Offshore wind energy
Regulatory & economic track: Addressing the legal frameworks and economics in offshore wind energy industry
7 May 2025 – 4 June 2025
Offshore wind has a vital role to play in the global transition to green energy. As a rapidly growing energy technology, offshore wind has huge potential around the world. In the Belgian North Sea, offshore wind farms generate about 10% of Belgium’s total electricity demand. By 2030, offshore wind capacity in the North Sea will continue to grow, generating about 30% of electricity demand of Belgium.
For this booming industrial sector, Ghent University provides three tracks of lifelong learning courses for those who want to expand their knowledge of all phases of offshore wind energy, with a mix of academic and industrial speakers:
The regulatory and economic track will give you an overview of the legal frameworks and economics in offshore wind energy industry
This course will present a general overview of the Offshore Wind Energy policy, financing and safety and is thus targeted towards a broad audience: people already working in this sector, people with the ambition to be working in the sector and researchers . A bachelor level (or equivalent through minimal 2 year relevant working experience) is obligatory.
Participants can obtain a certificate of attendance.
Scientific Coordination
- Prof. Lieven Vandevelde, Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Ghent University
Teachers
- Bashir Bakhshideh Zad, University of Mons
- Lars Brenne, Rely on Nutec
- Thomas Chellingsworth, Loyens & Loeff
- Bérénice Crabs, Belgian Offshore Platform
- Steven Degraer, KBIN
- Bert Derudder, KBC
- Pascal Geerinck, Tractebel
- Angelo Goethals, Ghent University
- Jan Heinen, Tractebel
- Mieke Mathys, IMDC
- Tim Schyvens, Elia
- Frederik Vandendriessche, Ghent University
- Marc Vermylen, Loyens & Loeff
- Michel Verschuere, Yuso
- Paco Vereycken, Engie
This regulatory and economic track provides an overview of the offshore wind policy and legislation and operational & functional safety.
Also the wide range of activities preceding the installation are discussed: project financing, environmental impact assessment, …
The energy market is another important topic in this course.
- International law & Belgian Maritime Spatial Planning
- Offshore wind policy: beyond the horizon
- Offshore wind farm environmental impacts
- Environmental permit & impact assessment
- Project financing & development
- Introduction into (offshore) energy legislation and cross boundary transmission aspects
- Operational & functional safety
- Offshore wind resource & energy yield assessment
- Energy markets based on weather forecasts
- Energy markets & ancillary services
- Offshore adequacy
- Future grid coupling: inter alia / the Energy Island
Dates: 7, 14, 21 and 28 May and 4 June 2025
Practical info
Fee
The participation fee is 1.105 euro.
This includes tuition fee and online access to the live sessions and the digital e-learning environment with digital course notes.
Payment occurs after reception of the invoice.
All invoices are due in thirty days. All fees are exempt from VAT.
Reduction
- When a participant of a company subscribes for the complete course, a reduction of 20% is given to all additional subscriptions from the same company. In that case, only one invoice is issued per company.- Special prices for Ghent University staff. For further information, please send us an email.
Cancellation policy
Cancellation must be done in writing. Our cancellation conditions can be consulted on www.ugain.ugent.be/cancellationTraining vouchers
Ghent University accepts payments by KMO-portefeuille (www.kmo-portefeuille.be; authorisation ID: DV.O103194).Opleidingsverlof (VOV)
This course has too few contact hours to qualify for VOV.