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26
May
2023
By Michelle
Lewis
Siemens Gamesa has designed an onshore wind turbine
just for the US market
Photo: Siemens Gamesa
Siemens Gamesa has created a new onshore wind turbine that’s specially
designed for US weather conditions – here’s what makes it unique.
The Spanish-German wind giant says that its bespoke US onshore
wind turbine “has the right design profile to maximize revenues by
harnessing the wind conditions most common in the US and features a
design lifetime longer than the industry standard.” The SG 44.164
lifetime is 25 years, whereas the standard lifetime of a wind turbine
is 20 years.
The wind turbine has a rated power of 4.4 megawatts (MW) and
its flexible power rating is site specific. It has a rotor diameter of
164 meters (538 feet) and a swept area of 21,124 square meters
(227,377 square feet). Each blade is 81 meters (266 feet) long.
The company is casting blades at its factory in Iowa and
assembling nacelles – that’s the cover housing that contains all of
generating components, including the generator, gearbox, drive train,
and brake assembly – in Kansas so that the SG.44164 qualifies for the
Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
Siemens Gamesa says the SG 44.164 meets the US’s unique site
and logistics requirements. Its single-piece blades, nacelles, and
drive trains can all be transported by rail.
Shannon Sturgill, CEO of onshore North America for Siemens
Gamesa, says:
With a country the size of the US, we take
into account the unique challenges of onshore wind sites from coast to
coast, including transportation and logistics, varied wind conditions
and environments, electrical and power delivery requirements, and
applicable IRA incentives.
The new US wind turbine was just launched at a conference in New
Orleans, and it will hit the market in 2025.
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