EN IEC 61400-8 EUROPEANSTANDARD NORMEEUROPEENNE EUROPAISCHE NORM August 2024 ICS 27.180 English Version Wind energy generation systems - Part 8: Design of wind turbine structural components (IEC 61400-8:2024) Systemes de generation d'énergie éolienne - Partie 8: Windenergieanlagen - Teil 8: Design von Conception des composants structurels des éoliennes Windenergieanlagen-Strukturkomponenten (IEC 61400-8:2024) (IEC 61400-8:2024) This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2024-08-07. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CENELEC member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions. CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway,Poland,Portugal,Republic ofNorth Macedonia,Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,Switzerland, Turkiye and the United Kingdom. CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Comite Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique Europaisches Komitee fur Elektrotechnische Normung CEN-CENELECManagementCentre:RuedelaScience23,B-104oBrussels @ 2024 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members. Ref.No.ENIEC 61400-8:2024E ENIEC 61400-8:2024 (E) European foreword The text of document 88/1010/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61400-8, prepared by IEC/TC 88 "Wind energy generation systems" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 61400-8:2024. The following dates are fixed: latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2025-05-07 level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow)2027-08-07 document have to be withdrawn Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users' national committee. A completelistingofthesebodiescanbefoundontheCENELECwebsite. Endorsement notice The text of the International Standard IEC 61400-8:2024 was approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification. In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standard indicated: ISO 12944-5:2019 NOTE Approved as EN ISO 12944-5:2019 (not modified) ISO 1461:2022NOTE Approved as EN ISO 1461:2022 (not modified) 2 EN IEC 61400-8:2024 (E) Annex ZA (normative) Normative references to international publications with their corresponding European publications The following documents are referred to in thetext in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. relevant EN/HD applies. here: www.cencenelec.eu. Publication EN/HD Year Year Title 2019 Wind energy generation systems - Part 1: EN IEC 61400-1 2019 IEC61400-1 Design requirements 2019 IEC 61400-3-1 Wind energy generation systems - Part 3- EN IEC 61400-3-1 2019 1: Design requirements for fixed