Considering that the generators inside wind turbines can contain hundreds of pounds of rare-earth metals, it seems like a no-brainer for the wind industry to start recycling rare-earth magnets as ...

Many offshore wind turbines use a direct drive design, but some do include a gearbox, which means a smaller permanent magnet generator can be used to produce the same level of power.

As such, “repowering” turbines – that is, swapping out tired parts, upgrading components like generators, and, yes, replacing rare-earth magnets – is a near-constant process.

In wind turbines, the rotor is connected to a shaft, which in turn enters an electrical generator made out of an assembly of magnets and a coil of wire. When the rotor spins the shaft, the shaft ...

The U.S. Wind Turbine Database contains more than 74,695 wind turbines built since 1980, spread between 1,699 wind power projects in 45 states. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip Featured ...

Through its strong partnership network, Cyclic has already sourced 37 MW capacity of wind turbine generators containing permanent magnets, and 116,000 pounds of MRI machines.

German premium wind OEM Enercon has announced a new 6MW onshore wind turbine equipped with a new permanent magnet generator, which it said offers ‘significant improvements’ in annual energy production ...

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed a fundamentally new type of rotary ...

Many offshore wind turbines use a direct drive design, but some do include a gearbox, which means a smaller permanent magnet generator can be used to produce the same level of power.

Siemens Gamesa, one of the largest offshore wind turbine makers in the world, signed an agreement to purchase hundreds of tons of rare earths from Arafura, beginning in 2026, to make giant magnets ...