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Objective: For participants of the SMART Wind Support Structure subgroup to meet each other, Identify gaps and opportunities, learn about state-of-the art manufacturing methods and technologies and capture information for Roadmap.
Note: Times in Mountain Time Zone; session times subject to change.
Tuesday, January 13 Support Structure Subgroup Meeting
Location NREL: 15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401, Beaver Creek B & C
11:30a Registration and Lunch
1:00p Overview and Status of SMART Wind Consortium and Project
Support Structure subgroup focus and boundaries
Meeting Goal: Identify specific actions to overcome specific barriers
Opportunities and gaps that enable:
Turbines to be more cost competitive through US manufacturing
Turbines to be more productive through near-term technology advances
Installed turbine costs decline
Review of OEM specified gaps and barriers
Trudy Forsyth, Wind Advisors Team, SMART Wind Technical Lead, Support Structure subgroup chair
Brent Summerville, Summerville Wind & Sun, SMART Wind Technical Co-lead, Support Structure subgroup co-chair – Presentation
1:20p Introduce subgroup leaders
Dr. Rick Damiani, NREL
Roger Dixon, Skylands Renewable Energy
Dr. Asad Esmaeily, KSU
1:30p Self-introductions by subgroup participants
What do you hope this project will accomplish?
What are your areas of expertise?
1:50p Overview of different tower types – Roger Dixon- Presentation
Streamlining of foundations and safe installation practices
2:30p Tower/Foundation Gaps and Needs – Trudy Forsyth – Presentation
3:00p Break
3:30 p Support Structure Technical Panel
Rick Damiani – Support structure design optimization
Gunes Demirbas, P.E. – Cost and material advances in tower design- Presentation
4:30p Support Structure Coatings
Krent Aberle, Sherwin Williams – Protective Coatings for Wind Energy –Presentation
Dave Wixon, TMS Metalizing – Corrosion Coating Metalizing Overview (presentation given by Brent Summerville) – Presentation
5:15p Adjourn
6:00p Dinner for OEMs, Subgroup Leaders & Core Team
Mimi’s Cafe, 14265 West Colfax Avenue, Golden, CO 80401
Wednesday, January 14 Support Structure Subgroup Meeting
8:00a Welcome back, any new ideas?
8:15a Panel of tower manufacturers, overview of other tower manufacturers
Paul Migliore, Anemergonics (virtual) – Presentation
Mike Bergey, Bergey Windpower – Presentation
9:30a Break
10:00a Panel on Foundation and Anchoring Systems
David Blittersdorf, AllEarth Renewables (virtual) – Presentation
Tim Olsen, Advanced Energy Systems LLC – Presentation
Charles Newcomb, Endurance Wind Power- Presentation
11:30p Report from Rapporteur – Ruth Baranowski, Wind Advisors Team
Review of compiled ideas/actions
Brainstorm and refine actions
12:30p Close of meeting, box lunch provided
Wednesday, January 14 Invitation Only for Subgroup Leaders & Core Team
1:00p Debrief Support Structure subgroup meeting
1:30p Thoughts from subgroup leads
2:15p Thoughts from DWEA OEM Steering Group Members
3:15p Break
3:45p Next (virtual) meetings – identify topic, month and presenters
4:00p Adjourn