Since the beginning of the energy transition in the electrical power system in Germany, development has shifted toward decentralization. Contrary to the legacy power system with big central power plants, power systems with a high share of renewables have a decentralized topology with distributed power generation.
Author: Torben Laue At Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, we work with a wide range of measurement data from various research areas at our nine sites on a daily basis. It includes data from wind measurements and operating…
Authors: Dr. Anna Wegner, Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Stoevesandt, Dr. Julia Gottschall, Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Thomas, Matthias Huhn und Dipl. Ing. Karin Eustorgi As the dimensions of wind turbines continue to increase in size, so do the mechanical loads acting on their components. The incoming wind field…
Safe and reliable operation and a long service life of offshore wind turbines are key targets on the road to achieving climate neutrality, and the implementation of a predictive maintenance strategy is particularly relevant when it comes to reducing the…
The Fraunhofer IWES has presented a series of proofs of the quality and reliability of its FLS wind measurements. By achieving maturity level 3, the Fraunhofer IWES ZX wind lidar buoy joins the short list of stringently validated FLS types…
Authors: Telsche Nielsen, Viktor Deleski At Fraunhofer IWES, we are actively committed to renewable energies. Day in, day out, we support and further the development of technologies in the fields of wind energy and hydrogen. As an institute for applied…
The longer the rotor blade, the more glue is needed to bond the blade shells together. IWES scientists have developed the Variable Glue Applicator to simplify and improve the application of adhesive.
Here at IWES, we assess weather risks using the Advanced Weather Time Series Scheduling (AdWaTSS) method, which is more precise than just statistics, and frequencies of tasks. For the offshore wind industry, we analyze and verify the time schedules of…
The requirements for wind turbine test benches are continuously increasing and demand, in turn, investments in test bench expansions or new test benches. Fraunhofer IWES has developed a hybrid test procedure to expand the capacity of existing testing facilities and…
Over the years, we have witnessed rapid growth in both onshore and offshore wind turbine systems. At the same time, the entire wind industry has become even more competitive, as wind turbine manufacturers aim to launch their product on the…
