Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

Abstract

A multifaceted future for wind power Modern wind turbines already represent a tightly optimized confluence of materials science and aerodynamic engineering. Veers et al. review the challenges and opportunities for further expanding this technology, with an emphasis on the need for interdisciplinary collaboration. They highlight the need to better understand atmospheric physics in the regions where taller turbines will operate as well as the materials constraints associated with the scale-up. The mutual interaction of turbine sites with one another and with the evolving features of the overall electricity grid will furthermore necessitate a systems approach to future development. Science , this issue p. eaau2027

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Affiliated Institutions

• National Renewable Energy Centre ES
• University of Massachusetts Amherst US
• University of Wyoming US
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory US
• Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society US
• Technical University of Denmark DK
• Chalmers University of Technology SE
• Sandia National Laboratories US
• Johns Hopkins University US
• University of Colorado Boulder US
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Electric Power Research Institute US
• Technical University of Munich DE
• Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg DE
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory US

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