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Innovative Windpower AG 1.25 MW:
Complete design including certification co-developed with customer’s
engineers, concurrent with training customer’s engineers. Start-up
company raised private investment capital and is in pre-IPO. Prototype
and preseries components have been purchased, design certification is
in process, and testing will begin in January 2009. Two preseries projects
with 37 turbines sold.
Powerwind (Formerly Conergy Wind)
900kW:
Complete design including certification co-developed with customer’s
engineers, concurrent with training customer’s engineers. Company
was new to wind industry. Design certification granted, first proto running
since July 2007 with type certification in process, two preseries machines
running, factory is in production with 80 component sets ordered for 2008.
Clipper 2.5MW
Various projects during design and prototype stages including consulting
on the assembly of the Liberty prototype which subsequently went into
production with over 200 machines manufactured, preparation of O&M
manuals, commissioning of fiber optic load sensing system in prototype
rotor which was later installed in over 600 production blades.
GE 1.5MW US
Adaption of design from 50Hz mild weather design to 60Hz, US standards,
extreme hot and cold including prototype testing and new design and type
certification. Design upgrades deployed across the fleet (several hundred
running turbines) and incorporated for new production (several thousand
to date).
Enron 900kW
Market study and conceptual design. Design and type certification. Adaptation
from 50Hz mild weather design to 60Hz, US standards, extreme hot and cold
including prototyping and new design certification. Startup and training
of new engineering office in China to support design activities. First
machines running in accelerated environment since 2001.
Enron 750kW VE
Value engineering of turbine to achieve lower cost of energy, prototype
erection and testing, new design and type certification, interface with
US government grant authorities. Design changes incorporated into over
300 machines before end of production cycle. Fleet management for over
800 installed turbines in the US and Europe with outstanding availability.
Enron 750kW Europe
Technology transfer of US designed 750kW wind turbine to engineers, production
and service personnel in Germany and Spain including support of prototype
assembly, erection, and testing in Germany and Spain and owner support
for project reliability.
Zond 550kW
Upgrades for reliability, streamlining of manufacturing processes, reinforced
and upscaled design to become the Zond 750.
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