Though the deadline for discounted hotel rooms have passed, we still encourage attendees to book at the following IPF-approved hotels. Oceantic Network will provide a complimentary shuttle service between the following approved hotels and the Convention Center throughout IPF week (April 28-May 1, 2025) (see details below).
Landing Events
The 2025 IPF Call for Workshops has closed. Authors will be notified January 2025.
Questions about your workshop submission? Please contact Carley Milligan by submitting a form on the contact us page.
The Call for Workshops is the best way to secure a speaking role at IPF. Speakers at IPF have the opportunity to showcase their expertise, expand their professional network, and gain recognition among industry peers at the largest offshore wind and ocean renewables conference in the Americas. Oceantic Network is no longer accepting submissions to speak at the 2025 IPF. We will reopen submissions in late summer 2025 for the 2026 IPF.
As the U.S. offshore wind market continues its whirlwind of development, the Canadian offshore wind industry has set bold goals for offshore wind capacity. Recent legislative and regulatory changes are setting the stage for the country’s nascent industry and the completion of Canada’s first offshore wind farm in Nova Scotia is expected to be completed in 2030. What opportunities do our neighbors to the north hold for U.S. supply chain companies?
Join Oceantic Network on October 16, 2024, in Portland, Maine, to learn about the Canadian market, explore cross-border opportunities, and better understand how both countries can work collaboratively to grow the regional offshore wind industry.
The Next Wave Leadership award recognizes a professional who is 35-years old or younger and has been in the industry less than ten years. This individual embodies the leadership qualities needed to advance the offshore wind industry into the next generation.
Past Winners
Dr. Jason Jonkman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Project Submission: OpenFAST Design Code Enabling Floating Offshore Wind
Dr. Jason Jonkman is nominated for outstanding contributions he made to help launch the floating offshore wind industry. For 20 years, Dr. Jonkman worked to originate, engineer, maintain, and optimize FAST, one of the world’s first engineering computer design tools specifically developed to assess coupled dynamic loading on floating wind turbines.The FAST innovation led the way for the first generation of floating wind turbines and continues to serve the industry today as a principal asset.
In 2002 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) first recognized offshore wind and tasked the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with initiating an offshore wind research program. At this time, floating wind turbines were considered fringe technology studied only by a few with very little physics-based evidence of viability. The DOE vision was to explore the feasibility of floating wind technology, a job which came to rest on Jason Jonkman.
Jason spent many years, while gaining his PhD, reworking and upgrading the clunky land-based wind turbine dynamics code, FAST, and creating a new offshore code. By 2005, this uber FAST code could now simulate wave actions, anchor system dynamics, coupled floating platform dynamics and integrate the advanced controls needed to stabilize the complex system motions. His early work was so important and respected that it was followed by many European researchers. For 20 years, Dr. Jonkman worked to originate, engineer, maintain, and optimize the FAST Code, now called OpenFAST, one of the world’s first engineering computer design tools specifically developed to assess coupled dynamic loading on floating wind turbines.
At the first European offshore wind conference in Copenhagen in 2005, Jason co-founded an international research project on offshore code evaluation sponsored by IEA Wind, Task 30, which continues today under the leadership of NREL’s Dr. Amy Robertson. This IEA project, known as the Offshore Codes Comparison Collaborative, led to improvements in all offshore analysis codes worldwide, due in a large part to Jason’s work and leadership. This industry-wide quality assurance process remains a critical pillar of the offshore wind industry today. In addition, Jason has served continuously on the IEC TC-88 61400-3-1 offshore wind design standards committee to ensure it contains the latest design practices followed by designers.
Because of Jason’s work, the NREL/DOE’s offshore wind research is among the best in the world. His work provided robust stability to the NREL offshore wind program even while federal support for offshore wind wavered. He is considered the most knowledgeable floating offshore turbine analyst in the world. His work with FAST has given the industry a transparent, open-source design tool which is second to none and will be recognized by experts for decades.
Ørsted
Project Submission: Growing the American Offshore Wind Workforce
Ørsted operates the Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm, and constructed the two-turbine Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project – the first turbines to be installed in federal waters. Ørsted has approximately 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy in development in five states and across seven projects.
These projects include:
Revolution Wind:
- 50/50 JV w/ Eversource, 704MW (400MW to RI, 304MW to CT)
- Will power over 350,000 CT and RI homes
- Construction expected to start as early as 2023
South Fork Wind:
- 50/50 JV w/ Eversource, 132MW
- Will power 70,000 Long Island homes
- The South Fork Export Cable will deliver power to the substation located off Cove Hollow Road in the Town of East Hampton
- Currently under construction, commercial operations expected 2023
Sunrise Wind:
- 50/50 JV w/ Eversource, approximately 924MW
- Will power nearly 600,000 homes
- The Sunrise Export Cable will deliver power to the Holbrook substation in the Town of Brookhaven
- Commercial operations expected as early as 2024
Ocean Wind 1:
- 75/25 JV with PSEG, 1,100MW
- Will power over half a million New Jersey homes
- Commercial operations expected by the end of 2024
Ocean Wind 2:
- 1,148MW
- Will power over half a million New Jersey homes
- Construction expected to begin in 2028
- COD expected in late 2028/early 2029
Skipjack Wind:
- 966MW
- Will power over 300,000 homes in the Delmarva region
- Commercial operations expected by the second half of 2026
As the leading developer both globally and in the U.S., Ørsted Offshore North America is at the forefront of equitably growing an American offshore wind workforce. Under the leadership of Allison Ziogas, Head of Labor Relations, Ørsted has developed a best-in-class approach to labor relations and workforce development. This includes supporting current workers as they seek to apply their skills in the offshore wind industry, funding and guiding local training programs to create the next generation of offshore wind workers, launching brand new supportive programs that increase access to offshore wind careers, setting diversity goals to track progress on equity promises, encouraging job-creating supply chain opportunities to be in the U.S., and more.