Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Offshore Wind Energy
University of Bergen and NORCE
The course provides a basic introduction to offshore wind and an understanding of the technical, legal, environmental and societal challenges, and opportunities of offshore wind energy development. It offers basic insight into how the wind energy can be extracted, and the challenges related to wind turbines in ocean waves are addressed. The course broadly outlines the fast developing offshore wind technology, which can serve as a first step on the path to deeper and more specific knowledge
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
Emeritus, Bergen Offshore Wind Centre (BOW), Geophysical Institute
University of Bergen
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe main components of offshore wind turbines
- Improve the understanding of the offshore wind field
- Improve the understanding of how energy is extracted from the wind and converted to electricity
- Describe characteristic ground conditions important to the foundation of offshore wind turbines
- Reflect on important legal and coexistence issues.
- Describe impacts of offshore wind turbines may have on the marine environment
Syllabus
- Perspectives and ambitions for offshore wind energy
- Characteristics of offshore wind turbines
- Characteristics of the marine ground conditions
- Levelized cost of electricity
- Characteristics of the wind
- From wind energy to electricity
- Legal framework and coexistence
- Environmental impacts
Issued on 25th June 2026
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