Was it good?
Read quotes from the Owners Roundtable 2024
"It is nice to see that operators like to work together to exchange experiences on technical topics"
Tobias Bindemann, Wind Turbine Engineer at RWE Renewables in Germany
“It was a great opportunity to meet peers in person, and the discussions demonstrate that no wind asset owner is alone with their challenges”
Teemu Vekkeli, O&M Technical Manager at Eurus Energy Europe BV in Netherlands
“Open collaboration and information sharing between owners. A lot of knowledge and experience in the same place at the same time, freely helping others”
Terry Lewis, Senior Technical Specialist at Nadara in the United Kingdom
“A fruitful roundtable is where ideas and challenges are shared openly, fueling collaboration and inspiring new perspectives. Together, we turn individual insights into collective wisdom”
Marco Busellato, Head of Operational Excellence - Global O&M Wind at Enel Green Power in Spain
“Very good transparency with other operators and open dialogues”
Sébastien Lemaire, Operations Director Western Europe at Akuo Energy in France
“It is a good opportunity to share experiences with each other in the on/offshore regions”
Tatsuaki Yamada at Parkwind in Belgium
“Excellent opportunity to meet your homologous in other companies”
Hugo Fanlo Virgos, Predictive Diagnostics Manager at EDP Renewables in Spain
“Just owners, no OEMs, very refreshing”
Adrian Ciccocioppo, Production Manager at Pacific Blue in Australia
“That was very beneficial for us”
Nihat Ari, Production, Operations & Maintenance - Wind & Sun at Enerjisa Üretim in Turkey
“Responsible owners gathered, with a clear focus on safe, secure and qualitative operations of windfarms worldwide”
Mattias Öhrberg, Senior Technical Asset Manager at European Energy in Denmark
“From sharing to O&M improvement!”
Mathieu Areny, Technical Support Manager at EDF Renouvelables in France
“It was nice to come together with the owners in different locations who had the same challenges despite of those locations or other conditions. There had been fruitful discussions over these subjects and bringing some knowledge back home was valuable from my perspective”
Devrim Topcu, Technology and Transformation Mentor at Enerjisa Uretim in Turkey
“Roundtable subjects were very interesting, and the participation of owners operating (many self-operating) a variety of turbine models and learning from their know-how was very beneficial for our company and me. I have also shared from our maintenance/retrofit applications as much as possible to create value for the others and tried to moderate the roundtables as effectively as possible and recorded the notes from the discussions on the roundtable page”
Evren Aktas, Assistant General Manager at Borusan in Turkey
“Very interesting event. All the participants were very collaborative in exchanging experiences about the projects. Nice atmosphere”
Thiago Menezes da Costa, Project Manager ata Hydro Rein in Brazil
“Great to share challenges openly with peers, without any sales pitch behind it”
Jorge Martinez, Technical Support - Predictive maintenance at Enel in Spain
“It was an extremely enriching experience, which allows us to learn from older assets. In addition it was interesting to meet more experienced people. Printed information would help to moderate easier”
Nelson Pron, Maintenance Engineer at YPF in Argentina
“It was a valuable opportunity to learn how other business owners are managing their operations, particularly in relation to IT systems for efficient asset management”
Nozomu Nishihara, Data analysis and Asset/Operation management at Eurus Energy Holdings in Japan
“Round table is a perfect opportunity to meet other owner with same or similar problems like you, the discussion gives you a hint on different solutions that has been tested worldwide.
It creates a good network for you since the open discussion can continue through pauses, lunches and dinners, after an event like this you will always go home with a new interesting contact you can discuss issues and solutions with.”
