Research projects
Here are some ongoing and finished projects towards short-term prediction of wind power throughout the last two decades. In total, the public (and partly private) spending on this list exceeds 150 million euro.
| Country | Project acronym | Full title | Sponsor | Total / Funded budget | Start – end date | Participants incl. those from IEA Task 36/51 |
| DE | WindStore | Optimized system integration of offshore wind energy through intelligent linking of various forecast concepts and forward-looking management of distributed cascade storage systems. | BMWK (German Federal Ministery for Economics and Climate Protection) | 1.76 M€ / 1.47 M€ | Jan 2024 – Dec 2026 | Fraunhofer IEE, DLR, 4Cast, SETrade, WEPROG, EnBW, Stadtwerke Hassfurt und Wunsiedel |
| BE | BeFORECAST | Wake-effect included offshore wind power forecasting for smooth operation of the Belgian electricity grid based on advanced data handling and sensor technology, including airborne systems. |
Energy Transition Funds of the Federal Public Service Economy of the Belgian Federal Government | 3.25 M€ / 2.74 M€ | Nov 23 – Oct 25 | von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, KU Leuven, 3E, SABCA, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium |
| UK | Multi-variate forecasting for wind power integration in electricity markets | Shell/ETP Scotland | 90k€/120k€ | Oct 22 – Mar26 | University of Glasgow, Jethro Browell | |
| DE | BBR 2.0 | Bird- and Batrecorder 2.0 | BMWK (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) | 2.0 M€ / 1.5 M€ | Dec. 2022 – Nov. 2025 | ZSW, FrInaT |
| UK | Short-term forecast uncertainty in future low-carbon energy systems | UofG | 120k€ | University of Glasgow, Jethro Browell | ||
| DE | WIKKI | WINDENERGIE‐KURZFRISTPROGNOSE BASIEREND AUF GEKOPPELTEN MESO‐ UND MIKROSKALIGEN MODELLEN GESTEUERT DURCH KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ | DBU – Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt | 543.5k€ | 1. Sept. 2022 – 30. Aug. 2025 | University for Applied Research Esslingen, WEPROG |
| DK | FREE | Forecasting Renewable Energy in Egypt | DK Foreign Ministry through DANIDA | 669 k€ / 669 k€ | 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2025 | DTU Wind, ENFOR, Uni Cairo |
| DE | Klima.Neutral.Digital | Mittelstandszentrum Klima.Neutral.Digital | BMWK (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) | 5.9 M€ / 5.9 M€ | June 2022 – May 2025 | ZSW, mircotec Südwest, Hahn-Schickard, FZI, Softwarezentrum Böblingen/Sindelfingen |
| DE | BANULA | Customer orientated and network compatible Charging | BMWK (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) | 9.2 M€ / 5 M€ | Jan 2022 – Dec 2024 | TransnetBW, FhG IAO, Badenova, BBH, Parkraum BW, Smartlab, Schwarz Immobilien, Uni Stuttgart, ZSW |
| DK | NCKF | National Center for Climate Research | DK Ministry of Science | 4 M€ / 4 M€ | 1 June 2021 – 31 Dec 2022 | DMI, DTU Wind Energy, DHI, … |
| DE | GridSage | GridSage: Prognosen für den Redispatch 2.0 | Utilities Germany | 1.8 M€ / 1.8 M€ | Feb. 2021 – March 2027 | ZSW |
| UK | Control REACT | Control REACT | Ofgem/NIA | 500 k€ / 500 k€ | July 2020-July2021 | University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, Jethro Browell |
| US | PERFORM-NREL | NREL Dataset Creation for the ARPA-E PERFORM Program | DOE ARPA-E | 1.15 M€ / 1.15 M€ | 1 Jan 2020 – 30 Mar 2022 | NREL |
