Winergy

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Gearbox manufacturer Winergy has invested in a 2.8-MW load test bench in its Service Center in Rockhampton, Australia. This investment means that the facility now has Australia’s largest and most advanced test rig for wind-power gearboxes. From now on every gearbox that is serviced and refurbished in Rockhampton is subject to the Winergy test routine.…

By introducing journal bearings into its gearboxes Winergy says it sets another milestone for wind turbine drive technology.

Effective earlier this month, Aarnout Kant has taken over management at Winergy. He succeeds Stefan Tenbrock, who is now part of the Siemens Mechanical Drives Business Unit as CEO; Winergy being part of the MD Business Unit. Aarnout Kant has been with the company for 24 years and since 2014 has been manager of Strategy and Marketing. Like…

Windergy’s 3.3 MW HybridDrive has won recognition from Windpower Monthly as the Best wind turbine drivetrain. The publication bestowed the award because the company introduced journal bearing technology and lets customers choose between a permanent magnet or conventional electrically excited generator. “There is a growing interest in gearboxes incorporating journal bearings as operators look for…

Multi Duored technology provides a relatively light 62 ton gearbox with two output shafts. In addition to the more compact design, the two output shafts couple to two generators connected in parallel instead of to just one generator. When properly sized, each can drive a 6 MW generator. When designing this gearbox, special emphasis was…

Winergy will present its latest developments in the journal bearing technology at WindEnergy Hamburg from 23 to 26 September 2014. Highlight will be a 3 MW HybridDrive with journal bearings. In addition the gearbox manufacturer will exhibit a journal bearing to show its mode of operation. Since March 2013 a 2 MW gearbox prototype with…

By June 2014 Winergy reached the outstanding landmark of 100 gigawatts of globally supplied wind gearboxes. The manufacturer for drive train components is the first company in the wind power industry that has equipped this amount of wind turbine capacity with its products. According to the Global Wind Energy Council a capacity of 318 gigawatts…

Based on its recent analysis of gearboxes for the wind energy market, the global research organization Frost & Sullivan awarded the 2013 Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award to Winergy’s HybridDrive due to its higher torque–to-weight ratio, shorter length, and lower mass leading to reduced overall costs for the wind turbine installation. Winergy’s HybridDrive combines a…

After successful prototype testing of the HybridDrive on system level at Winergy in September 2012 and successful certification of the components in compliance with GL 2010 through the TüV Rheinland in April 2013, the first 3 MW HybridDrive has been installed in W2E’s “Wind-to-Energy” wind turbine in Kankel near Rostock, Germany. The grid connection is…

Ecotech Institute recently received a large gearbox for its Wind Energy Technology program, giving students the chance to learn on equipment that many will eventually work on in their career. Winergy, a subsidiary of Siemens, donated the 20-ton Eichoff gearbox or speed increaser. This donation gives Wind  Turbine Technician students additional equipment to learn first-hand how…

An independent service provider to the North American wind industry says it is now a certified Authorized Service Provider (ASP) for Winergy Drive Systems Corp., USA.  Winergy offers a range of components for the wind turbine drive train including gearboxes, couplings, and generators. To gain ASP Certfication, a team of Availon’s engineers and technicians attended…