Offshore Wind Power USA 2013 Agenda

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February 26-27 2013:  2 day senior level ‘Offshore Wind Power Leaders’ congress:

Day One, February 26 2013 

9.00 Chair's Opening Remarks

Brian Redmond, Managing Director, Paragon Energy Holdings

9:15 Opening Address: 

Secretary Ken Salazar, US DoI 

9:35 Keynote Session:  Where Are We Now and Where Are We Heading?

• Will 2013 be the turning point for offshore wind power in the USA?
• What are the next steps for commercial offshore wind leasing?
• Supporting policies and investment to kick-start offshore wind and ocean renewable power development
• Is there a clear political mandate for offshore and marine renewable energy?
• Catalyzing the development of offshore wind power and ocean energy in the US

Tommy P. Beaudreau, Director, BOEM

Dr David Danielson, Assistant Secretary for EERE, US DoE
Michael McLaughlin, Director, OEMR (Office of Energy Market Regulation), FERC
Jim Lanard, President, Offshore Wind Development Coalition

10:45 Networking refreshment break

11:15 What is the Utility Appetite for Offshore Wind Power?

This roundtable discussion will assemble c-level executives and key utilities to discuss offshore wind  power procurement:

• How do utilities forecast the cost of offshore wind?
• What is your offshore wind power strategy?

Moderator:  John Cohen, Vice President Government Affairs, USA, Alstom Renewable Power

Anne Marie McShea, Clean Energy Program Administrator, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJ BPU)

Betty Ann Kane, Chairman, DC Public Service Commission and Member of Board of Directors, NARUC

Guy Chapman, Director - Renewable Research and Program Development, Dominion

12:30 Networking lunch

2:00 Bolstering Investor Confidence in Offshore Wind – Bridging the Gap between Investors and Industry

• New financing structures for offshore wind power
• Bridging the investment gap: will institutional investment give wind projects a needed lift?
• Will we see a greater opportunity for equity than debt?
• Innovative new vehicles and new sources of capital for offshore wind power
• How to secure finance of the scale required?
• European case studies
• The role of the bond market, export credit agencies and insurance companies
• Does having a focused ITC for offshore wind make more sense?
• What tax equity is available and what are the chances of securing investment? What other tax frameworks could be in place?
• Understanding risk in offshore wind power

Bryan Martin, Managing Director, D.E. Shaw Group
Takaki Sakai, Director, Project Finance, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
Hannah Wood, Deputy Project Manager, wpd offshore
Andrew Eckhardt, Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer, KfW-IPEX Bank
Chris Smith, Chief Financial Officer, Cape Wind

3:30 Networking refreshment break

4:00 Is Offshore Wind Power Development Picking up Pace?  Streamlining, Siting, Permitting and Leasing Update

• How to get projects consented – a review of the current consenting processes, issues and potential solutions
• Smart leasing and efficient permitting – key updates
• How will the leasing process fit with DoE funding and state incentives?
• Environment, social acceptance and planning – spatial planning and social acceptance of offshore wind, integrating environmental concerns

Robert A. Marshall, Assistant Commissioner, Sustainability and Green Energy, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Jeff Grybowski, Chief Executive Officer, Deepwater Wind
Catherine Bowes, Senior Manager, New Energy Solutions, NWF
Bill White, Director, Offshore Wind Sector Development, Massachusetts Clean Energy Centere
Robert P. LaBelle, Science Advisor to the Director, BOEM and Federal Co-Chair, NROC (Northeast Regional Ocean Council)

5:30  Case Study:  Next Generation Offshore Wind Turbine Technology – Lowering Costs and Driving Greater Performance

Thomas Mousten, Head of Offshore Wind, Americas, Siemens Energy

5:45 End of Day One and The Offshore Wind Congress Cocktail Party

Day Two, February 27 2013

7.45 Welcome coffee and refreshments

8:00 New Breakfast Briefings:

What Can the US Learn From The German Offshore Wind Power Market?

This exclusive briefing will focus on the current status of German offshore wind power and future targets, with a special focus on economic development potential, manufacturing opportunities, the value chain, case studies of the leading offshore wind farms under construction, grid connection issues and investment in infrastructure and logistics.

