Windera Is Wind Energy Innovation Company

            The Windera power generation system is a direct-drive, variable-speed hydraulic drive train and control system for the global renewable energy market with an emphasis on utility-scale wind production.  The system is designed to solve a major problem in the domestic wind industry. That problem is that a majority of the turbines installed in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s are small to medium-sized wind turbines (65 kilowatt to 250 kilowatt) that now require extensive repairs or replacement.  Many of them have been shut down for lack of parts and repairs. The new Windera system can readily replace these non-functioning systems and enhance the operation and efficiency of the wind tower operation. Essentially, the Windera system will allow wind farm owners to “Repower” their aging, non-producing turbines.

            Windera’s highly innovative technology represents an evolutionary step in system design and performance that enables operators of aging wind farms to cost-effectively convert their existing fixed-speed, gear driven generators to highly efficient, direct-drive, variable-speed hydraulic drive train system.  The Windera system delivers ultra-stable voltage and frequency to the existing power grid without the need for power electronics and maintenance-prone gearboxes.  Power conditioning and interconnection to the electric grid are managed by Windera’s advanced control and monitoring system.  More importantly, Windera’s highly efficient solution enables wind farm owners to produce substantially more electricity because the Windera system operates across a broader range of wind speeds (“wind envelope”) as compared to conventional wind turbines of the same class.

The Windera Solution

Increased Revenue Through Greater Power Output

            The Windera system further reduces system operating costs with the introduction of a revolutionary new “down tower” design. This new design vastly reduces the perils and expenses of maintaining a turbine which is anchored to a tower seventy or more feet in the air, because it puts most of the system on the ground, not on the tower.

How it's Different...

 

Windera attended theAmerican Wind Energy Association WindPower 2009 Conference & Exhibition in Chicago. Please browse our photos linked below.