Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
63 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor , Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Wind River Environmental services and maintains a broad array of non-hazardous liquid waste systems, including grease traps, septic tanks and related waste systems. We offer a full suite of services to residential, business and municipal customers.

Why Test Wind Turbine Blades?

Wind turbine blade testing is a critical factor in maintaining high levels of reliability and evaluating the latest technological developments in airfoils and materials. Blade testing is required as part of turbine certification to meet international design standards including IEC, GL and DNV. Meeting international standards allows developers to mitigate the technical and financial risk of deploying mass-produced wind turbines. 

WTTC Experience

Since opening in 2011, WTTC has run 35 distinct blade testing programs entailing hundreds of individual blade tests. WTTC is an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited Laboratory and a RETL (Renewable Energy Testing Laboratory) per the IECRE rules and procedures to test wind turbine blades. The WTTC’s technical team includes experienced blade test engineers and technicians. Industry testing partners include turbine manufacturers GE, Siemens-Gamesa, and Vestas and blade manufacturers LM Windpower and Blade Dynamics. Collaboration with laboratories like National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Labs and universities like UMass, Georgia Tech, and CCNY enable a a two way path for new testing methods and wind industry technology. WTTC is innovating and constantly improving testing methods to better represent field operations in the lab and to improve testing efficiency for wind industry partners.