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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2014
Alstom Renewable Technologies, Grenoble, FR;
Jaume Betran Palomas, Sant Cugat Del Valles, ES;
ALSTOM Renewable Technologies, Grenoble, FR;
Abstract
Wind turbine blade comprising at least one deformable trailing edge section having a plurality of actuators consecutively arranged substantially downstream from one another and a control system for controlling the actuators, wherein a downstream end of one actuator is connected by a substantially rigid link with an upstream end of the next actuator and the plurality of actuators comprises an upper actuator being mounted above a chord line of the blade section and a lower actuator being mounted below a chord line of the blade section. Wind turbines comprising such a blade and methods of controlling loads on a wind turbine blade are also described.