25 – 27 AUGUST 2020 | BREMEN, DORINT HOTEL, GERMANY

20+ SPEAKERS | 6 ROUND TABLES | PANEL DISCUSSION | 4 WORKSHOPS | NETWORKING

MINIMIZE LOSSES, INVESTMENT AND COSTS WITH IMPROVED ELECTRICAL DESIGN AND IMPROVED INSTALLATION

Package Manager OSS/ Grid/ Head of Offshore Manager Operations Wind Project Manager Offshore
Asset Manager Offshore Head of Offshore Projects Director Grid Access
Scada; Offshore Wind Park Kaskasi Structures Offshore Substations
 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

THE CONFERENCE AIMS TO INTERACTIVE SESSIONS

Speed Networking | Maximise your networking
Learn how to optimize costs from use cases with HVDC and HVAC platforms and get updated on outcome at this event by participating in these
standardization fast-paced 1-to-1 meetings. Get to know the
other attendees and exchange your business
cards.
Get an update about electrical design in view of 2GW platforms
Panel Discussion | Steer this interactive panel
Get feedback from cable manufacturers about last year’s IEC standard and hear about developments discussion with your questions to our panel of
experts and use the opportunity for further
in AC & DC export cables adapting to 2 GW discussion.

Build a solid understanding of the EPCI scope on substations and discuss installation risks Round Table Discussions | Choose your main
discussion topic and deepen your knowledge in
close dialogue with experts by pointed questions.
Hear about the latest experience with floating technologies and their commercialization
Evening Get-Together | Join our evening
Discover new technologies like hydrogen for future business cases Get-Together and take this opportunity to network
and make new business contacts. Or just to
relax and round off your first conference day.

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 SPEAKERS 2020

Dr. Sven-Brian Müller Marien Ruppert Henrich Quick Thomas Bleikamp Ricardo Rocha
Asset Manager Offshore Asset Manager Head of Offshore Projects Package Manager OSS/Grid/ Head of Offshore
TenneT Offshore GmbH, TenneT TSO, The 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Scada; Offshore Wind Park Kaskasi Structures
Germany Netherlands Germany Innogy SE, Germany EDPR, Spain

Daniele Botrugno Friedrich von Storch Holger Matthiesen Rory Shanahan

Giovanni Battista Picotti
Project Manager Offshore Manager Operations Wind Head of Development Offshore Wind Manager Offshore Wind
Floating Wind Development
Substations Offshore Scandinavia and Baltics The Carbon Trust, UK
Engineer
RTE, France EnBW, Germany RWE Renewables International GmbH,
Equinor, Norway
Germany

Mike Grainger
Jochelle Laguipo Peter Sandeberg Markus Kochmann Jeremy Featherstone
Director Grid Access
Researcher at MaREI Centre HVDC Connections Head of Section Offshore Substations Technology Manager
Siemens, UK
University College Cork, Ireland ABB AB, Sweden DNV GL, Germany JDR Cables, UK

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 SPEAKERS 2020

Grégoire Hébert John Ammentorp Ross Cottam

Ting Sie Chui Stefan Thimm
Technical Manager Country Director Energy Offshore Substations Package
Technical Director Managing Director
Offshore Substation Rambøll AS, Denmark Manager
COWI, UK BWO, Germany
RTE, France EDPR, UK

Wilfred van Bergen Matthias Foehr

Commercial Manager Lead Engineer
Iv-Offshore & Energy, Siemens AG, Germany
The Netherlands

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 CONFERENCE DAY ONE | 25 AUGUST 2020

09:00 Registration & welcome coffee 13:10 Networking luncheon

Who is Who | Discover who else is participating in the conference. The matchmaking picture wall 14:40 Update OTM: Project requirement vs standardization vs modularization
will help you identify who you want to meet at the conference. In cooperation with Mike Grainger, Director Grid Access, Siemens

09:30 Chairman’s opening remarks
Ross Cottam, Offshore Substation Package Manager, EDPR
CHALLENGES IN STANDARDIZATION: HVDC – HVAC
09:40 Keynote | Project experience with the standardization of offshore platforms
• Standardization of HVDC platforms – challenges and lessons learned from the project
• Concept and strategy for cost effective HVDC platform maintenance in view of 2 GW
Dr. Sven-Brian Müller, Asset Manager Offshore, Platforms & Asset Strategy, TenneT Offshore GmbH
Marien Ruppert, Asset Manager, TenneT TSO
10:10 Use Case | Experiences with the standardization of HVAC substations
Ross Cottam, Offshore Substation Package Manager, EDPR
15:10 Advantages and disadvantages of different substation types: Experience from ALBATROS
• Different types and sizes of substations
• Substation as a standard product or individual component
• Tasks of future offshore substation
Friedrich von Storch, Manager Operations Wind Offshore, EnBW
15:40 Safety in substation design
• Translation of results of safety studies (FERA, EERA, SGIA, ESSA, DORA, etc.) to engineering input
• Platform specific safety, including firefighting and fire protection, noise control, etc.
• Implementation of safety prevention measures, including standardization.
Wilfred van Bergen, Commercial Manager, IV Offshore and Energy
16:10 Refreshment break and networking

