Power, Vol.152, No.12, 74-74, 2008
The return of the Clipper Liberty wind turbine
The Steel Winds project in Lackawanna, New York, was selected as a POWER 2007 Top Plant because of its unusual location (a former steel mill and Superfund site) and because it was the first commercial deployment of the Clipper Windpower 2.5-MW turbine. That report was written just as the project entered commercial service but before a major gearbox problem was identified. For many new designs, it isn't a question of if problems will occur but of how the manufacturer responds when problems inevitably do occur. For its handling of Liberty's problem, Clipper Windpower gets an "A."