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More Than Just a Number THE 100-GIGAWATT MAGAZINE 1981–2014 | 100 gigawatts of wind turbine gearbox capacity delivered worldwide MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER Why are 100 gigawatts so world use our gearboxes! When we became significant? aware a few months ago of what milestone we were approaching, we wondered what would 100,000 megawatts or 100 gigawatts – it’s an be the best way to celebrate this event and also impressive amount! But why does this mean so to thank all the people who have been part of much to us? Why is 100 GW of delivered gear- this achievement. box capacity such an important milestone for Winergy that we are publishing a magazine to You are holding the result in your hands. It’s a celebrate it and to look back on our 33 years of magazine that serves as a commemorative pub- history in producing wind turbine gearboxes? lication, a chronicle and a customer and com- pany magazine. It’s a document that records this First of all, it’s a number which fills us with pride. success for everyone and offers an insight into We are the first company in the wind industry Winergy as it is today – with pride and satisfac- to exceed the 100 GW mark in terms of installed tion, and also with a wink. But most of all with capacity. And this mark is even more impressive the awareness that it was all only possible with a if you compare it with total worldwide installed huge team of passionate employees. wind turbine capacity. According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), there were wind Because that’s what we are! turbines with a total capacity of approximately 318 GW in operation around the world at the end of 2013. So the proportion of wind turbines using Winergy gearboxes is just under 30%. That means almost a third of the wind turbines in the Page 04 Page 06 Page 08 Page 10 Page 14 Page 18 Everything was better in The wind is up offshore What do our employees What are you up to these Our plants: Voerde, Megatrends and outlook the good old days ... say about Winergy? days, Gerhard Reisse and Elgin, Tianjin, Chennai for wind energy Karl Brun? THE 100-GIGAWATT MAGAZINE Foreword Dear friends, business partners Dear Winergy employees, and Winergy team, We have been manufacturing special gearbox- Many of the people who make us what we are 100 GW of supplied wind turbine capacity fills us We would therefore like to use our 100 GW In keeping with the Chinese saying “When the es for wind turbines for more than 30 years. The have been with us for a long time – long enough with satisfaction and pride – not only the sheer anniversary as an opportunity to thank you, winds of change blow, some people build walls, wind energy industry is still very young compared to remember the pioneering phase. Others have scale of this amount, but also the success story our workforce, personally. With your technical others build windmills”, we are confident that to many other manufacturing industries such as joined us over the years. All of them identify with behind it, which you, the entire Winergy team, expertise, your team spirit and your absolute together we will continue to find the right an- the automotive and aerospace sectors, and only and are excited about what we make. Winergy is have made possible by the way in which you customer orientation, you gain the trust of swers to the challenges of the wind turbine mar- progressed past its pioneering phase a few years all about decades of experience and deep expert- have worked with our customers and suppliers. our customers anew every day, thus laying the ket. We are proud and happy to be part of the ago. A true wind energy industry has only existed ise, combined with a high level of commitment foundations for our ongoing and future success. Winergy community. for about ten years. and a fascination with wind turbine technology. These 100 GW were built on innovative strength And this is something we can be proud of! This and technological progress, and on countless Winergy is a successful segment within Mechan- Sincerely, Our first wind turbine gearbox was a standard in- is also the only explanation as to why we are so customer relationships and trusting cooperat- ical Drives and makes a major contribution to Stefan Tenbrock, Winergy CEO dustrial model from a catalogue that we used in far ahead of our competitors, with 100,000 MW ion, even in difficult times. They were also built the success of our business unit. You can be just- Theo Maas and Ulrich Stock a test turbine in 1977. It was a REDUREX SZN 320 of wind turbine capacity around the world on a great passion for the idea of manufacturing ly proud of what you have achieved and of your Theo Maas, CEO, with power output of 65 kW and weighing just using our gearboxes. That shows how much con- the best gearboxes for wind energy and on a attitude towards your work. Because reaching Siemens Mechanical Drives under 1 t, giving it a power density of 65 W/kg. fidence customers have in our products and in team with the absolute drive to succeed. 100 GW of wind power has quite often meant We started to develop gearboxes specifically to the people behind them. And we have now been 100% or more commitment and effort. We have meet the needs of wind turbines in the early 1980s. working closely with some of them for decades. With this drive, you have, over time, installed been following your success story with great Today, the gearboxes’ power densities are twice power equal to about 100 large power plants, appreciation for some time now and would now as high, meaning just half the material is needed On behalf of the entire management, we would and have therefore played an important part like to express the thanks and respect of our for the same power output. Winergy has had a therefore like to thank all of you – our friends in the success of wind power and made a major business unit and of Siemens AG as a whole. major influence on this development. and business partners, but above all the Winergy contribution to the energy transition. team – for making this possible. Setting aside a brief boom in California in the mid-1980s, business developed slowly at first, but Stefan Tenbrock, CEO then picked up speed starting in 2000 and be- Norbert Vehns, CFO came much more global. We have kept pace with this growth and for some years have had manu- facturing plants in China, the US and India. And with our many co-workers in these countries, the Ulrich Stock, CFO, Norbert Vehns, Winergy CFO Winergy team has naturally become more inter- Siemens Mechanical Drives national. Dear Winergy team, To date, wind turbine capacity of about 300 GW and the commitment of its employees, it active- sector is on course for positive growth over the has been installed around the world. And with its ly contributed to increasing the acceptance and next decade. Relative growth will be lower than gearbox capacity accounting for 100 GW of that, competitiveness of the wind industry. in the past 20 years, but it will be stable, coupled Winergy can be proud of having made a signifi- with a high level of absolute demand. In the fu- cant contribution to the international develop- During my time as Chairman of the Supervisory ture, we must focus on competitiveness achieved ment of this segment and, with its involvement Board, I always found the international Winergy by means of technological developments and in wind power, to be expanding renewable ener- team to be extremely resilient, flexible, capable efficiency improvements, while bearing in mind gies in general. and responsible. It remains so today across all the the fact that the external factors that have divisions, and the market honours that. Today’s driven decisions in favour of wind and Winergy in Following the early years of wind energy business, position and performance are the basis for to- the past have lost none of their validity, namely How it all began – a report in the Winergy was made a separate, independent en- morrow’s motivation. having a positive impact on catastrophic global company magazine tity within the Flender Group in 2001 in order to climate changes and reducing the political risks Manfred Egelwisse, DER FLENDERANER in 1977 be able to better address the technical and com- For me, the thing that sets the wind business in energy supply. former CEO, Winergy AG mercial challenges as well as the dynamics of this apart has always been the people in it. I have >>>>> new industry. Its success came with its supplying fond memories of working with the “pillars” of I wish Winergy all the best for the next 100 GW! technically sophisticated, competitive gearbox this industry and of some personal highlights solutions to the wind power industry around the with them, be they customers, suppliers or in- Manfred Egelwisse world. Winergy quickly rose to the challenges of house staff. the market, becoming a true global player on all continents. And with its innovation, investments With a few regional variations, the wind energy Winergy historical milestones 1981 Delivery 1984 Start of 1986 5,000 gear- 1991 First 1 MW 1998 Devel- 2000 Inaugur- 2001 Start of 2003 First 5 MW 2004 Commis- 2005 Inaugurat- 2006 Pro- 2007 Commis- 2009 Inaugur- 2010 The 2012 Successful 2014 100 GW of of the first gearbox mass production of boxes produced for the gearbox delivered · Inaug- opment of the first ation of the new operations at Winergy’s prototype · Com- sioning of the 7.5 MW ion of the new gear- duction starts at sioning of the world’s ation of the new 5,000th gearbox prototype testing gearbox capacity specially designed for wind turbine gear- US, most of which are uration of the first off- two-stage planetary assembly plant in gearbox assembly missioning of the test bench box assembly plant in Winergy’s assembly biggest test bench assembly plant in made in Elgin leaves and market launch delivered worldwide shore wind farm featuring Voerde, Germany 6 MW test bench and Chennai, India plant in Tianjin, Elgin, Illinois, USA wind turbine use boxes, primarily for installed in wind farms gearbox in the plant in Elgin, Illinois, with a capacity of the production line of the 3 MW wind farm projects Winergy components multi-megawatt USA cold-climate test lab China 14 MW HybridDrive in California in the US class in Voerde, Germany 0 0 0 .
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