Guido van den Belt is owner and managing director of vdbENERGY Asset Management GmbH, a renewable consultancy services contractor that supports in energizing high-potential employees, creating flow in organizations and connect the supply chain.

He gained 20+ years of experience in the development of operational excellence, in industrial environment including 13+ years of offshore wind asset management experience along all project phases.

He shares his experiences using his own developed masterclass on offshore wind asset management and is available as keynote speaker during conferences on offshore wind operations and maintenance and offshore wind asset management.

Guido was involved in the initial development of offshore wind projects globally, such as Gujarat (India), Dunkerque (France), Borsele 1+2 (the Netherlands) and in South East Asia (Taiwan, South Korea), allowing him to develop a thorough understanding minimizing levelized cost of energy by adopting the concepts of operability by design and maintainability by design.

Guido was also assigned by various companies to support the setup of O&M organizations for offshore wind projects (Unicredit, Eneco, WindMW, GlobalTech, Engie, RWE, Ocean Winds and wpd).

Working as program manager, he implemented, together with their teams, operational excellence within the asset management organizations of various international offshore wind projects: Bard, Meerwind, Global Tech I and Veja Mate (Germany), Luchterduinen, Prinses Amalia (the Netherlands), Dieppe et le Tréport / îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier (France) and Moray West (Scotland).

He is an integer expert committed to work on a project-exclusivity basis. Clients highly value the multi-year cooperation with Guido, working as contractor for offshore wind serving asset management advisory services.

Presentation content:
Organisations assigned with offshore wind operations possess invaluable potential that could further increase portfolio value. Our offshore wind industry can lower the cost of energy through activating this and herewith speed-up further expansion potential for the energy transition.
Guido van den Belt will explain this potential by elaborating on examples as observed in various project phases and explains how portfolio owners do systematically harvest this in both existing and future offshore wind projects.