Lagerwey Wind

Lagerwey stands for a sequence of Dutch companies that dealt since the first company was founded by Henk Lagerweij in 1979 with wind turbines and employ. Lagerwey it one of the world's oldest manufacturers of turbines of modern design.

Company History

During the oil crisis of 1973, the company's founder Henk Lagerweij had experimented with small homemade wind turbines with a capacity of about 2.2 kW. This initially led to the founding of Lagerwey van der Loenhorst BV, later to Lagerwey wind turbine BV. Over the years the company grew and various types of turbines were designed and built. As the world's first manufacturer Lagerwey brought variable-speed wind turbines with passive pitch control on the market.

After a corporate bankruptcy in 2003 Henk Lagerweij founded in November 2006, a new company with three partners Aart van der Pol, Albert Waaijenberg and Andre Pubanz, all previously the Lagerwey wind turbine BV employees. The Lagerwey Wind BV supplies from now on wind turbines, in addition to the licenses. The company's products are now the L82 - 1.8MW, 2.6MW - L93, L100 and L100 2.5MW 3.0MW -.

Plant types and Technology

Today's types (all gearless, excitation with permanent magnets ):

  • L100 -3.0 MW
  • L100 -2.5 MW
  • L93 -2.6 MW
  • L93 -2.5 MW
  • L93 -1.5 MW
  • L82 -2.0 MW

Earlier types:

  • LW10/35 with 35 kW
  • LW15/75 with 75 kW ( two-bladed rotor )
  • LW18/80 with 80 kW - about 600 pieces ( two-blade rotor )
  • LW30/250 with 250 kW - 300 Pieces (1994 )
  • LW 50/750 with 750 kW ( directly driven with a synchronous generator ) ( 1996)
  • LW72/1500 with 1500 kW ( gearless ) (2001 )

The direct drive technology ( Direct Drive) dispensed over conventional technology to the transmission. The best-known manufacturers of this construction is Enercon. However, the Lagerwey generator uses permanent magnets on the rotor.

Initiated in 2001 Lagerwey Zephyros Project: a permanent magnet wind turbine from 1500 to 2000 kW. From this type were built different. Including the world's highest wind power plant on the Gütsch near Andermatt in Switzerland at 2,300 m above sea level. M. The plant was commissioned in 2002, but had to be dismantled in October 2004. After an Enercon E -40 was built at the same place.

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