Living lab contribution to the panel “Wind theft – The industry’s big wake-up call”
Living lab researcher Martin Dörenkämper from the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems was invited as a panel speaker at the Recharge Wind Power Summit 2025 in Hamburg.
Together with other international experts, he discussed the topic “‘Wind theft’ – The industry’s big wake-up call” on how research findings on turbulent wake of wind farms and wind farm clusters raise new questions and challenges for existing and planned projects in the offshore sector and what role wind energy research can play in optimizing these phenomena.
The Recharge Wind Power Summit 2025 is supported by the WindEnergy Hamburg trade fair and brings together international experts from industry, research, politics and civil society on the topic of wind energy. This year’s topics included international cooperation, the increasingly important role of wind energy in the global energy transition and new innovations and technologies in the areas of manufacturing, operation and maintenance.
These effects also play a major role in the expansion of offshore wind energy in the German North Sea. In the Living Lab 70GW Offshore Wind, several sub-projects are working to analyze the issues from different perspectives, but also to carry out a systemic analysis on an interdisciplinary basis.
