IceWind project TFI Annual Conference September 2010 Niels-Erik Clausen Wind Energy Division, Risø DTU

2 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Outline Risø DTU context Wind energy Challenges IceWind project objectives Project partners Introduction to Work Packages Expected results

3 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) DTU has approx employees, more than scientific staff including 800 ph.d.-students. The university has bachelor- and master students (2008). We offer a two-year M.Sc. program within Wind Energy since 2001 and a M.Sc. program within Sustainable Energy since 2008 (and 22 other MSc programs)

4 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Risø DTU Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy Materials Research Fuel Cells Bio systems Systems Analysis Radiation Research Wind Energy Risø DTU staff 700 Plasma Physics Solar Energy Intelligent Energy Systems

5 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Risø Wind Energy Division Wind power meteorology Aeroelastic modelling Optimisation and cost reduction New concepts, components and materials Wind power and the energy system Offshore wind power 130 employees in 5 research programmes From resource to grid

Coastal, flat terrain 5 test positions Max. 10 MW Max. height 165 m National Test Station for Large Wind Turbines (in Denmark operated by Risø DTU) Small wind turbines at Risø 1979 New extension test positions Max height 250 m

7 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Renewable Energy in the Nordic countries - 61% of electricity consumption in 2008 Source: Nordel annual report 2008

8 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Did you know? The installed wind energy capacity in EU produce 4.8% of our electricity – 20% in Denmark. In 2009 for the second year running more new wind was installed than any other technology (39% of all new) 10 GW was installed in EU – globally 38 GW 2.8% is offshore wind in EU 106 mill t CO 2 avoided ~25% of our cars removed €6 billion avoided fuel cost people employed in the EU Source: European wind energy association

9 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Global capacity end 2009: 160 GW Installed capacity in 2009: 38 GW Average 5-year annual growth : 36.1%

10 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Vestas V90-3MW nacelle transformer service crane generator gearbox

11 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Danish electricity system today Wind 31%

12 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Danish electricity system 7 September Wind 48%

13 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Potential for Electricity production from offshore wind power plants The North Sea alone would do just about half of the world’s present need.

14 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 THREE CHALLENGES IN A NORDIC CONTEXT

15 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Icing of turbines Icing on an NM82 (V82) in Aapua, Övertorneå municipality in the county of Norrbotten, Sweden, From Mapping of icing for wind turbine applications by Göran Ronstein, Elforsk 2008

16 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Integration of wind in Iceland 75% hydro 25% geothermal 100% renewables Wind ressource No connections

17 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Photos ELSAM A/S and REpower Offshore operation and maintenance

18 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 IceWind project – key figures Title: Improved forecast of wind, waves and icing Project period 1. September 2010 – 31. August 2014 Overall budget 20.8 mill NOK Financial support TFI 12.3 mill NOK Ekstern financing 8.5 mill NOK Partners: man-months (45,000 hours) over 4 years Coordinator Risø DTU, Niels-Erik Clausen 4 PhD projects planned: Two in Iceland, one in Denmark and one in Sweden

19 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 IceWind objectives The overall objective of the project is to support the development and integration of wind energy in the five Nordic countries by focussing on three main areas: 1.Icing on wind turbines (atlas, forecasting and losses) 2.Integration of wind energy on land (Iceland) 3.Offshore wind energy (forecasting and access) A key issue is to share knowledge among the five Nordic countries and to work in areas where differences in know-how exist and where barriers or challenges prevent or slow down a large penetration of wind energy in the Nordic grid.

20 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 IceWind Partners Risø DTU (DK) Vestas (DK) Kjeller Vindteknikk (NO) Met.no (NO) Statoil (NO) AGR § (NO) Offshore windservice (NO) § Offshore services for O&M VTT (FI) Gotland Universitet (SE) Icelandic Met Office (IS) University of Iceland (IS) Landsvirkjun* (IS) Landsvirkjun Power (IS) * National Power company of Iceland

21 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 IceWind work packages WP 1 Icing (lead VTT) –Atlas of icing for Iceland and Sweden, forecast of icing, estimate of losses due to icing WP 2 Iceland (lead Iceland met office - IMO) –Wind atlas, identification of sites, technical and market integration studies WP 3 Forecast and O&M (lead met.no) –Offshore meso-scale effects of large wind farms incl. wakes, short term forecasting, maintenance strategies and availability issues WP 4 Power and energy aspects (lead Risø) –Spatial and temporal variability of wind resource, forecast errors and their impact on the Nordic power grid and balance market.

22 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Expected results Better forecasts of wind and waves Maps of icing occurence and losses Better knowledge on wake losses in very large wind farms Wind and ice atlas of Iceland Integration study of wind in Iceland Better understanding of the interaction between hydro and wind in the Nordic system

23 Risø DTU TFI Annual Conference 15. September 2010 Thank you for your attention Photo Mads Eskesen Middelgrunden 20 x 2 MW Niels-Erik Clausen Risø DTU