The Wind Energy Science Conference 2021 (WESC2021) took place from May 25-28, 2021. It was organised from Hannover. More than 760 presentations in 153 parallel sessions gave interesting insights in current research results. IWES participated with 9 presentations (2 of which as speaker). Moreover, IWES (co-)organised 2 mini-symposia and thus contributed significantly to the overall success of the conference.
The mini-symposium on "Smart Blades Technologies" in Theme 2 attracted more than 60 attendees. Three sessions were carried out with 15 contributions on sensor technologies as well as passive and active smart rotor concepts. The mini-symposium on the "Structural Design, Modelling and Simulation of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades" in Theme 6 was organised by Claudio Balzani together with Steffen Czichon (Fraunhofer IWES) and Xiao Chen (DTU Wind Energy). It consisted of 2 sessions with 10 presentations and showed that structural aspects of rotor blades are an important part of wind energy research.
The bi-annual WESC conference series is an event supported by the European Academy of Wind Energy (eawe) and addresses all aspects of wind energy-related research. After the two predecessors in Lynby, Denmark (2017), and Cork, Ireland (2019), WESC2021 was organised by ForWind Hannover. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was carried out as an online event.
