Symposium: Tropical and Extra-tropical Cyclone Impacts on Future Offshore Wind Energy

Jun 1, 2023, 8:00 AM → Jun 2, 2023, 3:30 PM America/Chicago

Bldg 240, Room 1416 (TCS Conference Center) (Argonne National Laboratory)

Georgios Deskos (NREL), Jiali Wang (Argonne National Laboratory)

Please join us for a DOE-sponsored symposium on the “Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Future Offshore Wind Energy”, to be held in-person at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois (30 min drive from Chicago O’Hare airport). 

The symposium will be 2 days in total - June 1st and 2nd - with the focus on the scientific and engineering challenges of modeling, designing, and operating offshore wind turbines in hurricane-prone regions within the U.S. continental shelf and territories. Our goal is to initiate and facilitate a dialogue between diverse groups of experts from industry, government/regulatory bodies, research institutions and academia, in order to identify knowledge gaps, research priorities and rank industry-wide problems. The symposium will consist of a number of presentations on topics of interest followed by breakout discussions. The discussions and technical proceedings will be published in a technical report.

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Presentations

Site Logistics

Thu, June 1

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Arrival and Site Access

8:30 AM → 10:40 AM Morning Session: Welcome and Presentations

8:30 AM Welcome and symposium plan

Cristina Negri, Division Director of Environmental Science Division, Argonne
Jiali Wang, Uber PI, Argonne
Georgios Deskos, PI of STORM, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

9:00 AM Opening keynote: Atmospheric science and application of offshore wind technology

Shannon Davis, Wind Energy Technology Office, DOE

9:20 AM Set the stage presentations by Industry: Learn the needs and challenges

Moderator: Georgios Deskos
1. Kelsey Shaler/Nick Smith, Shell
2. Richmond Wall, Marsh USA
3. Murray Fisher, Gulf Wind
4. Zach Finucane, Orsted

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM → 3:00 PM Afternoon Session: Presentations, Working Lunch, and Breakout Sessions

11:00 AM State-of-the-art modeling of hurricanes and risks: Turbine scale, weather scale, AI-based downscaling and risks assessment

Moderator: Jiali Wang
1. Andy Myer, Northeastern University
2. Pengfei Xue, Argonne/Michigan Tech.
3. Chris Rozoff, NCAR
4. Karthik Balaguru, PNNL

12:20 PM Working lunch: The Science of Wind Energy Grand Challenges Initiative

Paul Veers, National Renewable Energy laboratory (NREL)

1:30 PM Breakout discussion (in parallel)

Topic 1: wind farm and turbine scale modeling (AI included)
Facilitator/Note taker: Matt Churchfield/Georgios Deskos

Topic 2: weather/earth scale modeling
Facilitator /Note taker: William Pringle/Jiali Wang

Topic 3: TC/ETC related risks to offshore wind
Facilitator /Note taker: Sue Haupt/Mrinal Biswas

3:00 PM → 3:15 PM Break

3:15 PM → 5:00 PM Evening Session: Facilitated Discussions and Adjourn

3:15 PM Breakout discussion (in parallel)

Topic 1: wind farm and turbine scale modeling (AI included)
Facilitator/Note taker: Georgios Deskos/George Bryan

Topic 2: weather/earth scale modeling
Facilitator /Note taker: Jiali Wang/Sha Feng

Topic 3: TC/ETC related risks to offshore wind
Facilitator /Note taker: Rao Kotamarthi/Eric Hendric

4:45 PM Adjourn

Facilitators to prepare breakout reports on Friday morning

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM No Host Dinner at Chuck's

https://chuckscafedarien.com/
Address: 8025 S Cass Ave, Darien, IL 60561
Paid individually, no host

Fri, June 2

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Arrival and Site Access

8:30 AM → 10:35 AM Morning Session: Prior Day Recap and Breakout Discussions

8:30 AM Reports by three breakout topics

1. Wind farm and turbine scale modeling
2. Mesoscale atmosphere-ocean-wave modeling
3. TC/ETC related risks

9:15 AM Presentation about offshore wind standard, wind turbine design, and microscale to turbine scale coupling

Moderator: Walter Musial
1. Walter Musial, NREL
2. Sanjay Arwade, UMass Amherst
3. George Bryan, NCAR
4. Jason Jonkman, NREL

10:35 AM → 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM → 3:00 PM Afternoon Session: Breakout Discussions, Working Lunch, and Symposium Summary

10:45 AM Breakout discussion (in parallel)

Topic 1: engineering design (blade/turbine rotor)
Facilitator/Note taker: Georgios Deskos/Matt Churchfield

Topic 2: measurement and validation
Facilitator/Note taker: Paytsar Muradyan/Larry Berg

12:15 PM Working lunch: Operation, installation, and planning

John Bain, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

1:20 PM Reports by two breakout topics

1. Engineering design (blade/turbine rotor)
2. Measurement and validation

1:50 PM Actions, next steps and road maps

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Adjourn