Force and Torque Measurements You Can Trust

In energy generation and renewables, force measurement accuracy is crucial for maintaining reliability across various applications, including wind turbine load testing, gearbox torque validation, solar tracking alignment, hydrogen pressure control, and battery storage compression monitoring.

Morehouse supports these applications with custom-calibrated load systems that verify torque, thrust, and tension under variable temperature, humidity, and vibration conditions.

Our calibrations replicate real-world stresses — ensuring predictable system behavior whether in laboratory testing, offshore wind farms, or grid-scale battery systems.

All calibrations conform to ISO/IEC 17025, ASTM E74, and IEC 61400 standards, ensuring traceability to SI units through NIST.

We provide complete applied measurement uncertainty (MU) modeling so that your engineering teams understand how loading, orientation, and temperature impact performance.

In hydroelectric, hydrogen, and energy storage facilities, Morehouse provides system-level calibration for actuator forces, dam gate load monitoring, pressure vessel verification, and fuel cell compression.

For research and development centers or field-deployed systems, Morehouse ensures measurement reliability for every renewable energy load cell with repeatable calibration practices — giving your teams confidence in every dataset from prototype to production.

• Wind Energy: Accurate blade and hub load measurement, torque calibration for gearboxes, and yaw system verification.
• Solar Energy: Reliable force data for module racking, structural testing, and actuator calibration under thermal load.
• Hydrogen Systems: Safe calibration of high-pressure vessels, fuel cell compression, and hydrogen dispensing forces.
• Hydroelectric & Tidal: Calibration of gate actuators, turbine thrust forces, and anchoring systems under submersion.
• Energy Storage: Compression renewable energy load calibration for battery module assembly and thermal expansion testing.
• Hydro turbines: Compression renewable energy load cell assembly to measure the various forces used to balance the turbine during initial production.
• Research & Quality Assurance: Applied measurement uncertainty models ensure reliable, traceable, and repeatable data for every test cycle.

We have worked extensively with a local Hydro turbine (Voith) company and reduced their measurement uncertainty, namely the ability to weigh and detect an imbalance in the hydro turbine by a factor that was at least 10 times better than what they were previously using.

We did this by using our standard 100,000 lbf load cell and fabricating custom top adapters that made each renewable energy load cell and adapter the same measurable height. Everything was set up in a three-load cell configuration with our custom summing software to detect any imbalance and automate the data import and reporting.

• You need accurate, traceable measurement data for energy system certification or regulatory compliance.
• Your test results vary due to changing temperature, humidity, or alignment.
• Audit findings cite unclear traceability or missing uncertainty data.
• You’re developing new renewable energy systems requiring custom load or torque solutions.
• Your vendor cannot provide ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration or guardbanded uncertainty results.
• You require environmental or dynamic testing that replicates in-field conditions.

Morehouse designs and manufactures custom load cells optimized for renewable energy applications, where standard sensors often cannot achieve the necessary precision, geometry, or environmental protection.
Each custom load cell is modeled, machined, and calibrated in-house to ensure predictable performance under compression, tension, torsion, or combined loading conditions.

Many Renewable Energy Load Cells Can be Used for Structural health monitoring, examples includes:

• Through hole load cell can be used monitoring bolt forces in windmills including foundations on or off shore
• Inline load cells can be attached to steel cable no monitor anchoring force and soil movement in dams
• Load cells are often used in creating IEC 61508 Safety integrity level (SIL) solution

Our renewable energy load cell designs can accommodate wind turbine hubs, solar tracking systems, fuel cell assemblies, and hydroelectric actuators — minimizing setup time, eliminating adapters, and reducing error sources.

Morehouse understands that renewable energy load cells often operate in extreme environments — offshore, high-altitude, or chemically reactive conditions.

We provide environmentally sealed, corrosion-resistant, and temperature-compensated load cells designed to maintain calibration stability in harsh or changing environments.

Our equipment can integrate ATEX- or IECEx-certified amplifiers for systems operating in hydrogen and biogas facilities where ignition risk or gas ingress must be prevented.

Material selection on renewable energy load cells is critical to performance and sustainability.

Morehouse engineers choose from 17-4PH, 15-5PH, 440C stainless steel, or titanium alloys to achieve the necessary balance of strength, fatigue resistance, and corrosion protection.
We validate performance under variable humidity, temperature cycling, and vibration loading, ensuring consistent accuracy across global testing environments.

Typical calibration performance targets — such as a 0.05% to 0.25% full-scale error band — are validated through system-level testing that mirrors true operating conditions in wind tunnels, solar arrays, and pressure test stands.

For complex renewable energy applications, Morehouse engineers bi-axial, tri-axial, and multi-sensor systems capable of measuring forces up to 2,250,000 lbf per axis.
In large-scale systems, operators often use multiple 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 lbf load cells combined to measure total system loads of up to 6,000,000 lbf, all with traceable calibration and applied uncertainty modeling.

These systems maintain cross-axis integrity and environmental protection — ideal for offshore wind structures, hydrogen tank compression, or hydroelectric actuator systems.

In renewable energy applications, a load cell that performs at 0.1 % error in the lab may exhibit 2–3× higher uncertainty in the field due to wind-induced vibration, temperature gradients, or mechanical loading differences.

Morehouse develops applied MU models specific to your environment — helping you understand how these variables affect measurement accuracy across your full load chain.

We replicate your operational setups in our calibration systems to ensure field performance aligns with laboratory calibration. We work with you to fabricate the setups and adapters that provide meaningful results.

• System-Level Calibration replicating true operating conditions
• Applied Measurement Uncertainty (MU) and guardbanding for compliance
• ISO/IEC 17025 Certificates, traceable to SI through NIST
• Custom Load Cell Design for renewable energy applications
• STEP Files and CAD Support for integration with test systems
• Direct Collaboration with Morehouse engineers for accuracy and fit

• Wind Turbine Hub and Blade Load Cells
• Solar Tracking and Mounting Load Cells
• Hydrogen Compression and Pressure Load Cells
• Battery Compression and Energy Storage Load Cells
• Torque Cells for Gearbox and Drive Systems
• Multi-Axis and Reaction Load Cells
• Environmentally Sealed Load Cells for Offshore Use
• Large-Capacity Single or Multi-Column Load Cells
• Custom Engineered Systems for R&D and Test Labs
• Load pins Can Replace Trunnion Pins in Dam Gates
• Load pins and Load cells Can be Used to Directly Measure Crane Loads When Installing and Repairing Windmills
• And many others upon request

Morehouse delivers calibration-first accuracy for the energy and renewables industry — from offshore wind and hydrogen systems to solar fields and energy storage facilities.

We combine system-level calibration, custom engineering, and traceable measurement uncertainty to ensure your data is accurate, defensible, and sustainable.
With ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration, fast turnaround, and engineering collaboration, Morehouse helps renewable energy teams achieve confidence in every force and torque measurement.

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