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Offshore Wind Energy Presented to the Philadelphia Section S ociet y of Naval Archit ect s and Marine Engineers Wednesday, October 20, 2010 · Philadelphia, PA Horns Rev, Source: www.mlit.go.jp Slide 1

Example Offshore Wind Park Layout Slide 2

Offshore Wind Works By the Numbers 9 countries with completed offshore wind parks 16 wind parks under-construction (during Q1 & Q2 2010) 43 completed offshore wind parks 830 wind turbines installed (by year-end of 2009) 1991 year of first offshore wind installation 2396 MW of total installed capacity (as of June 2010) 3972 MW of capacity under-construction (during Q1 & Q2 2010) 34000 MW of capacity awarded in UK “ Round 3” Slide 3

Offshore Wind Market – Europe European Market Projection 2009 EWEA Report “ Oceans of Opport unit y” over 100 GW planned Oceans of opportunity • Europe’ s offshore wind potent ial is enormous and able to power Europe seven times over. • Huge developer interest Over 100 GW of offshore wind proj ects are already in various stages of planning. If realized, these proj ects would produce 10% of the European Union’ s electricity. Repeating the onshore success • EWEA has a target of 40 GW of offshore wind by 2020, an average annual market growth of 28% . The EU market for onshore wind grew an average 32% per year from 1992-2004. Source: EWEA Slide 4

Why Go Offshore With Wind? WIND POPULATION RPS Slide 5

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Offshore Wind Market – United States U.S. Offshore Wind U.S. Offshore Wind Projects (Ocean) Industry Highlights • U.S . Department of Energy (DOE) report 20% Wind Project State Size in MW Energy by 2030 included 54 GW offshore t o accomplish that goal. Cape Wind MA 468 • DOE recently announced A National Vision and Call to Hull Municipal MA 15 Action for creating a U.S . offshore wind industry. Rhode Island RI 379 • $100M allocated to offshore wind research and test facilities through the American Reinvestment and New York Power Authority NY 700 Recovery Act. • RI and NJ completed competitive processes for New Jersey BPU NJ 1050 proposed proj ects. Bluewater Wind DE 450 • A DE utility has signed a ratified Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with a developer. PPAs have been S outhern Company GA 10 signed in MA and RI as well. W.E.S .T. TX 300 NJ passed t he Offshore Wind Economic Development • Act , providing for energy certificates, tax credit s, and TOTAL 3372 financial incentives “ …we are est ablishing a program t o aut horize…t he leasing • S ignificant interest in t he Great Lakes, including competively-bid RFPs for a pilot project in OH and of federal wat ers for proj ect s t o generat e elect ricit y from wind …t his will open t he door t o maj or invest ment s in utility-scale project in NY . offshore clean energy …t here is enormous int erest in wind First federal lease signed for proj ect in MA , under • proj ect s off t he coast s of New Jersey and Delaware, and preliminary leasing process. t oday’ s announcement will enable t hese proj ect s t o move Federal leasing process initiated off of DE and • forward.” anticipated to begin near-t erm for proj ects off the President Barack Obama, April 22, 2009 coast of MD and VA . Slide 7 Slide 7

Offshore Wind Market – United States Source: U.S. Department of Energy Slide 8 Slide 8

Foundation Types Tripod Monopile Gravity-Based Jacket Tripod Tripile Float ing Source: Ramboll Source: Ramboll Source: Ramboll Source: Ramboll Source: Bard Source: Statoil-Hydro Slide 9

Offshore Wind Turbines A B C A| Vestas V90, 3 MW B| Vestas V112, 3 MW C| S iemens S WT-3.6-107, 3.6 MW D E F D| REpower 5M, 5 MW E| Bard 5.0, 5 MW F| AREVA Multibrid M5000, 5 MW Image Sources: (a) vestas.com, (b) vestas.com, (c) w1.siemens.com, (d) repower.de, (e) bard-offshore.de, (f) multibrid.com Slide 10

Offshore Wind Park - Design Spiral START C ONCEPT D ESIGN Identify P RELIMINARY D ESIGN Layout General and Plan Characteristics Operations (e.g. energy D ETAILED D ESIGN output, site) FINISH Identify Foundations, Site Data (e.g. Structures, and wind resource, Installation water depth) Method Identify Components (e.g. turbine) Slide 11

Design Standards Slide 12

Engineering Analysis - Examples Source: DNV Slide 13

Marine Activities Overview � Pre-Construction � Construction – Foundation Installation – Avian S tudies – S ub-sea Electrical Cable – Geophysical Investigations Installation – Geotechnical Investigations – Offshore S ubstation Installation – Met Tower Installation – Turbine Installation – Wave S ensor Deployment � Post-Construction – S taging Port Development – O&M Activities – Decommissioning Slide 14

Avian Studies Overview of Studies • Visual Transects – Requires moving vessel – Conducted in all seasons • Radar – Requires stationary platform – Conducted during spring and fall migration periods Source: www.capecodtoday.com Source: www.detect-inc.com Slide 15

Site Characterization Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigations Source: www.alpineocean.com Source: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov Source: www.fugro.com Slide 16

Wind & Wave Sensor Deployment Additional Inputs for Design Process • Deploy wind buoy for site- • Records ocean current profiles specific wind information and directional wave measurements at proj ect site • S upplements NOAA records and wind models • Deployed in trawl-resistant bottom mount (TRBM) • S erviced approx. every 90 days NOAA Station #44009 Source: RERL U-Mass Source: www.ndbc.noaa.gov Slide 17

W.E.S.T. Met Tower Installation Met Tower Designs Horns Rev Slide 18 Cape Wind

Met Tower Instrumentation Platform Can Support Additional Equipment Acoustic Wave & Avian Radar LIDAR Current Profiler Beatrice, Source: www.detect-inc.com Source: Oldbaum Services Presentation at EWEC 2007 Source: NortekUSA Presentation to Bluewater Wind Slide 19

Staging Port Development Receive and Pre-Assemble Components Scroby Sands, Source: www.2004ewec.info Slide 20

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Foundation Installation Handling a Monopile Slide 22 Source: RPS Energy Presentation

Source: www.Q7wind.nl Foundation Installation Handling a Transition Piece Slide 23

Sub-sea Electrical Cable Installation Receive, Deploy, and Connect Cables Source: www.q7wind.nl Source: www.mika.no Source: www.q7wind.nl Slide 24

Offshore Substation Installation Lifting a Transformer Platform Slide 25

Turbine Installation Assembling a Tower and Lifting a Bunny Ear Source: www.mammoetvanoord.com Slide 26

Source: www.eurocopter.co.uk Accessing a Wind Turbine O&M Activities Slide 27

Decommissioning End of Project Life • At the end of proj ect life turbines will be removed. • The removal sequence is roughly the reverse of the construction sequence. Slide 28

Existing Installation Approaches A B C D E F G H Sources: (b) A2Sea / Mike Page, (e) www.geotimes.org, (f) www.gl-group.com, (h) www.semcollc.com Slide 29 Slide 29

Turbine Installation Vessel – Wärtsilä Design Slide 30

Turbine Installation Vessel – TIGER Grant • Tiger Grant (Round II) application by Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) in collaboration with NRG Bluewater • Tiger Grant (Round II) funds were requested to support the construction of one Wartsila design turbine installation vessel (TIV) at the Philadelphia Aker S hipyard • Grant award announcements expected before the end of 2010 Slide 31

Contact Information Kevin Pearce, NRG Bluewater Wind kevin@ bluewaterwind.com 201.850.3691 Slide 32

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