Partnering with Wind Energy Johnson Space Center meeting at

Rice University, September 2010Dr. Carsten Hein Westergaard

Vestas Technology R&D Americas, Inc.

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Technology growth over 25 years

We install a turbine every 3 hours, 365 days a year !

Old tractor

Vestas V10 Vestas V90-3MW

World largest

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Vestas in North America

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• Green Jobs Created by Wind Energy Deployment

65,9 GW installed

154,000 jobs created

22,3 GW installed

80,000 jobs created

14,7 GW installed

31,500 jobs created

3,1 GW installed

21,600 jobs created

Sources: EWEA 2009, AWEA 2009, CREIA 2009, Vestas 2009

25 GW installed

85,000 jobs created

12,2 GW installed

40,000 jobs created

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Markets

In 2009, wind was almost 40% of all new capacity installed in the US

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WIND, OIL AND GAS

Our vision is to put wind on a par with oil and gas.

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Source: New Energy, Q3 2009 Finance

2x Grid Parity 3x 4x 5x

Grid Parity

COST OF ENERGY

Wind energy boasts highly competitive CoE

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OUR MAIN TASK IS TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS

- Business Case Certainty- Cost of Energy- Easy to Work With

Quality is continuously improved, Failure is not an option

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6000 kw- announced

10 m rotor

90 m rotor112 m rotor

THE OUTPUT OF A TURBINE HAS INCREASED X100 - TOTAL ENERGY CAPTURED X330

Our fleet:

39,000 Turbines delivered = Total required power in Spain

63 countries

30kW … 3.0 MW

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COST OF ENERGY

WE KNOW HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF EACH TURBINE

Data → Knowledge → Calculations

WIND RESOURCES

SERVICE COST

TURBULENCE

COMPLEXITY

HEIGHT CONTOURS

SITE PICTURE

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LIFETIME WITH LIMITED SERVICE ACCESS

Zafarana Egypt

New Zealand Oberzeir, AustriaNorth Hoyle, UK LasLomas, Spain Kvalheim, Norway

Nebraska, USA

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INNVATION TRANSFERREDFROM SMALL TO BIG ?

Examples:

• Increased control and performance by use of the Magnus effect

• Radical tuned smart rotor (Hutter) transformed into Growian and NASA MODxx

• Juul (a student of La Cour) and Riisager turbines forming the Danish industry

Pictures: www.eoearth.org

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WIND RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE

• In a competitive perspective with other technologies

• 46* days maintenance downtime for a coal plant

• 7* days maintenance downtime for a wind turbine – and only one at the time !

*Sci. Amer., Nov, 2009

Innovations, like our tower crane/robot will bring CoE further down

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ACCELERATE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH GLOBAL FUNDING PROGRAMMES

Vestas actively participates in world wide public funded R&D programs. Partnerships are essential to the success of these.

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STRONG FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION

Areas of Collaboration

- Sustainability- Product Development

- Technology Development- Production Excellence- Sales Excellence

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We need smart people – also in the futureResearch and education is needed to ensure the future

• Texas A&M• Sponsor of Director in Center of Excellence for wind

• University of Houston• Project sponsor

• Texas Tech• Partnership

• Rice University• Project sponsor

• University of Wiscon• Office by campus and sponsor of activities

• University of California• Sponsor projects on energy efficiency and energy systems

• Colorado• Sponsor of research initiatives

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The Wind Alliance

• The Wind Alliance is a non-profit collaboration of industry, academia and government, working as a combined effort to ensure America’s wind energy future.

• Join The Wind Alliance• Promote synergies between Industry and Academia• Incubate ideas• Develop collaborative projects• Networking

• Most of all develop strength by unity and coordination of activities

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DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL R&D FOOTPRINT

Vestas R&D OfficeVestas R&D Office

Utilise local competencies

Development of local partnerships

Provide ‘ different perspectives on a challenge

Tianjin

Harbin

ShanghaiTsinghua

MITTX A&M

UofHRice

UT

TT

BerkleyCREW

NREL

Sandia

Berlin

BergenArhusAllborg

DTU

Risø NTNU

QinetiQNAREC?

CambridgeImperial

Nottingham

Delft

Stuttgart

IITNUS

ChennaiNTU

KLMalaysia

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Strategic

Preferred

Relationships

Global Network of Partners

Project

Research projects

Corporate projects

Development of competency centers within the University

Workshops & training

Guest lectures

Internships / PhDs’

Consultancy projects

Outreach

Programs/placements

Executive Sponsorship

Recruitment

Research steering

Joint ventures

Acquisition

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Typical topics for technicalresearch collaboration

• Aerodynamics and acoustics• Advanced loads modelling • Advanced control systems • Materials science • Structural design & analysis • Gear & drive train • Reliability• Power electronics • Electromagnetic design • Wind power plant performance• Energy storage• Forecasting• Offshore• And many other topics……

Thank you for your attentionCarsten H. Westergaard, Global Technology Director

Vestas Technology R&D Americas

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