Brief Report

TURBINE TESTING AND WIND FARM MICROSITING

held during 19^th - 28^th October 2009

C-WET successfully organized a special International Training Course on "Wind Turbine Testing and Wind Farm Micrositing" for Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Engineers during 19^th to 28^th October 2009. Five Engineers from Egypt representing the AOI attended the program and learned about Testing of Wind Turbines and Wind Resource Assessment in a detailed manner.

The objective of the training programme was to transfer knowledge and to develop special skills needed by the wind energy personnel working in the technical and operational fields and to share the experiences from the lessons learnt over the past two decades. This course has provided invaluable platform for dialogue and open exchange of views and experiences.

The training addresses the following topics:

• Overview of Sustaining Wind Energy as Green Power
• Introduction to Testing of Wind Turbines Measurement Techniques
• Introduction to Instrumentation required for Wind Turbine Measurements
• Facilities of WTTS, QMS of Testing Unit and
• Introduction to IEC Standards IEC TS 61400-13
• Power Curve Measurements
• Load Measurements
• Safety and function Testing
• Operation Maintenance of Wind Farms
• Power Quality and Yaw efficiency Measurements
• Grid Integration of Wind Turbine
• Introduction to Wind Resource Assessment
• Wind Structure, Statistics and Energy Analysis
• Wind Measurements and Instrumentation
• Wind Resource Assessment by using Remote sensing instruments
• Meso and Micro scale models for wind resource assessment
• Micrositing

The total course duration was ten days covering tutorial lectures, exercises and manufacturing facilities & wind farms visits, to give a complete picture of the know-how and how to go about setting up a coordinated wind energy programme at an international level. The course started on 19^th October and ended on 28^th October 2009. The course was appreciated by the participants.