Month: January 2019
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Wind turbine controlled demolition
A reader of the blog shared a video with the controlled demolition of a wind turbine in the UK. The turbine looks like an old Acciona Windpower model. The turbine is connected using a rope to a back hoe and the base of the tower is slowly cut using a blowtorch. Then the backhoe start…
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Multirotor wind turbine: an update
Some time ago I wrote a post about the interesting concept of multirotor wind turbines, including the full scale prototype built by Vestas with 4 refurbished V29-225kW (that is, with a 29 meters rotor diameter). It has been installed in a test site of the Technical University near Roskilde, in Denmark – I believe I’ve…
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What happen to decommissioned wind turbines?
In a previous post I mentioned my experience with a repowering (a wind farm where the old turbines are exchanged with new models to increase the production and lower the maintenance costs). But what happen with the old turbines when they are dismantled? For some of them there might be a new life. There is…