Four Master’s degree students from Duke University in the US won the Vestas case competition that was launched in the run up to the Climate Congress in Denmark on 10 - 12 March.
The group of master’s degree students from Duke University won the competition that was attended by several students from all major continents in the world. The report was unanimously selected by the evaluation committee to be the best response to the challenge put forward to by Vestas Wind Systems. You can read more information here. The three evaluators were: Henrik Bindslev, Director of the Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (Risø-DTU), Knud Pedersen, Vice President R&D, Dong Energy, and Carsten H. Westergaard, Global Technology Manager and Manger of Vestas Global University Programme. The prize given to the 4 students at the Youth Congress, 12 March at 10.20 am was a sponsorship of the students’ future Master’s degree thesis work.The report analyses in detail the US vision of covering 20% of the electricity consumption in USA by wind power in 2030. It continues with comparing the current and future US wind power developments with the wind power developments in China. In looking further ahead, where wind power is to become a central part of the energy supply, the 4 US students emphasize the importance of, for example, integrating the electricity sector and the transport sector through the use of electrical vehicles.
