According to the 10-year expansion plan 2029, Brazil has ambitious plans to expand offshore wind energy. In the Brazilian Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2020, EPE estimates that a potential of 700 GW exists. However, there are a number of challenges related to implementing this amount of wind energy. One of the largest challenges relates to the technical training of staff. With this workshop, therefore, we offered a course that provides people in Brazil with the basic knowledge and skills required to be successful in the wind energy industry.

Wind energy is one of the key technologies for achieving our ambitious net zero goals. For this, a significant expansion of wind energy deployment is needed, which poses several technical, political and social challenges. Digitalisation is one of the key drivers for reducing the costs and risks of wind energy and thus achieving these goals. For this reason, the Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Institute of Energy Technology at OST focuses its activities on developing tools for addressing the challenges of the implementation of digitalisation in wind energy. In order to bring people together to discuss these challenges, we ran a one-day hybrid workshop “"Wind Goes Digital" - The opportunities and challenges of wind energy digitalisation” in Zurich on March 9th, 2023, together with the Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network. The feedback from the 40 participants was very positive, and they particularly enjoyed meeting new people and getting to dig into specific topics in detail.

We had the pleasure of hosting the Networking Event Series Wind Energy 2022 - Ideation for the global market at Rapperswil on June 7th, 2022. Participants included more than 40 Swiss-based researchers, start-ups, SMEs and other organisations involved in wind energy. As well as some interesting presentations and posters, we solved five multidisciplinary challenges in small groups and then presented the results to the audience. The discussions are continuing in the WeDoWind Ecosystem.

On Wednesday, Sep. 22nd 2021, we held the Networking Event Series Wind Energy 2021 PART 2 - LIVE NETWORKING WITH SPECIAL GUEST. We were a small but motivated group of 20 people representing four different universities and ten innovative companies

Don’t miss out on the WinJi Gearbox Failure Detection Challenge - exclusive on the new WeDoWind platform. In this challenge, participants should make use of the provided SCADA data in order to train, test and validate methods that will provide clear indicators of an upcoming gear box related fault, as well as/or a horizon-based probability of the event occurring. The aim is to push the performance of such predictions to at least a monthly horizon.

Dear wind energy science colleagues,

The Diversity Committee of the European Academy of Wind Energy and The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network invite you all to join us in our goal of improving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in wind energy science!

Dear wind energy colleagues,

As part of IEA Wind Task 43 Technical Area 2, we invite everyone in the wind energy community to jointly work on this challenge that aims to propose standard metadata schemas and related semantics for sharing data in the wind energy sector.

Do you share our vision that a collaborative wind energy community sharing data is needed to speed up the innovation process in wind energy? Do you believe that in the ongoing digital transformation of the wind energy sector the amount of generated data offers extraordinary opportunities if readily available to everybody? Do you agree that data sharing needs an efficient data management based on standard metadata schemas and related semantic jointly agreed throughout our community?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

On May 6th we successfully ran our Networking Series Event - Wind Energy Technology (2021). The topic of the event was “Open Innovation and Cooperative Competition“, and we had some inspiring talks and discussions in a very exciting day.

We invite everyone in the wind energy sector to keep the discussion about collaboration going by becoming a member of The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network and joining us on the exclusive WeDoWind data sharing and collaboration platform!

Dear global wind energy community,

Do you find it difficult to decide which Wind Resource Assessments (WRA) tool to apply to which site? Or wish you could better understand how your choices affect the overall project risks?

In this challenge, you get the chance to contribute to developing a decision tool for choosing the most effective WRA tool for a given wind energy project!

Don’t miss out on the EDP Wind Turbine Failure Detection Challenge - exclusive on the new wedowind.com platform. The objective is to identify the failures in five of the major wind turbine components and advise an intervention to the wind farm operators in order to reduce corrective maintenance costs.

We are pleased to report about the success of The Second Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum ONLINE, which took place on Wednesday Sep. 16th, 2020. Despite the restrictions due to the online format, we managed to attract 65 attendees and ensure an interactive exchange of contacts and ideas!

For International Women's Day on Sunday, The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network is pleased to announce the new interview series "Women in Wind".

We are excited to announce that The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network was officially founded in accordance with art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code (CC) on Feb. 6th, 2020!

We would like to announce four exciting collaboration opportunities being organised by the Management Board of the network.

Last Friday I held a speed workshop “Solving The Swiss Wind Energy Problem“ at the Impact Hub OpenHubDay. After introducing the problem and discussing some of the solutions already tried, we went quickly to a brainstorming session and developed some interesting new ideas. Read on to find out more.

I just attended the North American Wind Energy Academy conference 2019 at UMass in Amherst, MA, and I was amazed at the amount - and detail - of exciting wind energy research going on in the US.

This is a copy of my blog post on windspire from Sep. 27th, 2019.

This week I attended the EERA JP Wind Annual Event 2019. The mission of EERA JP WIND is to provide strategic leadership for medium to long-term research and to support the European wind energy industry and societal stakeholders. The joint programme brings together all public research organisations in Europe with substantial research and innovation efforts in wind energy.