Narec - Narec is increasingly recognised as the national centre for the UK dedicated to accelerating the deployment and grid integration of renewable energy and low carbon generation technologies, utilising offshore wind, wave, tidal, solar PV and thermal power.
Turbine Drive Trains
Two new drive train testing facilities are under construction for the independent testing of wind and tidal turbines – our 3MW capacity rig will be commissioned in Summer 2012 and a 15MW facility will be commissioned in Summer 2013 Narec will perform extreme event and accelerated lifetime testing of whole nacelles and their individual drive train components, such as gearboxes, generators and bearings for wind and tidal turbine devices.
It is planned that both facilities, once operational, will perform the testing of turbines in accordance with IEC and ISO standards or customer requirements and that the facilities will achieve ISO17025 accreditation by The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) once certification standards for controlled environment testing are finalised.
Download the Drive Train Specification sheet here:
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