The €5.4m ($7m) SupraPower research and development project, being shepherded by Spain’s Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, aims to devise a direct-drive machine that produces high energy output from a design with a “radical reduction” in the weight of rotor and nacelle.
Capital cost savings are expected from the generator by using less than one hundredth of the quantity of expensive rare earths needed to make most conventional permanent-magnet systems.
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