10:40 Speed Networking | Maximise your networking outcome at this event by participating in these 16:40 Case study | Substructure design for 1.0+GW HVDC substation
fast-paced 1-to-1 meetings. Get to know the other attendees and exchange your business cards. • Current trends on HVDC substations
• Challenges for designing HVDC substations
11:10 Refreshment break and networking • Output from the study
Ting Sie Chui, Technical Director, COWI
11:40 News from certifications and regulation
• Certification – Standards – Security guidelines 17:10 Round Tables
Markus Kochmann, Head of Section Offshore Substations, Renewables Certification, DNV GL
Round Table A | 2GW HVDC GCS
LARGE SCALE OFFSHORE GRID CONNECTION IN VIEW OF 2GW Marien Ruppert, Asset Manager, TenneT TSO

Round Table B | Cost reduction via standardization

12:10 Large scale offshore grid connections in view of 2GW Dr. Sven-Brian Müller, Asset Manager Offshore, Platforms & Asset Strategy, TenneT Offshore GmbH
• Overcoming size and cost challenges of Gigawatt sized HVDC links and platforms
• Moving towards 2 GW and beyond – possible configurations Round Table C | A few ideas for better offshore cabling: Considerations in the planning
• Future platforms - challenges and solutions stage of substations
Peter Sandeberg, HVDC Connections, ABB AB
DEVELOPMENTS IN ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
COST-CONSCIOUS SUBSTATION DESIGN AND CABLING TECHNOLOGY
12:40 Keynote | Engineering and design patterns: Evaluation of design approach harmonization /
17:40 Electrical infrastructure
standards versus tailor-made solutions considering the specific country and its laws & regulations
• Optimization of substation design
• Why it does make sense to deep dive into the question if harmonization/ standardization or
tailor-made designs for Offshore Substations shall be applied w.r.t. costs and risks
• The utilization of selected standards included in a mainly tailormade design will be considered
• Cost reduction by using 66kV wind turbine grid voltage and the result after feasibility study for
Kaskasi at Innogy
Thomas Bleikamp, Package Manager OSS / Grid / SCADA, Offshore Wind Park Kaskasi, Innogy SE

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• Optimized execution model

John Ammentorp, Country Market Director Energy, Rambøll AS

18:10 Carbon Trust’s floating wind joint industry project: Dynamic export cables for
“commercial scale” floating wind
• Challenges of going to ~ 220kV dynamic export cables
• Approach to overcome challenges - Dynamic export cable competition
• Results from initial phase of the project
• Next steps and future outlook for “commercial scale” floating wind
Rory Shanahan, Manager Offshore Wind, The Carbon Trust

18:40 Innovation and approach to offshore DC converter stations

Matthias Foehr, Lead Engineer, Siemens AG

19:10 Chairman’s closing remarks

Ross Cottam, Offshore Substation Package Manager, EDPR

19:15 End of conference day one

19:30 Evening Get-Together | Join our evening Get-Together and take this opportunity to network and
make new business contacts. Or just to relax and round off your first conference day.

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 CONFERENCE DAY TWO | 26 AUGUST 2020

08:30 Registration & welcome coffee 12:40 Floating and subsea substations: Roadmap towards sustainable innovation
• Studies on floating and subsea substations
09:00 Chairman’s opening remarks • New solutions and scenarios
Ross Cottam, Offshore Substation Package Manager, EDPR • Ready for serial production?
Daniele Botrugno, Project Manager Offshore Substations, RTE
ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENTS IN 13:10 Networking luncheon
CABLING TECHNOLOGY
09:10 Keynote | Kriegers Flak combined grid solutions – real life experience of a hybrid interconnector
EPCI SCOPE ON SUBSTATIONS: INSTALLATION OPPORTUNITIES
• Principles of the first hybrid interconnector in offshore wind AND RISKS
• Challenges on the way to make the project a success
• Experience from the teething phase of the interconnector 14:40 Panel discussion | Risks in manufacturing and installation: Experience, assessment & reduction
Dr. Henrich Quick, Leiter Projekte Offshore, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH • What can go wrong during the construction of a power substations?
• How to manage risk in construction?
09:40 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm Doggerbank • Error potential in manufacturing: Are the current IEC standards sufficient?
• One of the four Doggerbank projects: Cabling of hundreds of kilometres of both inter-array and • Successful processing and how to minimize risks for all participants?
export cables – onshore electrical infrastructure Holger Matthiesen, Head of Development Offshore Wind Scandinavia and Baltics, RWE Renewables
Speaker to be announced International GmbH ;
Ting Sie Chui, Technical Director, COWI
10:10 Experience with the new IEC standard for submarine array cables
• New IEC 63026 array cable standard (2019) and its implications FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
• Interaction with Cigre TB 722 (2018) on recommendations for additional cable testing Hydrogen in feasibility studies
Jeremy Featherstone, Technology Manager - HV and Renewables, JDR Cables
15:10 The hydrogen opportunity
10:40 Refreshmend break and networking • Hydrogen as a future technology in offshore wind
• UK and Germany can be “Hydrogen driver”
11:10 Round Tables Stefan Thimm, Managing Director, BWO (Association of German Offshore Wind Operators)

