Wind Turbine Testing Articles & Analysis
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Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced plans to award $3.15 million to 12 American component suppliers and manufacturers of small- and medium-sized wind turbines as a part of the 2024 Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP). These selections will advance distributed wind turbine technology ...
On June 17, 2024, Nordex Electrolyzers – a joint venture between the Government of Navarra and Nordex Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, inaugurated a test bench in its plant at Lumbier. The ceremony was attended by Maria Chivite, President of the Government of Navarra, Mikel Irujo, Minister for ...
The leading renewable energy and grid integration consultancy’s Power Performance Testing (PPT) services, which deliver wind turbine power curve tests, are fully compliant with the latest edition of the standard. ...
Notably among the projects encompassed by the agreement, Gamesa and the Government of Bahía will work together to implement Gamesa University which will specialise in training professionals to carry out wind turbine operation and maintenance services. This centre, which may be up and running as early as 2016, would cater to over 200 people a year. In ...
This year's prize-winning patents include a PLC-based system to control turbine performance in the event of gusts of wind, devised by Octavio Hernández and José María López, and a method and device for testing wind turbines onsite by separating the grid frequency from that of the ...
GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that a prototype of the world’s most efficient high-output wind turbine, the new 2.5-120, is operational at a test site in Wieringermeer, Netherlands. ...
Intertek(LSE: ITRK), a leading provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world, today announced that plans for its recent award from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will be used for the creation of a photovoltaic (PV) and wind equipment test facility. ...
NREL and Gamesa will collaborate on work in three key areas: developing new wind turbine components and rotors for the U.S. market; researching and testing the performance of new control strategies; and devising models that will help advance the development of offshore wind in U.S. coastal waters. ...
Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released its first call for proposals from wind industry companies interested in forming a partnership with NREL to test a multimegawatt wind turbine drivetrain. ...
A £300,000 investment in micro wind turbines to test feasibility for installation at cell sites and O2’s main office buildings. ...
As part of the planning and development of a potential offshore wind turbine test site, NREL and UD will develop test procedures specific to the area’s harsh offshore wind environment, and establish methods for predicting wind energy costs in the United States. The partners expect that any ...
The project links wind turbines to electrolyzers that pass wind-generated electricity through water to split it into hydrogen and oxygen. ...
Under Beatty's supervision, an independent botanist will establish one acre of test plots beneath solar panels, as well as two control plots on similar land away from the solar panels. Data from the test plots will be used to evaluate vegetation success under varying conditions of moisture, seed mixes, mulching, and other treatments. ...
To respond to this rapid evolution in the technology, the IEC has published the second edition of its Standard for measuring the power quality of wind turbines. Developed by IEC Technical Committee 88 (Wind turbines), IEC 61400-21 sets out the tests that can be used to compare both wind ...