UWIG Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance Users Group Meeting
April 15, 2008 - Irving, Texas
This all day event is the first meeting for this user group under the new scope, membership requirements, and participation limitations. The morning will consist of a Plenary Session open to all user group members. The Plenary Session at this meeting will focus on drive train gearboxes. We have secured the participation of Mr. Strange Skriver of the Danish Wind Turbine Owners Association, one of the leading gearbox specialists in the world, to share his experience with the Users Group. He will discuss his personal experience with gearbox inspection, maintenance, and repair as part of the plenary session. A complete agenda for the Plenary Session will be posted in the near term.
The afternoon session will consist of vendor product-specific Roundtable Forums for members only. The format will consist of open discussions, moderated by a Roundtable chair, centered on a specific wind turbine component or manufacturer of a component, or a specific manufacturer or model of wind turbine. The Roundtable will provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users, who will share their information, knowledge and experience.
Informal discussion at the Roundtables will be encouraged through the presentation of case studies, user experience reports describing a problem and how it was solved, or a show-and-tell. Use of components and projected pictures and photos to describe events and illustrate problems and solutions will be encouraged in order to incorporate valuable first hand experience.
Accommodations
This meeting will be held at the:
Hilton Garden Inn DFW Airport South
2001 Valley View Lane
Irving, Texas 75061
1-972-313-2800
Visit the official hotel web site
Meeting Registration
On-line registration will be made available upon request to qualified participants - send e-mail to info@uwig.org for details. Note that registration for the other user group meetings, as well as the Spring Technical Workshop, will be conducted separately. All registrations will be confirmed via e-mail upon receipt if a valid e-mail address is provided.
$250 – Meeting attendee
Rates will increase by $100 after April 8
For additional information contact:
Sandy Smith
Utility Wind Integration Group
Phone: (865) 691-5540, ext. 141
Fax: (865) 691-5046
E-mail: sandy@uwig.org
Cancellations and Refunds
All requests for refunds must be submitted to UWIG in writing.
Requests received by April 8 - receive refund less $75 administrative fee.
Requests received by April 11 - receive refund less $125 administrative fee.
Unless there are extreme circumstances, no refunds will be made for cancellations received after April 11 or for no-shows.
Registrants who have not paid by April 8 will need to make arrangements to pay in advance via credit card or risk having their registrations cancelled.