Successful first round robin test

 “Deter­mi­na­tion of site qual­i­ty after com­mis­sion­ing” : This is the name of the first suc­cess­ful round robin test accord­ing to TR10 by TÜV SÜD. This is the result of the report pub­lished by the Förderge­sellschaft Winden­ergie (FGW). The suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of two round robin tests is a pre­req­ui­site for the FGW seal of con­for­mi­ty. The sec­ond round robin test will take place in the 1st half of 2022.

FGW TR10 defines pro­ce­dures for deter­min­ing and ver­i­fy­ing the site yields and site qual­i­ty of wind tur­bines (WTs) based on oper­a­tional data. Accord­ing to the Renew­able Ener­gy Sources Act 2017, the review has to be car­ried out after 5, 10 and 15 years. The basis for the cal­cu­la­tion of the site qual­i­ty is the oper­at­ing con­di­tions or sta­tus codes of a WT. The FGW

TR10 defines five cat­e­gories to which the sta­tus codes must be assigned. The assign­ment of the sta­tus codes has a con­sid­er­able influ­ence on the remu­ner­a­tion accord­ing to EEG 2017 and thus on the yield of a wind tur­bine. For this rea­son, TR 10 requires ver­i­fi­ca­tion by a con­for­mi­ty assess­ment body.

“We are very pleased to have suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the first round robin test. The task was demand­ing. This is also reflect­ed in the fact that not all par­tic­i­pants were able to qual­i­fy for the sec­ond round.”

- Roman Friedl, Wind Ser­vice Center

The wind ener­gy experts are already prepar­ing for the sec­ond round robin test, which will be con­duct­ed in the 1st half of 2022. Suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the sec­ond round robin test is a pre­req­ui­site for full approval as a con­for­mi­ty assess­ing body by the FGW and the use of the cor­re­spond­ing con­for­mi­ty seal.

Personal approval

As ear­ly as June 2021, Roman Friedl and his col­league Hen­ri Avi­la were approved by the EEG Cat­e­go­riza­tion Advi­so­ry Board as the first per­sons to val­i­date allo­ca­tion lists of the sta­tus mes­sages of a WT in accor­dance with FGW TR10. This includes the autho­riza­tion to issue the cor­re­spond­ing cer­tifi­cates. The two experts are con­vinced that the suc­cess­ful approval as autho­rized per­sons also reflects the exten­sive expe­ri­ence of the com­pa­ny in the field of wind ener­gy and the com­pre­hen­sive com­pe­tences of the indi­vid­ual employ­ees in this field.