It's Becky (again) I have found a New Zealand wind farm company called 'Windflow' it is located in Riccarton Christchurch down Mandeville St. They are a company like Vestas that own wind farms and design wind turbines. Their wind farms are located in:
* Gebbies Pass whichh was installed in 2003
* Te Rere Hau. Five turbines have already been installed, this was in 2006 and the rest of the farm is to be completed in 2010.
* Long gully. This wind farm is near wellington.
This company is engineering a new type of wind turbine. it is a two bladed, 500 KW machine that is called windflow 500. This machine is a next generation wind turbine that has been designed to be able to put up with strong wind conditions.
There are lots of good advantages with this wind turbine which are:
* It has two gears which makes it move faster through strong wind conditions
* A pitch teeter coupling which is part of a gearbox and it can adapt to windspeed and it can be used more
* Synchronous power generation
* The cost is efficient
* It is easy to transport, install, and connect
This is pretty cool to see wind turbines being manufactured in NZ and Auzzie.
If you want to check out this website it is http://www.windflow.co.nz/
Please leave a comment on what you think Luv Becky
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