Making the most of wind power: Designing solutions for European turbines

Operators sometimes need to speed wind turbines up or slow them down, and they do this by controlling the angle of the vanes. Traditionally that’s required hard contactors on the turbine shaft itself as the way that power and control is transferred to the vanes. But this puts a large strain on the shaft and, with lots of wires and contact involved, components can wear out and fail too easily.

Power-by-Proxi came to the rescue with their Proxi-Ring, a contactless and wireless solution that can replace the wires and contactors on turbine shafts and dramatically increase their reliability.

Power-by-Proxi had completed the internal development and concept, and Antoni helped with the final design of components, mechanical layout, electrical layout, customer renderings and final construction drawings. With SolidWorks, the development and final design was seamless, with all the potential issues picked up and resolved prior to final manufacture.  

Winning the contract to install the Proxi-Ring on multiple turbines in Europe, the project received glowing reviews from operator IMFuture and Antoni looks back with satisfaction on helping this important industry take another step forward.