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Gearbox, generator, and controls in one package

By Paul Dvorak | May 15, 2009

GE Drivetrain Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, Erie, Pa, says the company has launched a wind generator and control systems division to serve wind turbine owners around the globe.

The new company will immediately offer doubly-fed induction and permanent magnet generators in the 2 to 6 MW power range. The company produces more than 3,000, 2 MW and greater generators annually and has sold more than one million generators and motors globally. The company says these generators have been proven reliable in extreme environments in applications as diverse as railway locomotives, mining trucks, and off shore drilling rigs.

“Our objective is to apply GE Transportation’s capability to advance the state of the art in wind energy generation technology,” says GE Drivetrain Business Leader Prescott Logan. “GE Transportation’s global supply chain, including existing generator-manufacturing facilities in Erie, Pa. and Monterrey, Mexico creates near-term production capability.”


Filed Under: Gearboxes, Generators, Turbines
Tagged With: gearbox, permanent magnet generators, Wind Power Generators
 

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  1. Roy Bermeister says

    December 3, 2009 at 3:33 am

    Hi Paul

    Am driving a suburban innitiative to supply complete energy requirements to a suburb in Cape Town South Africa. (Camps Bay).To replace electricity to 1000+ homes. No industry. Almost continious wind, sunshine and wave movement. Would value any references to existing alternate power plants or whatever input you could provide. Regards Roy B.

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