Latest News & Updates
Analysis: Large-scale icing events in Finland during November 2022
Ice build-up on wind turbine blades and resulting production losses is a phenomenon that happens every winter in the Nordics: sometimes more and sometimes less. Icing losses have been reported on the news in Finland frequently in November and December 2022. For this...
Webinar: Production Assessment of operational wind farms, Friday 16th December at 9.00-9.30 am (CET)
Welcome to another free webinar hosted by Kjeller Vindteknikk! We have been conducting numerous post-construction production assessments for operational wind farms in a great variety of terrain and climatic conditions. Join this webinar if you are curious to learn...
How did we calculate wind and ice loads for over 2400 masts spread across Norway?
Telenor Infra provides passive infrastructure to telecommunications companies, including Telenor Norge, and has several thousand masts spread across Norway. We have calculated climatic loads for wind and ice for more than 2400 of them, giving unique knowledge on...
New Colleague in our analyses group
We are very pleased to introduce you to our new colleague Idar Barstad who joined the Kjeller Vindteknikk team this autumn! Idar has a PhD in dynamic numerical meteorology from University of Bergen from 2002, and he has long experience both as a scientist and an...
Updates on shadow flicker knowledge
Updated shadow flicker knowledge base report for Norway In the autumn of 2021, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) engaged Norconsult to review and update the knowledge base on shadow flicker from wind turbines. This spring, the report written...
New colleague in our field group
We are very pleased to introduce you to our new colleague Torbjørn Strandos who joined the Kjeller Vindteknikk team this autumn! Torbjørn has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from OsloMet from 2022 and will be working in our field and measurements team. After working...
New colleagues at the Lillestrøm office
We are very pleased to introduce you to our new colleagues Marte Sofie Buraas and Eivind Myklebust Støvne, who joined the Kjeller Vindteknikk team this autumn! Marte Sofie finished her MSc in Meteorology and Oceanography from University of Oslo earlier this year,...
Case study: Icing forecasts for the Queensferry Crossing bridge in Scotland
Kjeller Vindteknikk develops and delivers ice warning forecasts for several different industrial applications for wind energy and wind engineering sectors. In our latest wind engineering customer project, we were chosen to provide ice fall forecasts for the bridge...
IceForecast webinar, Wednesday 12th October at 1.30-2.15 pm (CET)
If you are interested in learning more about icing forecasts and why they are important for the wind industry, this webinar is for you. We will be going through challenges related to forecasting production loss due to icing, what are strengths and weaknesses of icing...