| DE | e-TWINS | Verbundvorhaben: e-TWINS ‘ Ganzheitliche digitale Zwillingstechnologie für das Energiesystem | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 1.96 M€ / 1.96 M€ | Jan 2020 – 30 Jun 2023 | TU München Windenergie, Hochschule München, ZSW, Mesh Engineering |
| EU | Smart4RES | Next Generation Modelling and Forecasting of Variable Renewable Generation for Large-scale Integration in Energy Systems and Markets | EU Horizon2020 | 4 M€ / 4 M€ | 1 Nov 2019 – 30 Apr 2023 | Armines, DTU, INESC TEC, EDP, Meteo-France, emsys, DNV GL, Whiffle, Dowel, ICCS, HEDNO, DLR |
| DK | Flexible Energy Denmark | Flexible Energy Denmark | Innovation Fund Denmark + Power supply companies | 6.0 M€ / 4.1 M€ | 1 April 2019 – 31 March 2023 | DTU, Center Denmark, AAU, SDU, AU, EWII, Konstant, Novasol, ENFOR, Eurisco, EMD International, NeoGrid, Aalborg Forsyning, TREFOR, NorthQ, Centrica, Danfoss, Tomorrow, xTel, ABB |
| EU | EoCoE II | Energy Oriented Center of Excellence : toward exascale for energy | EU Horizon2020 | 9.2 M € | 1.1.2019-31.12.2021 | 18 teams in 7 countries including Fraunhofer IEE |
| DK | link | IEA Wind Task 36 Phase II Danish Consortium | EUDP (nationally Danish) | 3.69 MDKK / 2.26 MDKK (0.5 M€ / 0.3M€) | 1 Jan 2019 – 31 Dec 2021 | DTU, ConWX, ENFOR, DNV, WEPROG, Ea Energianalyse, Energinet |
| DE | ParkCast | Optimization of minute-scale power forecasts of offshore wind farms using long-range lidar measurements and data assimilation | German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) | 1.14M€/1.14 M€ | 1 Nov 2018 – 30 Apr.2022 | Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE) at University of Stuttgart, Center for Solar and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), WEPROG (as subcontractor) |
| UK | swpef | System-wide probabilistic energy forecasting | UKRI/EPSRC | 400k€/400k€ | 1 Jul 2018 – 30 Jun 2022 | University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, Jethro Browell |
| EU | EU SysFlex | Pan-European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the integration of a large | EU Horizon2020 | 20 M € | Nov 2017 – Oct 2021 | 24 teams in 15 countries including Fraunhofer IEE |
| DE | gridcast | Increasing supply reliability by using flexible weather and power forecast models based on stochastic and physical hybrid methods | German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) | 6 M€ / 5.5 M€ | 1 Apr 2017 – 31 Mar 2021 | Fraunhofer IWES, German Weather Service, Amprion, TenneT, 50Hertz, TransnetBW, Innogy, Netze BW, EnBW, Enercon |
| EU | InteGrid | Demonstration of INTElligent grid technologies for renewables INTEgration and INTEractive consumer participation enabling INTEroperable market solutions and INTErconnected stakeholders | European Commission (Horizon 2020) | 14.5 M€ / 11.3 M€ | 1 Jan 2017 – 30 Jun 2020 | EDP Distribuição (Coordinator), INESC TEC, EDP CNET, Águas de Portugal, Elektro Ljubljana, Ellevio, KTH, CyberGrid, AIT, GE, DNV GL, SAP, SIM, Univ. Comillas. |
| DK | OffshoreWake | Large scale offshore wake impact on the Danish power system | ForskEL (administered by EUDP) | 6.879 MDKK / 6.063 MDKK | 1 May 2017 – 30 Apr 2020 | DTU Wind Energy, Vattenfall |
| CH,DE,SE | NEMoGrid | New Business Models for Distributed Grids | ERA-Net; Country-specific; DE: BMWK | 1.3 M€ / 1.0 M€ | April 2017 – March 2020 | SUPSI, ZSW, U.Chemnitz, Slock.it, Sonnen, NGENIC, HIVE Power, 3 Demo-Sites |
