Meeting increasing worldwide demand for wind energy depends on reliable turbine performance, and performance can significantly benefit from optimized main shaft and gearbox bearing selection. Wind ...

HANOVER, Germany—Continental A.G.'s belting technology is helping Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology catch the wind. Engineers with ContiTech, a division of Continental, combined the two timing ...

Wind turbine gearbox replacement cost can be as much as US$350,000. But EPRI’s physics-based AI early damage detection model, tested on WEC Energy Group, Southern Company and other utility’s wind ...

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 ...