Empowering Wind Energy Innovation Through Collaboration
WEICan will hold the must-attend Spring 2025 Meeting as a hybrid event, hosted by Dalhousie University on April 29-30, 2025. This event, supported by Natural Resources Canada, is the premier conference to bring together researchers, industry players, and policy makers dedicated to driving the development and growth of wind energy in Canada.
Conference Venue
The conference will be held at Dalhousie University on the Sexton Campus B Building, Room B311. The address is 1345 Norma Eddy Lane, Halifax, NS. See map below. If logistical support in travelling to or registering for this event is needed, please contact us.
Agenda
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
*Please note: All times are in Halifax local time (UTC-3)
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
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| 9:00 | Opening Day 1: Marianne Rodgers, Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) and Lukas Swan, Dalhousie University |
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| 9:10-10:50 | Offshore Wind – Moderator: Jordan Eamer, Geological Survey of Canada |
| 9:10 | OSW1 – Alexandra Pimentel, Nathaniel S. Pearre, Lukas Swan, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Offshore Wind Farm Site Considerations; Seasonality, Power and Integration |
| 9:30 | OSW2 – JBR Eamer, P-A Desiage, G Philibert, DC Campbell, Geological Survey of Canada, Characterizing the marine geology of Atlantic Canada to prepare for offshore wind energy |
| 9:50 | OSW3 – Bella Ahern1, Chad Walker1, JP Roux2, Zoe Chateau2, 1School of Planning, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, Views from the shore: An analysis of public comments on an offshore wind energy future in Nova Scotia |
| 10:10 | OSW4 – Sanjay Arwade, ARROW, UMass Amherst, Academic Center for Reliability & Resilience of Offshore Wind |
| 10:30 | OSW5 – Gemma Caesar, Canmet Energy-Ottawa (NRCan), Preliminary Technical Assessment of Offshore Wind Potential in Pacific Canada |
| 10:50 | Break |
| 11:10-12:30 | Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Asset Management – Moderator: Ryan Church, Biome Renewables |
| 11:10 | AD1 – Kamran K Shirzadeh1,4, Curran Crawford3, Horia Hangan1,2, 1WindEEE Research Institute; 2Ontario Tech University; 3University of Victoria; 4RWDI, Gusts and their impacts on wind turbines |
| 11:30 | AD2 – Jagdeep Singh1, Sebastiano Stipa2, Arjun Ajay1, Ryan Church3*, Joshua Brinkerhoff1, 1School of Engineering, University of British Columbia—Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada 2von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium 3Biome Renewables, Toronto, ON, Canada, Computational Evaluation of the PowerCone® Auxiliary Rotor: Enhancing Lift, Power, and Wake Mixing in 2 MW and 10 MW Wind Turbines |
| 11:50 | AM1 – Mathieu Cote, CanREA, CanREA Operations Summit and Upcoming Operator Meetings |
| 12:10 | AM2 – Marianne Rodgers, WEICan, Request for EOIs for Wind turbine blade recycling and wind turbine blade monitoring |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30 | Cold Climate – Moderator: Robbie Sanderson, WEICan |
| 1:30 | CC1 – Charles Godreau, Nergica, Updates from IEA Wind TCP Task 54 |
| 1:50 | CC2 – Kaniz Sultana, Ryan Kilpatrick, NRCan, Addressing Cold Climate and Harsh Marine Challenges for Offshore Wind Development in Canadian Waters |
| 2:10 | CC3 – Patrice Roberge, Icetek, Ice Index: A Tool for Assessing Wind Turbine Performance in Cold Climates |
| 2:30 | CC4 – Robbie Sanderson, Shawn Shea, WEICan, Impact of Anemometers on Wind Turbine Performance During Icing Events |
| 2:50 | CC5: Leidy Tatian Contreras Montoya, Adrian Ilinca, Santiago Lain, ETS and Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Correlations between meteorological conditions and power loss in wind turbines under icing conditions |
| 3:10 | CC6: David Durette, Nergica, Updates from IEA Wind TCP Task 52 |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:50-5:10 | Offshore Wind – Moderator: Heather Norton, WEICan |
