NEWS & EVENTS
September 2025, new FBG sensors are successfully installed on a WinWind WD3 wind turbine in the Fiefs park managed by InnoVent. The setup includes strain gauges and accelerometers. Weather conditions were ideal, allowing simultaneous measurements with ULCO, a key partner on the project.
Visit to a wind turbine in Fiefs, France
On November 14th 2024, teams from ULCO and UMONS, border partners in the Salomé Interreg project, visited a WinWind WWD3 (3MW) wind turbine in Fiefs, France. This first site visit, facilitated by Innovent, was essential to effectively plan the installation of new fibre optic sensors, as well as to assess the optimal positioning of instruments for measuring atmospheric conditions, in particular those dedicated to wind analysis.
Kick-off meeting of the project :
🗓 August 20, 2024
📍 Université de Mons
Agenda : Presentation of the partner's activities
First measurement campaign
A few weeks ago, teams from UMONS and Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale visited a WinWind WWD3 (3MW) wind turbine to prepare for a measurement campaign, with the support of InnoVent. On January 16, 2025, this collaboration took shape in the field!🎯
UMONS installed fiber optic sensors to measure the mechanical stresses experienced by the wind turbine, while ULCO deployed instruments to characterize wind parameters near the turbine. The collected data will contribute to their respective research and enhance the understanding of wind turbine behavior in real conditions. A big thank you to everyone involved in this campaign!👏
Animaconf dedicated to the workshop "OpenFAST & Wind Energy Modeling"
Partners and researchers gathered on March 24, 2026, for an "Animaconf" dedicated to the workshop "OpenFAST & Wind Energy Modeling", led by Patrick Augustin and his team at the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale.
The common goal was, of course, to deepen knowledge and exchange ideas on the challenges related to wind energy modeling.
But beyond the technical content, participants particularly appreciated:
👉 the pedagogical approach
👉 the quality of the presentations
👉 the richness of the discussions
Lauching event of the Salomé Project
🗓 December 17, 2024
📍 Université de Mons
Agenda : Presentations by the partners and invited persons working in the field of the project
Launching conference of SALOME
The launching conference of SALOME Interreg FWVL project funded by the Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen program was held on the 17th of December at UMONS.
During the half-day conference, we had the pleasure to bring together industry experts, researchers, and academics to discuss various aspects relating to development, integration, maintenance, and control of offshore wind turbines.
Special thanks to all our speakers from SALOME project, Loïc Tilman from Elia, and Spyridon Iason Dizes from ENTSO-E as well as all the conference attendees.
SALOME aims to facilitate a fatigue-informed integration of offshore wind farms in the day-ahead and reserve electricity markets via a dynamic monitoring approach considering the atmospheric phenomena.
Kick-off meeting of the project
The kick-off meeting for our SALOME project took place today, and already there were some very interesting discussions around our objective of developing decision-support tools to optimise the contribution of offshore wind generation to balancing the electricity grid.
