Programme of today

15h Welcome on board! 15h15 Presentations by

Dr. Jos Beurskens, ECN Dr. Stefan Lammens, ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV Hans Vercammen, Stefan Milis, Sirris – OWI-Lab

16h20 Arrival at DP World 16h40 Official inauguration of the climate chamber by Kris Peeters, minister-president of Flanders 16h50 Visits to climate chamber, networking, walking dinner 21h30 End (shuttles back to parking from 18h onwards)

Offshore Wind Infrastructure

Application Lab (OWI-Lab)

For efficient and reliable offshore wind energy.

Sirris

Mission: To help companies implement

technological innovations

Federation for the technology industry

Collective centre of the technology industry • Non-profit organisation • Industry owned

Sirris locations

Leuven Mechatronics Technology Coaching Sirris Leuven Composites Application Lab

Hasselt Materials Engineering

Production Technology Smart Coating Application Lab

Charleroi Additive Manufacturing Bio- manufacturing platform

Brussels Software Engineering & ICT Technology Coaching

Ghent Materials Engineering Materials Research Cluster Gent

Liège Additive Manufacturing

Materials Engineering Sirris Microfabrication Application Lab

Antwerp Offshore Wind Infrastructure

Application Lab

4th Sirris Application Lab

Sirris Leuven Composites Application Lab

Sirris Microfabrication Application Lab

Sirris Smart Coating Application Lab

Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab

“The Sirris Application labs focus on technological themes that will be crucial for the future of our companies

in the coming years”.

Why OWI-Lab?

1) The offshore wind energy market fast expanding !

Interesting alternative energy technology Grid parity forecasted in 2030 by IEA (the point that the cost of offshore wind energy

becomes equal to the cost of utility power from coal, natural gas, nuclear)

EWEA 2011 EWEA 2011

EU MARKET FORECAST: The coming 4 years 12 GW will be installed offshore, this is 3 times the amount of what has been realized over the last 20 years.

Belgian pioneering at the North sea Belgium committed to realize 13% of energy mix out of renewable energy 1/3 of this Offshore wind energy

- planned offshore wind capacity = 1,6 Giga Watt -

Phase 1, 2 and 3: 325,20 MW Annual generation for 600.000 inhabitants

Phase 1 = 165 MW Annual generation for 175.000 inhabitants Phase 2 = + 165MW

Coming up: Northwind, Phase 3 C-Power, Norther, Rental, Seastar, Mermaid

50km

2) Creation of jobs and export opportunities

40 % of Belgian wind energy jobs are related to ‘offshore wind’ Strong potential growth

Actual figures – Source: Agoria

3) Innovation needed to make this industry a succes

Not so much datasets yet available (or accessible) to optimize components Operations and maintenance cost needs to go down to reach grid parity Harsh environmental conditions (wind loads, temperatures, salt,…) Bigger turbines (12MW in design) ; Bigger means better design

1352 - 1521 (?) 2015

What does OWI-lab do? Investing 5.5M € in test - and monitoring

infrastructure 4 investment programs

Platform to initiate industry driven local and European research projects

Innovation projects with / for companies in the wind power sector

Development of R&D infrastructure Operationalize infrastructure Expansion of the

research infrastructure Innovation projects

Introduction OWI-Lab

Proposal OWI-project submitted to the

Flemish government

Kick-Off OWI-Project

2008

2010

Launch OWI-Lab Platform

01/2012

Inauguration OWI-Lab Test Facility 24 Companies / universities participating in user group Kick-off feasibility study Flanders Wind Farm Test Site

10/2012

Kick-off Shared R&D project

OptiWind (SBO)

09/2012

Growing industrial involvement

2008

2012

Founding members

Involved partners

5.5 mio € investments in state-of-the-art test & monitoring infrastructure

Stationary and Floating LIDAR

(FLIDAR™ )

Wind turbine component

Test Lab with large climate chamber (Temperature testing)

Remote measurement & monitoring

systems (SHM & CMS)

Development of tools for

smart O&M

1

2

Large climate chamber - why

Testing, simulation and validation are key to improve reliability of WTG components Model validation / prototype testing Reduction of design cycle Offshore / remote testing = €€€€€ Offshore / remote reparation = €€€€€€€€€€€

Unique test infrastructure in EU

Components up to 150 ton

-60°C to +60°C

+60°C to -40°C air in 1 hour

Large cold climatic test chamber

3

What is next?

SBO

OWI + “expanding the

lab”

Flanders Wind Farm (Offshore test site)

Eerste project TINA-fonds