DTU Wind Energy

Wind power is a Danish success story. Danish wind power industry is a market leader and a considerable part of Denmark’s electricity production is based on wind. One of the reasons for the success is that Denmark has focused on building strong research environments with close ties to industry. DTU now supports research further by bringing together all groups with activities within wind energy in a new department of wind energy. The vision is that the department should be a globally leading research, education and innovation centre for wind energy.

DTU Wind Energy will be the largest research centre for wind energy worldwide with more than 230 staff members, including 150 academic staff members and nearly 60 PhD students.
The department is composed of the former Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU, two groups from DTU Mechanical Engineering with focus on fluid dynamics and composite mechanics and two groups from the Materials Research Division at Risø DTU with focus on composite materials and metallic materials.

Research is conducted within 12 research programmes which are organised into three main topics: Wind energy systems, Wind turbine technology and Basis for wind energy: 

 

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Head of Department: Peter Hauge Madsen