Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018

Overcoming the Problems of Size and High Wind Speeds

Wind farm sites have the annoying habit of being located in places with frequent high-speed winds! Also, the trend in the wind industry is to create bigger and taller wind turbine generators in order to produce more megawatt-hours. Unfortunately, construction and maintenance activities with the need for ever larger cranes to lift bigger loads to higher heights are not particularly compatible with high-speed winds.

By Emmanuel Garcia de la Pena, Managing Director, KoalaLifter, Spain

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