What do people in the society, governments and the wind industry think about implementing wind energy in the Nordic region? Nordic Wind Energy Center is planning three different surveys to these three groups to come closer to understanding their current Read More …
Author: Yvonne Dahlbäck
12-14.6 World Wind Energy Conference, WWEC2017 Malmö
The 16th international World Wind Energy Conference. The Conference will be the event of the year that brings together the foremost experts, peers and practitioners in the business from the whole world. On the theme; Popular and Participatory Wind Power, Read More …
2.5-5.5 2017 Wind Turbine Noise 2017 Rotterdam
The biennial international conferences on Wind Turbine Noise, organised by INCE-Europe, started in Berlin in 2005. The seventh conference of the series will be held on May 2-5, 2017 in the Willem Burger Complex at De Doelen in Rotterdam. The Read More …
Project meeting in Narvik 23-24th of March
WindCoE had a project meeting on the 23-24th of March at the University of Tromsø in Narvik. Participants in the meeting, except for the host, were Novia UaS, Umeå University, Vaasa University, Tampere University, SeAMK and Luleå University. University of Read More …
Survey about society´s opinions on wind energy
Do wind turbines disturb our peaceful nature? Wpd Finland Ltd and Motiva Ltd have done a survey in 2010 about society´s opinions on wind energy. In total 1700 residents‘ opinions were analyzed. The same questions were sent to two groups; Read More …
The WindSoMe-project
An article about the WindSoMe-project has been published in Tuulivoimalehti, a paper publicized by Suomen Tuulivoima Yhdistys (Finnish Wind Power Association). You can read the whole article here (in Finnish) or a short summary below in English. In Finland, wind Read More …
Luleå University of Technology’s Atmospheric Science Group have become a member of the Nordic Wind Energy Center
At Luleå University of Technology´s homepage you can read about the new membership of the Atmospheric Science Group in the WindCoE-project and their future contributions to the center. Atmospheric Science Group will contribute to a deeper understanding of the meteorology Read More …
Using observations and models to understand movement of sound in the atmosphere
Observations A microwave radiometer has been installed at a WindCoE-project site for measuring the atmosphere to help understand why distantly propagated sound has so much variability. Especially wind turbine sound. The radiometer scans the atmosphere and measures temperatures up to Read More …
Noise from wind turbines in Närpes is lower than expected
The noise from Vindin’s wind farm in Svalskulla in Närpes is lower than estimated, measurements show. The wind farm consists of five wind turbines. Measurements show that the noise levels are lower than guidelines levels and also lower than expected Read More …