Technology Status - NET Nowak Energie & Technologie AG
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Table 44<br />
Commercial and Technological Development of Wind Turbine<br />
<strong>Technology</strong> in the Last Three Decades<br />
Phase Manufacturing Research Codes and Standards<br />
Before 1985 Pioneering and conceptualisation Focus mainly on Absence of<br />
Rotor diameter phase with small enterprises and theoretical international<br />
< 15 m companies from different problems and standards, quality<br />
backgrounds (shipbuilding, technology, e.g. control, detailed<br />
gearboxes, agriculture machinery, horizontal and load analyses, grid<br />
aerospace, etc.) developing and vertical axes, size quality<br />
producing turbines based on between 5 kW and requirements<br />
simple design rules. Large firms 3 MW, different<br />
contracted for developing MW numbers of blades<br />
turbines failed because of non- (1 to 4)<br />
viability of this size machine at<br />
this early date.<br />
1985 to 1989 <strong>Technology</strong> maturing (California First design codes Basis for all current<br />
Rotor diameter boom, then collapse) and national design codes laid in<br />
15-30 m Production of small series<br />
Many start-up enterprises and<br />
restructuring partly concurrent<br />
with California boom and collapse<br />
standards this period<br />
1989 to 1994 Mass production of the successful Programmes for Codes and<br />
Rotor diameter 500/600-kW turbine class developing the standards<br />
30-50 m Industry reconstructed 500 kW to 1 MW established. Several<br />
turbine class international<br />
benchmarks<br />
Since 1994 Acceleration towards multi-MW Focus on weak Design codes<br />
Diameter rotor classes of turbines - entirely spots in design essentially<br />
greater than market driven knowledge, R&D unchanged<br />
50 m Steady growth in industry on new topics like Recent codes for<br />
short-term wind short-term wind<br />
forecasting power prediction<br />
Sources: EUREC Agency/Beurskens, Neij/EXTOOL (2003) and Johnson.<br />
which USD 600 to 800 per kW are for the turbine, including the tower but<br />
excluding the transformer. Project preparation costs, excluding costs for grid<br />
reinforcement and long-distance power transmission lines, can average 1.25<br />
times the ex-factory costs, as experienced with 600-kW machines in Denmark.<br />
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WIND POWER<br />
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