The Editors

Michael Durstewitz and Bernhard Lange (Fraunhofer IWES)

Informs about the research initiative related to the first offshore windfarm project in Germany

Tells about research at the offshore test field

Outlines the stress test right in the sea

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Foreword by the German Federal Minister of Economics and Energy.- Foreword by the Chair of the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation.- CSI Test Field, CSI Offshore.- Credits.- Metamorphoses of an offshore wind farm.- Who, what, when, why and above all - whereto?.- A thousand sensors, from the blade tip to the bottom of the sea.- A firm hold in rough seas.- Life goes on.- Please avoid tilting.- Uncharted territory on the seabed.- Long-lived despite harsh winds.- Wind in the blades.- The wiser blade knows when to yield.- The "exclusively.- "Get out of my wind".- Load, load monitoring, and load reduction.- Different than previously assumed.- Sometimes it almost bubbles like a witches' cauldron.- Artificial intelligence and automatic self-organisation.- Well, how are they running?.- Wind, the wild boy in the power plant family.- The most important environmental project in a German offshore wind farm.- Much hubble-bubble about nothing?.- Like the din in a university canteen.- Out of sight,out of mind?.- When the Nautilus struggles during a dive.- A bit too much salt of the earth.- SOS on Offshore Platform Seven