As the wind power industry strives for ever larger turbines on land as well as offshore, Siemens Gamesa is focusing on how to deal with the resulting transportation issues and how to split large components, recently appointed onshore technology head Jorge Magalhães told Recharge.
“Technically, there is no upper limit. That is certainly demonstrated by offshore,” Magalhães said when asked how big onshore turbines could become.“It really is an economic trade-off decision. How are you going to deal with the logistical challenges for a specific geography?”
While some regions have less of those challenges due to a good access to ports or roads that are fairly wide, in other geographies logistical challenges to size and weight, or issues such as crane availability or crane heights matter more, he said - Link
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