On September 18, 2012, the actual, real-life sized 3 MW FusionDrive® was unveiled in front of a large audience at the joint The Switch and Moventas stand at Husum WindEnergy 2012.
Jukka-Pekka Mäkinen, President and CEO of The Switch, and Arto Lahtela, Senior Vice President, Sales of Moventas, explained why FusionDrive® is the smartest gear and generator combination in the market.
The Switch and Moventas received the first commercial order for FusionDrive® in April 2012 from Germany-based DeWind, a subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co Ltd (DSME). Dr. SungKon Han, Managing Director of DeWind Engineering GmbH, and his team were also on site to answer questions.
This October, the gear and generator combination will start undergoing extensive testing at the Moventas Technology Center in Finland, after individual testing of the generator by The Switch and the gear by Moventas. In addition to the conventional prototype testing, a reliability test will be done to simulate extreme conditions on both the sub-system and component level, as well as an accelerated endurance test at elevated loads.
The first delivery of FusionDrive® will be made to DeWind in March 2013.
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, enabling the highest energy yield as well as the best serviceability in the market.
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Press release, October 4, 2012; Image: The Switch