WindEurope Annual Event 2025

WindEurope Annual Event 2025 is your annual wind energy conference and exhibition, so we will of course cover all aspects of onshore and offshore wind technology, from designing turbines and planning wind farms to operations, all the way to decommissioning and recycling. We will also keep the focus on how wind can support and drive the electrification of the wider economy. Of particular interest will be contributions on how we can accelerate the scale-up, automate both manufacturing and operations and also how we can better understand fatigue and faults in larger turbines, so we can prevent them.

Topics:

• Modelling the wind at different scales (global scale, mesoscale, microscale, model chain)
• Turbulence, wakes and blockage
• Measurements & testing (LiDAR, SoDAR, Radar, satellite, wind tunnel, wave tank, cup anemometer)
• Big data & machine learning / digitalisation
• Mapping and wind atlases
• Wind forecasting
• Extreme conditions
• Climate change
• Data sharing, data standards

• Towers
• Rotors
• Blades: aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, aeroelasticity, materials
• Electrical components: performance and reliability
• Design for extreme conditions (cold climate, tropics, extreme weather events)
• Foundations
• Materials
• Industrialisation, additive manufacturing and advanced manufacturing technologies
• Measurements and testing
• Digitalisation in design, testing and manufacturing, incl. automation & robotics
• Circularity by design
• Larger turbines: performance and reliability

• Installation & logistics for larger turbines
• Port infrastructure
• O&M
• Impacts of extreme weather events on operating assets
• Vessels
• Cables
• Soil modelling, aero-hydrodynamics, fluid-structure interactions
• Digitalisation and automation in O&M to optimise performance
• Digitalisation and automation in O&M to optimise control and monitoring
• Digitalisation and automation in O&M to optimise maintenance
• Digitalisation and automation to optimise installation and logistics
• Skills & training
• Health and safety standards & culture
• End-of-life: lifetime extension
• End-of-life: repowering
• End-of-life: dismantling and decommissioning
• Operational strategies
• Wind farms: safe operations
• Wind farm control (incl. Yaw, loads, induction)
• Data sharing & Data standards
• Cybersecurity

• Lessons from projects
• Installation and logistics
• Industrialisation
• Components (mooring cables, floaters, etc)
• Testing
• Modelling (aero-hydrodynamics, fluid-structure interactions…)

• Data science, machine learning and AI
• Data management, data standards and data sharing, including FAIR data & science
• Open-source tools, open innovation and collaborative-competitive approaches
• IoT instrumentation
• Cybersecurity
• Organisational culture and digital skills

• Circularity by design (incl. embedded footprint of materials)
• Rotor blades recycling
• Components recycling
• Environmental impacts
• Biodiversity impacts (birds, bats, wildlife, marine species)
• Noise impacts
• Community engagement
• Spatial planning (on- and offshore, all aspects)

• New technologies
• Grid optimization and technology roll-out
• Cables (export cables, inter-array cables, cables for clustering, cables for floating wind)
• HVDC developments, including HVDC multi-vendor multi-terminal offshore grids
• Hybrids offshore wind farms, clusters and energy islands
• Grid technology and infrastructure for Floating OWFs
• Business models for offshore grid developments
• Market design for large-scale integration of renewables
• Grid codes
• Grid forming
• System / ancillary services
• Wind power forecasting
• Colocation of projects and virtual powaer plants (wind + other generation such as solar PV)
• Storage
• Data exchanges between wind farm operators and TSOs/DSOs
• System resilience (extreme weather events and cybersecurity)
• Energy system modelling (multi-disciplinary modelling)

• Electrolyser technologies
• Coupling wind and hydrogen (incl. system design and system integration aspects of hydrogen)
• Hydrogen applications and e-fuels
• Infrastructure
• Regulatory issues
• Showcase of real projects
• Electrification of industrial processes
• Wind-to-E-charging
• Wind-to-Heating & Cooling
• Manufacturing processes
• Commercial and residential electrification