| DE | WINSENT | Verbundvorhaben: WINSENT – Realisierung und Charakterisierung einer süddeutschen Forschungsplattform für Windenergie im bergig-komplexen Gelände | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 10.4 M€ / 10.4 M€ | Dec 2016 – 28 Feb 2023 | ZSW, IMK Garmisch-P., Stuttgarter Lehrstuhl für Windenergie, Eberhad Karls Uni. Tübingen, Hochschule Esslingen, TU München Windenergie |
| DE | PROPHESY | Verbundvorhaben: Prophesy – Prognoseunsicherheiten von Windenergie und Photovoltaik in zukünftigen Stromversorgungssystemen | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 1.02 M€ / 1.02 Mk€ | Nov 2016 – Apr 2020 | Uni. Kassel, Fraunhofer IEE, enercast GmbH |
| EU | REstable | Improvement of Renewables-based System Services Through Better Interaction of European Control Zones | ERA Net SmartGrid Plus | 3.52 M€ / 2.46 M€ | 1 Apr 2016 – 18 Feb 2019 | Armines, INESC, Fraunhofer, Engie, Enercon, Artelys, Hespul, Hydronext |
| DE | C-sells a part of SINTEG | Cell-based, distributed energy systems – a part of „Schaufenster Intelligente Energie” | BMWK (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) | 60 M€ / 40 M€ | Jan. 2016 – Dec. 2020 | 57 participants (manufacturer, Network Operator, Energy Trading, Science) – TransnetBW, ZSW, … |
| DK | CITIES | Center for IT-Intelligent Energy Systems | Innovation Fund Denmark | 11 M€ | Jan 2014- Dec 2020 | DTU, Energinet, Ørsted, NREL, UCD, ENFOR, Evonet, SE, .. |
| NO | NowWind | Nowcasting for wind energy production – an integrated modelling approach | The Research Council of Norway (ENERGIX) | 12 MNOK / 6.3 MNOK (1.3 / 0.7 M€) | 1 Jan 2016 – 1 Dec 2018 | MET Norway, Windsim AS, Vestas Wind Systems AS, TrønderEnergi AS, Kjeller Vindteknikk AS |
| DE | GridPredict | predicting distributed network loads and control of flexibility | BMWK (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) | 0,6 / 0,6 Mio € | Dec. 2015 – Dec. 2018 | ZSW, HS Ulm; associated Partner: Stadtwerke Ulm / Neu-Ulm Netze |
| FR | FOREWER | Modélisation, prévision et évaluation des risques pour la production d’énergie éolienne | Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French) | 2160 k€ / 481 k€ | 1 Oct 2014 – 31 Mar 2019 | Université Paris 7, ENGIE Green, Ecole Polytechnique, EDF, RTE, CNRS |
| FR | meteo*swift | Development of a short-term wind power forecasting tool based on adaptive multi-agent systems and ensemble weather forecasts | FEDER EU funding & Occitania French region | ~1 M€ / ~500 k€ | Mar 2016 – Mar 2018 | meteo*swift, National Weather Research Center (part of Météo-France), Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute |
| DK | [link] | IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting Danish Consortium | EUDP (nationally Danish) | 2.72 MDKK / 1.83 MDKK | Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 | DTU Wind Energy, DTU Elektro, DTU Compute, DMI, ENFOR, DNV GL, WEPROG, Vestas, Energinet.dk |
| US | IEA Task on Development & Use of Probabilistic Forecasts for Wind Energy | Department of Energy USA | $22,732 | Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 | NREL | |
| DE | ORKA2 | Optimierung von Ensembleprognosen regenerativer Einspeisung für den Kürzestfristbereich am Anwendungsbeispiel der Netzsicherheitsrechnungen und der Strombelastbarkeitsprognosen | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 501 k€ / 501 k€ | Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 | Deutscher Wetterdienst, energy & meteo systems, 50hertz, avacon |
| US | WFIP 2 (alternate link) | Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project | U.S. Department of Energy | $17M USD / $17M USD | 1 Oct 2015 – 30 Sep 2018 | Vaisala, NOAA/ESRL, NOAA/ARL, NOAA/NWS, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NREL, PNNL |
