The Great Lakes Energy Institute operates the Wind Energy Research Center (WERC) to provide Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers and their collaborators opportunities to test their ideas on full-scale wind turbines.  The WERC has three sizes of wind turbine that are fully functional and continue to produce over 1,000 megawatt-hours of electrical energy every year for CWRU and neighboring industries.                             

                                                                                                                                                        

Wind Turbine Descriptions

NPS NorthWind 100 (NW100)	Vestas (V27)	Nordex (N54)
100kW direct drive	225kW gearbox drive	1000 kW gearbox drive
37m tower	30m tower	70m tower
21m rotor	27m rotor	54m rotor
stall controlled	pitch controlled	stall controlled

Point of Contact

For Industry Partners and Researchers that are interested in demonstrating products on the wind turbines please contact:

Grant Goodrich

Executive Director

Great Lakes Energy Institute

Email: gxg183@case.edu

Phone: (216) 368-0748