IEA Wind task on Digitalization

The objective of this EUDP project is to enable the Danish participation in the IEA Wind Task on Digitalization. This will facilitate the exposure of the Danish wind sector to the latest research findings and will increase the possibilities for capturing new opportunities enabled by digitalization. The Danish participants will contribute to the workshops and publications which will provide an excellent dissemination channel, to confirm the Danish wind sector as leading in the digitalization-related topics such as Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things. The overall objective of the IEA task on digitalization is to coordinate research and development activities, from data and analytics to connectivity, across the global wind industry and to recommend best practices and maximize realization of benefits from digitalization while minimizing duplicate effort. The IEA task convenes an international expert body that will:

•      Define what is meant by wind energy digitalization

•      Describe the current state of digitalization capability and practice within the wind energy sector

•      Identify and prioritize value-add opportunities enabled by further digitalization

•      Learn from and build upon similar work in other sectors to develop recommended digitalization practices for the wind energy sector

The IEA task intends to address the broad theme of the digitalization of wind energy. The scope of the task will include digitalization topics across the following dimensions:

•      Lifecycle stages from turbine design, wind farm design and operation through to mid-life repowering and end-of-life.

•      Value-chain components including equipment suppliers, service providers, owners, asset operators, grid operators, as well centralized, aggregated and peer-to-peer energy market participants.

•      Interaction between and across lifecycle and value-chain players including the exchange of standardized and/or anonymized data, digitalization-related tools, and best practices for privacy and security around these exchanges.