Tag: concrete tower
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Wind turbine towers – the bigger the better
It looks like the trend in the business is to go as high as possible. The places with the best wind conditions have been already used in the first 20 something years of the wind industry. Now it’s time to work with low wind sites – and probably, repower the older wind farms. I consider…
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Concrete towers for onshore wind farms: an overview
Concrete towers are still an uncommon solution nowadays, basically they are still more expensive than they steel counterparts. But the trend we see in the market is toward highest tower, of 100 meters and above, while current 2MW-3MW turbines normally have an hub height around 80 meters: this can lead to situation where an hybrid…
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Wind turbine tower
Towers are an important element in the structure of a WTG, not only for structural reasons (they transmit the loads from the nacelle to the foundation) but also for economical reasons: they highest the tower, the biggest the amount of energy produced. For instance, with an increase of 20 meters from the standard 80 meters…