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Wind Turbine Blades Week

Wind Turbine Blades Week

Light but strong, flexible but tough, travelling at 120mph while remaining fixed to one spot, enduring massive physical forces and extreme weather conditions, carrying the planet’s net-zero hopes on its elegant frame…

The wind turbine blade is the point where a mass of engineering, policy and environmental ambitions meet, and these ambitions are growing. How can we tackle the need for bigger, better performing, more resilient and more sustainable blades?

To answer this question, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult is holding a week of webinars for showcasing the most innovative thinking in blade design, operations and manufacture. Tune in each lunchtime from Monday 16^th May to find out what is in store for the next generation of blades and put your questions to industry experts.

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SCHEDULE

WEBINAR #1. IN PURSUIT OF MORE ENERGY: Design challenges and choices

Monday 16^th May, 13.30-14.40

Keynote: Tony Quinn, Test and Validation Director, ORE Catapult

Host: Mark Forrest, Blades Research Leader

Guests:

• Dr Sabrina Malpede, Executive Director, ACT Blade
• Andrew Bellamy, Senior Director of Manufacturing Engineering, LM Wind Power

 

WEBINAR #2 COMPOSITES: What is their future in the wind industry?

Tuesday 16^7h May, 13.00 – 14.00

Host: Dr Peter Greaves, Senior Research Structural Engineer, ORE Catapult

Guests:

–              Matthew Bilson, Deputy Director – Energy Innovation Strategy, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

–              Dr Terence Macquart, Lecturer in Aeroelastics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol

 

WEBINAR #3 DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION: What is the future of blade maintenance?

Wednesday 18^th May,13.00 – 14.00

Host: Andrew Macdonald, Director of Offshore Wind Development and Operations, ORE Catapult

Guests:

–              Stacey Rivers, Business Development & Operations Manager, BladeBUG

–              Bill Slatter, CEO, Eleven-i

 

WEBINAR #4 CIRCULARITY: Making wind turbine blades more sustainable

Thursday 19^th May,13.00 – 14.00

Host: Dr Thomas Wildsmith, Business Development Manager, ORE Catapult

Guests:

• Simon Pansart, RWE
• Gustav Fird, Vattenfall
• Lorna Bennet, Energy Transition Lead, ORE Catapult

 

WEBINAR #5 MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CHAIN: How can the UK maximise its opportunities

Friday 20^th May, 13.00-14.00

Host: Cristina Garcia-Duffy, Technical Director, ORE Catapult

Guests:

• Steve Chisholm, Operations Director, Global Energy Group
• Isla Robb, Director, EC20
• John Rimmer, CEO, DuraWind

Register here