State Energy Program Conductor Optimized Rotary Energy Mega-Watt Scale Direct Wind GeneratorCX(s) Applied: A9, B5.1Date: 09/29/2010Location(s): Ronan, MontanaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
September 29, 2010
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CX(s) Applied: A9, B5.1
Date: 09/29/2010
Location(s): Ronan, Montana
Office(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality proposes to provide $500,000 of State Energy Program funds to Core Wind Power in Ronan, Montana to design, fabricate and test a new 3 megawatt, 8-meter wind turbine generator using existing printed circuit board manufacturing techniques and facilities. The Conductor Optimized Rotary Energy (CORE) technology uses a direct drive repeated multiplayer printed circuit board process to replace the old geared drive-train of the generator. This process will allow for production of a reliable, light-weight and low-cost turbine that will eliminate the failure prone, maintenance intensive, heavy gear box of conventional turbine systems. CORE wind generators are being designed for mass production in Montana and development is expected to create more than one hundred jobs over the next three years.