Husum, Germany September 18, 2012 – Moventas, one of the industry’s leading wind gear manufacturers, and The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages, will today reveal a showpiece of the industry’s smartest wind gear and generator combination, FusionDrive®. The real-life size, 3 MW FusionDrive® will be on show at the joint stand of Moventas and The Switch during the Husum WindEnergy 2012 event.
Developed over the past three years, the first FusionDrive® is now in production. Moventas and The Switch received their first commercial order for the combo in April 2012 from Germany-based DeWind, a subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co Ltd (DSME).
Scalable to any power class, FusionDrive® is the answer to the challenge of turbines needing to be bigger in size and power, while the race is on to lower the cost of energy. Using reliable medium-speed wind power generation technology, FusionDrive® is the smallest and lightest combination of gear and generator. Studies have confirmed that it is a technically optimized solution to keep the rotational speed limited.
What is perhaps most important to both turbine manufacturers and energy providers, FusionDrive® enables the highest energy yield as well as the best serviceability in the market, as all its components are changeable in the nacelle. This significantly reduces O&M costs in both the construction phase and over the entire lifecycle of the machinery.
This October, the gear and generator combination will start undergoing extensive testing at the Moventas Technology Center in Finland, after individual testing of the gear by Moventas and the generator by The Switch. As all Moventas wind gears, FusionDrive® always undergoes a reliability test in addition to conventional prototype testing, including simulation of extreme conditions on both the sub-system and component level, as well as an accelerated endurance test at elevated loads.
The first delivery of the FusionDrive® will be made to DeWind in March 2013.
The 3MW FusionDrive® will be revealed on 18 September and be on show at the joint stand of Moventas and The Switch at 2F05 and 2F06. Moventas and The Switch warmly welcome the press to take part in a press meeting where the showpiece will be revealed at 1 pm at stand 2F05 and 2F06, in Hall 2.
About Moventas
Moventas is one of the largest state-of-the-art manufacturers of wind turbine gears in the world. The company also manufactures power transmission solutions for industrial markets including the pulp and fiber, mining and minerals and power generation industries. It also provides extensive aftermarket services for the maintenance, overhaul, upgrade, repair and replacement of gear systems. The company has some 900 employees in 13 countries globally and a worldwide partner network. Moventas is part of the global engineering group Clyde Blowers.
