The safety, reliability, and productivity of small wind turbines pose a challenge both to consumers and to governments. Since consumers want a good turbine and governments want to promote safe equipment, most countries with wind energy development programs want to ensure the performance of small wind turbines.
The goal of IEA Wind TCP Task 27 is to understand how turbulence impacts small wind turbine production and whether turbulence is appropriately characterized in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 61400-2 for small wind turbines.