| 3:50 | OSW6 – Denis Lapalme, Nergica, Offshore Wind Power in Canada – Challenges and opportunities |
| 4:10 | OSW7 – Patrick Connolly, Curran Crawford, University of Victoria, Towards a Hydrodynamics Model of an Unmoored Floating Offshore Wind Turbine |
| 4:30 | OSW8 – Fares M’zoughi1,2*, Curran Crawford1, Izaskun Garrido2, Aitor J. Garrido2, 1Sustainable Systems Design Lab–SSDL, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria. 2Automatic Control Group, Institute of Research and Development of Processes, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, Design and Hydrodynamic Analysis of Hybrid Oscillating Water Column-Floating Offshore Wind Turbine System |
| 4:50 | OSW9 – Gerard Avellaneda Domene*, Curran Crawford, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at University of Victoria, Concept study of a floating offshore wind platform with on board CO2 direct ocean capture: comparison and recommendations |
| 5:10 | Closing Day 1: Marianne Rodgers, WEICan |
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
*Please note: All times are in Halifax local time (UTC-3)
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast and Registration |
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| 9:00 | Opening Day 2: Marianne Rodgers, Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) and Lukas Swan, Dalhousie University |
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| 9:10-10:30 | Grid Integration: Moderator – Lukas Swan, Dalhousie University |
| 9:10 | GI1 – Nicholas Legge1, Cameron Wade2, Lukas Swan1, 1Dalhousie University, 2Sutubra, Modelling the impact of Long-Duration Energy Storage for Nova Scotia’s wind energy transition |
| 9:30 | GI2 – Jeremy Cadence, Montserrat Montala, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (JC now at CBCL), Sizing and use of ESS in the enforcement of a ramp rate limit for a grid system with multiple renewable energy generators |
| 9:50 | GI3 – Anup Jwala Poudel, Kayes Md Abu Reza, David S-K. Ting, Rupp Carriveau, University of Windsor, Ammonia Plant Integration with Wind-Coupled Commercial Greenhouse and Electrolyzer: A Techno-Economic Analysis |
| 10:10 | GI4 – Henri Brogard, Nergica, Updates from IEA Wind TCP Task 50 |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:50-12:10 | Grid Integration – Moderator: Mujtaba Khan, Western University |
| 10:50 | GI5 – Mujtaba Khan1, Olere Ijasan2, Samantha Treacy3, 1Western University, Canada; 2University of Victoria; 3University of Calgary, Leveraging HPC Data Centers as Assets to Enhance Renewable Energy Integration |
| 11:10 | GI6 – Fatemeh Razavi1, Ria Baijal, Chris McNevin, Natural Resources Canada, CanmetEnergy Ottawa, Renewable Heat and Power Group, Investigating Wind Power Penetration in the Grid Using DFIG-Based Wind Farms |
| 11:30 | GI7 – Michael MacWilliam, Scott Harper, Marianne Rodgers, Robbie Sanderson, WEICan, Resource Adequacy Stress from Rapid Electrification |
| 11:50 | GI8 – Gerald Giroux, City of Summerside |
| 12:10-1:10 | Lunch |
| 1:10-2:10 | Wind Energy Forecasting – Moderator: Julian L Cardenas Barrera, University of New Brunswick |
| 1:10 | FC1 – Julian L Cardenas Barrera, University of New Brunswick, Advancing Wind Power Forecasting for Grid Integration: Challenges and Emerging Solutions |
| 1:30 | FC2 – Eric Desrosiers, Slavica Antic, Guillem Candille, Hydro-Quebec, Operational wind power forecasting at Hydro-Québec in winter conditions |
| 1:50 | FC3 – Jean-Sébastien Girouxa,c, Simon-Philippe Bretona, Julie Carreaub, a a National Prediction Development, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada; b Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada; c Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada, Interpolation-Free Deep Learning for Meteorological Downscaling on Unaligned Grids with Application to Wind Power |
| 2:10-2:50 | Panel Discussion |
| 2:50 | Battery Lab Tour |
| 4:00 | End of Spring 2025 Meeting |
