Wicetec helps You to prevent icing on wind turbine blades!
We supply wind turbine blade ice prevention systems for new turbines and as a retrofit solution. Just take a look around, learn how You and Your turbines can harvest all available wind energy through the winter.
Maximum energy production through the winter
Wicetec Ice Prevention System (WIPS) keeps wind turbine running through the icy winter months. It enables efficient energy production in the cold season with strong winds and high electricity prices. WIPS allows continuous turbine operation. Because of WIPS, no stoppages for heating cycles are needed. It is designed to withstand severe icing to give you a real “winter ride-through” feature! Operating principle is anti-icing: it prevents ice formation thanks to fast heaters and sensitive ice detection.
With Wicetec Ice Prevention System, you can avoid harmful ice-induced downtimes with extended standstills and numerous re-start attempts. This increases the lifetime of the turbines and lowers the maintenance costs of bearings, gearbox and other components.
In wind energy project financing, the uncertainty of energy yield calculations plays an important role. Icing of wind turbines in cold climates increases this uncertainty. With Wicetec Ice Prevention System, this increase of uncertainty can be omitted. Less uncertainty means lower financing costs, and vice versa.
Interested in ensuring that your blades keep spinning through the winter?