Global Wind Summit 2018

Abstract

PrefaceOn behalf of the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE1) and WindEurope (formerly the European Wind Energy Association EWEA), we hereby have the pleasure of presenting the Scientific Proceedings of the WindEurope Conference 2018.Global Wind Summit 2018 (WindEurope Conference & WindEnergy Hamburg) took place in Hamburg on 25-28 September 2018. It is one of the largest and most important meeting places of the wind energy community. This year’s conference has featured 50 thematic sessions with a total of more than 500 speakers. As in previous years, the sessions mixed industrial content with scientific works, in order to increase the visibility of relevant scientific research and to facilitate an interchange of ideas between industry and academia.In continuation of the successful agreement between WindEurope and IOP Publishing, the scientific contributions of the WindEurope Conference 2018 are published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, an Open Access journal managed by the Institute of Physics (IOP). All papers in this volume originate from scientific contributions presented at WindEurope Conference 2018, and have been peer-reviewed in order to ensure strict, international standards, coordinated by the Scientific Proceedings Editors and aided by the EAWE Wind Europe Scientific Committee.New this year was the possibility for every accepted scientific abstract to submit a paper for the Scientific Proceedings. In previous years only the scientific papers presented in oral sessions were given this opportunity, but this year authors could submit a manuscript also for accepted scientific poster presentations. We believe this is an important development that benefits our community, and that greatly increases the attractiveness of WindEurope Conference. In particular, this guarantees long-term storage and easy electronic reference of conference papers, and we thank WindEurope for making this possible. Of course this positive development has also meant a much higher workload than previously. This year, a total of 46 original papers were submitted, of which 40 were eventually accepted for publication.