Webinar: Introduction to Floating Offshore Wind (ELBE Alliance)

29. april 2021 – 9:30 – 11:30 Online

Subject: Webinar — Introduction to Floating Offshore Wind (ELBE Alliance)

We are glad to invite you to a training introductory session to Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) hosted by the ELBE alliance. The webinar, which will take place the next 29th of April at 9:30 CEST, is organised with the support of the expert consultancy Tractebel Engineering (ENGIE Group). This event will help companies that aim to diversify into floating wind to understand the technical challenges of this technology as well as its market outlook.

With an expected duration of two hours, the agenda will be the following:

09:30 Brief presentation of the ELBE Alliance

09:45 Introduction to Floating Offshore Wind (FOW):

FOW context & technology

FOW industry

FOW key challenges

10:45 Use case: WindFloat Atlantic floating windfarm

11:10 Q&A

11:30 End of the Webinar

(The webinar will be held via ZOOM)

The ELBE Alliance gathers seven leading European clusters in Blue Energy. It aims to contribute positioning Europe as the world technological and industrial leader in Blue Energy by supporting internationalisation of European SMEs and other relevant stakeholders, with a focus in North America (US, Canada) and Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan).

Tractebel Engineering is part of the ENGIE Group, a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. At the helm of the Energy Transition, Tractebel provides a full range of engineering and consulting services throughout the life cycle of its clientsu2019 projects, including design and project management.

This activity is part of the ELBE PLUS project (GA — 951148), which has received funding from the European Unionu2019s COSME Programme (2014-2020)