Projects at Bergen Offshore Wind (BOW) Centre

ACTIVE PROJECTS

MACHINE WIND: 

Development of fast aerodynamic models intended for the optimal design and operation of offshore wind farms by using supervised machine learning

• Project period: 2024-2028
• Contacts at BOW: Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt, Bruno Antonio Roccia, Etienne Cheynet and Magne Haveraaen

Wind3D Project: 

A project that explores innovative offshore wind farm designs by incorporating non-uniform wind turbines of varying heights

• Project period: 2024 - 2028
• Contacts at BOW: Ahmad Hemmati and Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi

Climate Change and Offshore Renewable Energy Stability (wind, wave, and solar energy)   

• Project period: 2024-2028
• Contacts at BOW: Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi

Sizing and location strategies for offshore wind power

• Project period: 2024-2028
• Contacts at BOW: Asgeir Sorteberg

Optimizing wind energy production and operability for multi-decadal climate fluctuations in the Euro-Atlantic region

• Project period: 2024-2028
• Contacts at BOW: Noel Keenlyside and  Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi

DATA-DRIVEN OFFSHORE: Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines

• Project period: 2023-2028
• Contacts at BOW: Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

NEXTgenT: Next generation of over 25MW offshore wind Turbine rotor design

• Project period: 2024-2027
• Contacts at BOW: Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt and Joachim Reuder

Development of masterprogram in renewable energy as continued eduction 

• Project period: 2025 - 2027
• Contacts at BOW: Maite Bezem

4SWIND: Advancing seismic sea-bed survey techniques and optimal site-selection for offshore wind farms

• Project period: 2022 - 2027
• Contacts at BOW: Haflidi Haflidason og Christian Haug Eide (external link) 

WindSys - Effects of floating wind farms on the marine ecosystem, with a focus on pelagic fish

• Project period: 2022 - 2027
• Contacts at BOW: Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi

ImpactWind Sørvest (led by NORCE)

• Project period: 2022 - 2027
• Contacts at BOW:: Finn Gunnar Nielsen og Joachim Reuder

BEL-Float: Catalyzing the Belgian industrial expertise in floating wind through academic innovation

• Project period: 2023-2026
• Contacts at BOW: Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt og Etienne Cheynet

LOWT - Large Offshore Wind Turbines: structural design accounting for non-neutral wind conditions

• Project period: 2021 -2026
• Contacts at BOW: Joachim Reuder

GOV-WIND - Governing Offshore Wind: Legal Challenges, Market Opportunities and Policy Perspectives

• Project period: 2020 - 2026
• Contacts at BOW: Ignacio Herrea Anchustegui

AVSLUTTEDE PROSJEKTER

SANE-Clim - The Structure Acceptance Nexus in Climate Politics

• Prosjektperiode: 2024-2026
• Contacts at BOW: Michael Robert Tatham

Data-Driven Methodologies in Offshore Wind Energy

• Project period: 2022 - 2025
• Contacts at BOW: Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

Ocean Charger: will work on optimisation of vessel logistics related to offshore wind farms

• Project period: 2023 - 2025
• Contacts at BOW: Dag  Haugland and  Ahmad Hemmatti

HIPERWIND: Highly advanced Probabilistic design and enhanced Reliability methods for high-value, cost-efficient WIND

• Project period: Desember 2020 - Mai 2024
• Contacts at BOW: Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi
• Project webpage (external link)

Large Eddy Simulation Modelling of Offshore Wind Farms Under the Influence of Varying Atmospheric Stability and Sea-State Conditions

• Project period: 2020 - 2023
• Contacts at BOW: Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi

Designing a Refined Legal Framework for Legitimate Offshore Wind in the North Sea Basin (DeWindSea)

• Project period: 2020 - 2023
• Contacts at BOW: Sigrid Eskeland Schütz

Estimation and Prevention of Erosion on Offshore Wind Turbine Blades

• Project period: 2019 - 2023
• Contacts at BOW: Bodil Holst and Joachim Reuder

CONWIND: Research on smart operation control technologies for offshore windfarms (ledet av NORCE)

• Project period: 2020 - 2023
• Contacts at BOW: Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi  
• Project description at NORCE webpage (external link)

LIKE  (Lidar Knowledge Europe)

• Project period: 2019 - 2023
• Contacts at BOW: Joachim Reuder
• Project website (external link)

PRE-DÉCOR

• Project period: 2021
• Contacts at BOW: Ignacio Herrea Anchustegu 

COTUR: Measuring COherence and TURbulence with lidars

• Project period: 2019 - 2020
• Contacts at BOW: Joachim Reuder and Martin Flügge