Introduction

Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, the Danish Test and Resource Centre for Small Wind Turbines, the Danish Association for Small and Medium Wind Turbines, in partnership with the World Wind Energy Association, are pleased to invite to the 5th International Conference on Small- and Medium Wind Energy, which will be held online from the 27th to the 29th of April 2021.

The event is the continuation of a series of four successful conferences which focused on small & medium wind and which reached hundreds of people around the world. The conferences were held in the period 2019-2020 and the proceedings can be found here.

Given the good response obtained, it was decided to continue this conference series to make sure the small & medium wind community remains updated on the innovative solutions released and on the new market opportunities.

The 5th conference will focus on the importance of small & medium wind for off-grid solutions, with particular attention on the Arctic region and on developing countries. Furthermore, new potential markets and education opportunities will be presented.

Director of Folkecenter since 2013, she has 30 years of experience in renewable energy. In the second half of 1980s she started a wind cooperatives with more than 40 local families involved in it. Since 1993 she was the Head of Information and Training Programs in Folkecenter and she has been the project leader for several renewable energy projects, both in the Global North and the Global South.

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Jean-Daniel Pitteloud, World Wind Energy Association, Germany
has been working for the World Wind Energy Association since 2010. Currently he holds the position of Market Research and Development Manager. He is also coordinator of all WWEA small wind activities. Since 2012, Jean-Daniel has been deeply involved in the collection of statistical information related to small wind energy. Also, liaising with the small wind industry and technical stakeholders for improving the small wind sector. Jean-Daniel holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and Renewable Energy Management and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineer.

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Quentin lives in a straw bale house in West Cork, Ireland, powered by a combination of wind, solar and micro-hydro, He owned the first electric car in Ireland in recent times with an AVT kit car built in 1998.
With a background in mechanical engineering, telecommunications and electronics, Quentin developed a downwind turbine in 2009. Although he ceased turbine production, his company continued to sell ABB inverters and controllers to other turbine manufacturers, and produced its own off-grid controllers for battery systems.
When ABB, Ginlong and SMA stopped making wind inverters, Quentin worked with ABB to develop a controller that enabled their solar inverters to work with wind turbines. The system is approved by FIMER and is now in use on grid tied and AC coupled offgrid sites in Australia, Korea, Mongolia, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, UK and many other countries.

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Shah is an Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Materials at the Dept. of Architecture, and senior research at the Centre for Natural Material Innovation at the University of Cambridge. Shah specializes in natural materials science and technology. He works with scientists across disciplines developing biomaterials, such as engineered wood, bamboo, and natural fibre composites as lightweight, sustainable, and structural alternatives to conventional materials for various application sectors, including wind energy, construction, transport, healthcare, and consumer products. A major aim is to combine sustainability with performance and functionality. Three principle areas include applied research developing low-embodied energy structural composites; fundamental research exploring natural materials and structures for bioinspiration; and a combined approach designing smart, functional biomaterials.

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Frits Ogg, born in Maastricht 1954 now living in Nijmegen (Netherlands) is a guest lecturer, investigating journalist and consultant in the field of water and energy conservation, sustainable energy and automation. He was Co-founder of the Dutch organisation for sustainable energy (ODE) in 1978. Frits Ogg specialises in sustainable emergency energy supply, small bio-gas, photo-voltaics, small wind and community wind. He was formerly editor in chief of WindNieuws (in Dutch) and has a degree in education (electrical), industrial marketing and industrial engineering. He worked for the largest wind cooperation in the Netherlands “De windvogel” and writes for several Dutch industrial magazines and in the english language for Windtech-International and the WWEA (wwindea.org). As a HAM radio operator he is on the air with the call PA2LIA. More can be found on his LinkedIn page and under @fishfrogg on Twitter.

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Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Federal University of Pará (UFPA), in 2017. As a member of the Composite Materials Research Group (GPMAC), he got experience in material characterization and processing, with an emphasis on the development of polymeric composite materials reinforced by plant fibers, aiming the sustainability, technological, social and economic development of the Amazon Region.
In 2019 he received the M.Sc in Mechanical Sciences, through the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering (PPGEM-UFPA), where, with funds of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), he developed a methodology for manufacturing blades for hydrokinetic and wind turbines using new materials.
He is currently a doctorate student in the Graduate Program in Engineering of Natural Resources from Amazon (PRODERNA), where, with funds of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), he is developing a project that purpose to analyze experimentally and computationally fatigue in wind blades manufactured in composites reinforced by sustainable materials.


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Tonje Margrete Winsnes Johansen works as an adviser for the Saami Council's Arctic- and Environmental Unit. Johansen comes from a small coastal-Sámi village in the northern parts of Sápmi on the Norwegian side and is currently residing in Guovdageaidnu. She has a political science background from NTNU. Within the Saami Council Johansen focuses most of her work on sustainable development and socio-economic issues, both locally in Sápmi and also in the Indigenous circumpolar Arctic through the Arctic Council.

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Andreas is the founder & CEO of KiteX. KiteX has been developing airborne wind energy system for 4 years, but has recently transitioned into making and commercializing a lightweight portable wind turbine called Wind Catcher.
Andreas is an entrepreneur and wind enthusiast having co-founded the wind meter company Vaavud.

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