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The SDT Division of NIWE had successfully conducted the special training course on "WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGY" specially for the scientists of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) held during 22nd to 28th March 2021. The course addressed all the aspects of Wind Power starting from wind from wind resources assessment to project implementation and operations & maintenance aspects in a focused manner. 13 numbers of participants with one coordinator had attended the course.
The training course was inaugurated by Director General of NIWE and released the course material.
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DG, NIWE inaugurating the Course &releasedthe Course Material |
As part of the training course, Course Material was released and distributed to all the participants, faculties and guest, which is a compilation of the write - ups of all the presentations / lectures collected from the lecturers specially prepared for this course for the benefit of the participants as a ready reference material.
There were 17 presentations scheduled during the course, which were handled by 12 NIWE Engineers and 5 external experts from wind turbine industry.
The following topics were addressed during the training course:
The Renewable energy facilities available in the NIWE Campus were showcased to the participants for practical exposure, wherein they had an opportunity of understanding about the Wind, Solar Resource Assessment set up, and how the Hybrid System (Wind - Solar - Diesel works.
The participants were taken to Technical & Safety Training Centre of M/s. Vestas Wind Technology India Private Limited located at Nellikuppam, Chennai, where they had a chance of seeing all the components of wind turbine and the experts trainers explained the working principle of the components along with the troubleshooting techniques.
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Participants during the visit of Vestas Training Centre |
The participants were taken to the office of the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), Chennai – SNA Secretariat where they learnt about the programmes / schemes and the process of deployment of the renewable energy projects in the State and also they got knowledge of awareness and to migrate the State from using fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Participants during the visit of TEDA |
The participants had also visited large wind turbine manufacturing factory of M/s. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Chennai, where they had a chance of listening from the industry experts who are actually in the process of making wind turbines and visited the manufacturing facilities with all major components and its process.
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Participants during the visit of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
The participants were taken to southern part of Tamil Nadu to visit Wind Turbine Test Station and Wind Turbine Research Station at Kayathar, where they got exposure on small and large wind turbine testing process apart from visiting wind farms in and around Kayathar and Kanyakumari, where various capacities, models and makes of wind turbines are deployed in large numbers. They also visited (i) Operation &Maintenance facilities at RS Windtech Engineers Pvt. Ltd., Aralvoimozhy (ii) SCADA system at Suzlon wind farm, Radhapuram (iii) Generator and Transformer facilities at Apollo Kumarapuram Junction and understood the complete overview of the wind turbine technology.
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Glimpse of study visits to different wind turbine facilities |
Dr. K. Balaraman, Director General, NIWE distributed the Course Certificates to all the participants during the Valedictory Function.
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Participant receiving the Course certificate |