(DEIA Bizkaia, Asier Diez Mon) Windbox will enable companies in the sector to test full wind turbines and further develop the technology.

Six test sites in northern Spain subscribed an agreement to create an alliance facilitating the promotion of testing and technologies associated with the development of different marine energies.

The Blade bearing test bench is aimed at conducting tests on the hub, the blade bearings and the bearing-hub and the blade-bearing joints. and due to its dimensions, has required to be enabled in a plot annexed to the Tekniker building.

The Basque Energy Cluster actively took part at the “Basque Industry 4.0” stand that the Basque Department for Economic Development and Infrastructure and the SPRI organised for the 2017 Hannover Messe (24-28 April).

The Windbox consortium, the first Basque Advanced Manufacturing Wind Centre, is now competing in the demanding sector of offshore wind components. Representatives from 8 companies associated with this Consortium joined the Basque Energy Cluster at IK4 Tekniker headquarters to share feedback related to the testing facilities and discuss the position of Basque companies worldwide. The meeting convened by the newspaper Diario Vasco was also attended by the Basque business development agency (SPRI Group).

WINDBOX partners have presented the current status of the test benches and the main breakthroughs achieved over the first two years of the Wind Power Advanced Manufacturing Centre to the members of the Wind Power Work Group on 19 December at the IK4 Tekniker facilities in Eibar.

WINDBOX, asociación para la integración y validación de subsistemas eólicos mediante ensayos avanzados, ha adjudicado recientemente a IKERLAN el proyecto de un nuevo banco de ensayos que permitirá a las empresas ensayar componentes y sistemas críticos para los nuevos aerogeneradores offshore.

Windbox, the Wind Power Advanced Manufacturing Centre, has presented the first of five test benches that the centre is going to launch. It is a pitch test bench in which companies that manufacture wind power components will be able to test and optimise the pitch systems of their wind turbines.