Contents In this issue 26 6 News in numbers The vital stats impacting the market.
8 Plastic shipping covers Reef Industries
World outlook
10 The way the wind blows Gary King speaks to Giles Dickson, CEO for Wind Europe, and Joseph Tetlow, senior political advisor at Green Alliance, about the future of British wind.
13 DAVI: A key partner for CS Wind DAVI
14 The efficiency holding wind power together Pemamek
Offshore
16 Pivot to the future A Barcelona-based start-up, X1 Wind, has begun offshore construction on a self-aligning, floating wind power prototype called PivotBuoy. Mae Losasso speaks with João Neves, strategy and business development at X1 Wind, to learn more.
Onshore 21 An onshore thing
The onshore wind industry faces a number of challenges, from global crises like inflation, the lingering
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effects of Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and the huge increase in raw material prices – not to mention others that are problems unique to the sector. Nicholas Kenny speaks with James Robottom, head of onshore wind at RenewableUK, and Aaron Barr, global head of onshore wind energy at Wood Mackenzie, to learn more.
Technology
26 Vertical takes off A new design tool from Sandia National Laboratories could help accelerate the development of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). Nicholas Kenny speaks with Brandon Ennis, offshore wind technical lead at Sandia National Laboratories, to learn about the benefits this tool can provide, how Sandia used this new technology to design a cost-effective floating VAWT system – and what it means for the future of the industry.
Operations & maintenance 29 Power to act
As the energy crisis rumbles on, renewables are increasingly important as nations search for alternatives to Russian oil and gas. However, the green energy sector has also found itself to be a target for cyber criminals and, worse still, state actors. Is enough being done to protect the sector and its customers? Andrew Tunnicliffe speaks with Ana
Kosareva, an energy consultant with Ørsted and former chair of WindEurope’s Cybersecurity Task Force, about the threat landscape.
Special report
32 Electrolyse the world The combination of offshore wind and renewable hydrogen could prove crucial in fuelling the green revolution. But between transportation challenges and the pressures to sharpen infrastructure, getting electrolysis-made hydrogen from wind farms to consumers is far from straightforward. Andrea Valentino talks to Poul Skjaerbaek, chief innovation and product officer at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Danielle Lane, UK country manager at Vattenfall, to learn more.
HSE
35 Barriers to success With the North Sea becoming an increasingly popular site for wind farms, industry insiders have started looking at ways to stop similar incidents in future. Enter MARIN, a Dutch maritime research institute that has tested several barriers aimed at preventing collisions between ships and offshore turbines. Andrea Valentino speaks to Bas Buchner, president; Yvonne Koldenhof, senior project manager and team leader; and William Otto, senior project manager; at MARIN to understand the results of their tests.
Events
38 The cradle of wind energy As fossil fuel markets show themselves to be volatile and unreliable, it falls on the European wind sector to deliver clean, homegrown, dependable and affordable energy across the continent. The WindEurope 2023 annual event aims to reinforce the wind industry’s ability to deliver on these goals.
42 Turkey’s powerful clean energy technologies fair arrives Wenergy Clean Energy Technologies Exhibition and Conference 2023
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