European Energy Research Alliance - Design Tool for Offshore Wind Farm Cluster

Running time: January 2012 - June 2015

The project received funding from the EU - Seventh Framework Programme - and was coordinated by the Technical University of Denmark -  DTU Wind Energy.

The concept of the EERA-DTOC project was to combine gained expertise in a common integrated software tool for the optimised design of offshore wind farms and wind farm clusters acting as wind power plants. As a result of the project, the Wind & Economy software has been developed.

Project website: www.eera-dtoc.eu

The EERA-DTOC consortium was composed as follows:

• Technical University of Denmark (coordinator) - DTU Wind Energy, Denmark
• European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Belgium
• Fraunhofer - Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V - Fraunhofer, Germany
• Fundacion CENER-CIEMAT - CENER, Spain
• Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands - ECN, the Netherlands
• SINTEF Energi AS - SINTEF, Norway
• Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - ForWind OL, Germany
• Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving - CRES, Greece
• Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Technologicas - CIEMAT, Spain
• Universidade de Porto - UPORTO, Portugal
• University of Strathclyde - Strath, United Kingdom
• The Trustees of Indiana University - IU, United States
• Collecte Localisation Satellites SA - CLS, France
• Statkraft Development AS - Statkraft, Norway
• Iberdrola SA - Iberdrola, Spain
• Statoil Petroleum AS - Statoil, Norway
• Overspeed GmbH & Co. KG - Overspeed, Germany
• Bard Engineering GmbH - BARD, Germany
• HEXICON AB - HEXICON, Sweden
• The Carbon Trust - Carbon Trust, United Kingdom
• E.ON Sverige AB - E. ON, Sweden
• Renewable Energy Systems Limited - RES, United Kingdom