Offshore Power Electronics
Project funding and partners
Main funding:
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The Research Council of Norway, Clean Energy for the Future programme – RENERGI
- Approximately 70 % of the funding
Financing Industry Partners and members of the project steering committee:
- Wärtsila Norway
- Product development and production of power drives for ship and industry
- Medium voltage power electronic converters for offshore applications
- Statkraft Development
- Power utility company with large focus in offshore wind
- Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in operation
- Dudgeon wind farm under development
- Plans for developing Doggerbank wind farm cluster
- Major customer of power electronic converters for offshore wind parks
- GE Wind Energy together with GE Global Research Center
- Supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies
- High interest and focus in power conversion technologies
University Partner:
- The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Electric Power Engineering
- Supervision of post doc and master students - Technical University of Chemnitz
Chair of Power electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
- Supervison of PhD-student and general collaboration within the reliability activities