The Grand Challenges in the Digitalisation of Wind Energy: From vicious cycle to virtuous cycle

The wind energy industry - from R&D through to wind farm development and operations, manufacturing, and grid integration - generates huge amounts of data. That data is already being used to help reduce the cost of energy from wind, and there are many opportunities to use that data in future to build new businesses and new ways of working together. 

This presentation is a short introduction to the three "Grand Challenges" for the digitalisation of wind energy, identified by a working group drawn from across the wind energy industry and published in the journal, "Wind Energy Science" (preprint at https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-29).

The three Grand Challenges are:

1. Data: creating FAIR data frameworks
2. Culture: connecting people and data to foster innovation
3. Coopetiton: enabling collaboration and competition between organisations.

The presentation provides the background to these Grand Challenges and suggests some actions that could be undertaken to help address them. For more information, please see the journal article.