The 10MW “function tester” charging up this month at the Lindø Offshore Renewables Centre (Lorc) in Munkebo, Denmark, joins Britain’s National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) and Germany’s Fraunhofer IWES DyNaLab as frontline testing facilities in the region’s biggest offshore construction campaign since the North Sea oil adventure began 40 years ago.
But the Danish rig will be the first to cast a light on the complex interplay of external forces — including wind loads and network connectivity — and internal conditions, such as generator speed on the electrical dynamics on the complete nacelle, from the rotor hub to grid link.
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