| EU | EoCoE | Energy oriented Centre of Excellence | EU Horizon2020 | ~5.5 M€ / ~1.4 M€ | Oct 2015 – Sep 2018 | 21 teams in 8 countries, lead by Maison de la Simulation, including Fraunhofer IWES |
| EU | IRP Wind | Integrated EU R&D efforts on wind energy | EU 7th Framework Programme (Project ID: 609795) | ~ 10 M€ / ~10 M€ | Mar 2014 – Feb 2018 | 24 European teams (participants of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Joint Programme on Wind Energy) lead by DTU Wind Energy |
| DE | PriME | Innovative probabilistic methods for energy system technology | German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) | ~1 M€ / ~1 M€ | Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 | University Kassel, FH IWES, EnerginetDK, Netze BW |
| FR/DK | HD-RESforecast | High-dimensional dynamical models for improving renewable energy forecasting at distributed locations | EDF | 116 k€ / 65 k€ | Nov 2015 – | DTU Elektro, EDF |
| DE/CL | PROREC | Forecast and Optimisation of Renewable Energy in Chile | BMBF (DE)/CONICYT (CL) | ~400 k€ | Sept. 2015 – Oct. 2019 | Center for Solar and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Universidad La Serenca (CL) |
| DE | VORKAST | Optimising the design and operation of combined power plants and storage technology using very short term wind and solar forcasts | German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) | 1 M€ / 1 M€ | 1 Sep 2014 – 31 Aug 2017 | Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE) University of Stuttgart, Center for Solar and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) |
| DE | WindSage | Optimisation for wind power forecast for wind parks, grid nodes, control zones and Germany with machine learning methods by use of optimal combination of deterministic and probabilistic numerical weather forecasts | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 440 k€ | Sept. 2014 – Dec. 2016 | Center for Solar and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), UBIMET GmbH |
| DE | IMOWEN | Securely integrating wind farm clusters in the grid | German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) | ~1.6 M€ / ~1.4 M€ | Aug 2014 – July 2017 | FH IWES, Avacon, Senvion |
| DE | SMART GRID SOLAR | Bavarian ministry for economy, EU infrastructure fund “Investments for the future” | 10 M€ / 6.3 M€ | 2012 – 2018 | Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE), 3 Fraunhofer institutes, 9 other partners and WEPROG | |
| DK | X-WiWa | Extreme winds and waves for offshore turbines | ForskEL (PSO) | 5.96 MDKK / 5.4 MDKK | 1 Jun 2013 – 2017 | DTU Wind Energy, DHI, Uni Research, Bergen University |
| DE | EWeLiNE | Erstellung innovativer Wetter- und Leistungsprognosemodelle für die Netzintegration wetterabhängiger Energieträger | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie | 7.06 M€ / 6.5 M€ | Dec 2012 – Feb 2017 | Fraunhofer IWES, DWD, Amprion, TenneT, 50Hertz |
| DE | PerduS | Photovoltaikertragsreduktion durch Saharastaub | BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) | 962 k€ / 962 k€ | Nov 2012 – Feb 2017 | Deutscher Wetterdienst, KIT, meteocontrol |
| DK | PSO Radar@Sea | Radar@Sea | PSO ForskEL 10226 | 1.1 M€ / 723 k€ | 1 Oct 2009 – 31 Mar 2013 | DTU Compute, DTU Wind Energy, DHI, Ørsted, Vattenfall |