Jens Eckhoff, President, German Offshore Foundation

CVA Verification:  New Guideline for the Certification of Offshore Wind Turbines

This briefing will focus on GL Renewables Certification's latest guideline developments for offshore wind turbines and projects. Join us and gain a unique insight into latest testing conditions, safety systems and quality requirements.

Axel Juhnke, Head of Group Project Certification, GL

9:00 Chair's opening remarks

Dr David Bean, Director of Development, PMSS
 
9:15 2013 Presidents Panel: How Near is Offshore Wind?

The past year has seen promising steps forward for offshore wind power in the US.   This panel will assemble the heads of key offshore wind developers active in the US offshore wind market to share their thoughts on where the sector is heading.

• What have been the most significant changes to the sector in recent months and how big an impact have these had?
• Who is leading the race for "wet steel"?
• In which states will we see initial growth?
• What challenges or opportunities are on the horizon for the sector?
• What challenges to legislation are required to kick-start construction and commercial operation?
• Starting small and building up or building at scale: demos vs large-scale? 
• Commercialization, finance and scale-up

Moderator:  Mark del Franco, Editor, North American Windpower

Jim Gordon, President, Cape Wind     
Jeff Grybowski, Chief Executive Officer, Deepwater Wind
Peter Mandelstam, President, Arcadia Offshore
Doug Copeland, Regional Development Manager, EDF Renewable Energy

Robert Gibbs, Vice President, Garden State Offshore Energy and Manager Development - Renewable Energy, PSEG Global
Daniel Cohen, President, Fishermen's Energy of New Jersey

10:45 Networking refreshment break

11:15 The Business Case for Offshore Wind - The Need to Reduce Costs and Risk

• Opportunities, costs and financing
• What are the game changing components that will lower costs?
• Does building at scale mean lower installation costs?
• European case studies
• O&M and reliability

Moderator:  Barry Worthington, Executive Director, USEA

Trine Ingebjorg Ulla, Head of Unconventional Wind Business Development, Renewable Energy, Statoil
Frank Coenen, Chief Executive Officer, Northwind
Aaron Smith, Technical Analyst, Offshore Wind Program, NREL
Dr Habib Dagher, Director, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, University of Maine and Principal Investigator, DeepCwind
Sam Park, Head of Construction, RES Offshore

Johan Sandberg, Head of Department for Renewable Energy, DNV Kema

12:45 Networking lunch including roundtable discussions and speed networking

2:00 Cabling, Transmission and Grid Interconnection

• Transmission and subsea grids - developing infrastructure to bring offshore wind power to the grid
• Grid interconnection and funding - who will pay for required infrastructure?
• Grid and system integration
• Regional and economic realities of transmission and offshore wind development, including inter-state co-operation

Robert Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic Wind Connection
Pierre Bernard, Managing Partner, Bernard Energy Advocacy

Lionel Chailleux, Power Generation Commercial Director, Alstom Grid

Laurent Demortier, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, CG

3:25 Networking refreshment break

3:55  First Generation Offshore Wind USA:  Setting the Vision 

How can we start to better leverage the advancements to date to accelerate market development, cost reduction and technology innovation of first generation offshore wind projects?

• Increasing and understanding local content through industry asset mapping
• Technology and financial innovation on reduction of LCOE
• Impact of regulated and vertically-integrated utilities and implications on how regional markets develop
• Case study:  unique positioning of the Great Lakes – proximity to load and transmission centers, O&M, availability of different installation concepts

Chris Hart, Founder, Optimum Offshore Wind Energy Systems
Fara Courtney, Executive Director, USOWC
Lorry Wagner, President, LEEDCo
Brian O'Hara, President, South Eastern Coastal Wind Coalition

Stephen von Vogt, Chief Executive Officer, Maine Marine Composites

5:00  Floating Offshore Wind:   Prototype Deployment and Prospects for North America

• Case study:  WindFloat in Portugal
• Technology, deployment and performance
• Construction and deployment philosophies and how they correspond to cost, risk and weather related delay reductions for installations around the world  
• Cost and risk reduction advantages and prospects for North America

Alla Weinstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Principle Power

5:15 Chair's closing remarks

For speaker enquiries:  

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