TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH

"Choose certainty. Add value" is the core idea behind the services TÜV SÜD provides to its clients.

Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the technical service corporation is more than a mere testing and inspection organization. As a committed and responsible process partner boasting comprehensive industry expertise, TÜV SÜD’s certified experts and technical consultants provide services throughout their clients’ entire value chains.

In doing so, they focus on their core competencies of consulting, testing, certification and training. 19,000 staff proactively optimizes technology, systems and expertise at over 800 locations in Europe, America and Asia.

Our wind-energy experts assist planners, suppliers and installers, investors and operators with the design and the implementation of your offshore wind farm – comprehensively and expertly. We support your project from planning, construction and grid connection to maintenance and servicing during operation, providing testing and certification services. We also assist you with all issues required by banks, investors, energy suppliers and the authorities.

TÜV SÜD is a certification body for offshore wind farms approved by the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH). In addition to the above, we are accredited at international level as a certification body for onshore and offshore wind turbines and projects (EN 45011) and as a testing laboratory for wind measurements, site-specific wind measurements and calculation of energy yield, measurement of extreme winds and turbulence, shadow flicker and noise emissions as well as power performance testing and load measurements on prototypes (EN ISO/IEC 17025).

We work in accordance with the following national and international standards: IEC 61400 “Wind Turbines“; GL Guidelines for the Certification of Wind Turbines; DIBt “Guideline for Wind Turbines“, Danish Executive Order no. 73 „Executive Order on a technical certification scheme for wind turbines“, MNRE India “TAPS-2000 Type Approval – Provisional Scheme“. Apart from the above, we take all relevant standards required for the design of offshore wind farms into consideration.