Wind turbines last longer than ever thanks to continuous engineering improvements. Gearboxes in wind turbines, more than those in any other application, tend to fail prematurely. In fact, at some wind ...
30 August 2006 — GE Energy and Nanjing High Speed & Accurate Gear Company (NGC) today signed an agreement to jointly develop gearboxes for GE’s 1.5-MW wind turbines. The agreement makes NGC one of ...
Bad things can happen when the mechanical gearbox in a megawatt-scale wind turbine gets overstressed. An unexpected wind gust can drive turbine blades hard, so hard that the torque on the gearbox they ...