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Annual Report 2014
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
Alliance (EERA) joint programme on Wind Energy and the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE).
The forums are important networks for improving quality of research, and for developing R&D strategies
and new projects.
The existing strong research infrastructure was expanded with procurement of DIPLAB (8 MVA short-circuit emulator) in 2014 with funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN). The lab has already
been used for performing a voltage dip test on a full-scale wind turbine at Valsneset. The data from
the test are highly valuable data providing a basis for better understanding how grid faults affect wind
turbines and for validating simulation models.
The accumulated costs for NOWITECH in 2014 were NOK 40 million co-funded by the Research Council
of Norway (RCN), the industry parties and the research parties.
Figure 2: TRL distribution of innovations in NOWITECH. The total number of innovations allocated a TRL
has increased from 24 in 2013 to 36 in 2014, and the innovations are moving towards higher TRL.
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