| EU | SafeWind | Multi-scale data assimilation, advanced wind modeling and forecasting with emphasis to extreme weather situations for a secure large-scale wind power integration | EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7-ENERGY, Project ID: 213740) | 5.6 M€ / 3.98 M€ | 1 Sep 2008 – 31 Aug 2012 | Armines, DTU, Risø, Uni Oldenburg, ENFOR, Overspeed, CENER, Energinet.dk and 13 other partners including TERI (IN) and CSIRO (AU) |
| DK | DEWEPS | Development and Evaluation of a new wind profile theory with an Ensemble Prediction System | Danish PSO Fund | 480 k€ / 180 k€ | 1 Apr 2009 – 31 Dec 2011 | WEPROG |
| EU | ANEMOS.plus | Advanced Tools for the Management of Electricity Grids with Large-Scale Wind Generation | EU 6th Framework Programme (Project ID: 38692) | 5.7 M€ / 2.6 M€ | 1 Jan 2008 – 30 Jun 2011 | Armines, DTU, Risø, ENFOR, Overspeed, CENER, INESC, and 14 other partners |
| DE | RAVE | Research at Alpha Ventus – Grid Integration of offshore wind farms | BMU, German ministry for the Environment | 5 M€ (60-80% funded) | 2008 – 2011 | Fraunhofer IWES, Forwind – University Oldenburg, Deutscher Wetterdienst, WEPROG |
| DK | HREnsembleHR | High-resolution Ensemble for Horns Reef | Danish PSO Fund (Contract No. 2006-1-6387) | 700 k€ / 400 k€ | 1 Apr 2006 – 31 Dec 2009 | WEPROG, DTU IMM, DTU Risø, Fraunhofer IWES, DONG Energy, Vattenfall |
| EU | POW’WOW | Prediction of Waves, Wakes and Offshore Wind | EU 6th Framework Programme (Project ID 19898) | 1.05 M€ / 1.05 M€ | 1 Oct 2005 – 30 Mar 2009 | Risø, DTU, Armines, CENER, Uni Oldenburg, Fraunhofer IWES, and 8 other partners including UFPE (BR) |
| DK | PSO-IntelligentPrognosis | Intelligent prognosis systems for wind power | PSO ForskEL 4101 (Ens. journal number 79029-0001) | 452 k€ / 277.5 k€ | 1 May 2004 – 31 Apr 2007 | DTU IMM, Risø DTU, Elsam, Energi E2, Ramløse-EDB |
| EU | ANEMOS | Development of a next generation wind resource forecasting system for the large-scale integration of onshore and offshore wind farms | EU 5th Framework Programme (Project ID: ENK5-CT-2002-00665) | 4.3 M€ / 2.5 M€ | 1 Oct 2002 – 30 Sep 2006 | Armines, DTU, Uni Oldenburg, CENER, IASA, and 16 others from TSOs to meteorologists |
| DK | PSO-ForbedrVKF | Improved wind power prediction in connection with stochastic optimization of electricity systems | PSO ForskEL 5766 | 119 k€ / 108 k€ | 1 Jul 2005 – 31 Dec 2006 | DTU IMM, Risø, Energinet.dk, DONG Energy |
| DK | PSO-Ensemble | Wind power prediction by ensemble forecasting | PSO ForskEL FU2101 | 684 k€ / 406 k€ | 1 Jun 2002 – 30 Jun 2005 | Risø, DTU IMM, DMI, E2, SEAS, Elsam |
| EU | CleverFarm | Advanced management and surveillance of wind farms | ERK-CT-1999-00006 | 833 k€ / 488 k€ | 1 Apr 2000 – 30 Sep 2003 | Risø, RES, DMI, University of Oldenburg, SEAS, ISET, Gram & Juhl |
| DK | Vindmøllepark Produktionsprediktor | EFP99 – Jnr 1363/99-0017 | 767 k€ / 701 k€ | 1999 – 2002 | Risø, DTU IMM, SEAS, Elkraft System, ELSAM, Eltra, E2 | |
| EU | Short-DE | Short-term prediction of regional wind power production | JOR3-CT98-0272 | 1 July 1998 – 31 Dec 1999 | Risø, Uni Oldenburg, FH Magdeburg | |
| EU | Implementing STP at Utilities | Implementing short term prediction at utilities | JOR3-CT95-0008 | 1 Jan 1996 – 31 Dec 1998 | Risø, DMI, DTU IMM, Elkraft Power Company, Jysk-Fynske Elsamarbejde, National Observatory of Athens | |
| EU | Short term prediction of local wind conditions | JOUR-0091-MB(C ) | 1 Sept 1990 – 31 May 1993 | Risø, DMI, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories |