The Viterna Award for Engineering Excellence recognizes excellence in engineering that advances the offshore wind or another ocean renewable energy industry. Given to an individual or team, it is named after NASA scientist Larry Viterna who, with fellow scientist Bob Corrigan, developed the Viterna Method, which is the most widely used method to predict wind turbine performance and increase the efficiency of turbine output. Open to all Ocean Renewables
Landing Events
The Talent Management Leadership award honors those who nurture and develop a new generation of leaders. They recruit bright new minds and find creative ways to build an innovative, engaged, and diverse workforce for the future. Open to all Ocean Renewables
Past Winners
The Supply Chain Advancement – Private Sector award recognizes a company that is making a lasting contribution to the advancement of the offshore wind energy supply chain.
Past Winners
The Offshore Wind Trailblazer award is given to an individual that exhibits outstanding leadership proven through their ability to instigate/bring about industry growth, development, and market maturation. The person’s strategic actions demonstrate the highest standards of cooperation, consensus building, inclusivity, integrity, responsibility, transparency, and a keen ability to coordinate among industry peers and external stakeholders in order to advance the offshore wind industry.
The Innovation of the Year award recognizes an individual or company whose singular innovation has or will contribute to the acceleration of ocean renewables in areas such as LCOE, health and safety, and supply chain process improvement.
Past Winners
The Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Program of the Year award recognizes an organization’s successful implementation of policies and/or training programs that prevent workplace accidents and injuries, increase safety awareness, and meet the requirements of environmental and occupational health and safety laws and requirements. Open to all Ocean Renewables
