Latest News & Updates
MARCSMAN: Simulating the risk of forest damage caused by climate change
The research project MARCSMAN studies the relation between climate changes and forest damages from several angles. Kjeller Vindteknikk’s contribution is to create computer simulations describing how climate change influences the local weather.
Webinar about wind farm data analysis (in Norwegian) – Registration open
Tuesday 1st of June at 13:00, Kjeller Vindteknikk (Norconsult) will organize a new webinar regarding wind farm data analysis. This time, the focus will be on SCADA data from operational wind farms.
Kjeller well represented at the WinterWind 2021 conference on cold climate wind energy
Like many other conferences recently, WinterWind conference was held online during this week gathering the global cold climate wind energy community together again. As usual it was great! A very well organised, informative conference. We had the privilege to present...
Analysis: Polar Vortex collapse causes heavy winter for North America and the Nordics
Large parts of Canada, and US have experienced very low temperatures this year. This is caused by the collapse of the normally uniform Polar Vortex which is well explained in below 2-min YouTube video. Similarly the Nordics have experienced cold weather fronts due to...
Kjeller Vindteknikk is broadening our service offering with air quality measurements expertise
Kjeller Vindteknikk (KVT) recently installed its first air quality measurement station in Vollaparken, in the heart of Lillestrøm, not far from our head office. The station is performing operative measurements of nitrogen oxides and particles.
Kjeller Vindteknikk in «Teknisk Ukeblad»: Developing new tools and methods for avoiding extreme ice buildup on power lines
The Icebox project where Kjeller is one of the key participants has been featured in an online article in the Norwegian technical magazine “Teknisk Ukeblad”. The full article may be read here (in Norwegian):...
New employee – Sigmund
We are very happy to welcome our new colleague, Sigmund Guttu to the Kjeller Vindteknikk and Norconsult team! Sigmund is currently finishing his PhD in meteorology and climate sciences at the University of Oslo. Sigmund has also worked with air pollution at the...
Kjeller Vindteknikk is proud to have supported Equinor’s offshore wind project development off the coast of New York.
For both projects, the work provided by Kjeller Vindteknikk includes meteorological simulations, wake effect analysis and energy production estimates.
The wind year of 2020
The year of 2020 was different and extraordinary in many ways. While we humans were busy looking after ourselves and our communities, nature and weather kept moving through the four seasons. Looking back, it can be seen in our Nordic 12-month wind index that the year...