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BlueFloat Energy's Global Mission

  Carlos Rivals, CEO at  BlueFloat Energy, explains why the wind industry is so important to address the climate emergency. Carlos has over 20 years experience working in the offshore wind energy and has been leading the way in this industry.  BlueFloat Energy is a nimble and fast-growing offshore wind developer shaping the global energy transformation by bringing scaled decarbonization solutions to new markets. Leveraging our team’s extensive knowledge and hands-on...

Delivering a Just Transition

Gillian Martin, Energy and Environment Minister for Scotland on the importance of Oil & Gas skills to deliver the energy transition, grid access, pumped hydro, and the community benefit of the 28GW Scottish offshore wind projects. Find out about the partnering strategy to develop hydrogen export to Europe, the politics of international interconnectors and the potential contribution of Artificial Intelligence to the Energy Transition.

Stars of the Energy Transition

The Rising and Guiding Stars of the energy transition on the importance of diversity, passion and curiosity in a managed metamorphosis. This episode touches on the secret of attracting the best graduate talent, Blue Hydrogen and the transiformational potential of floating offshore wind.

Driving Value through Predictive Analytics

Bruce Hall, CEO of turbine monitoring specialist Onyx Insight, on the technologies reducing the cost of ownership of wind power, smart people and the importance of following your direction.

Trust, Passion, Partnership and Carbon

Interview with David Clark, the CEO of Vysus Group and Dominic McCann, the CEO of SICCAR. How can a company reliably monitor and report on its carbon footprint? David Clark, CEO of global consultancy Vysus Group and Dom McCann, CEO of blockchain data specialists Siccar on the importance of automating ESG data recording and reporting, and why they came together to create the Energy Transition Databox

The largest grid-connected floating wind farm

Kirstine Wood and Dan Wright from Flotation Energy join us to discuss the world's largest grid-connected floating offshore wind farm and how at 1.9 Gigawatts it is harnessing that clean power to decarbonise the Oil and Gas platforms in the North Sea by up to 85%.

Rebel with a cause

Kieran Ivers – CEO of Green Rebel Group – on the importance of monitoring the environmental impacts offshore, how to stimulate innovation and improvement in the industry and the state of Offshore Wind in Ireland. From being a college drop-out to CEO of Ireland’s leading offshore survey business, Kieran talks of the importance of hard work, communication and enabling people to succeed.    

Scotland's largest wind portfolio

  Scotland's largest wind portfolio   UK Country Manager of Ocean Winds - Adam Morrison provides a deep dive into the formation and mission of Ocean Winds, including an overview of the key Scottish offshore wind projects totalling 17 Gigawatts of capacity and £2 Billion worth of investment, as well as the opportunity for Scotland and the UK supply chain in providing support to these key clean energy projects.

The evolution of floating wind

Chief Technology Officer at Flotation Energy - Alan MacAskill, talks to us about being one of the first pioneers in offshore wind with Talisman Energy, when in partnership with SSE, they decided to sanction the construction of the two turbines in the Beatrice field in 2001 and now with Flotation Energy they are continuing that work with the backing of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) to provide fixed and floating wind to the global market.

Collaboration, disruptive tech and local content

Davis Larssen – CEO of global controls technology company Proserv joins us to discuss his company’s pivot into offshore wind and how partnership underpins the way his business approaches innovation. Davis references how offshore wind presents an opportunity for the UK to become a global leader, particularly in floating wind, creating new tech, new jobs and exportable skills, while it can provide a springboard to fresh methodologies around wind farm engine...

Renewable energy, CCS and green hydrogen

Executive Director of Aker Horizons - Philippe Kavafyan explains the make up up the new Aker family and how they are working together to deliver solutions across multiple energy sectors. Philippe articulates the broad range of technologies that Aker are investing in for the energy transition, all the way from renewable generation, solar PV, onshore wind, offshore wind, both bottom fix and floating technology.

