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 the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST) focuses its activities on developing tools for addressing the challenges of the implementation of digi ..read more

Multidisciplinary problem solving at the networking event series 2022 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. Getting started in wind energy We started ..read more

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. Some impressions are shown below: View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize The first point in the programme was a presentation from our special guests Jan Dabrowski and Sudheesh Sureshkumar, founders of the company XVentum in Germany. They introduced their new software, wh ..read more

Dear global wind energy community, Are you interested in: Getting access to and/or developing solutions to real wind energy industry challenges? Sharing, comparing and optimising reproducible code and workflows using relevant wind energy data together with top researchers in the field? Testing your skills against top data scientists in the field? Showcasing your work and boosting your visibility? Accelerating innovation through knowledge sharing? Benefiting from being an “early adopter” to the new WeDoWind data sharing and collaboration platform, helping us to shape the platform? T ..read more

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! Sign up for the new space “Diversity in wind energy science“ on the new WeDoWind data sharing and collaboration platform using the form below to interact with the global wind energy sector and work together on developing solutions for improving DEI in wind energy science! We want to hear as many diverse views as possible! Start by contributing ..read more

Dear wind energy colleagues, The members of the IEA Wind Task 43 invite you to actively take part in the task by interacting with us on the new WeDoWind platform, which allows goal-oriented collaboration based on real industry challenges. The mission of IEA Wind Task 43 is to help bring about a revolution in the way the wind energy industry uses technology, by providing a platform for dissemination of great ideas, best practices and collaboration. The first challenge in the space is the IEA Wind Task 43 Metadata Challenge. We invite everyone in the wind energy community to jointly take part in ..read more

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! On the platform, we have created a new challenge “Enabling meaningful, value-adding collaboration and knowledge sharing”, co ..read more

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! This is Stage 2 of the Swiss-funded project “Comparison metrics simulation challenge”, which is coordinated within the IEA-Wind Task 31 “Wakebench”, in which we are developing the new decision tool. In Stage 1, participa ..read more

Dear global wind energy community, Are you interested in: Getting access to and/or developing solutions to real wind energy industry challenges? Sharing, comparing and optimising reproducible code and workflows using relevant wind energy data together with top researchers in the field? Testing your skills against top data scientists in the field? Showcasing your work and boosting your visibility? Accelerating innovation through knowledge sharing? Benefiting from being an “early adopter” to the new wedowind.com data sharing and collaboration platform, helping us to shape the platform ..read more

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! What did we do? The first part “Insipiration” involved a range of experienced speakers in the area of smart measurement technology and machine learning / AI. We started off with an introduction summarising the advantages of wind energy and showing some examples of exciting projects coordinated by The Swiss Wind ..read more