Your Questions About Wind Turbine Generators Manufacturers
Charles asks…
What are some companies that build wind turbines?
Name all the companies that you can think of that put together and install wind turbines.
Also, bonus points if you can name a few companies that manufacture the indivdual components.
Components like:
* generator
* tower
* blades
* gearbox
* power electronics / control system
admin answers:
AAER Systems (Canada)
Acciona Energy (Spain)
Aerostar Wind Turbines (USA)
AN Windenergie (Germany) – bought by Siemens in 2005, now Siemens Wind Power GmbH
A.Ayvazian & Associates (Iran)
Bard Engineering (Germany)
Bergey (USA)
Bonus Energy (Denmark), now Siemens – bought by Siemens in 2004
Clipper Windpower (USA)
Conenergy now Powerwind (Germany/USA)
DeWind (Germany)
Dragonfly Industries Inc (USA)
Emergya Wind Technologies (EWT) (Netherlands)
Ecotècnia (Spain)
Enercon (Germany)
Entegrity Wind Systems (Canada)
Eozen (Spain)
Fuhrländer (Germany)
Gamesa Eólica (Spain)
General Electric (USA)
Goldwind (China)
Harakosan (Netherlands, Japan)
Heartland energy solutions (USA)
HelixWind (USA)
Impsa (Argentina)
Jacobs, now Wind turbine industries (USA)
Lagerwey (Netherlands)
Leitwind (Italy)
Kenersys (India)
Kestrel Wind Turbines (South Africa)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)
Multibrid GmbH (Germany)
MTorres (Spain)
NEG Micon, now part of Vestas
Neo-Aerodynamic (USA)
Nordex (Germany)
Norwin (Denmark)
Nordic Windpower (USA)
PacWind (USA)
Proven Energy Wind Turbines (UK – Global supplier of 2.5kW, 6kW & 15kW)
REpower (Germany) – bought by Suzlon in 2007
Scanwind (Norway)
Siemens (Denmark / Germany)
Sinovel (China – PRC)
Southwest Windpower (USA)
SRC Vertical (Russia)
Suzlon (India)
TMA
Turbowinds
Unison (Korea)
Vensys (Germany)
Vestas (Denmark), the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines
Vergnet (France)
WES Canada (Canada/US)
Windflow (New Zealand)
WinWinD (Finland)
Ruth asks…
What do you call a structure that captures the wind and turns it into energy?
A. Windcatcher
B. Energy Blow
C. Windmill
D. Wind generator
E. Wind Sock
admin answers:
It is properly a “wind turbine.”
Vestas, GE, and Gamesa are the three largest manufacturers, and they all call them wind turbines.
A “wind catcher” would catch wind, but not use it to make electricity.
A Energy Blow isn’t describing anything.
A Windmill manufactures SOMETHING with wind–but it may not be electricity. (It might pump water, as in a Dutch Windmill.)
A ‘wind generator’ would make wind. (Think grandpa!)
A “wind sock” is used to determine only the direction of the wind.
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