Event Recap:
RE Webinar #8: Dance with the wind: Understanding Wind Power

When you ride on a long-distance train in foreign countries, you may see giant wind turbines outside the window. With white blades turning around, these wind turbines are very beautiful. However, what do we know about wind power? Do you know how much energy is generated by a wind turbine? What happen if there’s no wind? Would it be very noisy when running? What are the conditions of building farms? Which places in Hong Kong are suitable for building wind farms?

You may have a lot of questions about wind power. At RE Webinar #8 on 21 August, we invited two experts from the wind power industry to answer these questions. Mr Can Poon and Ms Cathryn Chu, both with rich experience in the industry and have been involved in many wind power projects, shared with us the basic knowledge of wind power, its current status and trend. Can shared his interesting experience in building a wind farm in Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 
You are welcome to watch the recording here (in Cantonese):



You are welcome to download the transcript of the webinar (Chinese version only) HERE.

Speakers:
Mr Can Poon (Operation Manager of Dyuen Consulting)
Ms Cathryn Chu (CEO of WindMagics)
Host : Mr Ringo Mak (Programme Advisor of CarbonCare InnoLab, Co-Founder of 350HKChairman, Chairman of TOYPA Climate & Sustainability Committee)
Language: Cantonese
Speaker’s Profile:

Mr Can Poon (Operation Manager of Dyuen Consulting) graduated in Electrical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He participated in Project Management on installation of online Partial Discharge Monitoring system for 1000kV, 500kV, 220kV, 110kV high voltage switchgears and power transformers in State Grid of China and China South Grid. He supported and expanded the Wide Area monitoring system (WAMS) for Power system Dispatch center in CLP Power. He also worked for the construction of 50MW Wind farm (as an owner’s engineer) in Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Recently he concentrates on Diagnosis on Partial discharges (PD) in HV equipment including High voltage GIS and power transformers in 1000kV, 500kV, 220kV, 110kV substation. He is also Deputy Head of Smart Technology Development Specialist Group, Society of Operation Engineers.

Ms Cathryn Chu (CEO of WindMagics International Limited) has over 15 years of experience in the wind energy sector and has involved in a number of large-scale onshore and offshore utility scale renewable energy projects globally. She leads WindMagics’ international business from Hong Kong, focusing renewable energy development, investment and technical & engineering services. Prior to joining WindMagics, she was the APAC Director of Wood clean energy (formerly SgurrEnergy).

Some of her experience: 8 GW wind and 2 GW solar technical due diligence across China; WB-CRESP Fujian offshore wind planning; Korea on & offshore wind technical advisory; EU-EEP China Southeast coastline (over 10k km) offshore wind development planning; Hong Kong Lamma Island 100MW offshore wind monitoring; Zhuhai Guishan offshore wind farm, Taiwan’s first Project Financed offshore wind farm LTA (Lender’s Technical Advisor), and other on/off-grid RE projects across Southeast Asia.