For a period of three years, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts is providing the funds for a WindFors office at the University of Stuttgart. The initial funding is meant to help professionalise the cluster’s activities and enable its members to start work on the proposed goals. The WindForS office will be the first point of contact for the proposed test site in southern Germany and will press ahead with its realisation. It is headed by Andreas Rettenmeier who has been employed with the wind energy chair at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Aircraft Design since 2004 and played a vital part in initiating WindForS.