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The Neowind consortium comprising floating Lidar manufacturer EOLOS, wind energy consultancy sowento and the Stuttgart Wind Energy institute (SWE) of the University of Stuttgart, successfully completed the initial field testing phase for its collaborative Eurostars project. On the test site of the University of Stuttgart and its test facilities, the consortium focused on the integration […]

Building on the success of their collaboration on the ReLACs project (retrofitted lidar assisted control using a simplified wind turbine lidar solution – Wind Energy Science Conference 2023, https://zenodo.org/records/8037351),  ZX and sowento have embarked on a further, new initiative to demonstrate the benefits of ZX Continuous Wave (CW) Lidars for Lidar Assisted Control (LAC). The initiative will

The offshore wind industry has gained significant momentum in recent years as a sustainable solution in the fight against climate change, meeting the EU’s growing demand for renewable energy. The new SUDOCO project has the aim to set up the Control Room of the Future for offshore wind farms. Offshore wind farms harness the power

sowento is part of a the groundbreaking EU Project SUDOCO which aims at developing collaborative wind turbines for the most sustainable future.
What sets the SUDOCO project apart is the commitment to looking beyond quick gains. In addition to optimizing energy output, the project is taking a comprehensive approach, considering the long-term environmental and societal impacts in our decision-making process. This holistic perspective enables operators to address real-time challenges, such as price fluctuations, security of supply, extending the lifespan of wind turbines, responsible resource utilization, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and implementation of local energy storage solutions like hydrogen and batteries.

From the project results of the VAMOS project, and our continuous investigations on lidar-assisted control and floating wind turbines simulation and control, we have compiled a Recommended Practices report. The development of floating wind turbines has opened new spaces of designing and operating wind turbines. Because of the floating platform, the entire system faces more

AMOG and sowento have signed an MoU to deliver a holistic FOWT monitoring solution to improve integrity, insurability, and reduce operation costs. The collaboration leverages more than 40 years of combined experience to commercialise a holistic integrity monitoring solution for the floating offshore wind sector. It brings together two independent companies, each with an impressive

Under the umbrella of the Eurostars Call 3 European Partnership for Innovative SMEs, co-funded by the Commission and Eureka member states, an R&D collaboration project has been awarded to develop an innovative product in the field of the offshore wind Lidar technology. The awarding committee endorses the potential of the offshore wind energy as one of

sowento, an engineering consultancy and technology advisor for wind energy applications, invests in new company VYND to address two current market needs:   a ready-to-use lidar-assisted control solution and a dedicated digital twin-based monitoring system for floating wind turbines. “Within the last few years, we have identified the need for the two products in various discussions

We are very proud to announce that Goldwind already installed 1000 turbines with a total capacity around 3 GW using the EFARM LiDAR Assisted Control Technology developed together with sowento (by end of 2020). In future projects, we aim at making the lidar data processing more adaptive using our Smart Lidar concept, optimizing the wind

sowento has kicked off the development of FlexDyn, a versatile tool for coupled multibody system (MBS) simulation for Onshore, Bottom Fixed, and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT). It is a new structural dynamics module for the well-known OpenFAST software by United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). FlexDyn allows an elastic modelling of the substructure