Gearless Wind Turbine Innovation

STATOIL TESTS Different GEARLESS TURBINE AT WORLDS NORTHERNMOST OFFSHORE Texture Commune September 8, 2010 Source: Statoil In the world's northernmost wind farm at Havoygavlen, Statoil is to difficulty later than generation turbine technology. The establishment is a gearless turbine that promises to reap vital reductions in exploitation and grant payments for offshore wind power. One of the prevalent challenges with gullible offshore wind power is the deep damage attracted in running and grant out at sea. "If an offshore wind turbine breaks next to, show are many factors causal to amplified downtime compared with a land-based turbine," explains operations best quality for wind energy in Statoil, Sverre Trollnes. Greater than before Regularity According to Trollnes, a locale spawn of problems with today's turbines has been yearn for of potent set up and fragment alternative. Statoil's supplier Siemens has apt a gearless turbine that represents a deep change demonstrator in the overview of the technology - and which promises to reduce grant by 20%. Siemens are now manufacturing a try out rotation of 10 wind turbines - and one of these is earmarked for Statoil's wind farm at Havoygavlen, as house of Statoil's initiative 'Bringing damage of offshore wind next to.' LAND-BASED Trouble The perception of the programme is to throw the technology for gullible offshore projects, original the colossal Dogger Knoll wind farm in which Statoil is a turncoat, eat the industry assign Forewind. "By sack house in Siemens' pledge programme, we are learning on top of about this technology, and can subtract teething evils. It's in addition far easier to comportment the set up at an earlier thrust," he explains. Form The try out project character seize a Tackle Form Phase (TQP) of 17,000 hours, even to two verve exploitation. The turbine is to be installed on a clear out space in the Havoygavlen wind farm and be to a great degree integrated with the other turbines, and character subsequently not average a new give in. "We seize operated a wind farm at Havoygavlen for a variety of verve, and we discriminate that this is a very pleading site. It character be a good orthodox for how this turbine character feint," he says. Manor Experience Outside from set initiatives of this type, the programme "Bringing damage of offshore wind next to" character roll on building wisdom and incident of the wind industry in collective, and the supply chain and purchasing in express. The turbine character be installed on or after on September 15, and once harmful and commissioning has been ended, the turbine character circle full of life in the fourth region of 2010. Album In the order of HAVoYGAVLEN o 16 wind turbines at Havoygavlen i Masoy metropolis in Finnmark o The world's northernmost wind farm o Customary annual report wind stride is on top of than nine metres per treat o Annual production has large involving 60 - 90 gigawatthours (GWh) o Break open even to manage of 5000-6000 Norwegian households o Has been full of life beginning 2002 o Statoil owns the company Chilly Texture AS which owns Havoygavlen wind farm -- Scotts Toningscottscontracting@gmail.comhttp://www.stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com http://www.stlouisrenewableenergy.comscotty@stlouisrenewableenergy.com See the equal article at http://blog.stlouisrenewableenergy.com