Welcome to the proposed Victorian - Wind Turbine Facility - manufacturing

Manufacturing advantages:

A key cost of wind turbines are  the blades which account for 25% of HAWT costs as they are very labour intensive (below left). Because of this complexity MOST HAWT blade failures can be traced back to a manufacturing error.

Our CR VAWT blades are a constant NACA0018 blade profile cross section and can be manufactured using a mechanised pultrusion process (below right) which provides industry leading quality control with significant labour, material and time savings.

Gearboxes: Typically represent 13% to 15% of wind turbine costs and adds complexity and maintenance issues. The Farste Drive and CR VAWT doesn’t require any gearboxes. 

 Columns: By manufacturing the columns on-site we are able minimise transport and inventory costs.

The most significant remaining components are control systems such as pitch and yaw systems which are not required in CR VAWTs.