Category: Existing Wind Farms
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Concrete tower assembly in Chile
An interesting video on the use of concrete towers in Chile. Among the benefits of this solution the creation of local jobs (several hundred for factory) and the increase of local content (the amount of goods and services provided locally, an important parameter in some tenders). Concrete towers are especially cost effective when the…
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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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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…
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The new playing filed: multi-brand wind turbines service
Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet my friend J. here in Hamburg. J. works for V., a very big Danish wind turbine manufacture. Specifically he works in what looks like the new battle field for our industry – multi brand wind turbine operation and maintenance (O&M). Basically it means that V. is offering not…
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There is always a second time: wind farm repowering
At the beginning of the year I’ve had the pleasure to work at my first repowering EPC – Vergao, in Portugal, together with Generg (a big local player). This is supposed to be one of the many projects that should materialize during the next years. My former manager Luis Miguel thinks that repowering is “the…
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Wind Energy in Finland
One of the things I enjoy more in my job is that it gives me the possibility to work in several different countries. In the last months I’ve had the pleasure to visit several time Finland for a project developed by Neoen (the French developer that it’s about to launch its IPO) and Prokon. It’s…
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Raki wind farm, Cile
A spectacular video of Raki wind farm, a beautiful project I’ve worked at. Owned by Rame Energy (formerly Seawind) It is a 15 MW wind farm in the Bio Bio region (more or less in the middle of Chile). WTGs are 5x V112 3MW turbines, and civil works have been developed by CJR. The…
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Talinay Oriente 90MW EPC Wind Farm
Although I don’t normally post stories about wind farms I’ve worked at I want to do an exception for Talinay, a project with whom I have a relationship almost emotional. Located in Chile, in the Coquimbo province, near the Limarí river, it has been a project entirely developed by Vestas with internal founds and my…