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Gamesa and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are collaborating on next generation wind turbines for the US market.
The public-private partnership will collaborate on three key areas:
- Developing new wind turbine components and rotors for the US market;
- Researching and testing the performance of new control strategies; and
- Devising models that will help advance the development of offshore wind in US coastal waters.
Gamesa and NREL collaborate on next-gen wind turbines
Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2012 1:47 PM EST
Article Source: renewableenergyfocus.com - by Kari Williamson- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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Gamesa has already installed and commissioned a G97 Class IIIA 2.0 MW test wind turbine at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center near Boulder, Colorado.
The wind turbine will serve as the test platform with NREL, and is designed specifically for low-wind sites.
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#1 - Thu Feb 2, 2012 1:48 PM ESTI always wondered how much was actually accomplished at the wind tech center, I drove by almost every day for years and there were never more than two generators running, typically a large one and a small one. I know they were using experimental blades with various aspect ratios or modified chords, but the overall activity wa small. It would seem the information flow would have been better if they used experimentals in the generating fields of actual operational units, side by side comparisons.
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