GOING DUTCH CONFERENCE
GOINGDUTCH CONFERENCE
“We want to create an open dialogue between Dutch and British companies to encourage a fruitful partnership and facilitate growth on both sides of the North Sea,” Pim Waldeck, Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, told 150 business leaders at the sell-out event.
“As neighbours, we may not have common borders but we share the rolling waves of the North Sea.We can share the challenges of the future.”
The Going Dutch conference hosted by the Dutch Embassy and co-organised by EEEGR (the East of England Energy Group) at the Møller Centre, Cambridge, also featured four specialist sessions with expert panelists discussing turbine design, foundations, port infrastructure and innovations in the supply chain.
The event also included more than 300 ‘speed dating’ sessions which allowed delegates to talk head-to-head and build relationships with major companies like
Eneco, RES Group, Siemens, Vattenfall, KBR, RWE Innogy and Ballast Nedam.
David Charlesworth, senior external relations manager for The Crown Estate outlined opportunities in the wind energy industry with licences to produce 49GW of windpower in UK waters – 32GW of them from the Round 3 agreements.
The latest licences would raise new challenges for the sector as they moved into much deeper waters and bigger sites, such as Dogger Bank, which was half the size of Wales.
Chris Sherrington, Eneco offshore director, said they were looking for a ‘happy marriage’ between the cultures and companies of the two countries with demands on a supply chain, which would include everything from surveys, vessels, ports, cables, to turbine design, construction, maintenance, support services and training.
Andy Kinsella, chief executive of Mainstream Renewable Power UK, warned that climate change meant the development of wind energy was imperative, but the scale of what was required made it difficult to imagine how it could be financed.
Wind Energy however did offer huge opportunities for the industry and reinforced the necessity for the European super grid - to move electricity, generated all around the continent, and make it self- sufficient.
John Best, EEEGR chief executive, said that initially he had been proud and delighted to be asked to work with the Dutch Embassy to stage the conference: “Now that we have delivered such a vibrant event, I can say I am thrilled. It was much more than talk. Business was being done; the British and the Dutch were trading.”
The Dutch Embassy
www.dutchembassyuk.org
EEEGR
www.eeegr.com
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Working together: EEEGR chief executive John Best and Pim Waldeck with business leaders
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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