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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 40 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
recruitment opportunities for the industry. NOWITECH
has so far financed 25 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral
researchers. In addition, 10 PhD students and 2 postdocs
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 190 peer-reviewed paper 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 60 new projects with an
accumulated budget in excess of NOK 1500 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 Postdoc 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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40 innovations
Figure 2: 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 co-
operation on offshore wind technology co-financed by the Research Council of Norway,
industry and research partners.