Wednesday, 4 December 2024 | 15:30 - 18:00
Grand Challenges in Wind Renewable Energy: from technology and sustainability to social acceptance and economics
What is on the agenda?
15:30 Welcome and introduction- Francecso Basile, TRI 2 Lead Expert (Ministry of University and Research, Italy)
Session 1: Emerging R&I challenges for offshore energy technologies
Moderated by Ignacio Cruz, TRI 2. Head of Wind Energy Unit, CIEMAT. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain
15:40 – 16:00 Grand Challenges in wind energy technology
Paul Veers. Senior Research Fellow. National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL
16:00 – 16:20 Wind energy coexistence. Environmental co-design
Cris Hein. Senior Project Leader. National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL. Operating Agent of IEA Wind TCP Task 34 “WREN: Environmental Effects of Wind Energy”
16:20 - 16:40 Social acceptance of wind energy.
Suzanne Tegen. Project leader. Colorado State University and NREL. Operating Agent of IEA Wind TCP Task 28 “Social Acceptance of Wind Energy”
16:40 - 17:00 Expected trend of wind power generation costs and value
(recording) Michael Taylor – Independent Consultant on the Energy Transition
Session 2: Q&A - Moderated by Ignacio Cruz
17:00 Q&A
17:25 Short pitches from CETP projects
NextGen – Liselotte Ulvgard (Hagnesia Wind)
HYBRID WIND – Marcin Luczak (Politechnika Gdanska)
WIND-DIGIPOWER – Massimo Bongiorno (Chalmers University of Technology)
EuroWindWakes – Bernhard Stoevesandt (Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems)
OMRES – Markos Asprou (University of Cyprus)
17:50 Wrap up - Francesco Basile
18:00 End of the meeting
The invited speakers will help framing the challenges from an international and EU perspective.
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