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ForWind annual report 2018 – 2023
The highlights, research projects and focus topics for the years 2018 to 2023 summarized in our annual report. Download as PDF
Exchange at ForWind on developments in wind energy research
As part of his summer trip, Lower Saxony's Minister for Science and Culture, Falko Mohrs, visited the ForWind WindLab on the Wechloy campus of the Carl von Ossietzky University...
ForWind becomes a supporter of Powerhouse Nord
ForWind - Centre for Wind Energy Research at the Universities of Hanover, Oldenburg and Bremen is pleased to be a supporter of the Powerhouse Nord initiative. ForWind has stood...
Optimized yield in offshore wind farms: Measurement campaign in C²-Wakes project gets underway
Together with its project partners RWE, ForWind (University of Oldenburg – Institute of Physics), and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems...
ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2024
The ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2024 will take place on Friday, June 14, 2024 in the WindLab on the Wechloy campus of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Wind...
ForWind becomes an associated research partner of FME NorthWind
ForWind has officially joined the Norwegian FME NorthWind as an associated research partner institute. Strengthening the relationship with NorthWind and pooling the already...
Stephan Barth elected to management positions at ETIPWind and EERA JP Wind
ForWind Managing Director Dr. Stephan Barth has been elected as the new coordinator of EERA JP Wind. EERA JP Wind is an association of large European public research institutions...
New spokesperson team succeeds Joachim Peinke
At the February meeting of the ForWind Executive Board, Prof. Dr. Raimund Rolfes from the Institute of Statics and Dynamics at Leibniz Universität Hannover was unanimously...
Less computational effort and more accuracy in flow simulations
Numerical flow simulations are particularly relevant for the further expansion of wind energy. To date, modeling and simulation methods exist on different scales. They range from...
Andreas Reuter is the new spokesperson for the Renewable Energies Research Alliance
At its meeting on December 1, 2023 in Kassel, the Executive Board of the Research Association for Renewable Energies (FVEE) elected ForWind member and Fraunhofer IWES Managing...
Andreas Rauh is a new ForWind member
At the December meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Rauh was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Rauh has been appointed to the...
Marienwerder research campus: “The night that creates knowledge”
Every two years in November, the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy opens its doors to interested visitors for an entire evening. "The night that creates knowledge" will...
ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2023
The ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2023 will take place on Friday, November 17, 2023 in the WindLab. Following the successful symposia in 2017 and 2019, we are reviving this...
Amir Ebrahimi new member of the IALB Executive Board
ForWind member Prof. Dr. Amir Ebrahimi will succeed Bernd Orlik at the Institute for Electrical Drives, Power Electronics and Components at the University of Bremen on July 1,...
Volkswagen Foundation visit to the WindLab
In the last week of September, the ForWind WindLab in Oldenburg hosted a delegation from the Volkswagen Foundation. Dr. Georg Schütte, Secretary General of the Volkswagen...
European research in the field of wind energy is gaining momentum
Last week, nine major research organizations and universities, all members of EERA JP Wind (European Energy Research Alliance Joint Programme Wind), signed a cooperation...
Prof. Dr. Elyas Ghafoori is new ForWind member – He succeeds Peter Schaumann
During a scientific colloquium on February 3, 2023, Prof. Dr. Elyas Ghafoori, Professor of Steel, Composite and Lightweight Structures and Head of the Institute of Steel...
Digital twin for optimized wind turbines – Bremen wind researchers launch WindIO project
In the future, wind turbines are to be operated in a more environmentally friendly and economical way - thanks to a digital twin. Scientists at the University of Bremen are now...
Wind energy research park (WiValdi) in Krummendeich was officially opened
A large-scale research facility was opened in Krummendeich near the mouth of the Elbe into the North Sea on August 15, 2023. The WiValdi research wind farm (short for "Wind...
Research infrastructure in a new dimension on Wind Energy Research Day
On June 30, 2023, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck visited three new test and research facilities for wind energy. At Leibniz...
Computing power for the research of the future: University receives new high-performance computers
They provide enormous computing power for complex research projects: Two new high-performance computers will complement the research infrastructure of the University of Oldenburg...
Vincent Oettel is a new ForWind member
At the May meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vincent Oettel was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Oettel has been Professor of Concrete Structures at...
ForWind and NorthWind sign Memorandum of Understanding
On 22 May 2023, John Olav Giæver Tande (Chief Scientist at the Norwegian research organization SINTEF and Director of the Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME)...
Björn Maronga is a new ForWind member
At the April meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Björn Maronga was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Maronga has been Professor of Boundary Layer Meteorology...
Kerstin Avila is a new ForWind member
At the March meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Avila from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg was accepted as a new member of ForWind....
Better imaging of turbulent wind fields – ForWind researchers develop 3D models
For wind turbine manufacturers, it is important to be able to describe the wind conditions on the rotor blade as accurately as possible, for example to estimate the load on...
Minister President Weil visits ForWind – “Oldenburg wind research sets standards”.
"Excellent research in the field of wind energy" - this is what Lower Saxony's Minister President Stephan Weil attested today to ForWind, the Center for Wind Energy Research of...
Digital twin for optimized wind turbines – Bremen wind researchers launch WindIO project
In the future, wind turbines are to be operated in a more environmentally friendly and economical way - thanks to a digital twin. Scientists at the University of Bremen are now...
Prof. Dr. Elyas Ghafoori is new ForWind member – He succeeds Peter Schaumann
During a scientific colloquium on February 3, 2023, Prof. Dr. Elyas Ghafoori, Professor of Steel, Composite and Lightweight Structures and Head of the Institute of Steel...
Better imaging of turbulent wind fields – ForWind researchers develop 3D models
For wind turbine manufacturers, it is important to be able to describe the wind conditions on the rotor blade as accurately as possible, for example to estimate the load on...