Why attend?
Are you an entrepreneur, researcher, innovator or organisation wanting to expand into the global wind energy market? In this ideation event, you will take home some tools to help you on your way:
Introduction to our new Guide to Getting Started in Wind Energy.
Insights about the key challenges in the wind energy industry today from a global wind energy expert.
Entertaining overview of the exciting wind energy R&D going on in Switzerland today, through one-minute speed presentations and posters.
Tips for technology transfer to the global wind energy market from experts in Switzerland (Innosuisse) and Germany (enviConnect).
Contribute ideas in small groups to solving real industry multidisciplinary challenges in our ideation workshops.
Come and solve a challenge!
In the afternoon we will be running some exciting ideation workshops, in which you split into small groups and solve one of this challenges (click on picture to open a detailed description):
Challenge 1: Airborne Wind Energy in the context of conventional wind farms (Skypull SA)
Challenge 1: With special online guest Roland Schmehl, TU Delft, talking about “Performance assessment of AWE systems operated in a park configuration“
Challenge 2: How to beat Electromagnetic Compatibility limits? (Military Aviation Authority)
Challenge 3: Evaluation of the potential for small wind farms up to 5MW in Switzerland (Suisse Eole)
Challenge 4. Technical implications and corresponding best practices in curtailment (nateco AG).
Challenge 5. Concept for Structural Health Monitoring software as a service (ETH Zurich)
Come and present your work!
Submit an abstract! If you want a chance to hold a one-minute presentation and present a poster at the event, submit an abstract here (maximum one page A4). The deadline is on 31.05.2022. Old and existing posters are allowed. If you would prefer to have a table to exhibit a product instead of a poster, please write a comment in the submission form.
Student abstracts are automatically considered for the Best Student Poster award! The five best student posters win free admission!
Registration
Open until May 31st, 2022.
Costs CHF 150 full price / CHF 50 students.
Request financial support in the registration form if needed.
Select to contribute an abstract and/or a challenge in the registration form.
Programme
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction: presentation of our guide "getting started in wind energy"
Sarah Barber, President of The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network
09:15 - 09:45 Key-note talk “Grand Challenges in Wind Energy Science“
Katherine Dykes, Head of Section, Systems Engineering & Optimization, DTU Wind Energy
09:45 - 10:15 One-minute speed presentations
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee and posters
10:45 - 11:30 Talks on technology transfer
Andy Clifton, enviConnect (DE)
Philip Morger, Switzerland Global Enterprise (CH)
Ernst-Jan van Hattum, Enterprise Europe Network at Innosuisse (CH)
11:30 - 12:00 Challenge presentations
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 Ideation workshops (challenge solving)
15:30 - 16:00 Presentation of results and next steps
16:00 - 17:00 Apero and posters
About our key-note speaker
Katherine Dykes is the Head of Section for Systems Engineering & Optimization at DTU Wind Energy. Katherine’s research over the last decade has involved applying systems engineering to optimization of wind turbine and plant design and operation. At DTU, this includes the development coordination for the TOPFARM wind farm optimization software. She is a co-operating agent for IEA Wind Task 37 on systems engineering applied to wind energy RD&D. She holds a PhD from MIT in engineering systems and a dual-MS from The Ohio State University in electrical engineering and applied economics.
In the key-note speech she will talk about the “Grand Challenges of Wind Energy Science”, based on the Science paper with the same name which she co-authored. Harvested by advanced technical systems honed over decades of research and development, wind energy has become a mainstream energy resource. However, continued innovation is needed to realize the potential of wind to serve global demand for clean energy. Here, we outline three interdependent, cross-disciplinary grand challenges underpinning this research endeavor. The first is the need for a deeper understanding of the physics of atmospheric flow in the critical zone of plant operation. The second involves science and engineering of the largest dynamic, rotating machines in the world. The third encompasses optimization and control of fleets of wind plants working synergistically within the electricity grid. Addressing these challenges could enable wind power to provide as much as half of our global electricity needs.