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Downwind ‘streamer’ wind turbines

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
121 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1471-0846

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✦ Synopsis

One manufacturer of large wind energy blades has a maritime solution to the problem of transporting very large blades. A motor barge specifically designed to move its largest blades has entered service off the UK's south coast. Bladerunner 2 has a large, unobstructed main deck that will be able to carry blades up to 65m long being developed to drive offshore wind generators of up to five or six megawatts power. Smaller present-generation blades can be stacked on deck two tiers high. Currently loads comprise 26 to 40m blades produced by UK offshoot of Danish specialist

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