Revolutionary new Spanish model has the X factor

Spanish turbine-maker Gamesa plans to revolutionise the wind turbine market with a bigger medium-speed-drive machine that costs no more to install than smaller units - after testing a protottype linked to the grid.

Gamesa is betting on its new G10X-4.5-megawatt (MW) model for future growth. A prototype at the Cabezo Negro research and development wind farm at Jaulín, near Zaragoza, northeastern Spain, has been feeding energy into the national grid since April, and commercial production of the machine is set to begin next year.

Gamesa has been working on the G10X for six years, and will have invested 1.3 million engineering hours in the project by the time the turbine is ready for serial production. Some 150 engineers have been working…

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