The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge created the world's first commercial Brushless Doubly-Fed Generator (BDFG), Mar 2009. It now successfully generates power for Whittle Laboratory. This project team is led by Dr Richard McMahon, and backed by the company Wind Technologies Limited.

Related news:
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/wind_technologies/ 

The project profile
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6AE89EB-A258-4F0F-AE28-AC4F5172CC70/0/077143WindTechnologiesprojectprofilefinallockedPDF.pdf