Just a few days I asked whatever happened to Siemens. I had not heard from them recently. Today
Penn Energy reports:
Direct-drive wind turbines from Siemens
are gaining ground on the German market: Siemens has now received five
orders for 23 of these state-of-the-art wind turbines. Two of the wind power
farms are situated in Germany's northernmost state of
Schleswig-Holstein, while the other three are to be erected in Lower
Saxony. Installation of all five projects, comprising anywhere from one
to eight of these gearless units each, is to be completed by the spring
of 2017.
The first Siemens model SWT-3.3-130 wind turbine
to be installed in Germany is to be erected in Schleswig-Holstein by
the end of this year in the municipality of Südermarsch near the town of
Husum. This unit that Siemens is installing for Südermarsch Wind GmbH
& Co. has an 85-meter hub height on a steel tower and a rotor
diameter of 130 meters designed to operate in moderate wind speeds and
deliver a rated electrical generating capacity of 3.3 megawatts (MW).
Six other wind turbines of this model make up the Damme Wind Farm
project being erected near the city of the same name in Lower Saxony.
Owing to the wind conditions at this site, however, Siemens will install
the units on steel tube towers with a hub height of 135 meters. Both
projects are scheduled to go on line by the end of this year.
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