WORKSHOP
Pacific Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER)
Programmatic Meeting on Offshore Wind in the Pacific
25-29 August 2025
Registration to participate online/offline:
- Email to: hungbq@fimo.edu.vn
- Phone/Zalo/Whatsapp: +84-904-371-339
Background
Countries along the Pacific Rim as well as the Oceania and Pacific islands have vested interests in offshore wind (OSW) energy development to address the crucial issues of emission, air pollution, and energy security and independence. In this regard, a multinational programmatic meeting, namely the Pacific Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER), convenes researchers, policymakers, industry representatives, and environmental stakeholders to advance offshore wind energy research and applications across Hawaii, Vietnam, and the broader Pacific region. The meeting aimed to coordinate regional efforts, align technical priorities, and foster international collaboration to accelerate the development of OSW power generation from the tropical, subtropical, and higher latitude marine environments. Specially featured in the POWER meeting is the unveiling for the first time accurate OSW measurements from NASA satellite radar data using a patented method developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. The NASA OSW data products for wind measurements over a decade in a 1-km grid cover vast marine regions larger than one million km2 for Hawaii (supported by NASA) and for Vietnam (supported by U.S. State Department), equivalent to deploying and maintaining one million virtual buoys to measure OSW for a decade. If demanded by the OSW community, such NASA OSW data products can also be obtained around all island nations and territories to be made available users and stakeholders. Accurate high-resolution wind measurements are crucial as wind power production is proportional the cubic power of wind speed (i.e., 26% difference wind speed leads to 200% difference in OSW power production) so that OSW energy resources are to be best utilized for the highest return from OSW energy investment.
Objectives
The POWER programmatic meeting is organized by the Climate Hawai’i in coordination with JPL, with the Vietnam National University (VNU)’s University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Center for Interdisciplinary Integrated Technology Field Monitoring (FIMO), and with the Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO) at the Chapman University. This meeting is to be hosted at the Hawai’i Leadership Forum on the 17th Floor of the TOPA Tower in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The objectives of the POWER meeting are to:
- Unveil the first-ever NASA OSW measurement data products in 1-km grid for Hawaii and Vietnam and discuss potential OSW products from NASA data/method in Pacific regions
- Feedback and requests from OSW community for potential NASA OSW data products
- Share current research and development (R&D) efforts and site characterization data
- Identify opportunities for collaborative technology demonstration projects
- Discuss OSW development involving permit, grid integration, and environmental monitoring strategies
- Support equitable and sustainable energy transitions in island and coastal communities
- Develop collaboration for regional coordination and future funding opportunities
- Form the international Pacific Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER) Working Group.
Language
- English
Organizer/Coordinators
Organizer: Director Jeff Mikulina, Climate Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Coordinators:
- Dr. Son Van Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology
- Dr. Bui Quang Hung, FIMO, VNU University of Engineering and Technology
- Prof. Menas Kafatos and Dr. Seung Hee Kim, ECHO, Chapman University
Organizer and/or coordinators can help arrange/moderate side meetings (in person or online).
Meeting Program
Day 1 – Monday 25 August 2025
- Delegations arriving
- 14:00 – 17:00: Meet-and-greet, to be pre-coordinated among delegations ahead of time
Day 2 – Tuesday 26 August 2025
- Plenary Meeting at the Hawai’i Leadership Forum on the 17th Floor of the TOPA Tower in Honolulu, Hawai’i. See agenda below.
- Side meetings, group dinner, and/or networking: Pre-coordinated among delegations
Day 3 – Wednesday 27 August 2025
- Field trip along the coast of Oahu for participants: Jeff: Plan to visit Makapuu Point to view the promising site for offshore wind on Oahu, visit North shore wind farm, and other sites.
- Side meetings, group dinner, and/or networking: Pre-coordinated among delegations
Day 4 – Thursday 28 August 2025
- Son Nghiem from NASA/JPL is available to meet with any delegations/participants
- Side meetings, group dinner, and/or networking: Pre-coordinated among delegations
Day 5 – Friday 28 August 2025
- Side meetings, group dinner, and/or networking: Pre-coordinated among delegations
- Recap meeting among organizers/coordinators
Plenary Meeting Agenda (Draft, Subject to Changes)
Time: 12:00 – 16:30, Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Venue: Hawai’i Leadership Forum on the 17th Floor of the TOPA Tower, 700 Bishop Street, Suite 1701, Honolulu, HI 96813 in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Online: Jeff: Zoom link will be made available to invited participants.
