IEA Wind Task 43

At the Wind Energy Science Conference WESC2025 in Nantes from 24th-27th June 2025, we at IEA Wind Task 43 are organising a Mini-Symposium "Exploiting the potential of digitalisation in wind energy"! The abstract submission deadline is on Jan. 15th! This Mini-Symposium aims to discuss the latest research and innovation in the area of wind energy digitalisation, with the following topic areas: 👉 Data management and knowledge engineering: topics related to data management and knowledge engineering, including FAIR data, data standards, metadata, data modelling, databases, schema, ontologies and semantic artefacts, semantic web, digital twin architectures and frameworks, common vocabularies, knowledge-based systems, knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, decision support systems, AI-based systems and LLMs. 👉 Culture, data sharing and skills: topics related to organisational culture, improving data sharing and skills, including studies and experience on how organisational culture affects digitalisation, examples and methods for improving data sharing in wind energy, studies and methodologies for digital skills in wind energy. 👉 Use cases and demonstrations: topics related to use cases and demonstrations, such as data sharing initiatives, risk-based maintenance, decision support systems and the Wind Resource Assessment Data Model. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/egw4RATk

In the IEA Wind Task 43 Working Group 1 (Data) monthly meeting yesterday, we had the great pleasure of hearing the incredibly knowledgeable Sirko Schindler from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) talking about the development of an open transport metadata schema. We are hoping to transfer some of this knowledge, as well the the learning experiences, to our work on sematic artefacts in IEA Wind Task 43. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eVUMp8Se #informationmodelling #datamodelling #commonframeworks #datasharing #windenergy #wedowind

At the last IEA Wind Task 43 monthly meeting, we heard from Edward Fagan (Zero Nexus) and Gareth O'Brien (Microsoft) about their Digital Skills Mapping activity, which is part of our work on understanding how organisational culture affects digitalisation in wind energy. The three steps of this activity are: 👉 1. Identify roles in the wind energy lifecycle to analyse 👉 2. Perform a digital skills gap analysis 👉 3. Describe new roles & competences for a digitalised sector If you are interested in digital skills and skills mapping, and want to join forces to share experiences or align activities, please contact Sarah Barber or sign up for WG2 under "Join us" here: https://lnkd.in/eVUMp8Se OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Departement Technik OST IET Institut für Energietechnik #windenergy #wedowind #digitalskills

Fed up of SCADA alarm codes? Want to develop data cleaning code and data standards together with other wind energy data users? Then it's not too late to sign up for our IEA Wind Task 43 data user group launch event on Dec. 6th! https://lnkd.in/ez6iE_rP

On Dec. 6th we are launching the new IEA Wind Task 43 data user group, which 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. 👉 In this 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, we will focus on identifying ways SCADA alarm codes/events can be effectively used for fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis and performance optimisation. 👉 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 will start off this discussion today. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/dvx97mEv #datasharing #wedowind #scadadata

Don't worry if you missed out on our "IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector" with Yuriy Marykovskiy last week, because the recording and slides are both available here: https://lnkd.in/eiCYCsqE By watching this recording you will find out about what #ontologies are, why they are important for #windenergy, and how you can create, publish and further develop them collaboratively! OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Departement Technik OST IET Institut für Energietechnik

Interested in #datasharing, #AI-based systems, #decisionsupportsystems or in just improving the #efficiency and #scalability of your data analysis? Then don't miss out on your chance to learn about ontology creation and publishing in our "IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series – Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector" with Yuriy Marykovskiy this Wednesday! 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. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eFk5bN7n OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Departement Technik OST IET Institut für Energietechnik

Last week in our monthly WG2&3 meeting we were pleased to welcome Arko Sarka from the Knowledge Graph Alliance, which acts as a bridge connecting existing and future efforts in Semantic Knowledge Graph science and technology on the part of industry, research organisations, universities, and standardisation bodies: https://lnkd.in/e43djTmh In the future, we hope to combine our work on ontologies for wind energy with their experience in knowledge graphs. Attend our IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series "Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector" next Wednesday to learn about the first steps towards creating knowledge graphs, and the rest will follow soon! https://lnkd.in/eFk5bN7n

Don't miss our next webinar from the IEA Wind Task 43 Webinar Series: "Ontology creation and publishing workshop for the wind energy sector" on November 6th with Yuriy Marykovskiy from OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and ETH Zürich! https://lnkd.in/eFk5bN7n Why attend? 👉 Learn about ontologies and why they are important for wind energy. 👉 Hear about the needs of wind energy sector regarding interoperability and data sharing. 👉 Find out how to create and publish your own ontologies. 👉 Provide us with your inputs so that we can tailor our activities to your needs. 👉 Make some new contacts for future collaborations. Find out about IEA Wind Task 43 and how to get involved here: https://lnkd.in/eVUMp8Se Departement Technik OST Hope to see you all soon! #knowledgegraphs #ontologies #digitaltwins #ai

Are you based in Canada? You can now take part in IEA Wind Task 43 with low effort, as Canada is now an official participant! Thanks to Ryan Kilpatrick for enabling this! Why take part? 👉 Join our mission to act as a digital transformation catalyst by driving open collaboration within and beyond the wind community to deliver insights, recommendations, standards and tools in the key areas of data, culture, and coopetition. 👉 Align your R&D activities with the other participating countries UK, USA, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Ireland. 👉 Benefit from unique collaboration opportunities and new customers. 👉 Increase your and your organisation's global visibility. Even if you are not from one of those countries, you can apply to join with low effort! Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eVUMp8Se OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Departement Technik OST #datasharing #collaboration #windenergy #digitalisation