Research Project Examines Effects of Offshore Wind Farms

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Start of a new research project on wind energy utilization in the German Bight

November 1, 2019, saw the start of the X-Wakes “Interaction Between the Wakes of Large Offshore Wind Farms and Wind Farm Clusters With the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer” research project, which is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to the tune of € 3.4 million over a period of three years. In the scope of X-Wakes, the researchers will be investigating how the wind conditions in the German Bight could change if offshore wind farms are expanded on a large scale. The project team will use data from extensive measurement campaigns and high-fidelity modelling approaches to improve industry models that are afterwards used to analyze the... ... More: Official Press Release Fraunhofer IWES

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Fraunhofer IWES, offshore, research, project, German Bight, Northsea, BSH, X-Wakes, Germany