AGENDA
Opening Session
MC – Jeff Mikulina, Climate Hawai’i
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Check in the Hawai’i Leadership Forum |
| 12:15 – 12:45
05:15 Hanoi
|
Welcoming remarks and introduction
· Opening/Greeting/Logistics Remark (5 minutes) – Jeff Mikulina · Remark from Hawai’i Leadership Forum (5 minutes) – TBD · Meeting Objectives from NASA/JPL (5 minutes) – Son V. Nghiem · Self-introduction of participants (15 minutes) |
Feature Presentations
Chair/Moderator: Jeff Mikulina – Climate Hawai’i
| 12:45 – 13:15
In person
13:15 – 13:30 Online 06:15 Hanoi
13:30 – 13:50 |
Unveiling Offshore Wind Data Products over Marine Domain from the Offshore Wind Hawaii Demonstration Project
· Son V. Nghiem (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA) · Tran La Vu (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Sanem, Luxembourg) Unveiling OSW Data Products for Vietnam from the Project on Advancing Vietnam’s Marine Spatial Planning for Offshore Wind Energy Development · Bui Quang Hung (VNU University of Engineering and Technology FIMO, Hanoi, Vietnam) · Son V. Nghiem (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA) Break and Group Photo |
Technical Presentations
Chair/Moderator: Son Nghiem – NASA/JPL
| 13:50 – 14:00
In person 14:00 – 14:10 Online 17:00 California 14:10 – 14:20 Online 14:20 – 14:30 Pre-recording
14:30 – 14:40 Online
14:40 – 14:50 In person
14:50 – 15:00 In person
15:00 – 15:10 In person
15:10 – 15:20 Online
15:20 – 15:30 |
Hawaii’s 100% Journey: Islands as Innovators
· Jeff Mikulina (Climate Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i) Transitioning Hawai’i to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything · Mark Jacobson (Stanford University, California, USA) California’s Progress Developing Offshore Wind · Adam Stern (Executive Director, Offshore Wind California, USA) The Potential of Offshore Wind Power in Vietnam and VinEnergo’s Vision in Contributing to the Development of this Sector · Nguyen Thi Thuy Anh, (VinEnergo, VinGroup, Hanoi, Vietnam) AI-Based Mapping of Offshore Wind Energy around the Korean Peninsula Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Numerical Weather Prediction Data · Yangwon Lee (Presenter), Jason Sung-uk Joh (Division of Earth and Environmental System Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea), Son V. Nghiem (NASA JPL, California, USA), Seung Hee Kim and Menas Kafatos (Chapman University, California, USA) Development of a National Offshore Wind Map with Observation-Based Corrections · Donggun Oh (Presenter), Minkyu Lee, Jin-Young Kim, Chang Ki Kim, Myeongchan Oh, and Boyoung Kim (Renewable Energy Big Data Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, South Korea) Wind Resource-Driven Demonstration of a Hydrogen and Battery Integrated RE100 System for Coastal Industry · Boyoung Kim (Presenter), Hyun-goo Kim, Chang Ki Kim, Jin Young Kim, and Donggun Oh (Renewable Energy Big Data Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, South Korea) Retrievals of Atmospheric NO2 Columns over Asia using the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer Observations Relevant to Efficacy Assessment of Green Energy Transition · Boyoung Kim (Presenter), Hyun-goo Kim, Chang Ki Kim, Jin Young Kim, and Donggun Oh (Renewable Energy Big Data Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, South Korea) DeepOWT: A Global Spatiotemporal Dataset of Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure from Sentinel-1 Radar and Deep Learning · Thorsten Hoeser and Felix Bachofer (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) Break |
Community Discussions
Chair/Moderator: Jeff Mikulina – Climate Hawai’i
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Community Discussions
· Challenges – Opportunities – Solutions – Collaboration |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Closing remarks (Jeff Mikulina) – Note of Thanks (Son Van Nghiem) |
Side Meetings (Day 2 to Day 5)
While the Plenary Meeting in the Afternoon of Tuesday 26 August 2025 serves a centroid of the POWER meeting, it is of primary importance for delegations/participants to pre-arrange/pre-coordinate side meetings for networking to develop collaboration, project plans, or future joint proposals relevant to OSW energy science, technologies, applications, and projects. Each proposed side meeting will be for one hour at the time/day/location of your choice. One or more of organizer/coordinators can help arrange/moderate side meetings, which can be in person or online. Each side meeting is to be opened to all participants, unless you like to limit to certain groups only. We will send a list of delegations/participants in the POWER meeting.
Day 1 – Monday 25 August 2025
- Side Meeting for TBD
- Side Meeting for organizer/coordinators for final updates
Day 2 – Tuesday 26 August 2025
- Side Meeting for TBD
Day 3 – Wednesday 27 August 2025
- Side Meeting for VinEnergo, VinGroup, Hanoi, Vietnam: 08:00 – 09:00 TO BE CONFIRMED.
Day 4 – Thursday 28 August 2025
- Side Meeting for TBD
Day 5 – Friday 29 August 2025
- Side Meeting for TBD
- Side Meeting for organizers/coordinators for wrapping up/recap of meeting
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