Task 43 Events
Upcoming events
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Connecting the Dots: An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs for Industry and Academia
16:00-17:30 CET on April 16th, 2025
Following on from the webinar on “Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector“, members of the Knowledge Graph Alliance will give you a practical introduction to creating and using knowledge graphs in this latest workshop.
The wind energy domain spans meteorology, engineering, materials science, policy, and more. Knowledge graphs are important for wind energy innovation and research because they have to potential to help organise, connect, and extract meaningful insights from large, complex, and scattered datasets. They support and enable digital twins of wind farms, predictive analytics for turbine failures or optimal site selection, better feature engineering and interpretation, explainable AI through traceable connections and semantic searches for smarter query results.
The planned programme is shown below.
- 10’ Introduction to IEA Wind Task 43 and summary of previous webinar (Sarah Barber, IEA Wind Task 43)
- 45’ KGs and application examples (Arkopaul Sarkar, Knowledge Graph Alliance)
- 15’ Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Decision Support in O&M of Wind Turbines (Joyjit Chatterjee, EPAM Systems)
- 20’ Discussion and Mentimeter questionnaire (Sarah Barber, IEA Wind Task 43)
IEA Wind Task 43 Annual General Meeting 2025
Golden, CO, USA
We are pleased to announce that the IEA Wind Task 43 Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025 will be hosted by the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST) at the hotel Denver West Marriott in Golden, CO, USA, on Tuesday, June 10th and Wednesday, June 11th (until midday). An online option will be available.
Programme (Mountain Time)
Tuesday, June 10th (8:30am to 5pm)
08:30 – 09:00 Introduction and key-note “Harnessing Digital Twins: Pioneering the Future of Industry Digitalization”
- José Valenzuela del Rio, Siemens Foundational Technology
09:00 – 09:30 Overall task update
09:30 – 10:30 WG1 update and workshop
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 WG2 update and workshop
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 WG3 update and workshop
14:30 – 15:30 WG4 update and workshop
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Overlaps and synergies workshop
Wednesday, June 11th (08:30am to 12:30pm)
08:30 – 10:00 Workshop on how to improve communication and dissemination through WeDoWind
10:00 – 10:30 Application example of generative AI: Automated Question-Answering for Interactive Decision Support in Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines
- Joyjit Chatterjee, EPAM Systems
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Application example of generative AI: Intelligent digital twins with wind energy domain knowledge grounding
- Yuriy Marykovskiy, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
11:30 – 12:30 Panel discussion: The opportunities and challenges of generative AI in wind energy
- Joyjit Chatterjee, EPAM Systems
- Yuriy Marykovskiy, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
- AWS
- Microsoft
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Registration
You can register in this Google Form HERE. You do not need to be an IEA Wind Task 43 participant to attend, and participation fees are voluntary. If you need an invitation letter for your visa, please contact sarah.barber@ost.ch. The registration deadline is May 23rd, 2025.
Key-note speaker
José Valenzuela del Río heads a Research Group in the Simulation and Digital Twin at Siemens Foundational Technology. His group researches on the latest Simulation and Digitalization technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Software and advanced Visualization methods to create the next-generation, high-fidelity, interactive Digital Twins and their applications to the Industrial Metaverse. Previously, José worked as a Senior Key Expert when he developed and advanced innovative technologies for fast simulations in industrial applications. His work spans all asset lifecycle stages and impacts various industries, including Health, Infrastructure, Energy, and Automotive.
José previously worked for 7 years at the Gas Turbine R&D team at Siemens Energy. His responsibilities included the development of simulation, digitalization and optimization tools for gas turbine designers. He also contributed to the system design of the flagship gas turbine frame.
José holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he earned with a thesis on efficient design space exploration for helicopters.
Hotel information
We recommend you stay at the Denver Marriott West hotel, which is offering a group rate for 210.00 USD per night
Last Day to Book: Monday, May 19, 2025
Last year’s event
Here you can read the report about our Annual General Meeting 2024, which took place in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Past events
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Launch of the new “IEA Wind Task 43 data user group”: a new framework for SCADA events and alarm systems
December 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
The new “IEA Wind Task 43 Data User Group” aims to serve as a catalyst in streamlining data analytics within the wind industry. We want to foster innovation and efficiency by refining and enhancing the processes involved in analysing data generated from wind energy assets. By leading advancements in this field, we strive to optimise the performance and reliability of wind energy systems, contributing to the broader goal of sustainable energy production.
