On June 15th the annual Global Wind Day will be celebrated, highlighting the power and possibilities of wind energy. This year a special emphasis will be placed on the fact that at some point in 2023 the One Terrawatt Milestone of globally installed wind energy will be reached.
Just two weeks later ForWind, the Center for Wind Energy Research at the universities of Hannover, Bremen and Oldenburg and Fraunhofer IWES (Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems) are holding their own Wind Energy Research Day.
On June 30th the Wind Energy Research Day will see the opening of two new and innovative research infrastructures. At the Forschungszentrum Küste of Leibniz University Hannover and Technische Universität Carolo Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig the New Large Wave Current Flume GWK+ will be officially opened. Later on the same day at the Fraunhofer IWES site in Bremerhaven the new rotor blade test bench for blades larger than 115m will be unveiled to the public.
Together with partners like the DLR both institutes are active in the Research Alliance Wind Energy. “Joint research for the age of renewables” is the guiding principle this unique wind energy research alliance is working under. It pools the know-how and expertise as well as the outstanding research and testing infrastructures of the players and thus offers the national and international industry a unique innovation platform.
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