WindScanner.eu: The European WindScanner facility

The future high rate of deployment of renewable energy will require a substantial increase in the installed wind power capacity towards 2020 and beyond, in fact this demand corresponds approximately to the installation of one large turbine every hour for the next decade. This is a substantial “grand challenge” as outlined in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) from 2009, which is the technology pillar of the EU’s energy and climate policy. The new WINDSCANNER research infrastructure facility has been conceived in the logic of the SET Plan and the vision of the European Innovation Union (Europe 2020 Strategy). The WINDSCANNER aims to enhance the European competitiveness in the wind energy sector and maintain European technological leadership in detailed high-resolution remote sensing measurement methodologies of wind and turbulence for wind energy.

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are coordinating the new approach to expand existing knowledge about wind and record more accurate measurements, bringing multiple benefits to the wind energy industry as a result. The project was first conceived in 2009 as WindScanner.dk, a national infrastructure activity, before the DTU partnered with other European wind energy research organizations to develop a distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) named the European WindScanner facility.

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