The final report from the WindCoE project has been finished. You can take part of it here: WindCoE final report
WindCoE final report
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Nordic Forum for Wind Energy Research Seminar/Webinar
Nordic Forum for Wind Energy Research Seminar/Webinar Recent Research Results Important to Nordics 15 March, 2018, 09:30-16:00 CET Location: Umeå Universitet, MIT Huset, room 15/16e includes questions and answers session For webinar access: https://connect.sunet.se/windcoe/ Topical schedule: Introducing the Nordic Forum Read More …
What is a fair deal? – About our survey
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 …
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 …
Wind Energy in Cold Climate – Research Facilities
The Arctic Technology Research Group (Institute of Industrial Technology), at University of Tromsø, lead by professor Virk, are working with following research facilities in their studies of Wind Energy in Cold Climate: Field Ice Monitoring Stations Cold Climate Chambers Thermal Read More …
Wind Energy in Cold Climate – problems and research topics
Arctic regions has good resources of wind energy, but harsh weather conditions in arctic regions is a major hindrance in proper use of wind energy. Metrological parameters such as temperature, wind speed, droplet size and liquid water content leads to Read More …