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The Network’s Ventus Awards are named after what is essential to the work we do: wind. As the Latin word for wind, ‘ventus’ is rooted in many of the languages we speak to discuss–and harness–this important power. It also refers to the Venti, or Roman Gods for wind–each with their own directional power from north, south, east, and west. These ten awards honor those people, companies and organizations that embody the powerful force of wind to set the industry on course for new and better future, be it products, programs, or technology that allow us to harness wind to better lives of those around us through clean energy, a safer environment, and innovative jobs.
The Network’s Ventus Awards are named after what is essential to the work we do: wind. As the Latin word for wind, ‘ventus’ is rooted in many of the languages we speak to discuss–and harness–this important power. It also refers to the Venti, or Roman Gods for wind–each with their own directional power from north, south, east, and west. These ten awards honor those people, companies and organizations that embody the powerful force of wind to set the industry on course for new and better future, be it products, programs, or technology that allow us to harness wind to better lives of those around us through clean energy, a safer environment, and innovative jobs.
Rising Star: OSW Student Scholar
The Offshore Wind Scholarship Fund is awarded to college-bound high school seniors who have demonstrated impeccable academic achievement and a keen interest in pursuing a career in offshore wind renewable energy.
The Viterna Award recognizes excellence in engineering that advances the offshore wind energy industry. Given to an individual or team, it is named after NASA scientist Larry Viterna who, with fellow scientist Bob Corrigan, developed the Viterna Method, which is the most widely used method to predict wind turbine performance and increase the efficiency of turbine output.
The Offshore Wind Leadership award is given to an individual, company, or public entity that exhibits outstanding leadership, benefiting industry growth, development, and market maturation. The recipient’s actions exhibit the highest standards of integrity, responsibility, transparency, inclusiveness, cooperation, and coordination among industry peers and external stakeholders in order to advance the offshore wind industry.
This award recognizes an individual or company whose singular innovation will contribute to the acceleration of offshore wind in areas such as LCOE, health and safety, and supply chain process improvement.
The Supply Chain Advancement award recognizes a company or public sector entity that is making a lasting contribution to the advancement of the offshore wind energy supply chain.
This award is given to an individual, team, or company that has developed a technology, process or demonstrated immense effort and collaboration to advance or reduce offshore wind project development risk, cycle, or timeline.
The Health, Safety & Environment Program of the Year award recognizes an organization’s successful implementation of policies and/or training programs that prevent workplace accidents and injuries, increase safety awareness, and meet the requirements of environmental and occupational health and safety laws and requirements.
Individuals who nurture and develop a new generation of leaders. They recruit bright new minds and find creative ways to build an innovative, engaged, and diverse workforce for the future.
The award recognizes a professional who is 35-years old or younger and has been in the industry less than ten years. This individual embodies the leadership qualities needed to advance the offshore wind industry into the next generation.
Honors an individual who has contributed significantly to the expansion of offshore wind energy. Named in honor of William Edward Heronemus (1920 – 2002), it recognizes an individual’s leadership, dedication, and unwavering perseverance to accelerate the offshore wind industry.
Bill Heronemus, known as the “father of modern wind power”, was the inventor of offshore wind products and terms today that are considered the backbone of offshore wind. He served in the Navy during World War II and received a Bronze Star for his service. Following the war, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving an M.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and worked for the Navy for nearly 20 years until he retired in 1965. Soon after, he established the Ocean Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts. During his decades-long tenure at the University, he advocated for the advance of “grand scale” renewables to replace fossil fuel and nuclear energy, saying. “Renewable energy is mandatory for the future of mankind. Wind energy is one of the best sources, and the technology already exists to tap it.”
This award honors an organization’s contribution to both reducing its carbon footprint and improving society through equity, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and resiliency. It recognizes a specific program or project that breaks down traditional barriers and inspires action on sustainability issues, including setting carbon reduction targets, reducing emissions, prioritizing workforce diversity of external projects, and helping its suppliers achieve sustainability goals through resources and trainings.
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At the Oceantic Network, formerly known as the Business Network for Offshore Wind, our driving purpose is to inform, coordinate, and mobilize human ingenuity, enterprise, and labor to take advantage of the urgent need to tap the vast renewable energy resources that lie offshore in the world’s oceans. The collective, coordinated efforts of our members equip communities and nations to accelerate the transition to clean energy and create economic opportunities.
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