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Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) is an interdisciplinary resource center for the exploitation of offshore wind energy as a natural and sustainable energy resource. The Centre was founded in 2009 as one of eleven Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (CEER), and is hosted by Christian Michelsen Research AS in Bergen.

NORCOWE’s partners cover a wide range of subject fields related to offshore wind energy, and several are international leaders in their fields. The center encompasses areas such as resource mapping, modeling and measurements of the marine boundary layer, marine operations, operation and maintenance, wind and wake effects in wind farms, and layout design of wind farms. NORCOWE has expertise in modeling on a wide range of scales, from fine-scale CFD to the meso-scale.

NORCOWE has signed MoUs with Fraunhofer IWES, NREL and DTU. In addition, there is cooperation with Arena NOW, Greater Stavanger, Bergen Næringsråd, Business Region Bergen, Innovasjon Norge and Node.

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Focus areas and work packages in NORCOWE