Common code for turbine design
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced yesterday that its FAST and ADAMS wind turbine design codes have been accepted for worldwide turbine certification.

The
(DOE)
(NREL) announced today that its wind turbine design codes, termed
, can now be used for worldwide turbine certification.
Through a joint effort by the NREL and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) of
Although many
The FAST code (for Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence) is a comprehensive aeroelastic simulator capable of predicting both the extreme and fatigue loads of two- and three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbines.
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