Partnering with Wind Energy Johnson Space Center meeting at
Rice University, September 2010Dr. Carsten Hein Westergaard
Vestas Technology R&D Americas, Inc.
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Technology growth over 25 years
We install a turbine every 3 hours, 365 days a year !
Old tractor
Vestas V10 Vestas V90-3MW
World largest
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Vestas in North America
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• Green Jobs Created by Wind Energy Deployment
65,9 GW installed
154,000 jobs created
22,3 GW installed
80,000 jobs created
14,7 GW installed
31,500 jobs created
3,1 GW installed
21,600 jobs created
Sources: EWEA 2009, AWEA 2009, CREIA 2009, Vestas 2009
25 GW installed
85,000 jobs created
12,2 GW installed
40,000 jobs created
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Markets
In 2009, wind was almost 40% of all new capacity installed in the US
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WIND, OIL AND GAS
Our vision is to put wind on a par with oil and gas.
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Source: New Energy, Q3 2009 Finance
2x Grid Parity 3x 4x 5x
Grid Parity
COST OF ENERGY
Wind energy boasts highly competitive CoE
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OUR MAIN TASK IS TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS
- Business Case Certainty- Cost of Energy- Easy to Work With
Quality is continuously improved, Failure is not an option
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6000 kw- announced
10 m rotor
90 m rotor112 m rotor
THE OUTPUT OF A TURBINE HAS INCREASED X100 - TOTAL ENERGY CAPTURED X330
Our fleet:
39,000 Turbines delivered = Total required power in Spain
63 countries
30kW … 3.0 MW
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COST OF ENERGY
WE KNOW HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF EACH TURBINE
Data → Knowledge → Calculations
WIND RESOURCES
SERVICE COST
TURBULENCE
COMPLEXITY
HEIGHT CONTOURS
SITE PICTURE
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LIFETIME WITH LIMITED SERVICE ACCESS
Zafarana Egypt
New Zealand Oberzeir, AustriaNorth Hoyle, UK LasLomas, Spain Kvalheim, Norway
Nebraska, USA
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INNVATION TRANSFERREDFROM SMALL TO BIG ?
Examples:
• Increased control and performance by use of the Magnus effect
• Radical tuned smart rotor (Hutter) transformed into Growian and NASA MODxx
• Juul (a student of La Cour) and Riisager turbines forming the Danish industry
Pictures: www.eoearth.org
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WIND RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE
• In a competitive perspective with other technologies
• 46* days maintenance downtime for a coal plant
• 7* days maintenance downtime for a wind turbine – and only one at the time !
*Sci. Amer., Nov, 2009
Innovations, like our tower crane/robot will bring CoE further down
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ACCELERATE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH GLOBAL FUNDING PROGRAMMES
Vestas actively participates in world wide public funded R&D programs. Partnerships are essential to the success of these.
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STRONG FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION
Areas of Collaboration
- Sustainability- Product Development
- Technology Development- Production Excellence- Sales Excellence
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We need smart people – also in the futureResearch and education is needed to ensure the future
• Texas A&M• Sponsor of Director in Center of Excellence for wind
• University of Houston• Project sponsor
• Texas Tech• Partnership
• Rice University• Project sponsor
• University of Wiscon• Office by campus and sponsor of activities
• University of California• Sponsor projects on energy efficiency and energy systems
• Colorado• Sponsor of research initiatives
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The Wind Alliance
• The Wind Alliance is a non-profit collaboration of industry, academia and government, working as a combined effort to ensure America’s wind energy future.
• Join The Wind Alliance• Promote synergies between Industry and Academia• Incubate ideas• Develop collaborative projects• Networking
• Most of all develop strength by unity and coordination of activities
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DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL R&D FOOTPRINT
Vestas R&D OfficeVestas R&D Office
Utilise local competencies
Development of local partnerships
Provide ‘ different perspectives on a challenge
Tianjin
Harbin
ShanghaiTsinghua
MITTX A&M
UofHRice
UT
TT
BerkleyCREW
NREL
Sandia
Berlin
BergenArhusAllborg
DTU
Risø NTNU
QinetiQNAREC?
CambridgeImperial
Nottingham
Delft
Stuttgart
IITNUS
ChennaiNTU
KLMalaysia
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Strategic
Preferred
Relationships
Global Network of Partners
Project
Research projects
Corporate projects
Development of competency centers within the University
Workshops & training
Guest lectures
Internships / PhDs’
Consultancy projects
Outreach
Programs/placements
Executive Sponsorship
Recruitment
Research steering
Joint ventures
Acquisition
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Typical topics for technicalresearch collaboration
• Aerodynamics and acoustics• Advanced loads modelling • Advanced control systems • Materials science • Structural design & analysis • Gear & drive train • Reliability• Power electronics • Electromagnetic design • Wind power plant performance• Energy storage• Forecasting• Offshore• And many other topics……
Thank you for your attentionCarsten H. Westergaard, Global Technology Director
Vestas Technology R&D Americas
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