Turbine Reliability

Supporting You

Originally developed with a NASA grant and designed for remote and isolated sites, the Northwind 100 put reliability at a premium. Regular and costly maintenance was not an option for applications located in the remote regions of Alaska—let alone your farm, school, or business. All turbines capture wind. The Northwind 100 is designed to do it better.

“The high performance and reliability of our turbines can be attributed to three main technological advances: an innovative direct drive/gearless configuration, a high efficiency permanent magnet generator design, and an advanced power converter system. We pride ourselves on taking innovative approaches to providing cost effective solutions for our customers’ energy needs.”


— Jonathan Lynch, Chief Technology Officer, Northern Power Systems

Advanced Technology
The Northern Power Systems team was driven to create state-of-the-art wind turbines with elegant designs and fewer moving parts than conventional turbines. By minimizing wearing parts in the load path and maximizing efficiency over the full range of operating conditions, our turbines are technological masterpieces with an innovative gearless design. What this means for your application is more energy, less maintenance, and higher reliability!

24/7 Monitoring
Northern Power has created an advanced and responsive 24/7 Northwind 100 Network Operations Center to monitor our turbine installations around the globe. Our engineers stand ready to support the safe and reliable operation of our turbines through our unique web-based monitoring platform, which provides us nearly unlimited access to the turbine control system. In addition, Northern Power continuously conducts preventative maintenance diagnostics on our fleet of turbines to identify opportunities for even more proactive service and support.

Fleet Availability
Northern Power’s expertise, advanced technology platforms and support infrastructure combine to provide an unprecedented level of service in the community scale wind market, resulting in 98% median fleet availability. What that means for our customers is that when the wind is blowing, our turbines are available to start producing clean, domestic power.