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Vision
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Contributing to large scale deployment of deep sea
offshore wind turbines,
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An internationally leading research community on
offshore wind technology enabling industry partners to
be in the forefront.
Objective
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Precompetitive research laying a foundation for
industrial value creation and cost-effective offshore
wind farms. Emphasis is on “deep-sea” (+30 m) including
bottom-fixed and floating wind turbines.
Key issues
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Innovations, knowledge building and education aiming
to reduce the cost of energy from offshore wind farms.
Organization
NOWITECH is organized with a General Assembly (GA),
a Board, a Centre Director, a Scientific Committee (SC),
a Committee for Innovation and Commercialisation (CIC)
and a Centre Management Group (CMG).
The research activities are organised into three work
packages (WPs): Substructures and numerical tools (WPA),
Operation & Maintenance and Materials (WPB), Grid and
Wind Farms (WPC).
Results
Excellent research work directed towards industry needs
is carried out. A total of 36 industry relevant results and
innovations are in progress. This includes new software
tools, processes and technology. The results of NOWITECH
are migrating to commercial use, licence agreements, and
business developments.
The educational programme provides for first-rate recruit-
ment opportunities for the industry. NOWITECH has so far
financed 24 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral researchers.
In addition, 14 PhD students and 1 post docs on offshore
wind energy are on-going at NTNU with finance from other
sources, but carried out in alignment with NOWITECH.
The scientific work is of the highest international standard
with more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and more than 20
invited keynotes at international conferences since start up.
Very significant spin-off activities have been achieved.
Since the start, more than 50 new projects with an
accumulated budget in excess of NOK 1000 million have
been initiated with participation of one or more of the
research partners in NOWITECH. These projects are with
separate contracts external to NOWITECH, but carried out
in alignment with NOWITECH providing added value.
Value for Industry Partners
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Excellent research with significant budget and duration
directed towards industry needs
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First-rate recruitment opportunities from strong master,
PhD and post doc programme
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A high gearing of research expenditures and first access
to detailed results for business development
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Access to international network and strategic position in
important European forums
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Knowledge and innovations contributing to reduced cost
of energy from offshore wind farms
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36 innovations in 2014
Figure 1: NOWITECH has focus on “deep sea”, i.e. +30 m
water depth, both bottom-fixed and floating technology.
A key target is innovations reducing cost of energy from
offshore wind farms. Main areas of research are numerical
modelling, materials, substructures, grid connection,
maintenance and control.
NOWITECH is an international precompetitive NOK 320 million (2009-2017) research
cooperation on offshore wind technology co-financed by the Research Council of Norway,
industry and research partners.