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Wind Power

Blade Runners: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades

Tomas Kellner
June 11, 2018
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating back to the Stone Age. With rich images depicting archers hunting stags, boars and bears, as well as other scenes, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage site and have survived for millennia thanks to the area’s hot and dry weather — the same conditions that lured the world’s largest maker of blades for wind turbines to the area.
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Offshore Wind

The X Factor: Here’s What It Takes To Build The Tower For The World’s Most Powerful Offshore Wind Turbine

Tomas Kellner
May 25, 2018
"Some 6 million people from around the world travel to Paris each year to climb Gustave Eiffel’s eponymous tower. Industrial engineer Daniel Castell is now working on a structure that will also reach great heights. An engineering marvel in its own right, chances are that very few people will ever see it — but millions will benefit from it.
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After Epic Road Trip, This 241-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Is Ready To Get Down To Business In Germany

Maggie Sieger
December 22, 2017
In October, employees at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade factory in Castellón, Spain, briefly left their posts to send off their biggest achievement to date — all 241 feet of it.
They sent the huge blade — four times longer than a bowling lane and the largest ever produced in Spain — to the local port, loaded it on a boat and shipped it to Germany, where it will harvest wind at the Merkur wind farm in the North Sea.
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Ana Palacio: Europe’s Energy Essentials

Ana Palacio Spanish Council Of State
November 27, 2014
At last month’s European Council meeting in Brussels, energy issues dominated the agenda — for the third time this year.
 
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