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generators. Meanwhile, a hole in the market was developing with the
increasing absence of mid-scale wind turbines. With supply
constrained and the absence of mid-scale wind turbines, Steve
Smiley and Preben Maegaard (XMIRE), worked with Tupac Canosa
Diaz as project manager, to initiate a technical exchange to build
a Michigan based mid-scale wind turbine.
Figure 25.13
Steve Smiley, Jane Kruse, and Preben Maegaard.
Steve founded Heron Wind Manufacturing to develop the wind
turbine. The H-777 wind turbine is an advanced evolutionary step
in the Danish FC integrated gearbox drive train adding a variable
speed,
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blade system to produce what is expected to be the most cost-
competitive mid-scale wind turbine in the American market.
As transmission line capacity limits the development of large
multi-megawatt wind turbine projects, distributed wind power,
integrated with other renewable energy sources and energy storage
may become the next trend in the United States. As Steve Smiley
says, “the wind is everywhere, and so should be the windmills”.
Hermann Scheer's and Preben Maegaard's plan for a 100%
renewable energy world may become a reality sooner than we
hope.
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