Vattenfall has been participating in a EU project on challenges on up scaling wind power technology. The project came to an end in March 2011, which resulted in reliability modelling and design criteria of future wind turbines / wind farms and improvements on the grid integration issues.

The UPWIND European project was initiated in 2006 with financing from the 6th EU Framework Programme. The goal of UPWIND has been to map the challenges involved with scaling up wind power technology and applications – 8-10 MW wind turbines arranged in wind farms of up to more than 1000 MW.