08:30 Registration & coffee

08:55 Chairman’s welcome

Dr. Bogi Bech Jensen
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

09:00Utility presentation: How reliable is your generator? Lessons learned from generator operation in onshore and offshore wind farms

• A number of different configurations of generator are used in WTGs. Are some more reliable than others?
• Experience of generator operation in both onshore and offshore WTGs
• Lessons learned from failures applied to the future engineering of WTG generators

Duncan Locke
WTG Engineer
RWE Npower Renewables Limited, UK

09:40 The Geared vs. Gearless Drive Train Debate: Delivering Lighter Wind Turbines That Reduce The Cost Of Energy & Increase Reliability

• Costs and reliability
  • getting the balance right between increased costs and increased reliability- how do the different concepts compare?
  • assessing the reality of failure rates and effect on cost of energy
  • weight and mass challenges
  • maintenance costs
• Gearboxes
  • have gearboxes matured? How much further is there to go?
  • will gearboxes with fewer stages answer reliability issues?
• Direct drive
  • how does the complexity of the technology impact on reliability and maintainability?
• Where are drive train technologies heading?
  • hybrid systems
  • hydraulic systems

Dr.-Ing. Martin Knops
Senior Vice President, Product Development
REpower Systems

10:25 Refreshment break and networking

10:55Scientific presentation: Wind turbine drive trains with synchronous generators and performance improvement via the model-based control

• Topologies of synchronous generator-based drive trains
• Comparisons of these drive trains
• Problems with the classic control strategy
• Performance improvement with the model-based control

Dr.-Ing. Liang Chen
Project Engineer
Fraunhofer Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik IWES, Germany

11:35 Combing the advantages of a direct drive and geared generator system into a HybridDrive system

• Development of drive trains
• Overview of different drive train concepts
• Design criteria for drive train: efficiency, weight, volume, cost of energy
• Explanation of HybridDrive system (integrated generator / gearbox system)
• Comparison of drive train concepts
• First measuring from test bay

Matthias Deicke
Head of Electrical Systems
Winergy AG, Germany

12:15 Networking luncheon

13:45 Lowering the cost of energy with permanent magnet drive generators

• Levelized cost of energy
• Increasing annual energy production
• Lowering total lifecycle cost
• Shortening time to market
• The importance of value-added partnering

Jussi Vanhanen
Sales and Marketing Director
The Switch, Finland

14:25 Refreshment break and networking

14:55Scientific presentation: Advantages and challenges of superconducting wind turbine generators

• Background of superconductivity and its relevance for wind turbine generators
• Superconducting generator concepts
• Advantages of superconducting generators for wind turbines
• Challenges of superconducting generators for wind turbines

Dr. Bogi Bech Jensen
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

15:35 Closing remarks of the chairman and end of conference day two