Research

The wind power industry has grown and developed considerably the last years and will be of further importance for the energy system.

The SWC produces and collects knowledge on wind power. We want to make it easy to find facts on wind power for everyone who needs it. Our vision is a robust and sustainable energy system.

To contribute, the SWC conducts research in five research themes about wind power in Nordic conditions: Social, economic and planning aspects of wind power, Wind energy siting, Environment and material, Operation and maintenance and Integration in the power system.

Lehtirova wind farm. Photo: Joakim Lagercrantz, OX2.

Research themes

Social, economic and planning aspects of wind power
The research area deals with
issues such as
- Governance and participation
- Regional economic development, value creation, and business models
- Support actors and institutional embedding
- Economic and policy instruments
- Wind power planning
- Coexistence with Defence force
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Wind energy siting
The research area deals with issues such as
- Characterization of flow conditions
- Modelling wind
- Wakes and farm-to-farm interaction
- Wind power in typical Swedish conditions
- Icing effect on production, revenue and lifetime
- Remote sensing
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Environment and material
The research area deals with issues such as
- Biodiversity
- Sustainable and low-carbon value chains
- Recycling methods for wind turbine components
- LCA
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Operation and maintenance
The research area deals with issues such as
- Lifetime assessment
- Lifetime extension
- Impact of wind turbine control on operation
- Digitalisation
- Modelling and synthetic data
- Remote turbine inspections
- Blade reliability and maintenance
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Integration in the power system
The research area deals with issues such as
- Wind power and hybrid farms contribution to the Swedish power system
- Keeping the power system reliable and stable
- Use the existing grid to a larger extent
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IEA WIND TCP
SWC is active in the below tasks within the IEA Wind TCP.
- Task 25: Design and Operation of Energy Systems with Large Amounts of Variable Generation
- Task 31: Wakebench – International Wind farm Flow Modelling and Evaluation Framework (Completed)
- Task 34: WREN – Working Together to Resolve Environmental Effects of Wind Energy
- Task 42: Wind Turbine Lifetime Extension
- Task 43: Wind Energy Digitalization
- Task 45: Enabling the Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades
- Task 47: Turbinia – Turbulent Inflow Innovative Aerodynamics
- Task 51: Forecasting for the Weather-driven Energy System
- Task 57: Wind Jam
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