US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Renovables Espana on Sept. 30 for "Methods for operating wind turbines and feeding auxiliary systems" (Spanish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,027, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Methods for operating wind turbines and feeding auxiliary systems" was invented by Luca Vita (Barcelona, Spain), Benjamin Palethorpe (Nantes, France) and Marc Sala Lluma (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for operating wind turbines (10), in particular to methods for feeding wind turbine auxiliary systems when connection to the electrical grid (102) is lost. A method (100) comprises rotating a wind turbine rotor (18) at a first rotational speed by actively controlling a pitch angle o...