Department of Energy Technology receives funds within wind power · 11. May 2010
On October 15th 2009 the Top-level Research Programme launched a call for user driven research projects. The budget for this call was 30 MNOK, and the thematic topic focused on grid aspects, power and energy aspects, energy market aspects, operation and maintenance and cold climate and offshore wind power.
In the call there was a two stage application procedure, and industry participation in the projects was encouraged. The Programme Committee received 14 pre-applications, and 5 full applications.
Based on the evaluations of a panel of three non-Nordic experts, the Nordic Programme Committee made a decision 27th of April 2010 to fund the project ‘Optimal spinning reserve of power systems considering forecasting error of load and wind power generation under market environment (OSRNordic)’ led by Aalborg University. Also Iceland and Sweden participates in the project.
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