Programme

7th Wind Farm Operators Forum
6-7 March 2024, Sheraton Sopot Hotel

DAY 1

Time

Session

10.00 – 11.00

Registration and welcome coffee

11.00 – 12.30

OPENING SESSION

Welcome speech – WFOF Organisers

Welcome speech by Platinum Partner – Paweł Majcherkiewicz, Grenevia S.A.

Wind energy – quo vadis?

Moderator: Szymon Kowalski, PWEA

  • The future of Poland’s energy mix – Bernard Swoczyna, Instrat Foundation
  • Impact of the crisis and outlook on energy markets for next decade in Poland – Filip Piasecki, Aurora Energy Research
  • Green certificate market in 2023 and forecasts – Tomasz Surma, PWEA Working Group

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 15.00

Cable pooling and direct line

Moderator: Wiktoria Rogaska, PWEA Working Group

15.00 – 15.30

Coffee break

15.30 – 17.15

Innovations

Moderator: Marcin Łuczak, Gdańsk University of Technology

  • Verification of a machine learning approach to calibrate local wind speed measurements using neighbouring turbines – Philip Bradstock, BitBloom – Call for abstracts winner
  • Estimating production losses from blade leading edge roughness and erosion – Alexander R Meyer Forsting, DTU
  • The use of autonomous drones in the operation of wind parks – Karol Jaroszewski, OX2
  • Efficiency Meets Safety: The New Era of Wind Turbine Monitoring – Holger Fritsch, Bachmann Monitoring GmbH
  • Wind turbine blades in the context of specific damage. Interesting selected cases of damage, the genesis of the damage – Marcin Piątek, YEES 
  • Decommissioning reserve for wind and PV farms – Jakub Kosiński, GP Earth
  • Specialised cleaning products for the wind power industry – Tomasz Hodniczek, Fuchs Oil
  • Green Energy in the Shadow of Cyber Threats – Paweł Kopczyński, wpd windmanager

19.00 – 24.00

Networking dinner

DAY 2

Time

Session

09.30 – 10.00

Registration and welcome coffee

10.00 – 11.00

Major component replacement- gearbox. Cooperation between wind farm operator and full service provider
Piotr Monsiorski, Total Wind PL
Michał Magda, Total Wind PL
Paweł Majcherkiewicz, Grenevia S.A.
Wojciech Frysz, Grenevia S.A.

Minimising the impact of wind turbines on avifauna in the context of new IFC/EBRD/KFW guidelines

Adam Jaworski, Bioseco/ Aleksandra Szurlej-Kielańska, Tactus

Ways to optimise wind farm energy sales – is it worth signing cPPAs?

Szymon Kowalski, RE-Source Poland Hub Foundation

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30

Wind turbine blades in the context of specific damage. Interesting selected cases of damage, the genesis of the damage Marcin Piątek, YEES

Specialised cleaning products for the wind power industry

Tomasz Hodniczek, Fuchs Oil

Green Energy in the Shadow of Cyber Threats

Michael Tenten, Mirosław Matecki, wpdWindmanager

12.30 – 13.00

Coffee break

13.00 – 14.00

Decommissioning reserve for wind and PV farms.

Jakub Kosiński, GP Earth

Safety Drill – evacuation from a wind turbine not only for technicians

Krystian Groblica, windhunter academy

Cable pooling

Grzegorz Skarżyński, Tundra Advisory / Przemysław Kałek, Radzikowski, Szubielska i Wspólnicy / Piotr Szczeciński, Encos

14.00

Lunch

The organizer reserves the right to change the program.