Nordex has installed the first turbine in the Delta4000 series as planned in the citizen wind farm Janneby in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
With its approx. 80-metre rotor blades and a rotor sweep of 20,867 square metres, the N163/5.X is currently the most efficient Nordex turbine in the 5MW class for moderate and light-wind sites.
Nordex chief executive José Luis Blanco said: “We launched the N163/5.X in 2019.
“Now we have installed the first turbine as planned and series production is ready to start.
“To date we already have orders for the N163/5.X for 520 turbines with a capacity of 3.0GW from numerous customers for projects in Australia, Brazil, the Nordic region, Germany and Italy.
“This once again underlines the high level of confidence in the turbine technology of our Delta4000 series with its variable maximum capacity, which has been available since 2017.”
For the global markets, the N163/5.X has already been awarded international IEC certification in the form of a Design Evaluation Conformity Statements, DECS, for hub heights of 118, 148 and 159 metres.
For the German market, the type tests according to DIBT 2012 have already been passed for hub heights of 118 and 164 metres.
In the coming months the requisite power and sound measurements as well as validation of mechanical loads will be conducted in Janneby for IEC type certification.