Hamburg, 24 November 2020 – Unusual times require unusual measure – and new ideas. Sometimes a proven concept has to be reinvented entirely: From 1 to 4 December 2020, WindEnergy Hamburg will be held as the first purely digital event in the history of Hamburg Messe und Congress. After the trade fair had at first been postponed from September to December, it quickly became clear that holding a leading international trade event with exhibitors and visitors from 100 countries was going to be an impossibility in the year 2020. “We have reinvented the entire concept of the trade fair and got more deeply involved in the ongoing transformation of the exhibition sector, at a significantly accelerated pace. WindEnergy Hamburg will be the first in a series of purely digital events organised by Hamburg Messe und Congress. Within a very short period of time, we developed a new digital platform that includes two live streams. It will turn the world’s biggest meeting place of the wind industry into a permanent global marketplace for the sector,” says Bernd Aufderheide, President and CEO Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH. As of 1 December 2020, and well beyond the duration of the eventwww.windenergyhamburg.com will offer exhibitors and industry visitors many new features enabling them to get informed, share ideas and experiences, do business, and attract new customers. In its paid “WindTV Premium Stream”, WindEurope will broadcast an updated edition of its Premium Conference, while the “WindTV Open Stream” will feature a free programme put together jointly by the European wind energy association WindEurope, the Global Wind Energy Council GWEC, and Hamburg Messe und Congress. Major manufacturers, such as Vestas, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S, Enercon, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex Group, eno energy, CRRC Wind Power and Ming Yang Smart Energy, as well as well-known suppliers, including Winergy, NGC and ZF Windpower, along with global developers like wpd, Engie and EDF, have confirmed their participation in WindEnergy Hamburg.
WindTV – the voice of the wind industry
From 1 to 4 December 2020 WindEnergy Hamburg will be broadcasting two all-day live streams atwww.windenergyhamburg.com, the so called “Wind TV”: The paid channel “WindTV Premium Stream” will be broadcasting from WindEurope’s Brussels studio. All programmes will be available on-demand following the live broadcasts.
“WindEurope’s live WindTV stream will include the annual WindEurope conference and a whole load of other features – videos, interviews, entertainment. There’ll be top speakers from industry, government, finance and technology – and from other walks of life including music and sport. All in a range of different formats. It’s absolutely not your usual Zoom webinars!” explains Giles Dickson, WindEurope CEO.
WindTV Premium will cover a wide range of topics, from the development of global wind markets and challenges related to permitting procedures and community engagement, to hydrogen from wind power, to technologies, digitalisation, electrification and system integration, and through to innovations for onshore and offshore wind and challenges facing the supply chain of the wind energy industry. The list of participants includes such names as IEA executive director Fatih Birol, the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, the Chairman of BASF SE, Dr. Martin Brudermüller, as well as Fridays for Future activists.
