Six Northern Power 100 kW direct drive wind turbines produce power for Unalakleet, Alaska. The turbines are owned by Unalakleet Valley Electric Cooperative. Photo courtesy STG Inc. For years, wind ...

With a new purchase, GE is betting on an early-stage turbine technology that could make offshore wind farms cheaper to maintain. The acquisition of ScanWind, based in Trondheim, Norway, has also ...

Energy efficiency solution provider WE Tech Solutions said it has received an order to deliver its direct-drive permanent magnet (PM) shaft generator solution to a series of two 17,500 DWT IMO class ...

Siemens delivers a direct-drive wind turbine for onshore and offshore applications that it hopes will improve cost and reliability of turbines. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The United States Department of Energy will fund six projects mostly into developing direct-drive wind turbine technology. Direct-drive generators eliminate the need for a gearbox, which reduces ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working toward generating 20 percent of the nation’s electricity supply from wind power by 2030. To help make this vision a reality, DOE recently awarded six ...

Download this article in PDF format. Wind turbines larger than 6 MW are becoming common, particularly for offshore installations, where consolidating several smaller wind turbines into one large ...

(MENAFNEditorial) These turbines have advantages such as - these are lighter as compared to conventional turbine, these have significantly lower maintenance costs, and it is not needed to replace ...

A new-generation direct-drive permanent magnet generator (PMG) concept that could clear the way for engineers to develop giant 25MW offshore wind turbines is on track to be market-ready by 2022, with ...

An authorative guide to the design, development and operation of gearless direct drives Discusses the principles of electrical design for permanent magnet generators and electrical, thermal and ...

A new-generation direct-drive permanent magnet generator (PMG) concept that could clear the way for engineers to develop giant 25MW offshore wind turbines is on track to be market-ready by 2022, with ...