Jonas Sundström, O&M manager at CGN Europe Energy in Sweden
How content are you with the Owners Roundtable 2024 - 10 out of 10
How likely are you to recommend the Owners Roundtable to other WTG owners - 10 out of 10
Siim Ots, Head of Wind Energy Operations at Enefit Green in Estonia
“A great time sharing experience with people affected by the same concerns, without any commercial intention”
Jean-Pascal Molliet-Ribet, Technical Support and Supply Chain Manager at EDF Renouvelables in France
“Very interesting and useful experience to have contact with other users, lessons learned, and useful information to make better decisions”
Santiago Matias Sajaroff, COO at YPF in Argentina
How content are you with the Owners Roundtable 2024 - 10 out of 10
How likely are you to recommend the Owners Roundtable to other WTG owners - 10 out of 10
Antonio Herrera Sierra, Civil and Mechanical Technical Director at EDPR in Spain
“Good opportunity to get in touch with other owners of the same type of turbines. To meet in person (rather than online) creates a better atmosphere to discuss specific issues”
Christoph Kelm, Asset Manager Wind Energy at ewz in Switzerland
“So far I have had limited chances to discuss with other wind owners. Owners Roundtable was a valuable opportunity for discussion with other operators and I could build many precious connections”
Tsukasa Obi, Procurement Assistant Manager at Eurus Energy
“It was great to have open discussions with owners and operators of the same turbine platforms”
Raphael Janssen, Lead Fleet Engineer at EDF Renewables North America
"Amazing, just have people with the same concerns. Super interesting discussion, very open"
Fran García López, Wind Competence Center at Enel Green Power - Spain
“Excellent dialogue across a wide range of various topics. Information flowed easily on the various technical challenges faced by operators.”
Feichin McCormack, Operations Engineer at Energia Generation - Ireland
“It was interesting to see how much information is exchanged. Much learned in a limited time. Very interesting to see how experiences are shared, and solutions are sought together”
Kris Aper, General Manager at Fortech - Belgium
“Contribution from experienced participants in a structured discussion helps in knowledge sharing to create an optimised solution”
Chinmay Chapalgaonkar, Wind Engineering Specialist at Foresight Group - Australia
“I think it is very good and useful”
Roger Quesada, Head Of Operation & Maintenance at Enel – Costa Rica
“It was for me a very valuable and interesting meeting with an open view on issues and how this was/can be solved by all participants”
David Petitfils, Asset Manager at Luminus - Belgium
“Very dynamic session with a great exchange of information”
Miguel Osa Bujeiro, Senior Wind Turbine Engineer – Asset Integrity at RWE Renewables - UK
“Very useful and transparent exchanges between peers”
Thibaud UHL, Senior Renewables Asset Manager at Engie - France
“Enlightening to see that most issues are not 'one of a kind' like the constructor lets us believe in most cases”
Kurt Beleyn, Senior Expert Operations - Wind at Engie Belgium - Belgium
“Very interesting to see how experiences are shared, and solutions are sought together”
Kris Aper, General Manager at Fortech - Belgium
“Great to see the faces behind the voices and have input from all the stakeholders in the forum”
Robb Lynch, Operational Supervisor at Community Windpower - UK
“It makes us smarter”
Wouter Holbrecht, Head of Operations at Luminus - Belgium
“Some great insights on topics and issues with the GE fleet. Great knowledge and discussions in the room with a relaxed approach”
Niall Kelly, Renewables Site Manager at Energia Renewables - Ireland
“A knowledgeable session for Nordex WTGs owners where we have different issues for review by which we can prevent such issues that are being faced by other owners by investigating them prior to happening”
Muhammad Masroor Alam, Lead O&M at Gul Ahmed Energy Group - Pakistan
“It is very interesting to follow the progress of our discussions and share the different retrofits the OEM is proposing to the owners so that we can compare the strategies and challenge the OEM”
Juliette Maurin, Ingénieur O&M - Energies Renouvelables at TotalEnergies - France
“It seems like a safe forum to ask questions and get other opinions from Owner operators”
Lalgudi Vasudevan, Vice President, Head of Operations and Supply Chain at RWE - The United States
“Several interesting topics in today's Vestas 4MW meeting, covering issues that Engie has at least an interest in. Some topics are even more interesting for us, as we had a similar case.”
Anthony Barket, Technology Expert Wind Onshore at ENGIE Belgium - Belgium
“Discussions about real operational issues and the experiences of other operators in trying to solve them.”
Luis Garcia Salgado, Wind Turbine Performance Engineer at Fortum - Sweden
“Very hands-on, no helicopter BS view”
Florin Gheorghiu, O&M Director at PPC Group - Romania
“Good interaction of the colleagues who participated.”
Reynaldo Martinez, Senior Power Plant Manager at Akuo - Dominican Republic
