In 2010 the Wind Energy Research Group submitted a project sketch for the hub generator in order to get public funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy and after being invited to send a full application in 2011 the project started in 2012.
Together with Fraunhofer IWES it was concluded that a joint project would be reasonable in the field of innovative direct drive systems.

The aim of the project is the development of a proposal for wind turbines in the 3-6 MW class with an enhanced drive train and an innovative rotor concept that solves logistic problems by lightweight construction and modularization. The new design enables further innovations for single components or the whole system.

"Supported by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag" 

The focus of the cooperative project NEW82 was to design a new 2 MW wind turbine. In the spring of 2006, negotiations with a Chinese producer of electric generators resulted in the conclusion of an R & D contract. In June 2006, the work was started and was planned to be completed in 2008. 

Of special technical interest is the direct cooling of the conductors in the stator winding of this gearless generator, which allows new approaches to the design. Thus the generator is designed almost completely with integral construction methods.

In cooperation with the spin-off company Vensys Energy AG, we designed a 2.5 MW turbine between 2003 and 2005. In 2009 the prototype was presented, while another one had already been put into operation in China.

In the design of Vensys 90, an active air cooling system, which is normally applied in turbo generators, was used. The classic drive train of the hub-generator-nacelle design was simplified by using a torque bearing.