NIRE and Windurance make a deal

Both NIRE (National Institute for Renewable Energy) and Windurance have entered a long term mutually beneficial relationship. This decision will exchange knowledge and equipment to improve the technologies used in the future utility scale wind turbines. The technologies and research will also include the designs of the wind turbine which will support in optimizing the complete system starting from the base till the blade tips.

Improving the reliability and availability will minimize the expenses of the production and also increase the generation output. The Turbine OEM’s have become very much aware of the role played by the pitch control system in the overall long-term reliability of the system including the safety and performance. Windurance is devoted to use the current prototype products which will be used in the NIRE wind projects and Windurance particularly will modify the highly modular blade pitch control systems to use in different wind turbine manufacturers wind turbines.

The wind energy projects will be developed by the NIRE to set up wind turbine tools and the wind farms. NIRE along with the Texas Tech University in a joint partnership with other research entities will take ahead their collaborative research and education missions. NIRE was found in December 2009 as a nonprofit public-private partnership which is made to help the industry partners such as forecasting tools, certification, also utilize a mobile research equipment to improve the performance of the wind farm, etc.

NIRE also concentrates on developing and operating research wind farms, other renewable energy research facilities also provide commercial services to the industry partners, etc. Windurance is involved in manufacturing, engineering and also provide wind turbine electronic blade pitch control systems. They also provide i-PITCH and mini-PITCH system including the Servo Pitch platforms for the different size of wind turbines. The processors which are interoperable and interconnected and also based on network systems are closed loop servo power conversion controls, motors for the blade pitch applications in the wind turbines.