Optimising Wind Farms In Cold Climates

Registration 

Chair's Opening Remarks 

Ville Lehtomäki, Senior Scientist, VTT

INVESTING IN ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE COLD CLIMATE WIND FARMS AND TASK19 RECOMMENDED PRACTICES

Contract Considerations For Non-Standard Projects

Operating Wind Farms In The Wintertime In A Port Environment

Winter in Belgium has the typical character of a moderate sea climate.  The temperature changes are tempered by the location next to the North Sea and the presence of the Gulf Stream. This means that summers are rather cool and winters are mild. The night temperature during the winter period from November till March is often around 0°C.

These specific climate conditions, together with the location of the wind parks in the middle of the port activities, have influenced strongly the way in which Vleemo (right bank of the river Scheldt) and Wind aan de Stroom (left bank) operate their wind parks during the winter period.  Both technical and management aspects are covered in the presentation.

Jan Winters, Strategy Manager, Vleemo 

PANEL DISCUSSION: TASK 19: Recommended Practices For Sites Affected By Icing Events

• Integrating icing issues into wind resource assessment practices

• Walking you through the conversation from choosing the right ice instruments to actual energy loss prevention

• Addressing the need for greater understanding and familiarity with the icing phenomenon

• Using recommendations for a better validation analysis

Matthew Wadham-Gagnon, Business Development Manager, Technocentre éolien

Pieter Jan Jordaens, Business Development Manager, OWI-Lab

Mark Zagar, Senior Specialist, Energy Meteorology, Vestas

Dr Saskia Bourgeois, Senior Expert Wind Energy, Meteotest

Moderator : 

Ville Lehtomäki,  Senior Scientist,  VTT

Networking Lunch 

DEALING WITH THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF ICING EVENTS

Improved And Required Ice Loss Assessment Accuracy 

• How to make most benefit from using microscale modelling for ice loss estimate
• Use cases of pad-level modelling of icing
• Limits and obstacles on the way to perfect icing prediction

Mark Zagar,  Senior Specialist, Energy Meteorology,  Vestas

Perspectives On Cold Climatic Testing For Product Development And Validation

• Testing of individual components to full systems
  • Small to large/full-scale climatic testing facilities
• Specialized testing facilities
  • Corrosive environments
  • Static and cyclic temperature control
  • Over-icing
• Case studies for different climatic testing scenarios
  • Various size scales and environments
  • Supporting product development to design reliable and robust products

Power Curve Verification In Cold Climate

• Verification based on the new IEC 61400-1-12 standard

• Comparison of different operating strategy for wind turbines in cold climate and impact on the amount of power loss due to icing

Networking Break And Afternoon Refreshments 

Increasing Turbine's Availability From Moderate To Severe Icing Conditions 

• Allowing efficient continuous turbine operation through ice protection systems 
• Preventing stoppages due to icing
• How to achieve low operating costs and high availability
• Practical case studies from Sweden and Canada

Lasse Hietikko,  Project Manager,  Wicetec

Consideration Of De-Icing Systems In Energy Yield Assessments

• Overview of the impact of de-icing systems on the energy yield
• Balancing heating cost and increased energy yield
• Contractual mitigation and verification

CATCH THE BOX! Standardisation Of Practices And Ice Detection Systems

This session has been designed for audience participation and knowledge sharing with no excuses! Instead of slowly passing around a stick microphone, simply throw the soft Catchbox to the first person in the room who’s meeting your eyes!

Delegates are encouraged to come along with ideas, comments and provocative questions for their peers. This is a self-moderated session so there won’t be such thing as hiding in corners!

Speed Networking

Realising the importance of connecting with your peers, we organised a moderated networking session where delegates are prompted to meet others in brief 3-minute rounds. The moderator will be keeping track of time and announcing participants when to switch partners.

Chair’s Closing Remarks 

End Of Day 1

Drinks Reception and Canapes

Networking Dinner *

*Please note this is a self-funded dinner. The Windpower Monthly team will be only facilitating the booking for the evening.