Speakers
Our guest speakers covered a range of topics, including technological choices for transmission grids and resulting impact of offshore wind industry to the environment. See their profiles below. Dovile Greblikiene, Ellex Valiunas
Ellex Valiunas, a member of Ellex, a circle of leading Baltic law firms, is the largest specialised legal team in Lithuania, with a solid portfolio of cross-border experience both in international projects and landmark local deals in the region, since its formation in 1992. With nearly 200 legal professionals and the broadest variety of practice areas, the firm is ideally positioned to provide each client with top expertise and in-depth specialised legal services.
Website Yuen Cheung, Head of Offshore Wind, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (UK Government)
Building a stronger, greener future by fighting coronavirus, tackling climate change, unleashing innovation and making the UK a great place to work and do business.
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Inès Tunga, Renewables Practice Manager, Energy Systems Catapult
Energy Systems Catapult was set up to accelerate the transformation of the UK’s energy system and ensure UK businesses and consumers capture the opportunities of clean growth. We are an independent, not-for-profit centre of excellence that bridges the gap between industry, government, academia and research. We take a whole-systems view of the energy sector, helping us to identify and address innovation priorities and market barriers, in order to decarbonise the energy system at the lowest cost.
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Kate Freeman, Managing consultant, BVG Associates
BVG Associates provides strategy consulting in renewable energy. We help our clients to do new things, think in new ways and solve tough problems. Our practical thinking integrates the business, economics and technology of renewable energy generation systems. We combine deep wind industry knowledge with skills gained in the world of business consulting. Our purpose is to help our clients succeed in a sustainable global electricity generation mix founded on renewables.
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Maksym Semenyuk, Consultant Energy Markets, DNV
DNV is a global quality assurance and risk management company. Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, we enable our customers to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. We provide independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas, power and renewables industries as well as classification, technical assurance and software. Operating in more than 100 countries, our experts are dedicated to helping customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.
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Rick Campbell, Head of Offshore Markets, Natural Power
Natural Power is an independent consultancy and service provider that supports a global client base in the effective delivery of a wide range of renewable energy projects, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, renewable heat, energy storage and other offshore technologies. It has a global reach, employing more than 400 staff across 12 international offices. Its experience extends across all phases of the project life cycle from initial feasibility, through construction to operations and throughout all stages of the transaction cycle.
Website Robin Newman, Consultant Oceanographer, Fugro
Fugro is the world’s leading Geo-data specialist, collecting and analysing comprehensive information about the Earth and the structures built upon it. Through integrated data acquisition, analysis and advice, we unlock insights from Geo-data to help our clients design, build and operate their assets in a safe, sustainable and efficient manner.
Robin Newman is a Consultant Oceanographer in Fugro’s Metocean division. He has supported offshore renewable energy projects for over two decades, acquiring, processing interpretating large, complex oceanographic and meteorological data sets to feed into project design, construction and operations. He was involved in the earliest data collection exercises to support the first offshore wind farm developments in the UK and has worked on all the subsequent rounds of offshore wind across the UK and extended this work to Europe the USA, Asia Pacific. In addition to his work in the offshore renewables industry Robin was one of the designers of the UK Oceanographic Coastal Monitoring Network, a programme designed to support the needs of coastal management and engineering.
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Steve Bellew, Director, GoBe Consultants Ltd
GoBe is a UK based, independent environment and planning consultancy . In the UK offshore wind sector we have provided strategic and technical advice to almost 30GW of offshore wind capacity over 35 individual projects. Our experience reaches back to 2000 and the earliest Round 1 developments in UK waters and extends throughout the subsequent UK Rounds 2, 2.5 and 3 – and into the recently completed Round 4 and anticipated Scotwind processes.
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Ferenc Kis, Renewable Energy Business Development Director, RSK Europe
Ferenc is a business development director at RSK responsible for developing the renewable energy services portfolio in the group. He works within the RSK’s European Business Development division, based in Hungary and covering mainly the Central Eastern European region.
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Dr Paul Doherty, Managing Director, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions Ltd.
Dr Paul Doherty is the Managing Director and founder of engineering consultancy, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions, GDG. Paul is a geotechnical engineer by training with particular expertise in the delivery of offshore wind projects. Over the past decade Paul has worked on over 30GW of offshore wind installations around the world including projects in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Irish Sea and across Asia. Paul has extensive knowledge of the offshore wind consenting and design processes, which he has used to support a range of clients including developers, contractors and OEMs. Paul leads a team of 100 staff including engineers, environmental scientists, and technical advisors.
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Daiva Garbaliauskaitė, Vice Minister of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania
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