Melchior Karigl, Financial Director at the European Investment Bank and Michael van der Heijden, Managing Director at Typhoon Offshore have confirmed their presence at the conference Offshore Wind Installation and Maintenance 2011. The second edition of the conference will open with a session on the financing of wind parks.

Within the European Investment Bank, speaker Melchior Karigl has the responsibility for structured lending transactions in the offshore wind sector. The EIB has become a key source of finance to the renewable energy market. EIB lending for renewable energy has grown dramatically over the last few years to reach EUR 4.6bn in 2009. In the overall EIB energy portfolio this forms a tripling from below 10% in 2006 to nearly 30% in 2009. The majority of this lending is directed to wind and solar power generation.