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Annual Report 2014
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
There were no changes in the management team in 2014, though NOWITECH has reorganized the work
by reducing the number of Work Packages from 6 to 3 effective by start of 2015. Roy Stenbro and Ole
David Økland are now joint WP leaders for WPA, Thomas Welte and Jens Kjær Jørgensen are joint WP
leaders forWPB, while Harald Svendsen and Karl Merz are joint Work Package leaders forWPC. Professor
Torgeir Moan has retired as work package leader as of 01.01.2015, but continues in an advisory role and
PhD supervisor. His excellent work in NOWITECH is highly appreciated.
The Board
The Board is the operative decision-making body for the execution of the activities within the Centre.
It consists of eleven members whereof eight are representatives of the industry partners and three are
from the research partners. The board reports to and is accountable to the General Assembly (GA). The
Board monitors the implementation of the Centre and approves the annual working plans and budgets. It
also oversees that the activities described in the annual working plans are completed within the defined
time frame, hereunder that the in-kind contributions are delivered as specified.
Two ordinary Board meetings were held in 2014, in August and in November. Both meetings were
combined with a workshop the day before. Prior to the August meeting a strategy group had worked out
recommendations to the board on future priorities in NOWITECH during the first half of the year. The
August workshop discussed and concluded on the NOWITECH strategic choices based on the output from
this process. The November workshop presented results from the work packages and was combined
with the annual GA meeting. Both board meetings had gender balance, innova-
tions and strategy for development of NOWITECH on the agenda. The November
meeting approved the budget and work plans for 2015.
The Board members in 2014 were Knut Samdal (chairman), SINTEF Energy
Research, Johan Sandberg, DNV AS, Jean Benoit-Ritz/Vincent De LaLeu, EDF,
Martin Kirkengen, IFE, Olav B. Fosso, NTNU, Arnulf Hagen, Fedem, Sigurd
Øvrebø, SmartMotor, Jørn Holm, Dong Energy, Jørgen Krokstad, Statkraft, Gudmund Per Olsen, Statoil,
and Oddbjørn Malmo, Kongsberg.
The strong commitment and competence of the Board is highly appreciated.
The strong commitment
and competence of
the Board is highly
appreciated.
Figure 4: Most board members were highly active in this
year’s strategy task force work. The work was concluded
in work sessions at Gardermoen 16
th
May, where groups
were set together to discuss the prioritization of future
research work. The strategy effort also concluded in the
reorganization of the activities in the centre.