Objective Today, an offshore wind farm is merely a collection of wind turbines where the components of an offshore wind farm cluster are optimized but not the overall cluster. In the future, the best-performing wind farms will be designed with an integrated approach. For this purpose, design tools for offshore wind farm clusters must then yield for the overall optimum. This means they must integrate the cluster and grid connection design with new intelligent mechanisms for wind turbine, farm and cluster control already in the design phase.The objective of the project is to develop toolbox for such an integrated offshore wind farm clusters design. In line with the call this is achieved by combination of the following different design optimisation tools elements as advanced wake models, turbine load models, grid interconnection models and by incorporating the operation of the offshore clusters as a virtual offshore power plant. The consortium will depart from existing state of the art models that are further developed within the project.In parallel extensive measurements and data collection is carried out in order to validate the models, to calibrate and further improve them. Furthermore the developed control mechanisms for virtual offshore power plant operation will be tested in existing wind farms to verify that indeed an increase of the overall energy yield, a reduction of load on the single turbines and a flexible operation of the wind farm clusters is achieved. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power Programme(s) FP7-ENERGY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy Topic(s) ENERGY.2011.2.3-2 - Development of design tools for Offshore Wind farm clusters Call for proposal FP7-ENERGY-2011-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator 3E EU contribution € 800 622,75 Address KALKKAAI 6 1000 Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Rory Donnelly (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND Netherlands EU contribution € 550 422,75 Address WESTERDUINWEG 3 1755 LE Petten See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Kop van Noord-Holland Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Maaike Brouwer (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITAET OLDENBURG Germany EU contribution € 592 497,50 Address AMMERLAENDER HEERSTRASSE 114-118 26129 Oldenburg See on map Region Niedersachsen Weser-Ems Oldenburg (Oldenburg), Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jörg Stahlmann Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SENVION GMBH Germany EU contribution € 547 846,50 Address UBERSEERING 10 22297 Hamburg See on map Region Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jan Kruse (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data RWE INNOGY GMBH Germany EU contribution € 541 532,00 Address GILDEHOFSTRASSE 1 45127 Essen See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Silke Köhler (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE United Kingdom EU contribution € 549 697,20 Address SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD SW7 2AZ LONDON See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Shaun Power (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data