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Annual Report 2015
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
The NOWITECH research partners are attractive:
A total of five new projects were started in 2015
with participation of one or more of the research
partners in NOWITECH.
Since start-up, the count
is 64 new projects with
an accumulated budget
of over NOK 1500
million. The projects
are with EU or Nordic funding (24), national
competence building projects or infrastructure
(27) or industry driven with RCN co-funding
(13). These projects are with separate contracts
external to NOWITECH, but carried out in align-
ment with NOWITECH providing added value. A
selection of projects is listed in Table 4. A number
of bilateral projects directly for industry come in
addition.
SPIN-OFF PROJECTS
Project title
Type
Partners
Start End
1 Lifes50+ (Qualifying innovative floating
substructures for 10MW wind turbines.)
EU H2020
MARINTEK, etc. (12 partners in total)
2015 2019
2 ReliPE (Reliability and ruggedness of high
power high voltage power electronics)
RCN KPN
SINTEF Energi AS, Statkraft, GE Power
Conversion, Mitsubishi Europe, EDF
2015 2019
3 Redwin (Reducing cost of offshore wind
by integrated structural and geotechnical
design)
RCN KPN
NGI, IFE, NTNU, Statkraft, Statoil
2015 2018
4 AWSOME (11 PhDs within O&M
methodologies)
EU H2020 MCA DTU, Strathclyde, NTNU, etc.
2015 2018
5 MOVE: Marine Operation Centre
RCN SFI
NTNU Ålesund, MARINTEK, Statoil, etc.
2015 2023
6 Support on offshore wind maintenance and
logistics studies
Bilateral
Statkraft, MARINTEK, SINTEF Energi
2015 2015
7 EERA IRPWIND
EU FP7
DTU, NTNU, SINTEF Energy Research,
Marintek, etc.
2014 2018
8 SmartGrids lab
RCN infrastructure NTNU, SINTEF Energy Research
2014 2018
9 Best Path
EU FP7
Red Electrica, Iberdrola, SINTEF Energy
Research, etc,
2014 2018
10 Kon-Wake
RCN IPN
Kongsberg, SINTEF MC
2014 2016
11 WiWind
RCN IPN
Kongsberg, SINTEF ICT
2014 2016
12 Wind farm Energy storage
Industrial
SINTEF Energy Research, Iberdrola,
Gamesa
2014 2015
13 DIMSELO
RCN KPN
IFE, DTU, STATOIL, STATKRAFT, NTNU 2013 2016
14 Eurosunmed
EU FP7
CNRS, SINTEF ER
2013 2017
15 Leanwind
EU FP7
Univ Cork, MARINTEK, Kongsberg,
SINTEF ER, NAAS ++
2013 2017
16 EWEM: European Wind Energy Master
EU
TU Delft, DTU, NTNU, Universität
Oldenburg
2013 -
17 Offshore Energy Storage system
RCN IPN
Sub Hydro, SINTEF Energy Research,
etc.
2013 2015
18 Offshore DC: DC grids for integration of large
scale wind power
Nordic
Risø DTU, AAU, Chalmers, SINTEF
Energy Research, VTT, Dong, Vestas,
ABB,
Energinet.dk, NTNU,
2013 2015
19 North Sea Offshore Network and Storage
RCN
SINTEF ER
2013 2016
20 Beppo - Blue Energy Production in Ports
EU Interreg
Port of Oostende, SINTEF Energy
Research, Marintek, etc.
2013 2015
Since start-up, the count
is 64 new projects with an
accumulated budget of over
NOK 1500 million.