Decommissioning: Become A Part of It
POM West Vlaanderen, Blue Cluster, Belgian Offshore Platform, VWEA and EDORA warmly invite you to a seminar on wind turbine decomissioning and repowering on Wednesday 13 November in Ostend.
This event mainly focuses on companies, organisations and governments that are part of the value chain of the wind energy sector and the recycling industry. The main topics of the event are:
- Insights in future material flows;
- Offshore wind turbine decommissioning scenarios;
- Onshore wind industry success stories;
- Continuous matchmaking with companies from the entire value chain.
The event will be concluded with a networking reception.
Check out the detailed programme
| 09:00 | Reception and coffee |
| 09:30 | Welcome speech Geert Dangrea (CEO at Bluebridge) |
| 09:40 | Offshore decommissioning in Europe: state of play, challenges and opportunities Gian Marco Gioffrè (Sustainability Advisor at WindEurope) |
| 09:50 | Overview of the Belgian decommissioning plan & key milestones of the OWiDEX and Ready4Decom Projects Rebecca Verhaeghe (Project Manager at POM West-Vlaanderen) |
| 10:00 | Winds of change: charting a course through decommissioning possibilities and innovations Bert Conings (Senior Engineer Energy Transition at SIRRIS) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 | Processing of decom materials: frequent requirements and possible obstacles Gwen Dons (Policy Maker at OVAM) |
| 11:20 | Accounting for biodiversity when decommissioning offshore wind farms Thomas Kerkhove (researcher at Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences) |
| 11:30 | Bridging the Gap: Public engagement through informative interaction POM West-Vlaanderen |
| 11:40 | Conclusions and next steps for the projects Rebecca Verhaeghe (Project Manager at POM West-Vlaanderen) |
| 12:00 | Lunch & partner plaza (mini exhibition) |
| End-of-Life Alignment: Decommissioning for Sustainable Recycling – success stories | |
| 13:30 | The importance of decommissioning and recycling of wind farms Pandel discussion with Bérénice Crabs (Secretary General at BOP), Maarten Dedeyne (director at VWEA) en Fawaz Al Bitar (managing director at EDORA) Moderation by Luc Pauwels |
| 13:45 | Reprocover’s journey: transforming composite wind turbine blades into sustainable solutions Charles Göbbels (Managing Director at Reprocover) |
| 14:00 | Recycle cables for a sustainable electrification Carlos Barbosa (Recycling Development Manager at NEXANS) |
| 14:15 | Machine engineering in the recycling value chain Dirk Traen (Managing Director at Sicoplan) and Uwe Wagner (Managing Director at Pallmann GmbH) |
| 14:30 | Onshore wind turbines decommissioning and valorisation Oxana Danilevich (Managing Director at Antro Group) |
| 14:45 | Logistical cases Shauny Ammeloot & Ilse Verdonck (experts at Multimodaal.Vlaanderen) |
| 15:15 | How to become part of wind farm decommissioning as a company? Philippe Martens (Valorisation Manager at Blue Cluster) |
| 15:35 | How to get started: the 4 best circular strategy canvasses Michiel Mol (Business Director Industrials at Made) |
| 16u00 | Conclusions & next steps Luc Pauwels |
| 16u15 | Partner Plaza & networking reception with standing buffet |
Practical information
Participation in this event is free, but prior registration is required.
It is not yet possible to register for this event. Once this is the case, a registration link will be added to this page.
Background
Decommissioning: Become a Part of It falls within the scope of Ready4Decom and OWiDEx, two projects facilitated by Blue Cluster that deal with decommissioning.
Ready4decom strives to develop a clear and supported strategy for the dismantling of both on- and offshore wind turbines. In doing so, there is close cooperation with the various stakeholders of the quadrupel helix.
OWiDEx aims for a clear overview of the state-of-the-art, an expertise platform that is available to policymakers and the industry and a dismantling plan that allows policymakers and the industry to make better-informed decisions.
