UK-based industrial technology group Rolls-Royce announced late last week that the generator and associated power electronics for the aerospace world’s most powerful hybrid-electric aircraft power and propulsion system had been delivered to its recently renovated Testbed 108 in Bristol in the UK. The generator was developed at Rolls-Royce’s Trondheim facility in Norway and was subject to a thorough development test programme before being shipped to Bristol. The generator will form the heart of the 2.5 MW Power Generation System 1 (PGS1) technology demonstrator programme. The engine element of PGS1 is a Rolls-Royce North America AE2100 turboprop, and the engine selected for use in the demonstrator, plus its thermal management system and specialist controls, has already been tested at Testbed 108.
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