Concept and objectives
The overall concept of the new WindScanner PP project can be summarized as a coordinated and joint European further development and dissemination of the already established Danish WindScanner.dk facility in a network between distributed WindScanner research and demonstration nodes embedded within leading European energy research organizations. The participants are all partners of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and the WindScanner vision is to develop a European Research Infrastructure that underpins the EERA Joint Programme on Wind Energy.
The establishment of the facility requires an unprecedented joint effort with highly dedicated trained personnel and mobile wind profilers and remote sensing based WindScanner instrumentation. This is a technical and economically substantial task that requires a Pan-European approach including hardware, user-programmes, joint research and innovation activities, data exchange, and joint training and exchange programmes for scientific-technical staff of the various nodes.
The European WindScanner will be distributed, so all interested and committed countries have the possibility to create a national node. The design and location still needs to be specified nationally and between the partners. If not mitigated some technical housing difficulties is foreseen regarding national WindScanner installations or buildings at the nodal host facilities. The WindScanner.eu’s central office and technological repository and distribution centre will be established at the Wind Energy Department at DTU, Denmark.
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