Table A | Offshore substation design in view of power 2 gas 15:40 Refreshment break and networking
Thomas Bleikamp, Package Manager OSS / Grid / SCADA, Offshore Wind Park Kaskasi, Innogy SE
16:10 Feasability project: Offshore green hydrogen production
Table B | Design philosophies and impact on operational costs
• Offshore substation hydrogen production roadmap
Table C | Life extension of substations • Integration with eco-marine solutions
• Multi-purposes and benefits for the community
Daniele Botrugno, RTE
FLOATING TECHNOLOGY: ON THE EDGE OF COMMERCIALIZATION
16:40 Green hydrogen storage for offshore wind energy
11:40 Update on floating wind markets and projects • The importance of energy storage like hydrogen
• Equinor‘s experience developing and operating floating offshore wind farms • Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Integrated System (OWHIS) as an innovative solution to storage
• Global potential of floating offshore wind    problem for wind electricity via green hydrogen production
• Pathway to commercialization of  floating offshore wind  • Opportunity to penetrate the hydrogen market– using hydrogen as a decarbonization tool for
Giovanni Battista Picotti, Floating Wind Development Engineer, Equinor various sectors e.g. industry and transport.
• Is this economically feasible - do the benefits outweigh the costs?
12:10 500 MW South Korean Floater: EDPR project Jochelle Laguipo, Researcher, MaREI Centre, University College Cork
• Development of a 500MW floating wind farm off Ulsan, South Korea
• Floating technology: Use of a semi-submersible foundation with buoyancy columns 17:10 Chairman’s closing remarks
ballasted by water Ross Cottam, Offshore Substation Package Manager, EDPR
Ricardo Rocha, Head of Offshore Substructures, EDPR
17:20 End of conference day two

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 WORKSHOP DAY | 27 AUGUST 2020

08:30 Registration for Workshop A

A ENGINEERING AND DESIGN PATTERNS: EVALUATION OF DESIGN APPROACH HARMONIZATION

09:00 • Standards versus tailor-made solutions: Cost drivers and saving potential
- • Why it does make sense to deep dive into the question if harmonization/standardization or tailor-made designs for Offshore Substations shall be applied w.r.t. costs and risks
• The utilization of selected standards included in a mainly tailor-made design will be considered
11:00
• Cost reduction by using 66kV wind turbine grid voltage and the result after feasibility study for Kaskasi at innogy

Thomas Bleikamp, Package Manager OSS / Grid / SCADA, Offshore Wind Park Kaskasi, Innogy SE

11:00 Refreshment break and registration for Workshop B

B PROJECT EXPERIENCE WITH THE STANDARDIZATION OF OFFSHORE PLATFORMS

11:30 • Standardization of HVDC platforms
- • Challenges and lessons learned from the project
• Concept and strategy for cost effective HVDC platform maintenance in view of 2 GW
13:30
Dr. Sven-Brian Müller, Asset Manager Offshore, Platforms & Asset Strategy, TenneT Offshore GmbH

13:30 Networking luncheon and registration for Workshop C

C USE CASE: KRIEGERS FLAK COMBINED GRID SOLUTIONS

• Principles of the first hybrid interconnector in offshore wind
14:30
• Challenges on the way to make the project a success
- • Experience from the teething phase of the interconnector
16:30
Henrich Quick, Head of Offshore Projects, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH

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16:30 Coffee break and registration for WS D

D HVAC: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL APPROACH

• Discussion for a shared standardized approach to SLD and electrical architecture
17:00 • Harmonization of HV equipment requirements
- • Which expectations for LCOE reduction and social value?
19:00
Grégoire Hébert, Technical Manager Offshore Substations, RTE

19:00 End of workshop day

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