Partnering with Wind Energy Johnson Space Center meeting at Rice University, September 2010 Dr. Carsten Hein Westergaard Vestas Technology R&D Americas, Inc.

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3 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Technology growth over 25 years We install a turbine every 3 hours, 365 days a year ! Old tractor Vestas V10 Vestas V90-3MW World largest

4 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Vestas in North America

5 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Green Jobs Created by Wind Energy Deployment 65,9 GW installed 154,000 jobs created 22,3 GW installed 80,000 jobs created 14,7 GW installed 31,500 jobs created 3,1 GW installed 21,600 jobs created Sources: EWEA 2009, AWEA 2009, CREIA 2009, Vestas GW installed 85,000 jobs created 12,2 GW installed 40,000 jobs created

6 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Markets In 2009, wind was almost 40% of all new capacity installed in the US

7 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE WIND, OIL AND GAS Our vision is to put wind on a par with oil and gas.

8 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Source: New Energy, Q Finance 2x Grid Parity3x4x5x Grid Parity COST OF ENERGY Wind energy boasts highly competitive CoE

9 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE OUR MAIN TASK IS TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS -Business Case Certainty -Cost of Energy -Easy to Work With Quality is continuously improved, Failure is not an option

10 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE 6000 kw- announced 10 m rotor 90 m rotor 112 m rotor THE OUTPUT OF A TURBINE HAS INCREASED X100 - TOTAL ENERGY CAPTURED X330 Our fleet: 39,000 Turbines delivered = Total required power in Spain 63 countries 30kW … 3.0 MW

11 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE COST OF ENERGY WE KNOW HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF EACH TURBINE Data → Knowledge → Calculations WIND RESOURCES SERVICE COST TURBULENCE COMPLEXITY HEIGHT CONTOURS SITE PICTURE

12 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE LIFETIME WITH LIMITED SERVICE ACCESS Zafarana Egypt New ZealandOberzeir, AustriaNorth Hoyle, UKLasLomas, SpainKvalheim, Norway Nebraska, USA

13 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE INNVATION TRANSFERRED FROM SMALL TO BIG ? Examples: Increased control and performance by use of the Magnus effect Radical tuned smart rotor (Hutter) transformed into Growian and NASA MODxx Juul (a student of La Cour) and Riisager turbines forming the Danish industry Pictures:

14 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE WIND RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE In a competitive perspective with other technologies 46* days maintenance downtime for a coal plant 7* days maintenance downtime for a wind turbine – and only one at the time ! *Sci. Amer., Nov, 2009 Innovations, like our tower crane/robot will bring CoE further down

15 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE ACCELERATE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH GLOBAL FUNDING PROGRAMMES Vestas actively participates in world wide public funded R&D programs. Partnerships are essential to the success of these.

16 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE STRONG FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION Areas of Collaboration - Sustainability - Product Development - Technology Development - Production Excellence - Sales Excellence

17 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE We need smart people – also in the future Research and education is needed to ensure the future Texas A&M Sponsor of Director in Center of Excellence for wind University of Houston Project sponsor Texas Tech Partnership Rice University Project sponsor University of Wiscon Office by campus and sponsor of activities University of California Sponsor projects on energy efficiency and energy systems Colorado Sponsor of research initiatives

18 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE The Wind Alliance The Wind Alliance is a non-profit collaboration of industry, academia and government, working as a combined effort to ensure America’s wind energy future. Join The Wind Alliance Promote synergies between Industry and Academia Incubate ideas Develop collaborative projects Networking Most of all develop strength by unity and coordination of activities

19 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL R&D FOOTPRINT Vestas R&D Office  Utilise local competencies  Development of local partnerships  Provide ‘ different perspectives on a challenge Tianjin Harbin Shanghai Tsinghua MIT TX A&M UofH Rice UT TT Berkley CREW NREL Sandia Berlin Bergen Arhus Allborg DTU Risø NTNU QinetiQ NAREC? Cambridge Imperial Nottingham Delft Stuttgart IIT NUS Chennai NTU KL Malaysia

20 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Strategic Preferred Relationships Global Network of Partners Project  Research projects  Corporate projects  Development of competency centers within the University  Workshops & training  Guest lectures  Internships / PhDs’  Consultancy projects  Outreach  Programs/placements  Executive Sponsorship  Recruitment  Research steering  Joint ventures  Acquisition

21 | JSC meeting at Rice, CAHWE Typical topics for technical research collaboration Aerodynamics and acoustics Advanced loads modelling Advanced control systems Materials science Structural design & analysis Gear & drive train Reliability Power electronics Electromagnetic design Wind power plant performance Energy storage Forecasting Offshore And many other topics……

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