scope:

This document applies to all small wind turbines (SWTs) with a swept area smaller than or equal to 200 m2, and designed for supplying electrical power to isolated sites used in systems as described in IEC/TS 62257-2. This document is not an exhaustive resource for the design, installation, operation or maintenance of small wind turbines and wind power systems but is more focused on recommendations to provide strategies on selection and criteria which may affect the use of a small wind power system (SWPS) in a rural electrification project. Only the hybrid collective electrification system (microgrid, Isolated Microgrid) including SWT(s) will be considered in this specification. SWT in an Isolated Microgrid can be a single wind turbine or multiple wind turbines. Isolated Microgrid using only wind power generation will not be discussed in this document. General functional configuration of SWT(s) in an off-grid hybrid power system is shown in Figure