SUPERGENWIND
Welcome to SUPERGEN Wind
RESEARCH GROUPS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS
The SUPERGENWind Energy Technologies Consortium (SUPERGENWind) is a UK wind energy research consortium funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on 23 March 2006 as part of the Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN) programme.
The SUPERGEN Wind Consortium is led by Strathclyde and Durham Universities and consists of 7 research groups (Durham, Loughborough, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, Strathclyde and Surrey Universities and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) with expertise in wind turbine technology, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, materials, electrical machinery & control, reliability & condition monitoring. The Consortium has the active support of 19 industrial partners, including wind farm operators, turbine manufacturers and consultants, E.ON, GL-Garrad Hassan, Romax, Vestas, Narec, Siemens, and TNEI, to name a few.
PHASE 2 OBJECTIVE
The Consortium’s objective in Phase 2 is to achieve an integrated, cost-effective, reliable and available Offshore Wind Power Station, accomplished through 4 themes.
PHASE 2 THEMES
• Theme 1 – the Farm looking at areas related to offshore wind farm operation, which include offshore wind resource, multiple wind turbine wake and aerodynamics, radar impact, and farm performance optimisation.
FROM PHASE 1 TO PHASE 2
Phase 1 of the project (£2.55M) started in 2006 was successfully renewed in March 2010 for a further four years until March 2014 and Phase 2 (£4.75M) is being run under the UK Energy Research Councils programme led by EPSRC.
• Theme 2 – the Turbine aims to improve the reliability and performance of individual offshore wind turbines, through dynamic control, blade material, fault detection, and subsea turbine foundations.
• Theme 3 – the Connection looks at technologies to reduce the barriers to offshore wind connection primarily through computer modelling.
• Theme 4 – the third year will combine the 3 earlier Themes, to consider the wind farm as a power station.
The work not only includes the main work in the three themes, but also the economics of offshore wind energy.
TRAINING EVENTS
Each year, the Consortium holds training events to educate their researchers and PhD students beyond their own research. In these events, lectures are given by academic staff and industrial partners about their state-of-the-art work, as well as critical issues faced by the industry.
2011 GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Consortium had its General Assembly on 20th April 2011, with their updated research presented to 76 people both from academia and industry (see editorial coverage of the day within this feature).
DrWenjuanWang and Prof Peter Tavner SupergenWind
www.supergen-wind.org
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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