Our mission is to identify and address the key challenges that impede the effectiveness of SCADA-based data analytics in the wind industry. We are committed to providing clear, actionable guidelines and recommendations that will improve the efficiency, accuracy, and overall value of data analytics activities related to the operation of wind energy assets. By doing so, we aim to empower industry stakeholders to make informed decisions that enhance the performance and longevity of wind turbines and associated infrastructure.
The topic of this first webinar focused on identifying ways SCADA alarm codes/events can be effectively used for fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis and performance optimisation. Resent literature estimates that operations and maintenance costs for wind turbines can account for 18–30% of the cost of generation of wind power so this indicates a significant motive to investigate modern ways to improve common practices related to reducing this cost. SCADA alarm codes/events offer useful information that can be used to enhance maintenance and root cause analysis of wind turbines but it is observed that they are often underutilised.
If you work with SCADA error codes, you will know that it can be time-consuming to obtain, understand and make them machine-readable. We suggest a unified model for sharing SCADA error codes. But how should this model be built and how should it work? That’s up to the users to define! We started off this discussion today.
Access the slides and the Mentimeter survey results here, and the recording below.
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector
November 6th, 2024: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Ontologies are structured frameworks that represent knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. They are important in wind energy because they provide a standardised framework for representing and communicating complex information, enhancing interoperability among diverse systems and stakeholders. In this one-hour webinar, we introduced the concept of ontologies, gave an update on our new ontology hosting portal TechnoPortal, and then ran through the process for creating and publishing your own ontology on the TechnoPortal.
Access the slides here and recording below:
IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Why does the wind energy sector need to start talking about digital twin architecture?
September 20th: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Digital twins are a key technology for the wind energy sector due to their ability to provide virtual replicas of physical wind turbines and wind farms. Understanding the architecture of digital twins is important as it ensures seamless integration, interoperability, and scalability of the digital twins. In this one-hour webinar, we first heard two examples of digital twin “use cases” from the sector, followed by two architecture design example projects, and ending with a discussion and Mentimeter quiz where the participants discussed their thoughts, needs and other inputs on the topic!
Annual General Meeting 2024
June 17th-19th 2024, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Our Annual General Meeting 2024 took place at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil (OST), Switzerland. The three days involved a “Task progress day”, a “Digital skills day” and a “WeDoWind day”. You can read the report of the event here.
Culture and coopetition for driving digitalisation
Feb. 29th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we discussed some inspiring examples of how culture and coopetition can help drive digitalisation. After hearing IEA Wind Task 43’s vision for an holistic people-centred collaboration framework, we heard three examples of culture and coopetition, followed by a Q&A session.
Access the recording here:
Thriving in an increasingly digital ecosystem: Knowledge engineering and knowledge representation
Nov. 7th 2023, 16:00 CET with Yuriy Marykovskiy
In this webinar, we explored key insights from a new paper “Knowledge Engineering in Wind Energy” lead by the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and ETH Zurich, which addresses the pressing need for effective data management and knowledge representation in the industry.
Access the recording here:
Metadata Challenge Webinar Series
Between December 2022 and July 2023 we hosted a total of seven webinars about data and metadata. The recordings are available on our Youtube channel here.
Since November 2023, this webinar series has been replaced with the IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series (see above).
WG4 (Use case demonstration) task extension launch workshop
Jan. 24th 2024, 16:00 CET
In this webinar, we launched the new WG4 (Use Case Demonstration)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants had the opportunity to make suggestions and give their inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
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WG1 (Data) task extension launch workshop
September 12th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we launched the new WG1 (Data)! We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group and then introduced the current participants and activities. After that, participants all had the opportunity to make suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
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WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) task extension launch workshop
September 14th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST
In this webinar, we will launched the new WG2 (Culture) and WG3 (Coopetition) in a joint webinar. We started by giving an overview of the planned tasks of the group. After that, the participants made suggestions and give your inputs regarding the implementation and prioritisation of the activities. At the end, we defined next steps.
Access the recording here: