Inside The Wind Turbine

Wind turbines convert wind energy to electricity for distribution. Conventional horizontal axis turbines divided into three major components.

• The Rotor Component : Rotor Component is approximately 20% of the wind turbine cost, which includes the blades for converting wind energy to low speed rotational energy.
  
  
• The Generator Component : The generator component is approximately 34% of the wind turbine cost, which includes the electrical generator, the control electronics, and most likely a gearbox component for converting the low speed incoming rotation to high speed rotation suitable for generating electricity.
  
  
  
• The Structural Support Component : The structural support component is approximately 15% of the wind turbine cost, includes the tower and rotor yaw mechanism.
  
  Wind turbines are specially designed to generate energy from the blowing wind that exists at any point of location.  Aerodynamic modeling is used to determine the optimum tower height, control systems, number of blades and blade shape.