October, 2024 

OBJECTIVES 

This Topical Experts Meeting (TEM) targets potential gaps in the wind turbine design processes that may exist due to the wind industry’s incomplete understanding of certain extreme external conditions. There are many examples of extreme conditions including tropical cyclones, extratropical winter storms, extreme precipitation (e.g., monsoons), extreme terrestrial turbulence, freshwater ice floes and ice ridges, breaking waves, lightning, hail, tornados, earthquakes, and extreme temperatures etc. This TEM will focus on to tropical cyclones and extratropical extreme conditions. 

SPECIFIC OUTCOMES 

The expected outcome of this TEM will be to expand the common knowledge base of the global wind industry that identifies the most important design challenges for wind turbine systems to optimally survive extreme external conditions. This new understanding will enable us to determine a course of action to incorporate the findings into a new consensus-based framework to update current design practices or standards.   

The TEM organizers at NREL are committed to documenting the content of the experts’ meeting in a published written report peer reviewed by all attendees.  In addition, based on participation, we will follow-up with key participants and interested countries to create a plan to narrow the focus to address the most critical topics under a more comprehensive IEA Task on extreme external conditions.        

Dates:

TEM#112 will be held by Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, on October 28th-29th 2024.