Community and Consenting

The Big Picture

Forecasting and Fuel

Public opinion of generation alternatives – Dr Janet Stephenson, Director, Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment, University of Otago

Wind farms, ecology and communities – Forest & Bird

For the long haul: Maintaining stakeholder engagement – Jamie Foster, Development Exec, Origin Energy

Mixed ownership model: what does it mean for wind? – Matthew Freeman, Managing Director, Energy News

Wind and gas: the perfect match? – Steve Bielby, Chief Executive, Gas Industry Company

Supporting our growing industry - speaker TBC

Advances in weather forecasting over the next ten years – Dr. Michael Uddstrom, Principal Scientist, Meteorology & Remote Sensing, NIWA

Using forecasting, an operator's experience – speaker TBC

Forecasting wind power at grid injection points – Brian Peters, Product Manager Energy and Modelling, Metservice

Community and consenting

O&M

Wind Resource

Biodiversity and offsetting, answering the community objections in a sensitive landscape – Andrew Hurley, Generation Manager, MainPower

Te Uku: the community experience – Julian Elder, Chief Executive, WEL Networks

Community dynamics – Shonagh Kenderdine, Judge (ret)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Shonagh Kenderdine and Dr Royden Somerville QC will lead an expert panel

10 years of O&M lessons – Lars Pedersen, Service Manager, Vestas

Measuring wind turbine reliability: results of the Reliawind project – Philip Wong Too, Senior Engineer, GL Garrad Hassan

Designing turbines to reduce long term O&M

Lowering O&M costs by design - Aurelie Fabre, REpower

Energy yield; potential error and best practice for improve pre-construction predictions – Blair Walter, Renewable Energy Leader, Aurecon

Application of SODAR technology in complex terrain – Tony Rovers, Senior Wind Engineer, Meridian Energy

New technologies for wind and gust profiling – Prof Stuart Bradley, Director, Wind Measurement Technologies, University of Auckland

Using WAsP and WindSim in energy yield predictions – Michael Green, Meteorologist, Aurecon

Consenting Issues

Wind Connections

Health and Safety

Technical

Best practice and wind farm consenting: lessons from Te Uku – Simon Berry, Counsel, Environmental Law and Jen Vella, Barrister

Biodiversity Offsets for Contact’s Hauāuru mā raki Wind Project – Lessons for the Future – Stephen Daysh, Environmental Management Services  and Gerry Kessels, Kessels and Associates

Water quality monitoring of stream tributaries to determine the effects of sediment runoff from wind farm construction activities – Brett Stansfield, Freshwater Scientist, Environmental Impact Assessments

Earthworks and sediment control during construction – Martin Parsonson,   Southern Skies

Levels of infrasound and ground vibration in close proximity to mega-watt sized wind turbines – Paul Botha, Wind Technical Strategy Manager, Meridian Energy

20% wind: how will the grid accommodate it? – Kieran Devine and Doug Goodwin, Transpower

Poetntial impact of electric vehicles as grid storage - Transpower sponsored student presentation

Wind generation connection requirements in Australasia – Michael Owen, Technical Director, Power Systems Analysis, Beca

Energy in the wind: integrating the transmission network for a better approach to wind farm prospecting - Elisa Puccioni, GIS Analyst, Kenex

South Island frequency limits on wind farms – Mike Phethean, Senior Investigation Engineer, Transpower

Crane safety and the wind industry – Phil Tradgett, EHS Manager, Siemens

H&S reporting systems for wind farms – Natasha Tuck, Production Engineer, TrustPower

Training requirements and expectations on employees in emergencies – Phil Hokianga, Industrial Training Manager, Vertical Horizonz Group

Developing an H&S programme on a new small wind farm – Robert Miller, Pioneer Generation

H&S in wind farm development – Simon Faulkner, Aurecon

E-Houses: prefabricated substations for wind farms – Bruce Blundell, Business Development Manager, Siemens

Grid code requirements for artificial inertia control systems on wind turbines in NZ – Marc Pelletier, Investigations Engineer, System Operator, Transpower

Transient Stability Assessment with large scale wind penetration - Transpower sponsored student presentation

Controlling sound from wind turbines

– Dr. Katrina Swalwell, Senior Wind Engineer, REpower Australia

Wind turbine development trends in turbulent conditions – Josef Kryger Tadich, Technical Manager, Alstom

Consenting Issues

Electricity market

Technology developments

Current trends in wind farm acoustics assessment and consent conditions – Stephen Chiles, Principal, Acoustics Engineer, URS

Wind farms and the RMA: Implementing the NPSREG & NZWEA Best Practice Guidelines Workshop – Ben Farrell, Senior Environmental Planner and Guidelines Project Manager, NZWEA

WORKSHOP SESSION

Content and application of wind farm guidelines

Increasing the value of wind: the demand/response smart grid – Stephen Drew, Enernoc

Changing gate closure – Mike Roan, Trading Manager, Meridian Energy

Electricity market of the future with wind – Peter Calderwood, Strategic Business Development Manager, TrustPower

Use of wireless power technology in the wind industry – Fady Mishriki, CEO, PowerbyProxi

Systematic development of lubricants: new gear oil development – Kirsten Tschauder, OEM Manager Lubes and Greases, BP

4.5MW turbine assembly with 2MW resources. Technical challenges and solutions – Alejandro Gómez Crespo, Engineering Department, Gamesa