Progress meetings for IEA Wind Task 48

When: 24 June 2026
Where: Universidade do Porto/ Faculty of Engineering
              Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
              Room B001 (Madeira)

 IEA Wind Task 48
Agenda
14:00-19:00 check-in AWEC2026
15:00 WP1 status & outlook, WP Lead Thomas Harklau (Kitemill)+ Q&A
15:15 WP2 status & outlook, WP Lead Roland Schmehl (TU Delft) + Q&A
15:30 WP3 status & outlook, OA Kristian Petrick (AWEU) + Q&A
15:40 WP4 status & outlook, OA Stefanie Thoms (AWEU) + Q&A
15:50 Marco Ghivarello, KGM1: "A Different Operating Regime for AWE" + Q&A
16:10 Marc de Laporte, Kites for Future GmbH: "„Kites for Future: Affordable mass market airborne wind with the KISS principle“ + Q&A
16:30 Joren Bredael, TU Delft: "AWESPA: Assessing AWES Performance using wind profile clustering, physics-based power estimation models, and AEP prediction" + Q&A
16:50 Oriol Cayon, TU Delft: "AWETrim: modelling trim analysis, aerostructural simulation, and trajectory optimisation of soft-kite AWES" + Q&A
17:30 Breakout sessions
16:30-19:00 AWEC2026 Welcome cocktail (requires AWEC 2026 registration)
 

 

WP1 Materials, Manufacturing & Supply

WP2 Models & Tools
https://iea-wind.org/task48/
WP3 Regulation & Deployment

WP4 Social Acceptance








Please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.be/progress-meetings-for-iea-wind-task-48
attendance is free of charge
 
 

Welcome cocktail

Where: Campus Faculty of Engineering, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n
When: 24 June 2026, 16.30-19.00