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SUMMARY:Understanding the Wind Energy Industry – Dr Jim Platts - Dr Jim 
 Platts\, Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20120424T173000Z
DTEND:20120424T193000Z
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CONTACT:Publicity Officer\, IMechE Beds &amp\; Cambs area
DESCRIPTION:A talk on the wind industry given by Jim Platts\, a leading re
 searcher in wind turbine technology for many years.\n\nFew people in the U
 K understand the necessary scale of the wind energy industry - a major glo
 bal industry that installed over 40GW of electricity generating capacity l
 ast year alone and is used to growing at over 25% pa.  Nor do many people 
 understand the necessary scope and technical complexity of the offshore wi
 nd farm / electricity grid projects that will be the growth area of wind e
 nergy globally over the next decade.  \n\nAs one of the original network w
 ho formed the global wind energy industry in the 1980s\, our speaker Jim P
 latts created the designs\, the manufacturing processes\, the team and the
  company that makes all the large wind turbine blades in the UK\, now the 
 global blade technology development centre of Vestas\, the largest of the 
 wind turbine manufacturing companies\, on the Isle of Wight.  \n\nIn this 
 talk\, Jim Platts will outline the nature of the industry within which UK 
 industry must earn its place if it wants to take part.\n\n*Dr Jim Platts* 
 is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge (
 www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/mjp/).  He has taken a leading role in the de
 sign and development of both the wind turbine blades and the manufacturing
  processes to make them since the 1980s\, and continues to be involved in 
 advanced wind turbine design and development.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Alan Reece Building\, Institute for Manufacturin
 g (IfM)\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge CB3 0FS
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