The Grand Challenges of Wind Energy Science
A 100 worldwide wind energy experts have written a series of 10 articles published in Wind Energy Science journal WES. The articles synthesise the most critical wind energy science needs.
Corresponding author Paul Veers on the article series
"Wind energy by a lot of measures has been very successful. And many people think that because of that, it’s essentially done,” says Paul Veers. “And yet. The scale of what we’re doing with wind energy is much larger than before. The elevation above ground where the blade are going is so much higher that the basic assumptions that we had 25 years ago no longer apply. So, it was important to articulate what’s keeping us from innovating further because we just don’t know the fundamentals."
Professor Carlo Luigi Bottasso on the turbine paper
"🍃 We’re not done yet,” says Carlo. “It’s not a matter of just deploying the turbines with the technology we have today. We’re changing the world, and in a few years, the energy system will be changed completely. "
Professor Julia Kirch Kirkegaard on the Social Science paper in Nature Energy
"💡 Today, design decisions are often made without much deliberation. And when the public then raises concerns, their response is often not taken seriously, leading to widespread resistance in local communities. Societal values and concerns need to be included throughout the entire life-cycle of green energy projects."
Professor and lead author Johan Meyers on the Wind Farm Flow Control paper
"You have two competing objectives in wind farm flow control. You would like to put a lot of turbines close together, but at some point, that starts to hurt you because you have losses, energy is lost, and you have more loads."
Co-author Tuhfe Göçmen on AI and Machine Learning in Wind Farm Flow Control.
"We, the engineers, really like to see the series of logic taken in our models and decision processes. When we lose that oversight, it makes us uncomfortable,” says Tuhfe on the challenges of AI technology in WFFC"
Professor Alessandro Bianchini on the Small Wind Turbines paper
"We need back incentives to catalyze the technology and these incentives must not be intermittent,” says Alessandro. “It is also important to promote specific policies and contracts for small wind to be included in the electricity grid."
Lead author Andrew Clifton on the Digitalisation paper.
"I would say digitalisation is the thing that’s going to allow us to work together to get ever more turbines into the grid, to get more reliable power to more people in more places, to spread wind energy into more and more communities, and to provide the best the cheapest most reliable power supply possible."
Corresponding authors Katherine Dykes and Paul Veers on the TEM in Boulder
"We hope that this meeting will drive communications that go well outside the usual journals, the usual reports within the wind community, and help us alert the general population to what the needs of wind energy are. We have to demonstrate that the opportunity is huge, the foundation for our clean and low-cost energy future."
Professor Charlotte Hassager on the Atmosphere paper.
"So not only do we have the stresses of the wind on the wind turbine, but we also have the waves and the currents and swell posing a challenge. So really bringing together these diverse data sets and also developing some of the modelling tools that can work in the atmosphere as well as for the ocean and the expressions of the waves."
IEA Wind Chair, Stephan Barth on the article series
"IEA Wind is the one global community where all the experts from all over the planet are meeting, bringing the best of the best of wind energy research. It’s also the strategy forum, where the countries and the country representatives develop strategies to support the industry."
Lead author Will Shaw on the Grand Challenges of Atmospheric Science paper
"It’s beyond the capacity of current computers to explicitly resolve the physics of all of the processes going on from storms that may be 1000 kilometres across to turbulent eddies that may be a meter across. And yet all of those interact with each other in very complicated ways. So that’s a fundamental science challenge."
Director at the U.S. Department of Energy Eric Lantz on Wind Energy Economics
"We have to be increasingly cognizant of the importance of returning meaningful value to the electricity grid and economic development for the American people. Effectively applying the tools of the federal government in service of these objectives drives our day-to-day efforts."
The Grand Challenges Revisited chapter by Ruth Baranowski and Paul Veers
"🍀 One critical goal of the TEM 109 meeting was to examine the cross-disciplinary issues created by the intersections between the challenges. These intersections are known to some extent but do not always receive the attention needed because they stretch individual areas of expertise outside of traditional boundaries. "
Brief
Video pitching campaign, amplifying the scientific work beyond the research community
Project type
Creative Direction | Videography
Year
2021-2024
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