Research

The research area deals with
issues such as

• Governance and participation
• Regional economic development, value creation, and business models
• Support actors and institutional embedding
• Economic and policy instruments
• Wind power planning
• Coexistence with Defence force

The research area deals with issues such as

• Characterization of flow conditions
• Modelling wind
• Wakes and farm-to-farm interaction
• Wind power in typical Swedish conditions
• Icing effect on production, revenue and lifetime
• Remote sensing

The research area deals with issues such as

• Biodiversity
• Sustainable and low-carbon value chains
• Recycling methods for wind turbine components
• LCA

The research area deals with issues such as

• Lifetime assessment
• Lifetime extension
• Impact of wind turbine control on operation
• Digitalisation
• Modelling and synthetic data
• Remote turbine inspections
• Blade reliability and maintenance

The research area deals with issues such as

• Wind power and hybrid farms contribution to the Swedish power system
• Keeping the power system reliable and stable
• Use the existing grid to a larger extent

Swedish Wind Centre has developed a research agenda to outlines the opportunities and needs for Swedish wind energy research, emphasizing areas of national relevance while highlighting Sweden’s contributions to international research efforts. The agenda aims to advance knowledge and innovation tailored to Swedish conditions, addressing gaps where international actors partly have limited engagement. By identifying strong Swedish competencies and aligning them with global challenges, the agenda aims to enhance Sweden’s role in the international wind energy research community. 

SWC is active in the below tasks within the IEA Wind TCP. 

• Task 25: Design and Operation of Energy Systems with Large Amounts of Variable Generation
• Task 31: Wakebench – International Wind farm Flow Modelling and Evaluation Framework (Completed)
• Task 34: WREN – Working Together to Resolve Environmental Effects of Wind Energy
• Task 42: Wind Turbine Lifetime Extension
• Task 43: Wind Energy Digitalization
• Task 45: Enabling the Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades
• Task 47: Turbinia – Turbulent Inflow Innovative Aerodynamics
• Task 51: Forecasting for the Weather-driven Energy System
• Task 57: Wind Jam