advance green hydrogen initiatives.

• Strategies for Global Decarbonisation: Highlighting the critical role of offshore wind in

 driving the global decarbonization effort through green hydrogen.

• A presentation aimed to provide a quick overview in system challenges of offshore hydrogen

• Key elements and their size in different system arrangements

• Key elements in control of the system in wind variability

• Off grid or grid connected considerations

• Validation of hydrogen systems for offshore application

• Ramp up of Electrolyzer manufacturing capacity

• Relying on established standards and supply chain for offshore wind

• Floatgen – First France’s offshore wind turbine

• Floatgen remarkable records

• Key learnings of nearly 6 years offshore operations

• A unique platform to implement innovation and R&D projects

Alberto Peña, Head of Business Development, BW Ideol

• Development of floating offshore wind in China
• Challenges overview of floating offshore wind turbine design
• Investigation on technical solution of FOWT prototype design

• Industrialized manufacturing of a floating offshore wind foundation

• What does fast assembly and launch mean

• How does the structure cope with severe weather

• What is the result of +2 years operation

• Outline of the challenges in structural design of floating substructures (effectively

 managing coupled analysis and detailed FEA in a comprehensive and efficient process)

• Description of existing technical approaches

• Presentation of Ramboll’s innovative GIS design approach

• Comment on interface with WTG OEMs as part of the process

• Discussion on implications of the design process to overall project schedule and risk

• Energy Hubs

• System integration

• Offshore electrolysis

• Substation design

• Business case analysis

• Risk and win for operators vs. OEMs