Newsletter #3

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On 5 November 2025 at 10:00 CET, the sister projects ICONIC, SUDOCO, TWAIN, and WILLOW will host their second joint workshop dedicated to advances in wind farm control.

Building on the success of their previous collaboration, the projects continue to contribute to the EU’s climate neutrality goals by 2050 through innovative approaches to wind farm flow control and optimisation.

The upcoming online event, “Synergies Workshop: Subjects of the Year in Integrated Wind Farm Control” will provide an opportunity to showcase the latest results and share perspectives on enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of wind energy production.

The workshop will feature contributions from leading experts, including representatives from CEIT, DTU, the University of Warwick, and TU Delft, who will present new findings on topics such as corrosion detection, artificial intelligence for operational optimisation, and the “Control Room of the Future.”

Participants are invited to join this collaborative session to explore the future of intelligent wind farm operations. The workshop is designed to be highly interactive, encouraging active engagement from attendees, who will have the opportunity to ask questions, share insights, and contribute ideas to help shape future developments in integrated wind farm control. Attendance is free of charge and the webinar will last one hour and half.

Project updates

SUDOCO 5th General Assembly in The Hague 2025

On 8–9 October 2025, the SUDOCO consortium met in The Hague to review progress on the project, presenting key results on the Control Room of the Future and welcoming in person the new partner NTUA.

SUDOCO's interviews

What do SUDOCO researchers do? What is their role in the project?

In this newsletter, we continue our series of video interviews with the researchers involved in SUDOCO, offering new insights into the project’s core themes, shared firsthand by the researchers themselves. 

You can explore each interview individually by clicking on the video thumbnails, or sit back and watch the full series.

Bart Doekemeijer (Shell)

Bart Doekemeijer is a wind farm control and R&D Expert at SHELL. In SUDOCO, an European-funded research project in the field of offshore #windfarms, SHELL is involved in co-design, surrogate loads and algorithm validation. In this interview, Bart Doekemeijer explains how SHELL's activities in the SUDOCO project will help shape the offshore wind farm of the future.

Pierre-Elouan Réthoré (Technical University of Denmark)

Pierre-Elouan Mikael Réthoré is a Senior researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In SUDOCO, an European-funded research project in the field of offshore #windfarms, DTU works on wind farm flow models and optimisation strategies. In this interview, Pierre-Elouan outlines how DTU’s role in the SUDOCO project will help define the offshore wind farm of tomorrow.

The full series of the SUDOCO interviews is available in the project Youtube channel:

News and events

Synergies Workshop: Subjects of the Year in Integrated Wind Farm Control

On November 5th at 10:00 CET, the sister projects ICONIC, SUDOCO, TWAIN, and WILLOW – funded under the same EC call – will hold their second joint workshop to present results on wind farm control.

Welcome NTUA!

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) entered the SUDOCO consortium, focusing on the adaptation of offshore wind farm to Mediterenean Sea conditions.

SUDOCO paper will be presented at IOWTC 2025 in Toulon (France)

SUDOCO will be presented by SOWENTO at the International Offshore Wind Technical Conference (IOWTC) 2025 in Toulon, France.

Another step towards new wind farm flow control strategies

A team of researchers, led by TUDelft, has introduced OFF, a dynamic open-source model designed to better understand and optimize wind farm performance. Unlike traditional steady-state models, OFF captures the time-varying dynamics of wind turbine wakes, enabling more realistic simulations of flow control strategies.

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