General Electric Company
Site-Specific Customizable Nacelle for a Wind Turbine

Abstract:

A site-specific customizable nacelle for a wind turbine includes a plurality of walls arranged together to form an inner volume. The walls include a base wall, side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and a top wall. Each of the walls is constructed of one or more outer skin layers positioned adjacent to one or more inner skin layers and infused together via a resin material. Further, the nacelle includes a plurality of reinforcement members secured to one or more of the plurality of walls on an interior side or an exterior side of at least one of the one or more outer skin layers or the one or more inner skin layers at locations requiring additional reinforcement. As such, the reinforcement members can be tailored according to a particular wind turbine site.