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Annual Report 2015
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
The scientific results of the Centre are
disseminated efficiently and are achieving
international recognition.
Publications
since start-up include 190 peer-reviewed papers,
139 reports, 96 media contributions and 181
conference presentations of which more than
20 were invited keynotes, see Figure 16. In 2015
NOWITECH prepared 121 publications, including
39 peer-reviewed papers, 18 reports, 11 books/
theses, 20 media contributions, 17 posters and
15 conference presentations. Details of these are
given in the appendix. All NOWITECH partners
have access to a project
e-room, where all
internal information,
publications and
project results are
presented.
EERA DeepWind conference
A main event for communicating open results from
NOWITECH is the EERA DeepWind conference
held every year in Trondheim. The EERA Deep-
Wind’2015 Deep Sea Offshore Wind R&D
Conference, February 4-6, was a success with a
mix of plenary presentations with broad appeal
and presentations in parallel sessions and posters
on specific science and technology themes.
The conference is established as an important
venue on deep sea offshore wind R&D organized
in association with the European Energy Research
Alliance (EERA) joint programme on wind energy.
The aim is to present the latest and best on-going R&D on deep sea offshore wind farms. In
total 65 oral and 50 poster presentations were
held addressing new turbine and generator
technology, grid connection and power system
integration, met-ocean
conditions, operation
& maintenance,
installation and sub-structures, wind farm
optimization, and
experimental testing
and validation. The conference was fully booked
with 200 delegates from all over Europe, and also
from USA and Japan. In addition to the exciting
main event there were side events including a
workshop on EERA IRPwind access to open data
and an IEA Offshore Wind Code Comparison (OC5)
meeting. The presentation from the conference is
available at the conference website EERA
Deep-
Wind’2015
whereas selected papers after a
careful peer-review process are published in the
open access journal Energy Procedia (Elsevier).
Other communication activity
Other main channels for open communication of
NOWITECH activities and results are listed below:
•
www.NOWITECH.no
gives open information
about NOWITECH, short news on offshore wind
and announcements of relevant seminars etc.
The site is mainly for the interested professional.
The web page is continuously updated.
• The NOWITECH newsletters give short teasers
of results and information on activities in
NOWITECH. The newsletters are distributed
through e-mail and public web. They are
open and shall be understandable also for the
educated non-expert, but with links for further
reading to the NOWITECH e-room for partners
only. Two newsletters were produced in 2015.
• The seminar series
“Industry meets Science”
is continued in cooperation with Wind Cluster
Norway. The aim of the seminar series is to
facilitate an improved interaction between the
research in NOWITECH and relevant industry,
also those that are not partners in NOWITECH.
Two seminars were held in 2015.
• NOWITECH was present with presentations
and/or stands at more than ten international
conferences during 2015 including the EWEA
Offshore conference being recognised as the
main international exhibition and conference
with more than 8000 participants.
• In November, John Olav Tande, spoke to the
Standing Committee on Energy and the Environ-
ment about offshore wind. He explained how a
Norwegian demo park could be an important
climate contribution globally and create new
green industry in Norway. This is what he said:
http://blog.sintefenergy.com/politikk/demo-
park-for-havvind-er-et-viktig-klimabidrag
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(in Norwegian)
COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION
The scientific results of the
Centre are disseminated
efficiently and are achieving
international recognition.
The conference was fully
booked with 200 delegates
from all over Europe, and also
from USA and Japan.