Wind energy siting
A critical step of a wind energy project is to be able to carry out the siting phase and evaluate all key factors involved with as high accuracy as possible to be able to optimize site selection, layout, input values for turbine selection. The siting contains wind resource estimation including interaction with topography (stretching from flat to complex) and land/sea conditions (possibly including both sea, land, forested areas). When identifying a suitable site and interaction with local conditions, the interaction between turbines and possibly farm to farm interaction need a careful investigation, including turbine wake and farm wake studies. This part also includes a load assessment. The siting phase also includes estimation of cold climate effects (icing), construction components and environmental assessment.
Research project within the theme:
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HiFiWake - Enabling High-fidelity Wind Farm Modelling for Industrial ApplicationsThe complexity of Northern European wind conditions and new grid requirements for wind farm control challenge the state of industrial wind farm modelling. High-fidelity large-eddy simulation (LES) is considered the most accurate tool for such modelling tasks.
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AptWindA European Industrial Doctoral Network granted under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions which are the EU flagship programme for doctoral training.
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Atmospheric Flow Loads and Power for Wind Energy – FLOWThe development of the wind energy industry has given place to an increasing capability to build larger wind turbines. The scale of the upcoming generation of rotors is so large that they will face an increasing range of atmospheric events that belong to the uppermost regions of the boundary layer.
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UpWfarmTrends such as larger wind farms and larger wind turbine rotors require high fidelity models such as large-eddy simulation (LES) to predict and understand the underlying aerodynamic and meteorological phenomena.
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GoSET – High-Fidelity Wind Farm Simulations for a Sustainable Energy System on GotlandThe island of Gotland will be the first region in Sweden to be powered solely by renewable energy. The vast majority of electricity will be supplied by wind energy, with a swath of new wind farms being planned around the island with ever increasing size.
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Farmblockage - validation of model possibilitiesWind farm blockage is a multifaceted phenomenon consisting of a combination of several effects from the induction of individual wind turbines to large-scale atmospheric conditions that control mixing and flow patterns.
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WHYBS – Wind and Hydrogen systemsThe rapid development of the offshore wind industry and decrease in cost is a realistic recourse to reach 100% renewable systems. However, in local or regional energy system the fluctuation of energy might be problematic.
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