WindScanner.eu
Partners and stakeholders

The European WindScanner Facility will be coordinated by DTU Wind Energy - Technical University of Denmark with 10 partners from 6 European Countries (Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal). The projects Preparatory Phase started on 1 October 2012 and ends ultimo 2015.

The partners in the WindScanner.eu Preparatory Phase project are: DTU Wind Energy (Denmark), Fraunhofer IWES (Germany), ECN (the Netherlands), ForWind (Germany), CENER (Spain), SINTEF (Norway), LNEG (Portugal), University of Porto (Portugal), CRES (Greece) and IPU (Denmark). The project will be coordinated by DTU Wind Energy as hub.

The choice of site for hosting the WindScanner facilities is not an issue due to the Research Infrastructures distributed nature. 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.


WindScanner.eu -
concept

A mobile, distributed facility with 6-8 nodes
WindScanners deployed at existing or planned test facilities (different climate conditions and terrains)

Central Facility
Data management, hosting servers, hosting of website, administrative office, training of technicians and researchers operating the WindScanners, training of users, etc.

A coordinated programme of measurement campaigns using the WindScanners
Database of wind data from potential wind energy sites, enabling detailed and site-specific information on wind condition, (3D wind and turbulence measurements) from on- and offshore

One point of entry for users - pan-European users programme

Research Infrastructure to underpin and enable the EERA Joint Programming on Wind Energy

Important research activities on remote sensing based mapping of the regional wind resources and conditions etc.

 

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