Description
GAMESA ENERGY TRANSMISSION, S.A. (GET) has currently two major product families in the multi-megawatt gearbox market, one with 2.0MW and the other one with 4.5MW of nominal power, and also has a third family for offshore wind farms with 5.0MW of nominal power in development. With this project the company seeks to increase its multi-megawatt production portfolio, and with this aim it will develop three new models of 2.5MW, 3.0MW and 5.0MW nominal power that will present significant technological novelties for the current products, focused in the improvement of the reliability and efficiency, and in the reduction of the Cost of Energy (CoE) and the response time for new design requirements for its customers. The project is needed in order to cover the market’s segment which is expected to be the principal one, that is of 3.0MW of nominal power, in the near future.
Summary of project results
Within this project Gamesa Energy Transmission has developed a new generation of multi-megawatt gearboxes for wind turbines, which present nominal powers of 2.5MW and 3.0MW respectively, that are more compact and modular, and have flexible architectures and optimized reliability. This has been carried out by way of a number of complementary lines of development: new architecture that allows lighter gearbox design and increased torque transmission, new components integration that allow more compct design and reduces the wear of the components, new monitoring systems that allow predictive maintenance strategies... The outcome of the project is considered succesful, and as a consequence Gamesa Energy Transmission has new gearboxes generation that will become a world reference in the multi-megawatt wind applications.
Summary of bilateral results