EVENT REVIEW
• Oliver Gadget, RES Group – ‘Making sense of your SCADA data’
• Gert Korbijn, Stork Gears & Services – ‘A unique insight into gearbox failures’
• John Beresford, Eon – ‘Delivering maintenance and maximising production – how to have your cake and eat it!’
• Carsten L. Andersen, Danish Windpower Academy – ‘Dynamic OMS of wind turbines – we need generation mindset’
• Michael Wilkinson, GL Garrad Hassan – ‘Measuring real wind turbine reliability – avoid anecdotal evidence and focus on the real sources of poor reliability’
• Clive Newhall, Global Wind Alliance – ‘Spares Club – how a strategic spares strategy accessing OEM parts is viable and available’
• Benn Faulkner, Renewable Advice Ltd – ‘Blades: Looking after your most important asset – how to keep your world turning’
means of physical exercises at relevant times throughout the day – a must for any gathering of professionals who had previously enjoyed an evening of Irish hospitality!
Keynote Address – was presented by the Northern Ireland Government’s Investment Minister, Arlene Foster who gave us an insight into what Northern Ireland, and Belfast in particular, can offer companies and organisations looking to locate and invest in the area.
There then followed various presentations from leaders in their field of expertise which proved to be interesting, informative and above all professionally and delivered with the right amount of appropriate humour.
• Maurice Henderson, SKF (UK) Ltd – ‘The risks of O&M – asset management: process not concept’
• Brent van der Merwe, Swales Skills Centre – ‘Training and education in the renewables sector’
QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION AND NETWORKING BREAKS
Yet again we experienced a well thought out format featuring relatively short presentations broken up by question and answer sessions, comfort breaks and networking opportunities.
ADJOINING EXHIBITION
The opportunity for relevant organisations and companies to exhibit was given and the stands were extremely busy, both in offering more detailed valuable advice, highlighted in the conference proper, as well as providing information on their relevant products and services.
EVENT CRITERIA AND REASONING
The event is solely for wind turbine owners and operators – presentations must
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contain relevant, interesting and helpful information and cannot be used as a sales pitch.
Kevin and his team are trying to give something back to the industry and the people who are involved in it. The growing number of industry specific and influential delegates shows that this is appreciated.
SUMMARY
With 17 major utility companies represented, Quo Vadis 2011 was the most successful event yet.
We can certainly report that many of the delegates made their feelings known to us personally that the efforts made by Kevin and his team was very much appreciated by the industry generally, as well as what has been achieved in setting in train something which helps the industry as a whole.
FUTURE PUBLICATION INTEREST
Because of Kevin and his team’s efforts to help the industry as a whole and the work of Windpower Renewable Solutions, and the Quo Vadis conference in particular, we will be featuring their progress within future editions.
‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ FEATURE
Our now very popular regional focus featuring ‘an area of excellence in the wind energy industry throughout Europe and beyond’ will centre on Northern Ireland in a future edition and we look forward to the region’s contributions. This will also include the Northern Ireland Science Park and Titanic Quarter because of the general similarities to the wind energy industry in ‘big engineering’ and ‘green technologies’
GLOBAL WIND ALLIANCE
We will also be featuring the work of the Global Wind Alliance, a membership association which was set up to help overcome some of the issues and problems encountered in the wind energy industry.
Windpower Renewable Solutions www.windpower-renewable-
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