UpWind THE EC INTEGRATED PROJECT UPWIND Peter Hjuler Jensen Programme Manager Coordinator for UpWind Risoe National Laboratory

UpWind Outline Background Scope and Objective Work Package Structure Participants Organization Budget, duration, kick off meeting etc

UpWind Background Wind Energy back in EC 6’th Frame Work Programme Great achievement for EWEA and the Wind Energy Community Also projects in Wind Energy in a call in December Wind Turbines increases in size which requires new design tools, components and materials Competition gets harder in sector and with other sectors which puts pressure on the economic efficiency Therefore UpWind is made so the industry in a more efficient way can utilize the European Research capacity in the next generations of wind turbines

UpWind EU – Objective and Challenge

UpWind Project objective UpWind will develop and verify substantially improved models of the principle wind turbine components, which the industry needs for the design and manufacture of wind turbines for future very large-scale applications, more cost efficient e.g. offshore wind farms of several hundred MW. The wind turbines needed will be very large (>8-10 MW and rotor diameter > 120 m).

UpWind Project goal - efficiency

UpWind UpWind Work Package Structure

UpWind Participants in the project Coordinator:Peter Hjuler Jensen, Risoe 40 Participants in the project UpWind a European Consortium with most of the important European Actors in the Wind Energy Sector. Not all important actors in EU are included and that have to be handled in the project Actors outside EU and the consortium have to be considered by the consortium if they apply for a relation

UpWind Participants Risoe National Laboratory, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Institut fuer Solare Energieversorgungstechnik, Stichting Kenniscenrum Windturbine Materialen en Constructies, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, CENER, Instytut Podstawowych Problemow Techniki PANInstitute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Delft University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Aalborg University, National Technical University of Athens, University of Patras,, Universitaet Stuttgart, Werkzeugmaschinenlabor, Aachen University, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Salford, University of Edinburgh, Lulea University of Technology, Shell, Elsam Engineering A/S, Garrad Hassan and Partners, Ramboll Danmark A.S, Fundacion Robotiker, SAMTECH S.A, GE Wind Energy GmbH, Vestas Asia Pacific A/S, FIBERBLADE EÓLICA S.A. Ltd.,, LM Glasfiber A.S, Repower Systems AG,, Ecotècnia S.C.C.L QinetiQ Ltd,. Smart Fibres Ltd. Lohmann und Stolterfoht GmbH Germanischer Lloyd WindEnergie GmbH, Det Norske Veritas, Danmark A/S European Wind Energy Association

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Budget, start and duration Budget total22.34 mill EURO EU support14.3 mill EURO Duration5 Years Start1 March 2006

UpWind Kick off meeting Dates3-4 April 2006 PlaceBrussels Agenda: Annual General meeting Presentation of the management and organization of the project Work package presentations Working groups starts working Work shop with cross work package dialog

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