Project objectives are to
- To collect information on ice mapping and produce
and verify ice maps for selected areas in order to ease and support
the early phases of project development.
- To collect information and experiences related to
icing forecasts with numerical weather models. This topic is
expected to come more and more important as it also affects wind
forecasts in cold climate regions.
- Find new solutions and thus improve the available
methods for resource assessment and turbine operation at cold
climate sites. Power supply, sensor options and detection of ice are
focus areas.
- Follow and collect up to date information from the
current state of anti- and de-icing and coating solutions that are
already available on the market or currently being developed.
- Review the current standards and recommendations
from the cold climate point of view and identify the possible needs
for updates.
- Find and recommend improved methods to estimate
the effects of ice on production and thus reduce the amount of
incorrect estimates and the risks that are involved in cold climate
wind energy projects currently. Verify the method on the basis of
data from national projects according to the possibilities.
- Clarify the significance of extra loading that ice
and cold climate induce on wind turbine components and disseminate
that result.
- Initiate a market survey for cold climate wind
technology, including wind farms, remote grid systems and
stand-alone systems.
- Improve the understanding of the risks and the
mitigation strategies for the problem of ice throw from wind
turbines at cold climate sites.
- Update state-of-the-art report and update the
expert group study on applying wind energy in cold climates to
guidelines.
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