The medium-speed,rear-mounted PMG design combines low- and high-speed technology for highavailability and reliability that boosts total energy output, particularly inpartial loads created by turbulent offshore winds.
“This latest PM generator isbigger, better and stronger than anything built by The Switch so far with apower rating of 8.6MW,” says The Switch chief executive Jukka-Pekka Mäkinen.
Built around a segmentedstructure to give easier access to mechanical and electrical parts formaintenance, the PMG uses only 10% of the magnets needed for a direct-drivegenerator of the same power rating.
