After a near 50 year lifespan, Barron Gorge’s hydro generator insulation systems needed to be rewound and upgraded. The Queensland, Australia based power station has been operating in a World Heritage ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus generating ...

January 22 2004 – GE Energy received a contract of more than $540 000 from the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) for a hydro generator rewind project at an IID hydroelectric plant on the All American ...

An air gap is the distance between the rotor and stator of a large-scale hydroelectric generator. This gap is a very small distance in relation to the size of the rotor. Its measurement to tight ...

Sulzer has been awarded a contract to refurbish the hydro generator at Lochay Power Station, after nearly 60 years of service. Using the combined skills of a coil shop in Birmingham and the local ...

Developed as a collaborative effort between EPRI, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and Iris Power Engineering, HydroTrac, an on-line partial discharge (PD) monitoring system for detecting the ...

Dibrugarh: The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation's (NHPC) 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project reached a milestone on Friday with the successful installation of the generator stator ...

In early August, a special transport departed from Voith Siemens Hydro’s Heidenheim workshop bearing the company’s 300-ton, 300-MVA hydro motor-generator back to Schluchseewerk AG’s Wehr ...

With demand for renewable energy growing, hydropower plants are working harder than ever. This makes monitoring and protecting ageing ...