Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy SystemsAdler
The project partners are developing an optimized LiDAR measuring device with a new verification concept for determining wind resources. Federal BMWK, InnovateUK, 03/2019 - 03/2023
Finished projects 2023
AFLOWT
A floating offshore platform will be developed and tested in an offshore trial at Ireland´s west coast. This demonstration is supposed to show that the structure is survivable in a deep-water environment and also cost-effective.
Interreg North West Europe, 10/2018 – 12/2023
BladeFactory
IWES researchers will develop and test production methods to reduce the production time for rotor blades. To this end, the team is working to parallelize production steps. In addition, a 3D laser measurement system, which is suitable for assuring the quality of blade production, will be tested for the first time.
BMWK, 10/2018 – 10/2023
Digital Wind Buoy
The Fraunhofer IWES is developing an extended methodology to determine the wind potential of offshore wind farm clusters based on the short-term measurement data from a floating lidar system.
BMWK, 06/2020 – 08/2023
DigMa
The project partners are developing and testing a digital, automated maintenance communication system that makes it easier to compare and evaluate experiences in the operation of wind farms.
BMWK, 08/2020 – 01/2023
FAIRWinDS
With the aid of a data trust model, the project partners are implementing the FAIR principle for research data from wind farm operation and, in doing so, breaking down barriers to cross-company data exchange.
BMBF, European Union NextGenerationEU, 01/2022 - 12/2023
Future rotor blade concept
As part of the “Future rotor blade concept” research project, scientists at Fraunhofer IWES are developing new methods to test rotor blade prototypes that provide significantly more realistic data and allow a load-appropriate design to be produced. At the conclusion of the first phase of the research project, which will take five years in total, the infrastructure will be operational and the test methods developed to significantly reduce energy production costs.
BMWK, EFRE (Land Bremen) 12/2015 - 09/2023
Green Hydrogen for Bremerhaven
This model project comprises the development of a hydrogen production unit and a value-added chain in Bremerhaven. The project partners ttz Bremerhaven, Hochschule Bremerhaven and Fraunhofer IWES will test applications in the logistics and transport sector as well as the food industry.
EFRE, State of Bremen, 03/2020 - 09/2023
Grout-WATCH
The project partners are working on the development of the demonstrator of a measuring system capable of investigating and evaluating the damage process of a grouted joint on offshore wind turbines.
BMWK, 03/2020 - 12/2023
HANNAH
Innovative materials - hybrid materials and nano-modified material systems - will be developed and tested. The target is to achieve greater insights into the effect and damage mechanisms of these material systems. Especially the challenges associated with the processing on an industrial scale will be examined.
BMWK, 03/2019 - 04/2023
HighRe
With the aim of rendering the design of large rotor blades as cost-effective as possible, Fraunhofer IWES will investigate in the HighRe project common design procedures and assess their validity. This involves measurements on one of the world’s largest wind turbines.
BMWK, 06/2019 - 02/2023
iBAC
The project partners are developing an intelligent control strategy for wind turbines which is able to guarantee the effective protection of blade bearings and, at the same, keep yield losses and additional loads on turbines to a minimum.
BMWK, 06/2019 - 06/2023
LIKE
The project partners are forming an interdisciplinary training and education network for 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) in the field of wind lidar systems with the aim of further developing key technologies and training scientific experts.
European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, EXCELLENT SCIENCE – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 10/2019 – 09/2023
power4re
The project partners are developing effective solutions for increasing the reliability and robustness of inverters in photovoltaic systems and frequency converters in wind turbines.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in the scope of the internal program PREPARE, 03/2020 - 11/2023
ReliaBlade
Denmark's Tekniske Universitet and Fraunhofer IWES will be researching how the reliability of rotor blades can be improved in a collaboration including other alliance partners from across Denmark and Germany.
BMWK, 11/2018 – 10/2023
SOBeKo
The project partners are developing operational management and maintenance strategies for offshore wind farms that are optimized for the fluctuating power market prices and making a corresponding evaluation tool available.
BMWK, 04/2019 - 05/2023
SUnDAY
Improved Calculation Methods for Assessing Wind Farm Sites – “SUnDAY”. The project partners are using computational simulations in order to determine the scale and relevance of uncertainty factors when calculating wind farm sites.
BMWK, 11/2019 - 12/2023
SynCore
The project partners are developing and testing a methodology for the optimal use of subsoil exploration data in the development of offshore wind farms.
BMWK, 03/2020 - 12/2023
WiSA big data
The project partners are developing a virtual wind farm site assistant which will be able to optimize operational management and maintenance using early fault detection methods on the basis of high-resolution data.
BMWK, PtJ 12/2019 - 11/2023
X-Wakes
The project partners are examining the impact that offshore wind farms have on each other. Meteorological data are being collected using various measurement methods and, on the basis of this, models for future expansion scenarios will be developed.
BMWK 11/2019 - 04/2023