Research Activities

Research in the fields of wind energy and solar energy takes place mostly in third-party-funded projects. Therefore, research activities are descibed mainly by currently running or former projects. Some projects even yielded commercial products which will also be mentioned.

Wind Energy

Current wind energy research activities of EHF are strongly focused on meteorological aspects of wind power. The aim is to describe the spatio-temporal characteristics of the wind field on different scales. This is used to assess and predict wind conditions at onshore and offshore sites.

Solar Energy

Current research in solar energy is focusing on the improvement and acceleration of methods to retrieve irradiation information from satellite images. Derived position-specific data gives valuable information about possible application of solar energy devices.

Furthermore, the actual cloud-dynamics are investigated to deduce the expected energy output and therefore help stabilizing the power grid.

 

Map of mean daily sums of radiation for Europe (April 2001)

 

 

Contact

Dr. Detlev Heinemann

Department of Energy and Semiconductor Research
Institute of Physics - University of Oldenburg
D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Tel: +49 441 - 798-3543
Fax: +49 441 - 798 3326
e-mail: detlev.heinemann@uni-oldenburg.de