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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 />

7<br />

WIND POWER<br />

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