WindEurope Bulletin
April 2026
17 April 2026
A message from the WindEurope CEO
WindEurope Annual Event 2026 – See you in next week!
Europe’s wind industry is coming to Madrid on 21–23 April – will you be there too?
Next week, our industry meets in Madrid – to look at how wind energy can deliver a secure, competitive future for Europe. Tickets are selling fast, so register now.
Hear from 400+ senior decision‑makers, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (opening the conference on Tuesday at 12:00), EU Commission EVP Teresa Ribera, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, energy ministers from across Europe, and CEOs from the wind industry, electricity networks and offtakers.
Across our programme we’ll look at how wind is Europe’s most cost‑effective energy solution, geopolitics, dis- & misinformation, protecting wind assets, financing electrification, permitting, auction design, and scaling floating wind.
With our largest exhibition ever (620+ companies) and lots of networking opportunities, there’ll be plenty of scope to do business, share insights and help shape a future‑proof European energy system. Book your spot while you still can!
Members’ Successes
Renewable Operations at a Defining Moment (Green Eagle Solutions)
The renewable energy sector and the SaaS world are converging at a pivotal time. Over the past decade, renewable control rooms have evolved from monitoring centres into real time decision environments. Operators now manage multi region portfolios exposed to volatile markets, hybrid assets, cybersecurity requirements, and rapidly changing grid codes.
At the same time, artificial intelligence is reshaping expectations. For large utilities, independent power producers and global asset managers, visibility is no longer sufficient. Executive teams increasingly expect operational systems that can anticipate events, execute predefined responses, and maintain full traceability. Automation is becoming structural to performance rather than incremental improvement.
Green Eagle Solutions is a technology company focused on renewable operation automation. They have spent the past 15 years developing digital infrastructure designed to address this complexity. What began as efforts to structure turbine knowledge, grid behaviour, and operational logic has progressively evolved into a strategic partner for renewable control rooms.
ARSOS Automation Suite is an automation platform created specifically for renewable energy operations. It delivers real-time monitoring, automated curtailment, and automated fault response without the need for a full-time control room. Organisations use ARSOS to help control rooms scale automation without carrying the full weight of building and maintaining a complex operational system themselves.
As automation becomes central to renewable performance, many organisations face a structural decision: whether to build internal automation tools or adopt a vendor platform.
Internal development often begins with a clear operational objective. A repetitive task is automated locally, delivering measurable improvements. However, as complexity increases over time, scripts expand into broader rule systems. Governance, cybersecurity, and long-term maintenance become continuous responsibilities.
The question is not whether you can build automation. It is whether you can sustain it for the next decade as your fleet and the industry evolve.
Scaling presents further challenges. Solutions designed for one region or OEM may require substantial rework to function elsewhere. An internal tool that succeeds locally can prove difficult to replicate across a diversified fleet. The central question shifts from whether automation can be built to whether it can be sustained and evolved as fleets grow and regulations change.
Vendor platforms distribute that responsibility differently. Because they are designed for multi region and multi-OEM environments, their data models and governance frameworks are structured for diversity and ongoing adaptation. In a sector shaped by continuous regulatory evolution and technological innovation, long term resilience becomes a defining consideration.
Green Eagle Solutions will participate in WindEurope 2026 in Madrid, where they will be showcasing ARSOS Automation Suite via live demos, Client Use Case presentations and live events hosted at our stand. You can find us at stand 10-D120.
As renewables move toward more autonomous operation, the build versus buy decision reflects a broader strategic choice: how organisations intend to structure software capability in an industry where operational performance and digital execution are increasingly inseparable.
Discover ARSOS Suite and connect with Green Eagle Solutions at WindEurope Madrid 2026: https://landing.greeneaglesolutions.com/-windeurope-madrid-2026
The Whiffle Atlas brings reliable, long-term mesoscale wind data to early-stage site screening
Whiffle Atlas is a mesoscale weather data service giving wind developers instant access to 21 years of accurate wind climatology data, powered by Whiffle’s in-house Whiffle Meso Model.
At 2 km resolution, the Whiffle Atlas captures the regional-scale atmospheric processes that drive local wind behaviour – including coastal effects, land–sea transitions, and large-scale orography, giving a more representative picture of a site’s wind climate than global reanalysis datasets alone can offer.
Analysts can immediately preview any candidate site directly in the platform: the new Analytics tab delivers an instant read on wind directional, wind speed distributions, and shear characteristics via interactive wind rose, Weibull distribution, and vertical profile plots. Sites can be evaluated, compared, and shortlisted in minutes.
For a deeper look at shortlisted sites, the full 21-year hourly time series downloads in under a minute via the web application or API, ready to plug straight into WindPRO, OpenWind, or your own workflows.
That time series is where the real depth is: it covers 15 meteorological variables, from wind speed and direction to atmospheric stability indicators and boundary-layer height, all derived from the same long-term mesoscale simulation, consistent across every site. Analysts can examine how variables combine in practice: how often high winds occur under stable versus unstable conditions, how the wind resource varies between night and day, or any intersection relevant to the project at hand. It is the kind of multi-variable insight that gives wind resource teams the confidence to progress sites – or rule them out – before any measurement campaign begins.
Additionally, Whiffle Atlas has been validated against over 180 sites globally, drawing on met mast data from RWE, GE Vernova, Ørsted, and public datasets, showing a near-zero mean wind speed bias of 0.092 m/s.
RWE, one of Europe’s largest renewable energy developers, has integrated Whiffle Atlas into its global wind resource assessment workflows.
“Having this quality of mesoscale data available instantly has changed the way we approach early-stage assessments. It means our teams can evaluate sites faster and with greater confidence, knowing the inputs are already benchmarked and ready to use,” said Sam Williams, Senior Scientist at RWE.
For Whiffle, the Whiffle Atlas is the next step in making high-accuracy atmospheric data accessible at every stage of wind project development, providing teams with the data foundation they need to make better decisions, faster.
Whiffle Atlas is currently available for Europe, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Korea, with coverage actively expanding. To learn more visit: https://whiffle.nl/atlas/
To speak to the Whiffle Team directly, reach out via: https://whiffle.nl/contact/.
Member Interview: Skyborn
This month, we spoke to Adam Thomsen, Chief Development Officer at Skyborn Renewables, to talk about their role as an offshore wind infrastructure platform, the long journey of turning projects from a vision into a reality, and the need for a constructive, supportive relationship between industry and government.
Read interview
Other WindEurope events
WindEurope Technology Workshop – Programme live!
Calling all wind energy technical specialists!
This June, 450+ experts will meet in Rotterdam for WindEurope’s Technology Workshop – a chance to reconnect and explore the latest breakthroughs in resource assessment and analysis of operating wind farms.
The programme is now live, covering LiDARs, wind farm control, modelling, AEP validation, wakes, curtailment, fault detection and forecasting. You can view the full programme here, and visit 80 onsite posters showcasing cutting‑edge research.
Registration has already opened – so sign up below and see you this June!
