Nordex Group has opened a generator converter test bench at its site in Rostock to support work on grid integration for its wind turbines. The facility allows earlier and more detailed testing of converter performance.
Using a Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop test bench and a grid simulator, engineers can reproduce a broad range of grid conditions, including voltage and frequency variations, dips, and faults. This reduces the need for early field testing and enables reliable measurements during initial development stages. Field-based power connection tests will continue once laboratory work is complete.
Nordex Group invested more than €4 million in the facility. R&D Test Systems from Denmark and Ingeteam Power Technology from Spain contributed to the delivery of the test bench, together with regional companies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania such as Ingenieurbüro Wollboldt, GTN Getriebetechnik Nord, and WISAG Elektrotechnik Berlin-Brandenburg. Additional support came from the RKL Rostock Competence Center for Power Electronics and the University of Rostock.
The Rostock site manufactures nacelles, hubs, drive trains and control cabinets for all Nordex turbine types, and also contains the company’s Blade Competence Center and rotor blade test rig.
