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The UK has set an ambitious target to increase its offshore wind capacity to 30GW by 2030\. However, to achieve this target, it is reliant on imported wind turbines. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted this dependency and vulnerability to disruption, particularly in terms of the supply of critical raw materials, such as rare-earth magnets. For these rea...

The purpose of the project is to conduct a Feasibility Study (phase 1) on the development of a multi-MW generator for the UK onshore wind market. The intention is that when customer requirements are confirmed that GreenSpur will submit a phase 2 application to develop and demonstrate the multi-MW generator. This will result in a new UK generator technolog...

Covid-19 has shown that global wind supply chains are vulnerable to significant disruption. This is particularly relevant to the supply of critical raw materials, such as rare-earth magnets, which are used in multi-MW wind turbines. The current crisis has highlighted the need for the UK to develop its own wind energy supply chain and UK-based key componen...

Greenspur Renewables has developed a new, low-cost, ferrite-based direct drive (DD) permanent magnet generator (PMG) aimed at the offshore wind energy market. DD PMGs are becoming increasingly important for large-scale wind turbines as they remove the need for a gearbox and the high maintenance costs associated with using them. Today, however, all existin...