The biggest opportunity in a generation!

CEO of Scottish Renewables - Claire Mack, joins us to discuss the evolution of the Renewable industry and how Scotland now has the largest floating wind opportunity in the world. Clair provides insights on the increasing Offshore Wind target of 28 GW and the employment statistics of over 27,000 jobs that are supported in the rebewable sector, as well as discussing the emergence of Hydrogen, Onshore Wind, Solar and pump storage hydro.

The Floating winds of change

Interview by Moray Melhuish – Founder of Annet Consulting, an Offshore Wind and Subsea Specialist. Chris Willow - Head of Floating Wind for RWE Renewables discusses how their business is undergoing a large corporate transition that aims to be carbon neutral by 2040. This transformation will see the formation and growth of businesses in Floating Wind, Solar and Hydrogen.  

The Power of Offshore Wind & Wave

Interview by Moray Melhuish – Founder of Annet Consulting, an Offshore Wind and Subsea Specialist. In our latest podcast for OGV Renewables Magazine, Moray Melhuish talks to Managing Director of Mocean Energy, Cameron McNatt about why wave energy matters in the renewable energy mix of the future and how their technology could help provide renewable power for a range of subsea applications in the field as well as grid scale power that can be used onshore.

The Baltic 'Seas of Change'

Interview by Moray Melhuish – Founder of Annet Consulting, an Offshore Wind and Subsea Specialist. Moray speaks to Head of Baltic Sea Area Development - Hannah Mary Goodlad about how Equinor are developing an offshore wind capability in the Baltic Sea region with three large-scale projects and the huge geopolitical challenges that this brings with many of the borders being shared with Russia at this time. Hannah explains that in spite of these acute challenges, the Baltic Sea countries...

Transforming Offshore Wind into Hydrogen

We speak to Director of Hydrogen Ventures – Molly Iliffe, about how ERM are helping to decarbonise the Energy sector with green hydrogen projects.  ERM are developing the 'Dolphyn Project' which is a 10 MW commercial demonstrator project that links floating offshore wind to hydrogen production and will create circa 400 jobs for the local economy. If successful and allowed to scale, then up to 10,000 jobs could be created by the end of the decade!

Installing 30 Gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030

Gabriel Davies – Global Program Director with Orsted, talks to us about their ambitious vision of installing 30 Gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030 Gabriel explains why they are one of the world’s leading offshore wind developers, with operations in Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, the UK and soon to be developing in Taiwan and the US. We hear how they have secured a 1 GW floating offshore wind lease in the Scotwind round, their interaction with INTOG and about their future...

The case for fast-tracking Berwick Bank

OGV Renewables Magazine speaks exclusively to the Project Director of SSE Renewables, Alex Meredith, about the case for fast-tracking the Berwick Bank project. Located in the Firth of Forth, the project, if sanctioned, will become the biggest offshore wind project in the UK and deliver up to 4.1 GW of electricity, which is enough to power circa 5 million homes and create circa 10,000 domestic jobs.

Decarbonising the Offshore Industry

Decarbonising the Offshore industry Moray Melhuish speaks to Director of Cerulean Winds, Dan Jackson, about his ambitious £24 Billion plan to decarbonise the UK North Sea. Dan tells Moray how CW are bidding for  four seabed lease sites in Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG leasing round to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector and with well over £6 billion of investment proposed for each 100-turbine site, how the scheme would abate tens of millions of tonnes o...

Defining a 'Just' Transition - Interview with Dan McGrail, CEO, Renewables UK

Defining a 'Just transition'  CEO of Renewableuk - Dan McGrail communicates exactly what defines a 'Just Transition' for the energy sector and how their organisation of over 450 member bodies are working towards  helping to reduce the cost of renewable energy, which is a key part of that solution, because it creates jobs, catalyses innovation and means that the energy transition will work for everybody in the end. Read full article HERE  
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