Type and Component Certification for your Wind Turbines

Safety, reliability and market access worldwide.
Wind energy is a key technology in the energy transition, and it will play an even greater role in the global energy mix in the future. As a manufacturer of wind turbines and their components, you are thus striving to tap into global, highly competitive markets.
Founded more than 150 years ago, TÜV Rheinland is a global leader in certification services, ensuring quality and safety for people, the environment, and technology in nearly all aspects of renewable energy generation. We at TÜV Rheinland support manufacturers of wind turbines and their components. Our comprehensive certification services for onshore and offshore wind turbines and their components assess safety and reliability as well as compliance with internationally recognized standards. This ensures successful product development and an optimal placement of the products on the global wind energy market.
Benefits of a wind turbine certification with TÜV Rheinland
What makes our certification services special?
Our experts offer a highly professional, accredited, and transparent certification that is tailored to your specific needs. With clearly defined checkpoints and documentation requirements, prompt and supportive communications, and cost control via our feedback reports, we will guide you safely through the entire certification process.
Our unparalleled, flexible, and transparent certification process saves time and money on certification and accelerates the market launch. With a shortened time to market, you gain significant competitive advantages over traditional certification approaches and minimize risks associated with product development.
Our type and component certification services for wind turbines

We offer both DAkkS-accredited type certification as well as component certification for wind turbines according to the international standard IEC 61400, GL2010, DNV GL 2015 and the IECRE scheme. TÜV Rheinland is also recognized by IECRE for the OD-501 standard (wind) In the international market, we are also accredited under CNAS (China) to deliver component certification.
Type certification applies to a series of wind turbines of common design and manufacture; it contains procedures related to design, manufacture, conformity testing and the plans for transportation, erection, installation and maintenance. More specifically, type certification certifies that the wind turbines have been designed, manufactured, and tested to meet specific standards or guidelines, technical requirements, and market requirements.
Wind turbine type certification consists of Mandatory modules and Optional Modules
Component certification
Wind turbine component certification confirms that a major component of a specific type is designed, documented and manufactured in conformity with design assumptions, specific standards and other technical requirements. A component certificate covers a major wind turbine component such as a rotor blades or gearbox. The procedures for component certification should be in line with the type certification procedures, and the specific content of a module depends on the actual component.
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